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Homestead air force base facility down in florida. >> thats right. the department of health and human services is operating 130 of shes therlts arranged the country. some are less expensive but they are all very expensive. and the fact is that if you add up the cost. we have $3 billion a year spent last year on families and single adults plus about $2.5 billion housing the unaccompanied teens. so you are up toward $5 billion, right? $5 billion before the surge. as you pointed out, 76,000 migrant...

Argument. a wall doesnt work. now, of course, its big, its inefficient. it doesnt work. >> they all voted for it 12 years ago. this isnt your dads democratic party anymore. this is a whole different democratic party. this is the one where half of them sit on their hands when the president says we wont be socialist. that can never be imagined even three years ago. steve: why is that? >> its a rush to the left. it is -- its sad. brian: one thing democrats and republicans agree on 5 g. we have to b...

Right now only 20% of the vehicles get scanned coming into the united states yet weve caught 1.7 million pounds of narcotics. with 850 million, we can inspect 100% of the vehicles as they flow in. can you imagine the amount of drugs we can stop? >> i can imagine. why dont you guys agree on that amount of money and put off the decision on the wall since thats holding up the government, its shutting it down and your constituents are hurting. thats on you. you have to decide what you want at this p...

And then ill open the government. theres been no movement, it would seem. but he is saying, congresswoman, that some democrats are starting to side with him, particularly people like you. heres what he said to sean hannity. >> if you look, democrats in congress, especially the new ones coming in are starting to say, wait a minute, we cant win this battle with trump because its just common sense. how can we say that a wall doesnt work. >> youre a new democrat, do you accept that you cant, quote, ...

Rejected another bill with wall funding in june. and just in september the republican-controlled congress decided to punt the wall to the lame duck session. and listen to these quotes, noah rothman yesterday in commentary pulled out these quotes, "people can come under, around and through a wall." john cornyn explaining why a wall doesnt work, "lindsey graham in 2017, the border wall is not a smart investment." you heard what "the wall street journal" said. this republican congress in 2017 and 2...

Line in the senate, not take up these individual spending bills, theres time for this political debate to take place. leland: earlier, congressman rooney of florida said that he felt bad for the president. it seems as though this is exactly the debate the president wants for his base. >> look, his whole campaign began with a call for the wall and in fact, he won in great part because of his position on this wall. meanwhile, youve got nancy pelosis new majority in the house, they were elected to ...

Appropriations bills thursday. 12 republicans broke to vote with the democrats to re-open the transportation department and housing and urban development while ten voted to fund agriculture programs like food stamps and fda. but in an interview that aired last night the president tried to claim it was the other way around. listen to this. >> if you look, democrats in congress, especially the new ones coming in are starting to say wait a minute we can win this battle with trump because of the fac...

You told jim absolutely not. why should the republicans give anything if you dont think the democrats should give anything? i dont understand that. >> because let me tell you something. we have asked those questions, right? we have those conversations when we are all together in caucus. i can tell you that the homeland security bill includes billions of dollars for border security. what we cannot do is fund something that doesnt make sense. you can ask abigail about this. she has a lot of experi...

Trump. like you said earlier, this is -- this was fabricated. he wasnt interested in talking about immigration anyway. >> the drugs is an excellent comparison. that shows you why a wall doesnt work. having prosecuted drug cases for a number of years, they get it over the walls, they get it under the walls, they bring it around the walls, they do everything. you have never been able to stop drugs with a wall. >> exactly. all of this is built on a lie. the democrats would be wise to go in and say,...

They are coming into care, they are transferred by i.c.e. they try to care for those kids than they place them and the united states. we are encouraging this behavior. if it doesnt change it will continue and my experience we will see record numbers of people coming through the year. we are already in unprecedented territory as it relates to the statistics. 65% of everyone who comes to the border is either a child that has a loan or a family member. >> bret: to think that the semantics in this b...