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For 40 plus billion dollars of border security, including 700 miles of fencing. the only reason theres opposition is because its donald trump that is proposing this. one of my predecessors and one of the fox contractors ari fleischer had a great idea. nancy pelosi and trump and schumer should give all the money to the border patrol and say they get to decide what goes on. because the reality is that anybody with a brain will recognize we need a combination of border wall and fencing along the so...

President trump now saying he would settle for steel barrier instead of a concrete wall. but the prototype of a fence with steel slats that hes been talking about recently flunked a government test. this photo obtained exclusively by nbc news shows a sample of a wall built in 2017 that could be sawed through using common tools. president trump, asked about it this morning, blamed his predecessors. >> what good is a steel wall if they can saw through it? >> well, that was a law designed by previo...

>> i can relate. and im sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. >> reporter: he has made his case with a blizzard of false claims. and today, i asked vice president mike pence about the administrations credibility under fire. how can the president be -- how can his word be trusted on this when he has said so many things that are just not true about this crisis? he said that barack obama has a ten-foot wall built around his house here in washington. you know that...

Going forward as the motivation for why there may have been collusion to begin with. >> we will watch for it as it all continues to drip, drip, drip. thank you both so much. the president meantime claims that some of his predecessors advised him to build a wall, but the problem is, all of them, all of them said they didnt. here how vice president pence struggled to answer for the presidents claim. plus a serious mistake, the president of turkey now blasting the trump administration shifting ...

Pledged to continue unless he got funding for a border wall that is now a steel barrier mexico will still not pay for. sources have told the presidents aides have said his message is not resonating it. he argues to fix that there is a crisis at the border. in the last 72 hours, his case has been whittled with false claims. >> how can the american public trust what the president says tonight when the administration has repeated lie lied about the numbers and situation at the border. furthermore, ...

Theres no consistency. >> this is "new day," with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> good morning. it is day 18 of the partial government shutdown. the president will make his case tonight with a primetime address from the office. mr. trump will address the shutdown and demands for a border wall. the presidents allies have told him his border message is not resonating and democrats calling it a publicity stunt and demanding equal time for a rebuttal. this morning, fact checkers are eating their...

Minutes to be believed. and he has a said that he has had conversations with his predecessors, and they wish that they had built a wall. well, all of the former presidents, living presidents say that never happen and this is how mike pence tried to clean this up this morning. >> that is his impression from previous administrations, and previous presidents. i to know that i have seen clips of previous presidents talking about the importance of border security and the importance of oaddressing the...

Southern border. they are being stopped at airports. >> im not disagreeing with you they are coming through airports. >> that was an unfortunate misstatement. everybody makes mistakes. the fact is, its corrected here. >> reporter: pressed on whether the president will tell the truth, kellyanne conway sounded defensiv defensive. >> you can promican you promise president will tell the truth? >> can you guarantee you will? you are such a smartass a lot of time. a lot of people dont like you. >> rep...

Migration has gone up, the violence a has gone down. and according to the kato institute, undocumented workers in texas were responsible for less crime per capita than counterparts. and now, trump is invoking the presidents glove to defend the policy saying that system of the predecessors said they super ported the wall and wish they had built it themselves, but the problem is that every living president has either opposed the wall or explicitly denied they have talked to trump about it. and als...

Immigration courts to slow and asylum processed slower. things the president said he wants to do in terms of speeding that up, its not happening. its because of this government shutdown. >> i will also note if youre talking about people on the terrorist watchlist, six or nine, depending on the countdown, still fewer on the southern border than canadian border. if thats your reason for building a wall we should be building one laced with hockey sticks. the president made the case his predecessors...