over funding he s pushing for for his proposed border wall. before that happens, the president and vice president will have lunch with republican senators on capitol hill as some cracks in the gop grow over the shutdown. joining me now is republican senator james lankford from oklahoma. happy new year, haven t had a chance to say that yet. you bet. happy new year to you as well. after the address last night you said i am glad potus focused the border security foundation on tech as a crucial part of the larger border security strategy as i along with fencing and other actions. you re glad he s talking about tech. the shutdown is not about technology, the shutdown s about the president s border wall, isn t it? well, the shutdown is really about border security period. and what s interesting on that is part of the border security is going to be technology, part of it s personnel and additional judges. we have 800,000 people on a backlog and part of it is fencing. trying to get the w