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>> what do you imagine are the next steps if the president does invoke this legal authority many think is a dubious constitutionality? >> its certainly dubious. i think the supreme court has weve already talked about whether the president can declare a emergency. theyll say if theres an emergency, maybe he should have called it months agobut he coops waiting and tries to use it as a leverage. he didnt get the money on the wall he wanted. he didnt even get that close so now he wants to use that b...

The gap will be filled in. so the section of wall took ten years to complete. >> i guess the first question is having gone along the entire edge of this border in texas, what do you think of it being an emergency? >> reporter: theres no state of emergency -- for example the central processing center. 1500 people are packed in there. it is attica pasty. so its a facility jacob visited. there are still children in cages in the facility. theyre meant to hold 15 people. there are 30 people jammed in...

Is that your position? >> we want to have sensible border security where we balance the trade and truism with border security. i liver on the border. i know what the border is. i dont go in for a few min say i know the border better. if you want to stop drugs, most drugs come through ports of entree. soyou build a wall, it doesnt stop the drugs coming through our ports. you got to be smart. folking on the ports of entree, cay nine personnel. in 2001 border putroel apprehended 1.6 million individ...

Emergency. they have driven across the border to see what is really happening here. we begin with cal perry in san beneato o. cal. >> reporter: chris, the debate over the border and a wall may seem like politics unwashington d.c. but in texas its a way of luf. the border between texas and mexico stretches from bustling cities to tiny towns, over mountains and along the rio grand. from the heart of the country all the way to the gulf. we drove the entire length of the border, starting in the sit ...

Population greater than 500,000, have been for many years. a physical structure like a fence is part of, you know, control of the borders, which we need. the real root problem is were dealing with the symptoms of a root problem and thats lack of migration, immigration reform. nobody has shown fortitude on either side of the isle. so both are culpable and something has to be done. were doing dacas, dreamers, those that are already here and what were doing out of central america. >> we should note...

Border state. you look at the national plutical discourse. how ranking in the number one to number three or four issues in that campaign you just ran in your state on the border, where were these issues? the president talks about the state of emergency, was that at the senlter of the campaign you just ran? >> no. in fact in my general i was running against another former member of congress. we were both in congress in the general election. we were both against the wall because we live here, we k...

Mexico. thats definitely new but this wall is the old wall a lot of border patrol agents say they dont like because they cant see whats going on in the mx co side. americans crossing the mexico. some trump supporters there. wall or no wall? >> wall. >> reporter: wall orno wall? no wall. a massive scene spans the desert with only one way back to actually see the border. crossing the sand dunes gives you a full understanding of how unforgiving the terrain can be. the a floating fence is what were ...

>> reporter: but its 2,000 miles, pacific ocean to the gulf mx co. desert, mountains, tarmland, cities. concrete, scrub grass and a whole lot of sand and one long river. how exact laaly are you going t build a wall on this? to comp remend the border, you got to see it and its overwhelming vastness, the people on both sides. the reality. >> whats your message to the president about this section? >> we have kids who cross the border every day to go to school. >> in one hour well talk you all 1,933...

The president is going to declare a national emergency but it doesnt look like an emergency. beto orourke will be with me in a few minutes as we bring you a special edition covering all we keep talking about this border like its one thing. like its one place. like its a national crisis. >> this is a tremendous crisis at the border. >> reporter: but its 2,000 miles, pacific ocean to the gulf mx co. desert, mountains, tarmland, cities. concrete, scrub grass and a whole lot of sand and one long riv...

Theres no reason to do that. but it is the fear and the ang zity that is stoked by people who frankly should know better. >> father of three. hope you have valentines day plans >> i do. were going to see willy nelson. >> the site of what the president call as national emergency. and we go west where dash and further ws to arizona reports on the loves lost in the desert. all the way to california where gadi schwartz goes to the wall and all that is "all in america" live at the border rols on. ♪