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>> what do you think the border needs, given what you see happening at the border now in terms of the humanitarian crisis and the reality of whats happening at the border? what would you suggest the border needs? >> you know, lawrence, 18 years ago when you had 1.5 million people crossing that border, there were definitely areas where you needed -- you know, individuals infiltrate the border and try to evade capture and get into the united states. you saw the central american families who come u...

Even better, all of this preoccupation and consternation and fear, so much of it founded in paranoia, and perhaps the purposeful anxiety that the president seeks to stoke and instill. i think all that would melt. >> yes. >> away. you just have to be here, see it, believe it. >> ron klain, the president talked about people having walls around their private homes. theres beto orourke in el paso with someone whose home is literally on the border and he doesnt need a wall. >> no, look, i kind of won...

On jesus who used city on a hill. he talked about how the city, if it had to have walls, there had to be doors in those walls and had to always be open to all the pilgrims from all the lost places who had been hurdling through the darkness toward home. and thats the kind of rhetoric we tend to expect to hear from the epicenter of power. we didnt hear that tonight. >> lets listen to what another democrat said tonight after the presidents speech. this is beto orourke in el paso, texas, where hes l...

Joining our discussion now is john sandweg, former acting director of immigration and customs enforcement under president obama. john, i want to get your reaction to what the president said tonight, especially what he said about the criminal element at the southern border. >> well, obviously, a lot to cover here. i think the president, unfortunately, engaged in a number of real distortions about whats going on at our southern border. our borders never been more secure. you know, just 15 years ag...

That has nothing to do with the southern border. >> well, thats exactly right. and congress on a bipartisan basis has passed some legislation to try to expand treatment for it, but weve also, and ironically, in the homeland security bill that the president is nowll holding up, there are additional funds to screen for drugs that are coming across the t border. as you say, a lot of the opioid addiction crisis is a totally homegrown crisis, but to the extent we have a problem with drugs coming acro...

President trump must stop holding american people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis, must re-open the government. >> maria teresa, your reaction to what speaker pelosi had to say. >> i think everybody could agree we have a humanitarian crisis at the border and its perhaps one of the few times ill agree with the president. what hes doing, iagthough, is trying to pull the wools over t american peoples eyes and trying to say, look, i still need my wall to keep you safe. that is not the issu...

It, debut, again, mark my words, tonight, hey was very soft. he begans in his first sentence he described this as a humanitarian and security issue. humanitarian first. he went on to talk about a cycle of human suffering. this was, believe it or not, the kinder, gentler, mr. trump. but there is justice jacksons metaphorical loaded weapon sitting there and if he chooses to pick it up andme use it, do n count on courts considering this something they want to intervene in. >> lets listen to what na...

Represented the contributions as being money that they would contribute to him to secure the border. then this being donald trump after the speech, he sent out another e-mail to supporters who had not yet contributed by the 9:00 p.m. deadline. and extended the deadline for them to contribute. and so it seems structurally, and including the content of the speech tonight, this was from beginning to end a trump campaign event including a public fund-raiser. >> well, that may very well be. perhaps, ...

Kinder, gentler, mr. trump. but there is justice jacksons metaph metaphorical loaded weapon sitting there and if he chooses to pick it up andme use it, do t count on courts considering this something they want to intervene in. >> lets listen to what nancy pelosi said in response to the president in what she described as the humanitarian challenge. >> the fact is that women and children at the border are not a security threat. they are humanitarian challenge. a challenge that president trumps own...

Of how to get where he promised to get. and to actually build this thing. andth so he just, he wanted to blame it all on theju democrats. the democrats made me do it. >>ma maria teresa, your reactio >> well, i think once again we saw the president do double speak. he started by saying all the crimes that are committed and i think that everyone could agree that anye family that suffers theat hand of any loved one tha gets hurt, were all against that. buturll he did double speak whe said that he w...