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Barrier of what i like to call a concrete edifice when if you are really about securing the border. lets listen to the experts. i have been talking about the smart wall. if you indulge me, i said i want to see a wall so high we can use drones and you would never get over it. so you can use x-ray equipment and not get around it. so deep that you can use sensors to keep anybody from tunnelling under it. to me, how we accomplish that requires technology, not concrete barriers. thats where most demo...

Assurance maybe to bring republicans to bring president trump along. when you look at that, do you consider that as some cracks in the caucus because it does seem that -- some of the democrats are feeling the pressure that their needs to be movement here. >> i think its more of a signal -- and i include myself in this, that a lot of democrats are for border security. we are for making sure we know whos coming in and if there needs to be barriers in certain places, of course, we would want to do ...

The president that you guys would make a deal that includes substantial funding for physical barriers along the border. im not going to play the word game. the president created that. i dont perpetuate it. he believes his only leverage is if he keeps the government shutdown. >> the one thing thats clear is the american people overwhelmingly agree with our position, which is that a shutdown is not a legitimate negotiating tactic when theres a public policy dispute between two separate and coequal...

>> lets flip the sscenario for second. what can you say to o guarantee the president that you guys would make a deal that includes substantial funding for physical barriers along the border. im not going to play the word game. i dont perpetuate it. he believes his only leverage is if he keeps the government shutdown. >> the one thing thats clear is the american people overwhelmingly agree with our position, which is that a shutdown is not a legitimate negotiating tactic when theres a public poli...

My wall money. in the end does he accept something where he doesnt get guaranteed $6 billion for the wall. he could get something that said some barriers, this and that, but thats traditional washington. were not there. well talk about the presidents staredown of nancy pelosi and the president blinking last night is the presidents position eroding? the answer is yes, but it doesnt matter. he does things his way. he won the popular vote and things are different. do you agree or disagree with the ...

Secure the united states of america, border, ports, ports of entries and then come to us where we have an up or down vote on their recommendations. i think thats a way where the president can say, look, well let the experts decide, maybe theyll be some barriers, maybe not. the democrats can say, look, maybe theres going to be some barriers, well obviously utilize a lot of the technology that were pushing and give us that recommendation, but get it out of this political quagmire were in now. >> y...

That there is money that people want to spend on border security on both sides of the aisle. were hearing it from leadership. >> youre not against physical barriers being built? >> we already have physical bare yers on our border. if we need more -- >> they said they need more. >> i have heard that. i also would like to discuss how were spending our border security money in some of the larger ports of industry. so we have some of the larger ports of industry in entry in this country. thats a cri...

Look, they said they need a lot more physical barriers. i promised that as a priority. i need money for that. he would have been able to check every box. but thats never what it was about. >> and easily because it was already money appropriated for building more structures under the obama administration. >> thats right. >> he could have claimed it as his own. >> hes got a couple million sitting there they could put to work. he would have been able to get more because he wouldnt have made it an e...

No. look, they said they need a lot more physical barriers. i promised that as a priority. i need money for that. he would have been able to check every box. but thats never what it was about. >> and easily because it was already money appropriated for building more structures under the obama administration. he could have claimed it as his own. >> hes got a couple million sitting there they could put to work. he would have been able to get more because he wouldnt have made it an existential game...

Guard talking to his men and women to see that and the suffering that our public servants are going through. to hear again and again about how this is harming our economy, our families, the public service, we have got to get the government open o. its what we owe people in this country. its the job of congress. thats what i came down here to do. so im very happy with that. but i do think were hearing that there is money that people want to spend on border security on both sides of the aisle. wer...