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Fences or barriers to automobiles or walls or other forms of obstacles in order to keep people from coming across freely. the democrats believe that the wall is wrong. then let them show the courage of their convictions by calling for the removal of passing piece of legislation that calls for their removal of the walls and obstacles that we have already erected. >> neil: karl, having worked with president bush, its unusual for the president to go out in the briefing room himself. >> absolutely. ...

We appreciate the support youve given ice. im brandon judd. the president of the national border patrol council. ive been a border patrol agent for 21 years. i can personally tell you from the work that i have done on the southwest border that walls actually work. you hear a lot of talk from the expert that -- a lot of talk that there are experts that say walls dont work. i promise you if you interview border patrol agents, they will tell you walls work. i worked in arizona for ten years. we did...

Keep our communities safe. >> harris: what i hear you saying in answer to my question, we are not the point where he would do an executive order or whatever that other alternative might be. thats important. if you think youre going to pull that emergency hat, you are going to negotiate different lipid whats critical about what you are saying, mercedes, the president is trying to reach across the aisle and there is one word that has stuck. would he not use the word "wall" in any instance? >> the ...

Of the wall along the southern border. nancy pelosi for political reasons and a lot of democrats in the leadership including chuck schumer have decided to make this a political battle, not base it on the merits of whether we need to do this or not or say lets deny president trump what he wants. id remind senator schumer that he voted for 700 miles of wall in 2006. we built about 654 miles of wall. along the southern border. so we havent even finished the task that he supported along with 79 othe...

And we appreciate president trump and all of his efforts in getting us those physical barriers. theres a lot of talk on the shut down that federal employees do not agree with if tthe shut . ly tell you, thats not true. this is art dequeto. hes a long-time border patrol agent out of the tucson sector and he would like to say a few words about the shut down. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. once again, im art del queto. i want everybody to take the time to understand whats going on. were all af...

Down, that says something about whats happening with apple. it says that perhaps its really worried about revenues in china which is like 20% of its business. also says something about the chinese economy which was of course one of the points of this trade war, is to kind of hurt the chinese economy. of course we live in a complicated world and what happens there affect us. yes, markets still say something. they say something important. >> so there was also a time, lets go back 15 or 20 years ag...

>> 100 years the right to vote. 100 women in the house. and this midterm voter turnout was the highest in over 100 years meaning you have to go back to before women could legally vote to find a higher turnout. that means you have to go back to a time when half the country wasnt allowed to vote at all. as her allies stress, her many accomplishments go beyond breaking barriers. she passed obamacare and. on politics shes the first politician to win another stint as speaker in over 60 years. and tha...

Or barriers that are put up that need to be enhanced and consistent with what the policy experts have said are helping to improve our security along the border. what were unwilling to do is to pay a $5 billion ransom note for a medieval border wall that trump wants to put forward that he initially said, as you know, john, that mexico would pay for. mexico has not paid for it. the great deal maker has failed. then weve had two years where republicans have no border wall. why would we agree at thi...

He wants to spend the $5 billion on? >> i think he has defined it twice in two parallel ways. the messaging to the presidents base is its going to be a concrete wall and not any other kind of wall with, a, and the m with the legislative team up on the hill and the back channel conversations, its, look, my border guys dont want a concrete wall anyway, and they want something they can see through, and its what the professionals at the border want, and there are places that have barriers and there ...

Natural barriers. its going to be so big. its going to be so powerful. its going to be as beautiful as a wall can be. the wall, also called so i give them a little bit of an out, steel slats. we dont use the wall necessarily. its not going to be open until we have a wall or fence or whatever they would like to call it. were looking at between 500 and 550. >> where do you start with that one? >> i think its clear the president wants to declare victory on a wall even if its not a wall, even if its...