use towards building his wall. but, even if those lawsuits go a only 15 seconds and i want to on, and they re not able to button this down. if the local border chiefs say access, the white house still that the money that we needs to has roughly another 3 billion go to a wall and from other departments they plan a question, i have to answer to use until those lawsuits are it, you ask me a question finished playing out. quickly. the problem is washington leland: and the white house were dictates this. the president dictated he put a 14th century solution with a strategizing a few other options wall. as well. i want to see border security laura. now let s turn to the technology, personnel, i worked with those folks and i can say republican congress womb from west virginia, carol miller, my border is a lot safer than good to see you, thanks for being here today. even where you re at right now and i can make that bet with you good afternoon. all right, congress woman right now.
white house. no early read yet. all we heard in the president where he said reviewing the funding bill with my type at the white house. what we do know is in the bill, $1.375 billion for pedestrian fencing that will be built in the rio grant sector of the texas border between the united states and mexico. $725 million more border security technology. $570 million for noninvasive inspection equipment at ports of entry and $270 million for construction and improvements. there s some debate over what the bill would allow to be built. it says that it needs to be steel bollard wall like the wall that we ve seen installed in many places across the border in california. congressional sources insist that the president can build his steal slat wall, the 30 foot high steel picket fence with a
an opportunity to bring something to the table and at the end of the day they are waiting for 2020. heather: they want to keep it as an election issue. things like that happen over and over when it comes to immigration issues. they want to keep it on the table because it is something they can campaign on. that is why the president has been vocal and i support him because he trying to bring solutions to the table, democrats are quiet on this issue. heather: how do you feel about the border barrier and border wall? the president has every right, putting america s safety first and a lot of dreamers are supporting him and standing in unity with a compromise. heather: not immoral like nancy pelosi says? not at all. it makes sense in some areas and we need to enhance border security technology and do something about this. heather: enhancing border security with technology, more agents, more judges and border
and be able to pay their mortgage. from that standpoint, i think the speaker s point was well taken. we should open up this government and then concede with the business of the government while it is operating. bret: understanding your position, you think the president should open up the government now. what about the people who turn to you and speaker nancy pelosi and say, put something on the table. compromise with something so that the ball has moved on the field. we are prepared to do that. frankly, we have supported a lot of resources and expansion of the border security personnel, the border security technology, all sorts of things have been designed to make the border more secure. we are prepared to do so and we have said that at the white house. unfortunately the focus has been
proposing as an alternative to the border wall? we can answer that question wita some authority because last week on january 3rd, house democrats passed their own proposal they say would secure our southern border. what didn t? what i what to do?o? nothing that is not being done already. the democratic bill provides the same funding for a partial fencing, border security technology, hiring more customs officers and so forth, that we already have. in other words, the democratic border security plan is the status quo. democrats argument is that things were just fine right now. instead of spending another dollar to secure the border, democrats in congress have, for example, proposed spending another $12 million to investigate reparations for slavery, just to give you some proportion and methods of their priorities. to democrats, everything is more important than border security. that would be fine if a recurrent security was working. it s not. in fact, it s likely that more than 20 millio