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The president will head to the border on thursday. its likely that he will go visit somewhere in the rio grande sector of texas. thats an area where physical barriers, there are some south of mcallen, texas. just above reynosa, the mexican city there. but they are very small, just a few miles of steel barricade. its not an area where a big, tall fence would really work because there is a lot of private landowners who are against the rio grande. they wont want a wall built there on their property...

Border patrol acts and -- agents and coast guards. thats a dangerous thing. >> neil: did you feel this way 17 days ago? did you feel that you didnt think 17 days later well be where we are? >> i voted to fund the government 17 days ago with the border funding. we need to fund the government. >> neil: do you think that the president was caught unaware on this one. now theres no one trying to help dig him out of this? >> i dont think it was the best strategy, neil. most importantly, this is really...

Barrier or a wall to protect our one country. they are willing to send money to countries that burnt american flag. jesse: $54 billion we send overseas in foreign aid. the obama care website. how much did that cost? that thing broke. its over $2 billion. solyndra. after a billion. all hes asking for is $5 billion for the wall. they funded the wall before. >> i think we can add the wall to that list of failed programs. jesse: you dont agree with the border patrol agents? are you calling the borde...

Public and to do that we have to have the proper security on the border which includes the walls, personnel and technology which is what he is fighting for. >> sandra: the wall he is no longer calling it. the white house border security plan as they laid it out. 5.7 for steel barrier, 75 addition all immigration judges and staff and 750 border patrol agents. i wonder based how they laid this out is what youre seeing there enough to secure the southern border? >> it is the start that we have to h...

Con trived phoney crisis. we should man up, step up and deal with this in a way that i think our constituents expect us to do. >> dana: my last question for you would be, do you think that everyone is very clear on where each other stands or are the democrats, they say theyre waiting for the administration to settle in on exactly what they want. did you see any sort of movement on the democratic side when the president said hes willing to go from concrete to steel slats? >> i think the democrats...

For us it doesnt bother what they want to call it they can call it a wall a levy wall. steel barriers that doesnt matter to border p patrol agents. we need a barrier so we can protect our country and keep our people safe and border patrol agents safe as well. ainsley: i know there is 16 different sectors and each sector was asked to present recommendations to the president and his team on how to move forward. did all 16 recommend the wall? >> yes. the majority of the sectors did recommend some t...

But we also need that complimented with the personnel, the border patrol. we need increased technology, particularly at ports of entry where a lot of high value drugs come through. the president could lay out a package of a system of barriers, technology and personnel, i think that would be a winning combination. >> dana: what is your level of concern of the cascading result of the shutdown. theres a cascading effect here. were coming up this friday would be the first day that the federal worker...

House issues an order to the pentagon, it normally comes having been staffed in the interagency. you would already have an attorney general opinion that it was legal, a state department would have ruled on it, the white house general counsel, and the dod general counsel. if there was a notion that it was patently illegal, theyd say so, and at that point youd have an immediate constitutional crisis. i dont think ordering soldiers to put up barriers on the u.s. border is in any way necessarily ill...

Sophisticated. i really dont. i think hes mono maniacal. theres like a shiny on the in front of his -- >> my dog is sophisticated enough. >> i agree. i think this particular round is less about mueller, ironically, and more about what hand with nancy pelosi taking that gavel. this is his reaction. the democrats are in much more powerful a position to call out and expose a lot of things a lot of republicans on the hill kept covered and hid. hes setting up those balls and barriers, distraction poi...

We just want steel slats and thats what we wanted for a while. no, thats not true. it was a concrete wall during the 2016 campaign and it has been one up until now and now the president is trying to act as steel slates are something different. but its something heef khes come up with and theyre not. >> i do think that this purported national emergency the presidents talking about could be an exit strategy. he could say -- because he signaled this before the shutdown occurred where he said, well,...