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Border and to secure the sovereignty of this nation. maria: well its interesting because were looking at a graphic right now of the current wall and fencing, 30% of the border already has a wall, and last week, on this program, we spoke with one of your colleague s on the house side, congressman mak thornberry on foreign affairs and here is what he said on the current situation listen to this. >> for years, way before president obama was elected, the border patrol experts said you need a combina...

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 ...

We have technologies to keep the border save all of that is fine. >> see what you are talking about. does it contribute in a smart way to security quick certain physical barriers can make sense along the border and in a lot of places you already have that. judge: i have a solution. there is no question president trump has the authority to declare a national emergency. the critical operational issue is that only money already authorized and appropriate he can be spent the only serious source of f...

Enter rappel or shoot yourself out of a cannon over. he has made concessions from 25 billion down a 5 billion from a concrete barrier to steal. promising more personnel, detention beds , using technology and electronics. and money to address the humanitarian need. in spite of his negotiating the democrats refused to budge. curiously some democrats are peeling away from the nonnegotiable stance of nancy pelosi. >> i can tell you a wall make sense and places there are a lot of places it doesnt see...

>> we can stay stuck on this, 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 m...

Give in? hes not going to give in. leland: all of a sudden all of a sudden you call at barriers and security appear you okay with the five points seven? democrats have been okay with those numbers for border security for a long time. >> i was intrigued by the word teaches. maybe thats what we need to use. weve been strong supporters of border security going back more than 20 years for myself, to the time i was lieutenant governor. >> is the government shut down his 800,000 people without paychec...

♪ kayak. search one and done. at first slice pizza lovers everywhere meet o, thats good! frozen pizza one third of our classic crust is made with cauliflower but thats not stopping anyone o, thats good! >> every democrat that have worked with for about 10 years now has agreed to funding for barriers/walls on obamas watch in bushs watch and now its a bad thing on trumps watch. >> im for additional border security, but not out to be driven by the experts, not by the political winds of a campaign...

Know if its steal. vote for some money for physical barriers. its not going to be -- yeah. not across the entire 2,000-mile stretch and certainly not a concrete wall, but it will be part of a package. i can almost bet on it. >> all right. >> so at least some sort of a barrier for some part of the border? your thoughts on that. >> sure. sure. and representative hill is a terrific new member and shes pointing out the fact that we have barriers at points across the border. thats not what this is ab...

So congresswoman hill, it sounds like hes really dangling this daca deal to democrats to get this wall. would you ever support that to reopen the government? >> well, first of all, we have to stop using this term the wall. he has taken major steps back from that and i think the more we fixate on the term the wall the less productive any conversations are going to be. we need to change the frame. we have to say this is about border security and accomplishing the things that we want to on the demo...

When hes taking paychecks away from hard-working public safety professionals? it makes no sense. all that has to happen is the republicans have to be willing to vote the way they did just three weeks ago, open up government and well dialogue about border security. >> it does sound like, though, youre willing to support some fencing, barriers, if they call it something else, if it reopens the government. >> i will say this. we first should reopen government. why punish people who are applying for...