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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 across the border,g theyre coming ac...

Since youve been such a strong supporter and one of our greatest advocates for thean wal we have decided to extend your deadline to get on the list." and that, that is what the presidents request for network broadcast time tonight was all about. heas used it to raise money for his re-election campaign, pretending to his supporters that the money they would contribute wouldey be used to secure the border and he did not say one new thing in that speech thatin he read from that teleprompter in the ...

Secure the border fund to have your name sent to me after my speech." that was all a lie. in the finer print of the e-mail, it says the contributions are to the trump make america great again committee. that is the presidents re-election committee. the president lied to his supporters in that e-mail today telling them their contribution wouldon be to an official secure the border fund. immediately after the speech, the president then sent out another fund-raising e-mail saying, "friend, presiden...

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 lived his whole life at the border....

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 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 cruel ...

Arrested with only 5,000 border patrol agents there to stop them. today, we have over 22,000 border patrol agents facing the lowest numbers of border apprehensions weve had, you know, in decades. so this kind of notion that with this border is out of control, full of drugs coming across, terrorists and criminals, really is rejected by the data. we have a humanitarian crisis, but its not one that poses a real security threat. >> what do you think the border needs, given what you see happening at ...

Theyre going to take a walk in the serious way for the first time duringe the trump presidency. theyre going to starte to lose their fear of him. what they saw in 2018 was 40 republicans lose their seats. theyir saw the house flip to democratic control in the map in 2020 is an map thats very favorable to the democrats unlikehe this map in 2018. so this isp a disaster. of course, trump claimed full credit for it,im celebrated it, said he would be proud of the shutdown. and so we see now republica...

For health and human services to move their cases along quickly. the good news is the president does request money for those two things. the bad news, he seems so fix sated on security solutions that arent designed and really ill suited to address the humanitarian crisis were facing. >> are there any significant portions of the border where some kind of barrier can be built that has not been built? >> theres some areas where we need to replace existing walls. places in nogales, arizona, they use...

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, ...

Last 48 hours. >> reporter: havent seen them yet. >> president trump is expected to sign this order in the next hour or two. he was on the hill a few moments ago, lets listen in to what attorney general sessions had to say. >> weve been working with the president all day. i think we can make some real progress. were going to need congress help us also, but i think that the president knows what hes doing and we -- we are supportive and working with him. >> pete, i want to come back to you for one...