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$5.6 billion he already appropriate, he hasnt spent it yet. >> laura: what i dont understand is, why do all these democrats, including pelosi around her beautiful napa vineyard, why did they all have barriers? why dont they leave the front door open every night and let whoever wants to come and hang out for as long as they want? live there, take the food, maybe some medicine. this is just such a canard, they know a wall works. >> there is a big difference between a 1,000-mile wall and a wall aro...

Government, has a retention problem with border patrol agents. >> that problem is going to get a lot worse when they are not getting paid and their credit ratings are in the tank. they are not paying their rent or their mortgage ins. >> harris: my point is that the issue of trying to pay people and retain them in the border patrol has been across several presidents. its not just now. this issues of "more people, more people, more people." yeah, the academys except he more people. be if you keep ...

Congressman eric swalwell. lets talk brass tacks as a democrat getting this done. some of your party, congressman -- and i mentioned kildee from michigan -- are ready to do a deal. what is the sticking point. is that your leadership? >> is whether we are governed by facts or fear. we followed the facts, they show at that, yes, we have undocumented individuals coming across our border. but there is a net outflow of undocumented individuals leaving our country. lets increase border patrol agents, ...

Steel barrier or a wall of concrete, they dont care. but ill use any term they want. we need a barrier to stop hut man traffickers and the trug trade and stop the big problems that come including gangs. they dont come through the check points, they come through areas where you have hundreds of miles without walls, and without barriers, or without strong fences. so the republican party, i can si, and i -- i can say, i left an hour meeting, great time, no discussion about anything other than solid...

Border, coming through places where there are barriers, that is a tough argument to make for them. we havent seen any response like this in the past and shows how divisive our politics have become. the president ran on this. no one should be surprised about it oval office address. everybody is getting fed up with the shutdown situation and we are to be getting fed up and it is time for them to lead. what donald trump tried to do is calm down the tone a little bit. it was refreshing to see them g...

>> president trump: the federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because democrats will not fund border security. my administration is doing everything in ourat power to help those impacted by the situation. but the only solution is for democrats to pass a spending bill that defends our borders and reopens the government. >> sean: by the way, mitch mcconnell just put out a statement which he said>> tonight the president reaffirmed his commitment to addressing the ...

Yet. >> laura: what i dont understand is, why do all these democrats, including pelosi around her beautiful napa vineyard, why did they all have barriers? why dont they leave the front door open every night and let whoever wants to come and hang out for as long as they want? live there, take the food, maybe some medicine. this is just such a canard, they know a wall works. >> there is a big difference between a 1,000-mile wall and a wall around your house! there is a big difference between 1,000...

Means to provide border security. when that required building barriers in certain key strategic areas. >> neil: youre open to, you dont want to call it a wall, but -- youre open to that. >> i dont care what you call it. the fact is that where that was necessary we built it. as you probably know -- >> neil: but thats not satisfactory now, you argue those structures are satisfactory to you. >> weve already spent money in the last year to reinforce those existing fences and those strategic areas. >...

Shep? >> bret: john roberts outside the white house tonight. joining us now also to react to the presidents oval office address to the country tonight, south carolina senator lindsey graham. senator graham you have been around congress both in 2006 you were around when the secure fence act was passed to build 700 miles of wall. never happened. in 2013, they allocated $46 billion for border security. 8 billion to build and repair. and reinforce barriers at the border. and im listening to senator ...

Brian: tom, every time they say that these barriers, these walls, these fences dont work, they are really calling you a liar, what you have done and seen up close personal they both do work. you cant both be right. what are your thoughts for that? >> thank you for that. thats one thing that stopped me last night. she said it once. schumer said it twice. ineffective wall. so either they are outright lying about this or not reviewing the data thats available. every place a border has been built ev...