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Flood into the country. we couldnt wait, we had to implement the suspension. it turned out that they are saying we are going to wait ten days on this. look, it is symbolism. the six nations are not the most important in terms of terrorism. pakistan, saudi arabia, egypt, others are. they are not on the list. it will be symbolism and not much more. >> bret: here is the homeland security secretary on another channel answering a question that is key to this whole border situation. >> our department ...

Flood into the country. we couldnt wait, we had to implement the suspension. it turned out that they are saying we are going to wait ten days on this. look, it is symbolism. the six nations are not the most important in terms of terrorism. pakistan, saudi arabia, egypt, others are. they are not on the list. it will be symbolism and not much more. >> bret: here is the homeland security secretary on another channel answering a question that is key to this whole border situation. >> our department ...

Were very polite. >> really drove it home for you. >> definitely reinforced. i think both of them ducked. i think that trump was very lucky not to get questions on actual news of the day and the actual matters. those reporters who got their questions for trump maybe should have thought about asking about general flynn or about other things instead of just saying, tell me more about nafta. >> they didnt ask about general flynn. on the other hand, he was asked questions and he veered off into some...

Mr. jenkins, your assessment of the european border situation. and are we in a new age where those open borders, thought to be what the modern world would look like in europe no longer work? we have the borders in europe and then the borders around youre. in the balkan and the mediterranean, they have broken down because of the tremendous influx of refugee, because of simply the difficulty of ceiling those borders because in many cases some of the countries on those frontiers have very limited r...

Joining us now, brian jenkins who testified before the home wland security agency today. mr. jenkins, your assessment of the european border situation. and are we in a new age where those open borders, thought to be what the modern world would look like in europe no longer work? we have the borders in europe and then the borders around youre. in the balkan and the mediterranean, they have broken down because of the tremendous influx of refugee, because of simply the difficulty of ceiling those b...

Intelligence and law enforcement, while it clearly has improved, it is proving not to be adequate. to the extent that cord ration is looking, were likely to see the reimp situation of border controls which is a challenge to the core idea of the european union itself. >> it would be in american terms like having border controls between new york state and vermont. and thats what -- as they were modeling this, thats what theyre looking at, the united states, and that massive economic market where n...

Going to do a suicide attack. so theres going to be all over the world a temptation to say look at those crises of migrants, look whats happening with the refugees, they are the dangers. im not sure that theyre going to be the danger in the weeks and months ahead. >> right. but ill give you an example. i was speaking to a couple of serbian friends of mine here in paris and they said their heart has been open for months now trying to see how to help some of those people and just this morning were...

Elder as well as juan williams. i went down to the border about ten times. helicopter boats, horse back sat through briefings, ive been -- i was sitting through that briefing with governor perry of texas at the time. >> i think i saw you in a commander boat down there. >> that was -- ive been all the way from the rio grande all the way to san diego coming up a tunnel i went into. that was built. and i was in the drug ware houses. there is huge crime associated with this illegal border situation....

Middle of the height of two big wars by sending the national guard to the border and they actually went to arizona. they took a lot of the function the border patrol was getting drug down doing. we see border patrol you hear about them changing diapers and taking caring of these children when their job and what they are trained to do is protect the border. the national guard can alleviate a lot of these extra duties and allow the border patrol to go out and do their job. bill: you are saying the...

Crisis. the president will meet with leaders including texas governor rick perry. the president still has no plans to visit the border. thats controversial. hes also facing hesitation after asking congress to green light $3.7 billion to curb the problem on the border there. our michelle kosinski has more from the white house. good morning. president obama will to address the issue. weve seen the white house lay out what it calls an aggressive plan for dealing with this border situation. its a ...