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Keeping them honest, thats not the start of a new southern border wall. the picture the presidents included in that tweet, our gary tuchman went to check it out. went to calexico, california. those pictures of the supposed start of the wall, its this -- it was replacement fencing of existing fencing. gary spoke with the local mayor and an mexican official, as well. >> we all as a community want to make sure that the people in the country nose that calexico is not the beginning of a wall project ...

Theres been so much traffic. you want folk to keep checking. youre hoping to raise 100,000 dollars. how would you use that? >> we hope to raise a lot more than 100,000 dollars. thats the first goal, sure. and were well on our way to that. but what i would tell you is that the money goes directly to the wall project. there is -- its a tax deductible donation. and we expect not only the other piece of this, pete, is not only are people now able to get involved in government, which we want to see a...

Either side of this fencing that is being replaced. >> we all, as a community, want to make sure the people out there in this country know that california is not the beginning of a wall project for the trump administration. it is completely different. >> we knew that it was a lie. >> do the supporters potentially will they buy that this is the wall that they chanted for? >> not if its coming from cnn. if it was coming from fox news, probably. what is interesting, though, there are some support r...

President trump. daphne griffin works at a restaurant right near the boarder. >> this particular wall came from the bush administration. >> reporter: is that common knowledge in this area? >> yes, absolutely. >> so mulvaneys claim was wrong the fence was actually repaired to a wall built during the george w. mush administration. you can imagine to our skepticism when the president tweeted these pictures him we sent gary tugman toic chet out. he did. heres what he found. >> reporter: when the may...

Boarder. >> this particular wall came from the bush administration. >> reporter: is that common knowledge in this area? >> yes, absolutely. >> so mulvaneys claim was wrong the fence he claimed was part of a promise to build a new border was was actually a repair to a wall built during the george w. mush administration. you can imagine to our skepticism when the president tweeted these pictures. so we sent gary tuckman to check it out. he did. heres what he found. >> reporter: when the mayor read...

Stwraenl strategy. but you can give him any number he wants because it will not be spent. and the next congress can simply remove that. they will have to continue to proe appropriate it. so that is the big joke in negotiations. last thing i would do is just hand over basically whatever i needed to the wall and then i as congress will not spend it. and this wall proper on jekt is a ten year project minimum. there is all sorts of problems that will on come with it. congress can end this wall proje...

Clear hes beefing up our military and is advocating his budget request that he is going to spend money on rebuilding our military. the fact he put mad dog mattis in there also was a key sign that we are going to go after the offensive on isis. one of the things we have to be clear about is you dont just start building the wall the day after. were talking january 20th. many border states as well so it does take time. theres no implication he will not get that done. putting out requests for propos...

>> beginning today, the united states of america gets back control of its borders. we are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug deals and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. the day is over when they can stay in our country and recap make. >> chris: president trump announcing executive orders today to begin building a wall along our entire border with mexico and to cut federal funding for sanctuary cities. time to bring in our panel. jonah goldberg, eli stokols, and ch...

>> beginning today, the united states of america gets back control of its borders. we are going to get the bad ones out, the criminals and the drug deals and gangs and gang members and cartel leaders. the day is over when they can stay in our country and recap make. >> chris: president trump announcing executive orders today to begin building a wall along our entire border with mexico and to cut federal funding for sanctuary cities. time to bring in our panel. jonah goldberg, eli stokols, and ch...

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