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Can name it peaches i dont care what they name it. now you really mean finish that wall. because we built a lot of it. >> so once and for all. you called elements of our federal government today to find out what is being built, how much and where. >> so no new wall has been built. sometime this month theyre going to build the first new barrier of trumps administration. thats in the rio grande valley. it did not start this week or the day trump spoke. i asked customs and border protection to conf...

Executive ability to transfer existing federal funds toward construction of the wall, bypassing congress. so what you could see happen is he reluctantly signs this deal assuming it passes the congress this week and that would avert the shutdown and fund the government, but he would find other ways to get more of the money that he wants for that wall construction. that seems to be according to our sources where things are headed at the moment. >> and he would need that because heres what hes gett...

Gabe gutierrez is along the u.s./mexico border. rehema ellis is in atlanta. gabe, ill start with you there along the border. the wall. its more than likely to be quite the focus of the presidents address tonight. whats the sense from people there about the need for a wall? >> reporter: well, hi, there, craig. a lot of attention on the state of the union here in south texas. the new portions of the wall set to be built in some parts of south texas later this month. here in roma, texas, local offi...

Consumed washington, his point is that he has educated the public on the dangers of the border and hes laid a predicate to by-pass congress and start construction on his own authority. now that may or may not be the case. polls certainly might show some different opinions about that. a lot of people might agree with him about the need for a border wall. he has not yet, i think, convinced so much of the public that congress is going to go along with that. if you cant convince congress to go along...

Talks about in that state of the union. >> exactly. i think this could be a preview of the big action that he could take on his own that he has himpbt hinted at for some time, which is that national emergency declaration to begin wall construction. hes pretty much already said that he doesnt expect the 17-member congressional committee to reach a deal, even though if you look at that panel, its a panel full of deal makers. but the president does not seem to have any confidence that they will be ...

With the deadline to avert a second government shutdown exactly two weeks from today, president trump is openly undermining congressional negotiations avoid a repeat and now threatening the prospect of declaring a national emergency to build a way wall. and in an oval office interview with the "new york times" the president criticized house speaker nancy pelosi and said he set the table for declaring a national emergency to begin wall construction. >> i think nancy pelosi is hurting our country ...

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Now earlier today, the president suggested he might declare an emergency at the state of the union next week. he also said falsely that wall construction, his wall construction is already under way. >> were building the wall. people dont understand that. theyre starting to learn. were spending a lot of money that we have on hand, like in a business, we have money on hand and were building -- i would say, well have 115 miles of wall, maybe a little bit more than that very shortly. its being built...

Construction, his wall construction is already under way. >> were building the wall. people dont understand that. theyre starting to learn. were spending a lot of money that we have on hand, like in a business, we have money on hand and were building -- i would say, well have 115 miles of wall, maybe a little bit more than that very shortly. its being built. some of it has already been completed. >> keeping his honest, what hes saying isnt true. joining us now is charlie dent who is currently a ...

Weeks from today, president trump is openly undermine negotiations to repeat a repeat. and in an oval office interview with the "new york times" the president criticized house speaker nancy pelosi and said he set the table for declaring a national emergency to begin wall construction. >> i think nancy pelosi is hurting our country very badly by doing what shes doing. and ultimately i think ive stet the table very nicely. i think people understand stuff. >> set the table for emergency declaration...