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This madness. and the president says, im not going to reopen government until you agree to a wall. that is where we are stuck right now. >> well, and that isnt going to change if were doing it through you and other media outlets as opposed to sitting down at the table. look, the number that the president wants for the wall is coming as a recommendation from the subject matter experts. the border security experts down there. which, by the way think there the leader was appointed under the obama a...

And as weve seen with clear-cut proof, a lot of those efforts were aimed at suppressing african-american vote. did they use that polling data to guide the russian social media efforts to suppress african-american vote? we dont know the answer to that yet. i would hope that mueller has got more indication. but its a very real question. >> lets turn to the shutdown. you represent roughly 34,000 federal workers in virginia who are currently going without pay and contractors who may never get back p...

Or wall? >> there is already 700 miles-plus of wall thats been built, some for more than a decade. that was decided by border security experts. im for additional border security. but that border security ought to be driven by the experts, not by the political whims of a campaign promise where trump said the wall was going to be built and paid for by mexico. this guy doesnt tell the truth. so more border security, lets have at it. while were having that debate, lets reopen the government. tim kai...

Had are obsolete for things like dealing with family asylum issues. theyre gaming the system a little, are they not? >> i think that is fair. migrants and the mugglers they pay understand our enforcement policies and they understand ways around our enforcement policies. very clearly. but simply building a wall for the sake of building a wall is not the answer. you ask border social security expe -- border security experts, they will tell you more surveillance, boats, planes, lights, perhaps more...

Very strong. >> the president really does believe you can solve this in 10 minutes. were asking for $5.6 billion. they offer us zero. the democrats for better or worse think theyre winning this battle politically. >> the president is prepared to do what it takes to protect our borders, to protect the people of this country. >> we need to open up government and then negotiate. not the other way around. because were prepared to negotiate. >> the president seems unaware of this but weve already bui...

Never walked or worked in the shoes of a border patrol agents. we have all these talking heads come out on all these shows and msnbc and cnn talking about how wall does not work. but, come on, they have never been to the border. some of these people have no idea how the border works. border patrol agents are the real border security experts. we work testify single day. ed: wait, you are saying if we want to learn about the border we should listen to border patrol agents? jedediah: novel idea. ed...

But as far as whether or not a wall would work, that seems to be the most divisive argument between republicans and democrats because many would say of course all wall would work. if you have a huge structure standing before you, how do you lift your child over that or your wife? i dont know how that would work out. border patrol agents on the ground, im not there, you are not there, border patrol agents on the ground sale wall would work. what you say to those at the border day in and day out? ...

From everything i can see and hear, a normal white house would have the senior officials from relevant agencies meet over many hours to make determinations about what the best way forward is. what seems to happen in this white house is that may take place and they make a set of recommendations and those recommendations are completely ignored by president trump and a small group of people around him including stephen miller. essentially, the experts, their opinions are shoved to the side and what...

But the border wall that he seems to continue to have in his head is nothing that those states want, nothing that border security experts recommend and not supported by our party or his party. >> so if hes clearly not going to agree to whats called a clean daca bill that only allows the d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay. he said any such daca bill, he tweeted this last night after the meeting, as i made very clear today, the country needs the security on the wall with the southern border. which must be part...

Its in our best interest. >> does this transcript that "the washington post" published show in your mind that the president was, at the least, not fully honest with the american people or lied to the american people about the belief mexico would pay for the wall? >> ill defer that president to the president. i dont know the full context of the discussion. i havent read the transcriptions, i will. at the end of the day, its never made sense to assume we were going to build a large wall. we have a...