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Occasionally, the hikers came across a piece of clothing, a water bottle, a backpack, or a .50 caliber bullet casing leftover from bombing and live-fire exercises at the nearby Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. But signs of human life are largely absent in this harsh and unforgiving landscape. The southern Arizona sun, 15 miles from the Mexico border, was brutally hot, even in the early hours of a March morning. The intimidating Growler Mountains loomed over the flat and exposed desert expans...

This. my source said the information that was leaked was only available to a certain select number of people. in these series of deportation moves have been planned for months, correct? >> absolute. theyve been working the plan for a long time but once you get close to the date when youve got to information onto the field, he got to inform your partners, it got to let community partners know. >> laura: so tonight youre saying these rumors are wrong, false, and you did not do this? to go absolute...

Multiplier with stone garden, which is our relationship with those northern and southern border sheriffs. we need to do everything we can to create a unilateral border strategy that includes state and local officials as well. there is a way to do this. but doing it through political platitudes and political promises that dont make a lot of sense when theyre practically implemented, thats not the way we should legislate, its not the way we should govern, and its certainly not the way to secure al...

But the honest truth is that there is a border strategy. there is a border security strategy at the department of homeland security. the president doesnt show you all of that because its not a sea to shining sea wall. no one in border security believes thats necessary in order to secure the border. and, you know, when appropriators sit down at the table and they decide how theyre going to spend this money, they know what that back story is and theyre basically saying youre not going to get a wal...

You represent even more of that northern border, which is more than double the size of our southern border. how strange is it, as you sit up there on the northern border in north dakota where most of it is completely unprotected, undefended, to hear all of this tension and stress being put on the southern border legislatively? >> well, this started for me in 2013 when we did the comprehensive immigration proposal. i was new in the senate. i said, what about the northern border, what about the no...

Comprehensive immigration proposal. i was new in the senate. i said, what about the northern border, what about the northern border? no one would listen. and so along with kelly ayotte, we passed a bill requiring a northern border strategy which now has grown into an actual plan for securing the northern border. so, you know, we got very, very frustrated. but i think one of the great ironies of the shutdown is what it did to the coast guard and everybody forgets our maritime borders, which are a...

Essential in protecting our society, protecting our people. and this idea that every attention, because thats politically where the attention goes to the southwest border, weve got to fund the coast guard. weve got to tell those men and women of the coast guard that we appreciate what they do and will never do to them what we did to them in the shutdown. we have to have discussions with all kinds of law enforcement on the northern border. one of the big things thats missing here is the plus mult...

This is, is kind of a shift, honestly, thats going on unrecognized, in the past, in the midterms, mitch mcconnell needed the president. the president delivered a couple of key senate races, went out there and campaigned. i think that table has switched. i think the president needs mitch mcconnell much more than mitch mcconnell needs the president, to maintain their power base. and so i think thats kind of one of those back stories thats not getting talked about. but the honest truth is that ther...

Have to come here. he could do a lot, and the democrats would help him, they would help him out of his own mess. but hes his own worst enemy on this. >> you know, its interesting. we continue not to have a border strategy. and then if you listen to every within leaving office, from bush to speaker ryan, oh, i wish i had taken care of the immigration problem. lets please take care of that. he had the platform. he had both branches. he had the white house, he had the senate, he had the house. why ...