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Bipartisan. >> but there were roles in there. why did you like the wall then and you dont now? >> well, friendly, i have to disagree. there was additional border security that included some barriers. but i think word of a person like will hurd, a republican texas that lives along the border and spent 10 years in the cia, he doesnt believe that the simple approach that the president is proposing, which is really the fulfillment of his campaign promise, is the way to get there. if were going to do...

Laredo, they come right back to the united states. the agents arrest as many as we can but we cant arrest everybody. thats why we need those physical barriers and that infrastructure and that manpower. without that funding and that border wall it will be impossible for us to keep that community safe. this is not about politics, this is about the safety of american people and even the safety of the people being victimized by those drug cartels. >> hector, what else do you see coming across the bo...

Us with congress and beyond want border security. we want the money to be spent wisely in the most effective way possible. and that includes physical barriers and certain places, it also includes various kinds of observation, technologies and also, the ports of entry. all of those things have to be part of the puzzle. and we will and have supported such measures in the past. >> what does the words, border security mean? it is a physical barrier, physical barriers would be okay. why not have a co...

Fact that they are unwilling to provide any funding for this wall. and i think it really does come down to how theyre going to define this wall, whether its just fencing and ensuring that fencing that is already existing is fixed, which has been the case in past funding that has been given towards border security, or whether it is going to be able to be actually used for more of this wall that the president has talked about. >> yeah, weve heard the back and forth with that when it comes to the s...

Significantly more funding for barriers on the border, then hell likely have to give on issues like daca. those are the kind of compromises that can be struck, that should be struck. and hopefully with divided government, thats what well get. >> and let me ask you about the presidents trip overseas. as you noticed a couple of days ago, he went to go visit the troops in iraq. and during that visit, he brought up this issue of a government shutdown. blamed it on democrats. also went after the demo...

Look, we are not going to give the president everything, but we have to compromise somewhere. >> one of the things you hear from his aides at this point is they are not talking about a wall in the ways he is talking b. heres mick mulvaney again talking about a barrier. >> we are building a barrier. thats why the government is closed. the president is not willing to give up on the southern barrier. >> the moral thing to do is keep it shut down until you get a wall. how in tune to you to the compr...

>> they would love to use it which was talking about what they have been talking about since the george w. bush administration, a mixed bag of options to keep security on the southern border. sometimes its invisible barriers. its something that the democrats voted to improve before and immigration bills that have not made it through congress. thats not controversial. the driving home about the wall, wall, nothing else but a wall. what is the president going to spin as a wall to his base. you can...

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If there is to be some sort of consensus in the future, it may turn on language, on building and most especially, talking about fences and barriers rather than walls. >> ed: jonathan, thank you. lets now go to our next guest represents the border state and says democrats must bite the bullet and pay for the wall if they want to stop this problem. arizona congressman andy bigs, he joins us now. good evening. i want to start out in california where jonathan hunt is, there is a police officer who l...

Getting a win on the immoral wall but they dont mind the terminology of steel barriers or flat fencing or is it the money when you ruck are talking about $5 billion. >> well, both. and whether the president wants to call it a wall, fencing, including technology and human monitoring, and this debate and discussion and ultimately decision ought to be made in the context of comprehensive immigration reform such as pathways to citizenship for dreamers and daca recipients and those in the country on ...