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Protective barriers, semantics in my mind whether its a wall, a fence, slabs, concrete, steel. >> whatever it is, its only one aspect of the dynamic. >> im pro immigration. i believe this country was founded on immigration. im the grandson of immigrants. >> thats the reality of our existence. >> i think the cuomos are as well. i think the president -- i think this issue on the border wall and security should be dealt with in the larger comprehensive immigration bill, which the democrats say they...

Willing. but when the congress wont give him any money for that. >> they did give him money for it. >> you know, "the washington post" last week, this is how they led their story. record numbers of migrant families are streaming into the u.s. overwhelming border agents. >> thats true. >> and they talk about all the families, the young children being hurt. >> true. >> dont you want to -- why would we keep a porous border in the era of 9/11. >> the wall is not the answer to that problem, chris. yo...

Wall. and democrats, you do that at what we are seeing is a mess your peril of your own base that frankly will be difficult peeling away from you and coming out against you because it is to clean up afterwards. >> and expensive. >> so, you know, look, people not the get along go along type are saying that he promised them of scenario. democrats want results and they a wall promised them was white will hold those they elected in supremacy. november their feet to the fire. okay? he didnt promise t...

Id love to run against her. >> she says she is in the fight all the way, mr. president. do you really think she believes she can win? >> well, that i dont know. youd have to ask her psychiatrist. >> we have a question in with her psychiatrist, no answer yet. a new wrinkle in this relationship that will clearly get more contentious as we move into 2019. >> ed: social media ablaze with that comment. we are looking forward to seeing the rest of it at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight. its going to be a lo...

The wall is a priority, but we have seen pulls wrong before. the president speaks confidently that america is on his side. what you think? >> i think this is one of those things that is sort of difficult to gauge because some of even the terms that we are using -- they are getting a little bit hazy. at one point, it is the wall, then steel slabs. i havent seen any poll that says definitively this is what the american people want to the american public wants. so thats a really difficult thing to ...

>> anthony: no elbows on the table? >> david: no. its not -- its not -- its not proper. >> anthony: im a total failure as a dining companion. what -- what is that? whats that, you ask? an iconic escoffier-era classic of gastronomy? ho, look at that sauce. holy crap. the devilishly difficult lievre a la royale, a boneless wild hare in a sauce of its own blood, a generous heaping of fresh black truffle, garnished with thick slabs of foie gras, seared directly on the top of the cabins wood stove. o...

This. if there is a compromise, americans want to see their government work together. they want to see checks and balances. if they cant come to the middle, they might be able to overlook the shutdown, especially if people are paid retroactive. >> it is the holidays. people are wrapping presents and buying last minute gifts. theyll start to pay attention to this once the holidays end as we head into the end of the year and new year and things really buckle down. people who are probably thinking ...

Well, sometimes they do. take the massive wall that separates the west bank from israel, its forbidding, made of 25 foot tall concrete slabs and electrified fencing. trump has admired it publicly. construction began in 2002 after a rash of suicide attacks from the west bank. suicide attacks did fall from 60 in 2002 to just five in 2006 according to the political scientist ron hassner and jason whittenburg. fatalities similarly plunged and have stayed down. lets look at an older example. the 1,70...

Over trumps insistence on a big, beautiful border wall. you might consider the presidents fixation singular or even quick sod dig, but trump is hardly alone in this quest. across the world we are in an age of walls which is the subject and title of a new book by tim marshall. at the end of the cold war there were only 15 border walls around the world, after 2000 the number spiked and by 2016 there were 70 according to elizabeth valet, a professor at the university of quebec at montreal. the reas...

And this is the first time a president has dared to do something that in the last 30 years, the other administrations said they were going to do. which is to bring some order to our southern border to make that security a lot tighter and they are not there to do it. we have to member that chuck schumer and the president i mean, senator obama, before he was president, and senator hillary clinton, they all voted for the same, tall, structure. the now they are denouncing it and there criticizing th...