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Confirmed. >> thank you. my time is expired. mr. chairman, i yield back. thank you, mr. barr. >> thank you, mr. chairman and congratulations. and to you, congratulations on your nomination and thank you for your lifetime of dedication of public service. >> thank you. >> in response to a question that senator ernst asked, you mentioned that we need barriers across the border to deal with drug trafficking. are you advocating a wall? >> well, i think im advocating a system, a barrier system in some...

>> so the president and his supporters who were in that last meeting where the president walked out and said bye-bye say that he asked nancy pelosi if i go back to the table and negotiate, could you support or would you allow for funding for some kind of new barrier, and she said no. so whats your message to nancy pelosi here? >> first of all, i dont think he said some kind move to barrier. i think he said the wall. and thats a really important distinction. the connotation around the wall has so...

Were to start up again, with the government reopen, could you vote, will you vote for some new fencing? >> only if the government is open will i even consider such an idea, and it has to be part of a bigger package. but there have been proposals on the table before. last year the herd aguilar proposal that included components of border security, including some big physical barriers where it makes sense but really with a focus on the ports of entry and on personnel and on dealing with the immigra...

To spend more money on border security. im all in for that. i think what happened was they built borders and barriers in the highest populated areas where it was the most needed. technology has changed since then. i would -- if we can agree on a set amount and say lets leave it to the experts to decide, we can get a yes. >> neil: thanks, senator. >> thank you. >> neil: i want to take you to barron, wisconsin where the hairing for jake thomas, the man charged with abduct being jayme closs is abou...

Of cars and vans. and they go -- they dont come in through a port of entry. because you would see them come you couldnt do that. they come in through our border, where we dont have any barriers or walls. and they drive right in and they have no problems. we will get that stopped. we are going to have a wall. we will have a barrier. we will have something very soon. [cheers and applause] one of the most important things -- and ive built a lot of walls. he sought the of the day they kept saying "y...

Screen right now if these numbers. an abc "washington post" poll shows that, while mort doherty of americans do not approve of building a border wall, the numbers are moving in the presidents favor. 42% of americans supporting a border wall, up from 34% a year ago. brian kilmeade, why do you think that is? why is the needle moving toward the president? >> brian: a couple things come here us. thanks, everybody for having me on. a couple things -- walls, fences, barriers, slats. if you say wall, 2...

Including physical barriers. so heres the question. i understand the idea that you dont want a 2,000-mile wall, but you have supported and a lot of democrats including pelosi, including schumer have supported a border that includes hundreds of miles of fencing, so why not make a deal, the deal that right now without opening the government, why not make the deal that lindsey graham was talking about -- lindsey graham was talking about, some money for border barriers, fencing, wall, in return for ...

They want and you couldnt fire them. i got accountability approved. everybody said you couldnt get that. we got it done and now we can say jim, youre fired. get out of here. we dont want you taking care of our veterans. a big thing. a lot of help from those people. [applause] we got a lot done. they view the wall as being a big item that if i dont do it, its a negative. im not doing it for that reason. im doing it because we have to do it. its common sense. we have to do it. if you look at the c...

And we can argue about nancy pelosi saying its an immoral wall when she voted for the wall last year and did not declare when barack obama built 133 miles of wall -- >> it was fencing. fencing and barriers -- >> oh, no, no, it was walls. >> it doesnt matter. >> heres the bottom line -- >> he said mexico would pay for this. >> you can stay stuck yesterday. i think the american people are saying a pox on both -- >> [inaudible] >> relate me finish, let me finish, let me finish, let me finish -- >> ...

Nancy pelosi says even if he opened up the government, i wouldnt fund a wall. so thats why im depressed, you know? theres not much talk about what she said. shes telling the president even if you open up the government, im not going to do a deal on the wall, and thats a nonstarter for the president. chris: well, and i dont mean in any way to cast aspersions on the president or nancy pelosi -- [laughter] but you know one of the definitions of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over...