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Try to deter essentially lawful asylum seeking on the part of people leaving the most dangerous countries in the world and one thing ive got to tell you, by cbps own admission, family unit apprehension is down 4% to date this year over last year. unaccompanied alien children is up only 3% over this same time last year. so insofar as we have a crisis. >> wait a second, wait a second. >> the administration is making the crisis. >> the numbers are down year over year? >> if you look at fy-18, may 3...

We can get them together with their parents. its unclear if the administration dysdoing at all to make sure that they are reunited. temporarily at least theyll stop taking kids from parents but this idea to build out 20,000 beds for additional days and months and maybe years of detention shows that this administration, the president admitted it today is using these punitive traumatic measures to try to deter essentially lawful asylum seeking on the part of people leaving the most dangerous count...

The right request and over what period of time is necessary to meet, just as weve done in katrina and just as we did with sandy, try to meet the needs of the federal responsibility working with our state and local partners. >> all right. >> does that include offsets? >> we have to wait and see what the appropriations -- yes, thanks, peter. we have to wait and see what our appropriations committee leadership, when we get back to the city next week, recommend on how to finance and fund that projec...

We had no hearings on the health care bill that the republicans are considering. lets work together. weve worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental ...

Care bill that the republicans are considering. lets work together. weve worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental public works committee well be pa...

care bill that the republicans are considering. lets work together. weve worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental public works committee well be...

>> there is a national and economic safety issue by having a wall that ensures our countrys safety and theres plenty of playing that can be done and in fy-17, and well continue to ask for more in fy-18. >> youll notice that in neither president trumps comments nor in the press briefing is there someplace mentioned south of the border called mexico, which means you and me and all of us are going to be paying for the wall. >> we are going to build a great border wall. we will build a great, great ...

There are things we need to do to protect our country like human trafficking, flow of illegal drugs and gangs that will make sure that while weve achieved a significant drop in illegal alien border crossing, down to 61% this january, this is something thats in our countrys long term national security interest. >> the national construction will wait until the fall. >> theres not a question of wait until the fall. >> when will you start doing construction? >> you have to start doing planning. we w...

Year 2018. we got about a 40 minute briefing on topics today. the president is asking for money for border security and in that money for border security, there will be money to repair and replace existing sections of fence in addition to putting in some new fence. when talking about bricks and mortar of a concrete wall. sean spicer said the goal of the president is building the wall. here he is. >> the president made it very clear, his priorities have not changed. there will be a wall built. it...

Theres going to be a case where people had a prior clearance that between the time they filled it out and had it adjudicated, they could have engaged in something and the onus is on the individual. >> all right. i do want to ask you about the wall. yesterday president trump reportedly said that hes going to delay pushing the wall through. can you just clarify what the status of that is? >> the presidents priorities have not changed. there will be a wall built. its important to prevent human traf...