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>> happy new year. >> reporter: walking into the press briefing room for the first time donald trump gave bipartisanship just a few seconds of airtime. >> i want to start by congratulating nancy pelosi on being elected speaker of the house, a very great achievement and hopefully we are going to work together and get lots of things done. >> been double down on his instagram meme. >> never had anything like in terms of calls coming in and people writing in and tweeting and doing whatever they have...

It causes caravans and pushes people towards the border. >> jason: that logic escapes me. we shouldnt deport them? part of the issue they are dealing with, hector, on the border and ive been on the border with you is the fact that it is fairly easy to come across. we dont have enough agents to have every single 3 meters or so covered. >> its very clear we dont have enough physical barriers. its clear we dont have enough manpower. we see these criminals coming right back. i mentioned it during th...

Partially, partially, what leslie said, there has to be a multipronged approach. one of those elements has to be a physical border, physical barrier on the northern and southern border. every democrat in the senate voted 42,006, four years later in the gang of 8. nancy pelosi, speaker of the house is saying walls are immoral. by logical extension should be campaigning to have the existing walls toward down as a moral crusade against these horrible barriers? that is a ludicrous public policy posi...

But one element has to be a physical barrier all along the border. this is something almost every democrat voted for in 2006. later in the gang of eight. if nancy pelosi is now saying walls are immoral, should she not be campaigning to have the existing walls torn down as a moral crusade against these horrible barriers? its a ludicrous public policy position. >> shannon: something tells me we are not going to get that piece of legislation. guy, boyd, leslie, thank you. leslie, you heard guy say ...

Barriers under section 1002a. they voted for in the past but refused to do it now. >> they do not want to give trump a victory so this is all about trump, all about politics. it has nothing to do. they could care less about the security and safety of american citizens, they could care less about the integrity of our nations borders. what we need to harp on a lot is they are carrying more about political posturing than the safety of american citizens. heather: american citizens dying trying to ge...

Combination of barriers whether it is fencing or wall or a levy barriers that are used deal with the flooding and also illegal immigration. we need the technology and then we need the personnel, and a lot of the drugs that come across the border come across the ports of entry for a lot of commercial trade and traffic goes and we need additional resources there and personnel to be able to detect and stop the flow of the illegal drugs that contributed to the deaths of 70,000 americans last year wh...

♪ >> those physical barriers and we appreciate president trump and all of his efforts in getting us those physical barriers. anywhere that you look where we have built walls, they have worked. steve: that was our next guest standing with the president yesterday in the white house briefing room calling for funding of a border wall or a fence as washington continues to fight over funding. here with more is brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council. brandon, i bet in a million...

Criminals, back to the home area, it causes caravans and pushes people towards the border. >> jason: that logic escapes me. we shouldnt deport them? part of the issue they are dealing with, hector, on the border and ive been on the border with you is the fact that it is fairly easy to come across. we dont have enough agents to have every single 3 meters or so covered. >> is very clear we dont have enough physical barriers. its clear we dont have enough manpower. we see these criminals coming rig...

All need to know. this is much more than politics. it is all about politics. it is also a matter of national security. the wall is just not somee hollow campaign tactic. it is something that our own border patrol agents are calling for, that they desperately say they want and need. you dont have to take my word w for it.t take a step back and listen to them. they are on the front lines. >> ive been a border patrol agent for 21 years. i cany personally tell you, from the work that i have done on ...

Very real and detailed. we discussed a lot of different issues to include the physical barrier, the wall. thats why we made this press briefing at the last minute. because the information that we are providing present trip was very accurate and very real pretty stuffy mega people should hear it as well. we are very careful for that. we need to make sure we fund the portable. pelosi, mr. schumer, they have supporting walls in the past or even president obama. i dont know what is changing for now....