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republican congressman george santos who admitted to lying about parts of his background arrested. he is in federal custody this morning. we have the 13 count indictment and well break down the very serious charges hes facing. moments from now, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is set to give live remarks on operations at the southern border, one day before the health restrictions known as title 42 were set to be lifted. were live on both sides of the border as the amount ...

Donald trump is a builder. throughout his career he has been in charge of projects in which people said you cant do this, and then he proceeds to do it and get it accomplished. the relationship with mexico is important, but hetches, weve all had neighbors. if your neighbor put an ad in the paper and said everybody come to carols house, here is the address. by the way, shell pay for your health care and your food, i think youd be upset. you should be. this is not a good neighbor. i think it was r...

The wall has been estimated to cost about $6 million a mile. and if you built the whole thing, youre talking about billions of dollars of taxpayer money that president trump says mexico will eventually pay back. theres not much chance that mexico could afford that, let alone that they would be willing to do it. it could be a really expensive proposition for the united states if you built the whole thing. if the point is just to build a little bit so you can say i built my wall, he can probably d...

>> here is what i think we need to look at. a couple things. first, this executive order, until we really know whats in there, really its symbolism so that donald trump can say im following through on one of my biggest campaign promises. the ironic thing here, carol, do you remember how much republicans hemmed and hawed and screamed when president obama tried to do something on immigration policy through executive orders. they said no, you cant do that, immigration policy has got to go through c...

Them walking away from the table. so this is something where the relationship with mexico is a very complicated and what is becoming a very delicate issue. donald trump is really simplifying this, and with him, its all high per bowly. its build the wall and thats it. its not that simple. its a very complicated issue. >> lets talk about the hieb hyperbole. david, is this a symbolic gesture because many of his supporters feel so passionate about this? >> as with a lot of things with president trum...

The short term will be effective. cnns ed lavandera talked with a woman near brownsville, texas. >> every night 88-year-old pachl la taylor out of compassion leaves bottled water outside her home for migrants moving north and the border patrol agents chasing them. shes lived a stones throw from the border since 1946. when the border fence was built nearly ten years ago north of the river, she found herself on the south side, between the wall and mexico. >> youre a little bit of no mans land. >> ...

Get a 21-foot ladder. >> donald trump wants to build a more powerful wall. >> i want mr. trump -- i will feed him if he will come down here and talk to the people. >> there are other challenges, too, like how do you build the wall where the terrain looks like that, rugged, steep and changing. david louder, jeffrey lord, and maria cardona back with me. i want to talk about the relationship between mexico and the united states. why is that important to americans? >> of course, mexico is one of our...

Partial wall, some fencing? would they be willing to pay for it? >> i think they want a wall, a physical wall that is unbreachable that works, that keeps people out of this country who should not be here and that everybody else who wants to come in comes in, as he said frequently, through the door in the wall, as it were, comes in legally. this entire country is composed of dissen dents cants of immig. i dont think they would be dissatisfied as all. >> momenting from now the opening bell will ri...

The mexican senators to cancel not only this meeting, but also to cancel the meeting later on, january 31st, be president enrique pena nieto. they want to do so as a sign of unity. a lot of people here in mexico say, listen, if trump wants to build that wall and make us pay for it, we should not be in negotiations with him. even yesterday the economic minister said, if president trump makes us -- tries to make us pay for the wall, we will walk away. if president trump taxes remittances, we will ...

Are disadvantaged. it would behoove us to have a very expansive program to get identification to everybody in this country so not only they can vote, but cash a check, open a bank account, fly in a plane, whatever it is they need to do, they would be able to do it. >> see, we have unity, just a small bit, but unity nonetheless. michael mcdonald, david jeffrey and maria stay with me. ill talk to ohio secretary of state john huston. hes the man in charge of elections in ohio. the governor certifie...