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>> kat: i am all about securing the border, got to do it. i dont know we need a wall for that. >> eboni: you know my theory. i think trumps rhetoric is so effective. i believe in securing the border, i believe in sovereignty. i think they are democrats that are in trump-favorable districts. if they do what you are suggesting and they isolate the border security issue on its own, they will get some democrats. they can get it done. >> eric: i am smiling because you know if this is, a day after pre...

Today its not a border security issue it is a border management issue. people are turning themselves in to the border patrol or at our ports of entry. they are not fleeing and eluding us. >> what are you saying? it is a waste of money to build a wall along the 2,000 miles where there is no fencing? >> i think you can put additional infrastructure in place. there are probably some improvements that can be made, but when we think of unmanned aircraft, 21,000 border patrol agents, 18,000 of whom ar...

Deportation than any other presiden presidency. 121 mothers and children, coming from states from those who were legally deported. you know that the legal aides that can get through due process have been inundated, but how would you get to that assistance to go through that the due process? >> this is the challenge that were having with the obama administration. to the administration is treating this as a border security issue when were having a border control crisis so the same way in which you...

With this all the time. these are people from guatemala, el salvador and honduras. the numbers are impressive. more than 10,000 unaccompanied kids in the last two months and the numbers for families are even higher, more than 12,000 family members crossing the border. thats nearly triple the same amount this time last year. so theyre climbing up the u.s. customs commissioner, he said this may very well be the new normal. hes concerned about this. he had homeland security people, not saying this ...

Costume? refugee. >> ill try to be quick. i think theres a couple of things. one, i think that we should, we should consider the fact that it does take two years to do a vetting process. what we should be probably a little more worried about are the people that are trying to get in here illegally. so we have a border security issue on all sides. that means including at our airport where people come in, overstay their visas. theres a vetting process, its rigorous. i dont think that the president ...

Coming down which no doubt has either trump or one of the trump properties on it i would imagine, he is waving to the people who have come out to see the donald. tony he may have made some comments that were controversial, but at the same time were talking a lot about border security and we may not have been doing that on a day like today with iran being so big in the news. what has he accomplished? >> look he struck a chord clearly, and as much as you think his comments were wrong-headed and i ...

Enforce the law as he swore an old to uphold. >> would you vote for donald trump? >> i havent decided who im going to support right at this point and i want to see this race develop a little bit further, and i think that what we have to as both the party and as a nation, look to finally solve first the border security issue. then everybody has different opinions about what we do with the 12 to 20 million illegals and that discussion will come later. >> all right, thank you very much sheriff. i a...

Afraid. and either is jeb bush. >> right, former governor of texas, he has the authenticity, credibility and knowledge to deal with the border security issue. >> hes been looking to figure out how to fit into the 2016 field. that may be how he fits into the field. thank you so much for being us with, amy. also for helping us in "way too early." he spent a quart certain triwith the fbi. the bureaus former executive assistant joins us with his take on the shooting in chattanooga. that has all the ...

That as a republican is it time to deal with this? >> well first of all i think we should deal with what people told us was the if priority which is jobs. every poll shows that every member of congress can tell you that so we should focus on jobs first. then people have said the border security issue is why people dont trust this president. i think that should be the first bill and i do think immigration should be done piece by piece and i think border security is very important. until we do tha...

Books. and i think sheriffs across the country are prepared to do that, work with homeland security. and we can bring this problem -- really we can solve it. >> sheriff page, ive heard about the more people at the border. how many more? what would it take? when you talk about enforcing the border what are we talking about here? >> first of all, you could add 20 to 40,000 additional men and women working the border for security. but if you dont properly utilize those persons, dont have the tactic...