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Releasing him. this problem would go away overnight. he needs to be held accountable. >> griff: mccarthy talked about holding hearings. i think you would be a great witness and i hope they call when. when you retired you gave an extensive insight into why it was a national security issue. it has gotten worse. but let me ask you, who should mccarthy call to these border hearings? who needs to appear and go on record? >> i think currently i have some historical knowledge, of course, the beginning ...

Involved in all of this via twitter and his words raised the stakes for your negotiations coming up? >> good to be with you, harris. at the end of the day we have to have something we can pass through the house, the senate, and that the president will sign. so we all have to be involved and we need to come up with a good solution that funds border security, which means people, technology, and a barrier. >> harris: its hard to believe that the third component, barrier, might not come up in these ...

How do you justify shutting down the government again or declaring a national emergency as the president is threatening to do? >> no one wants a government shutdown. thats why were working hard to find a solution. if you talk to the border security professionals, the career professionals that are out there working every day on the border, theyll tell you that they need all three. they need people, they need technology, and they need a barrier. and, you know, we built a barrier under president ob...

Security is not talking about a wall, they are wasting their time. how should we read that tweet? does that mean the president, if he doesnt get a barrier of a size that he wants he will walk away? how should we interpret this? >> he has shown a willingness to compromise. what he put out there is a lot of things that democrats want in it. we can get there. i think we will do this now as a committee is get the border security professionals and their career people to come talk about that mix, and ...

Think he called it a strawman proposal, and lets really make it constructive by having the normal processes of consideration, amendment debate and vote happen in a prompt time fashion, and the white house should be satisfied with that. >> do you they will fund physical security and whatever technology they want or are you in the not one dollar for that wall school? >> i am in the camp that has been willing to fund significant amounts of border security if my border security professionals look me...

Theres any negotiation at all. i ran into tim kane today, hes from the neighboring commonwealth of virginia, thousands of federal workers in his state. he objected to adjourning the senate so he had the senate floor pretty much all to himself. i spoke to him on the way when he was on his way to give his speech in the senate and heres what he told me. >> the dollar amount has not been the challenge, the issue is to use the money the right way or the wrong way and i think what our goal is we dont ...

We reopen government. i hope he says well reopen government and lets sit down and talk. dollar amount has not been the challenge. the issue is do you use the money the right or wrong way. i think what our goal is we dont want to use the money the wrong way. we want to use it to do what our border security professionals say is the most important thing to do. we dont want to use it for a vanity project. >> okay. again, the senate in session right now. kaines compatriot colleague from the commonwea...