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I will give you this. they seized -- border patrol agencies for 200 pounds of fontanelle at the ports of entry on the southern border. but they also seized 332 pounds of fentanyl along the southern border. thats a lot of fentanyl. >> greg: the reason why its at the port of entry is because thats often the easier path once you have barriers. it actually moves into the port of entry. >> juan: i thought you said he wants the wall. in other words -- >> greg: yes. so -- >> juan: i think we are in the...

Sean? >> sean: 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. which 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 ...

Address about border security. here is part of what the president said. >> 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 our 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 pres...

Security, they want national security, they want a steel barrier or a wall of concrete. they dont care. ill use any term they want. we need a barrier to stop the human traffickers and the drug trade, and to stop all the big problems that come, including gangs. they dont come through your checks points. they come through where you have hundreds of miles without walls or barriers or without strong fences. we had a great time, actually. there was no discussion about anything other than solidarity. ...

And now in the last negotiation when chuck schumer said apparently to the president would you take the 2.6 which mike pence had said, you know, you voted for that understandably and the president said, no, he wouldnt so does the president have to come down and meet the democrats somewhere in the middle and then do you think you could increase the pressure on the democrats to compromise? >> yeah, i think we have to meet somewhere in the middle and i dont know what that number is, but thats the wa...

Time in that room, and your proximity to power for decades of your life probably still means that like me you get a little weak in the knees when you walk into that very unique american space. >> well, brian, i think all you have to say about this, tonights address, is that the president himself made fun of his own staff in a background or briefing to the news media. its just unheard of. and made fun of tomorrows visit to the border as a photo-op and that its not going to change anything. so you...

Century technology not old solution. >> you backed that up by data and the president wants his wall. you have seen republicans in the senate and colleagues start to peel away from him saying this is ridiculous, making the same case you make the people are not getting paid because the president wont move on his wall. how do we work our way out of this? how do the people get paid? >> the solution is simple, already out there. if you want physical barriers, you can complete the fence act, a handful...

>> yeah. where i come from, you hear a lot of what you said at the beginning, which is we have to keep our borders secure. i think, if i may something a bit controversial, i think, as in the brett kavanaugh case, democrats and others may be getting a little too ahead of things. trump is pushing them into acting as if they dont care at all about border security. i think everybody thinks trumps making a mistake and everybodys dumping on him, partly, but its not just his base. there are a lot of pe...

Really in order to save women and children who are coming across the border that we need to build a wall. but i think we really have to kind of fact-check the logic around that. when you build barriers, it is known that those deterrents force people through more remote and desolate and dangerous areas when theyre trying to cross. we saw this in the 90s when bitl clinton. its hard to imagine that building a wall could increase the way we treat people more humanely in any way. he also said that wo...

Worried about the political deal. >> i was talking to some republicans last night who said that there is a deal to be made with a number that starts with 2. do you think that is a legitimate approach that the white house should now consider? >> maybe. i think any serious negotiation is absolutely legitimate and it needs to occur. the problem is as you know speaker pelosi said it was immoral to add any more to the current fencing thats on the wall so about 30% of the border has some sort of physi...