to run back to mexico and get away. in this case they re not going to be able to evade capture and, again, the technology worked. the manpower that was there, the detection technology, the fiber optic cable that we have in those areas in a 30-foot wall is very good. leland: real quick i want to ask you about the reports of the 16-year-old boy who died in custody. tragic, no doubt. nobody wants these kinds of things to happen. have there what has not changed, what still needs to change after we learned about depths in custody, after we learned about minors in custody, what hasn t changed and who hasn t been held accountable that allowed this to happen again? so one big difference right now that we have, leland, is that now our numbers of apprehensions are actually down. leland: but if numbers are down, shouldn t there be even less of an excuse for somebody to die? yeah, but when this happened with this boy, we were being overwhelmed. we had a lot of peoplement we were overcapacity
counter offered to end the shutdown and the list is like this. 800 million in humanitarian assistance. $800 million in drug detection technology. 2700 border agents and immigration judges teams and three years protection for dreamers asking $5.7 billion in funding for steel barriers. it doesn t seem like the two sides are that far apart. would you agree? yes, i do agree. i think this is a perfect example of where we do need to get past the semantics and come to this compromise. i know that means that the hard liners on both sides are going to not be happy and they are probably not going to vote for it but i believe that most people are somewhere in the middle and recognize that at the end of the day. bill: i see your list and then their list. would you agree if those two lists were agreed upon to get a deal done for the american people? those aren t too far apart for me.
800 million humanitarian. i ll let you finish. you asked me about border security. bill: let me make the point you talked about detection technology. 2700 more border agents. on and on the list goes. what are democrats willing to give this white house in order to cut a deal? again, you interrupted me bill. democrats are prepared to spend we ve already offered an additional 1.6 billion for infrastructure at the ports of entry, additional personnel. good use of technology. repairing barriers. we want to secure the border in a way that s fact based. let s use the best evidence about how we secure our border. what we aren t willing to do is write a check for $5.7 because it was campaign promise of the president. we haven t heard how that would be used. but there is a path forward here because democrats and republicans both i presume support border security.
and 800 million for humanitarian aid and 500 million drug detection technology. 2750 new border agents and law enforcement and 75 new immigration judge teams. brian: before the speech nancy pelosi rejects it out of hand. few democrats let them know ready to negotiate. kelsey gabbard over the weekend she says both sides are to blame they have got to go back and get back to work we shouldn t be doing this on television. and you have senator warner saying this is pretty much a starting point and then betty thompson chairman of homeland security in the house, he said. this. ainsley: he is a democrat. brian: he also said something that nancy pelosi continues to say, a wall is immoral. betty thompson doesn t say that. democrats historically have supported certain barriers. certain other things to protect this country. we will sit with the chief, the president, whomever and
but to be a deterrent and an effective barrier for those trying to come in easily. while we are doing that, let s fix our ports of entry. chris: look at what the president is offering on his son. protection, yes temporary. protection for the dreamers and tps refugees. more money for immigration judges. more money for border patrol bit more money for detention beds. humanitarian support and drug detection technology. don t democrats and up looking like you don t care about border security and that you don t want to reopen the government? i don t know how it may look but what i would ask is look at the alien dollars that was put on the table before the president had his statement yesterday. $450 million for hiring new judges, hiring new personnel .