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Mainly women and children and thats not something a wall can fix. they come and willingly turn themselves in to customs and border protection. the other thing the president focused on is drugs and violence. from a dea study spillover violence from mexico into texas and along the southern border is actually very little. you can have very violent towns on one side that dont spill over into the u.s. side and as far as drugs go, most of those are coming through legal ports of entry in the mail. ive ...

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not how you protect the community. >> mark: with immigration and border issues at the heart of the current government shutdown, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen visited the border area near el paso, texas. her visit was to get a firsthand look at the people medical screening facilities at bordere stations in the wake of deaths this month of two young guatemalan children who had crossed the border and were taken into custody by customs and border patrol a...

Lot of time, they knew where the addresses were. and they were able to get them at least into the screening facilities through the post office. that indicates knowing what you were doing at least from that perspective. >> harris: interesting. my team here at overtime has popped up the video and weve already seen a couple of these devices cycle through. you talk about the forensic evidence that you get when you get one device. when you have nine, ten, thats even more. that is that may be room for...

Said president trump is to blame for the political climate. >> the president has helped to insight some of the feelings of anger if f not violence when he points to acts of violence or also talks about swinging at somebody from the press. >> and brennon said he hopes the presidents statement condemning the pipe bombs marked a turning point. no suspect or no motive or political agenda has been linked to these device. >> and the work of the secret service at the clintons home was critical in this ...

The bomb scare, he told his audience in texas that president trump was to blame for the political climate. >> trump has too often help to incite some of these feelings of anger if not violence, when he points to acts of violence, were also talks about swinging at somebody from the press. >> brennan said he hoped the presidents statement condemning the pipe bombs marked a turning point. its important to note that no suspect, no motive or political agenda has been publicly linked by the fbi to the...

Government operatives in the united states. >> you said theres a question mark still in your head about the motive. isnt it politics? >> well, apparently we have this saying. the target is the tactic. when you look at the individuals that he tried to target, you know he selected these package bombs. one delivered by courier and knowing that the bomb would go out and be screened by screening facilities, it tells us that he really wanted intimidation campaign. i say he. we dont know if it was he o...

Are there at the airport. >> some have suggested putting metal detectors outside as you get into the airport buildings, is that a good idea? >> weve talked about that before. right after 9/11, that that conversation came up again. i was with delta airlines security aviation security at the time and we talked about that. if you put metal detectors right at the front door of every airport, youre going to have people waiting for hours in line. to get on board the planes. so you know theres a happy ...

Roger wicker this week. thats the same deadly poison that authorities believe was sent in a letter to president obama. there was a third letter that was sent to a judge in mississippi. both letters were intercepted at screening facilities. and the suspect, whose name we now know and his picture we have paul kevin curtis just appeared in federal court. his lawyer says he is be in the. but the question is how is a guy who moon lights as a elvis impersonators manage to get his hands on a poison so ...

Of emergency security. so we are obviously paying more attention to these things. but in your experience, do politician is and people of national importance get suspicious packages and letters with these sort of things on a fairly regular basis? >> yes. and thats why the government has these off site facility to take this in, to make sure that ricin, anthrax, remember the anthrax scares, even in this building, years ago. and our company was hired to have screening facilities and alternate facili...