agree that you will need a wall until i wanted it. once i wanted it, they didn't agree. >> the president also repeated a claim that he had tweeted out before leaving for iraq, quoting now, i'm in the oval office and just gave out 115-mile contract for another large section of the wall in texas. we're already building and renovating many miles of the wall, some complete. democrats must end shut down and finish funding. billions of dollars and lives will be saved. it is unclear what he's referring to. presidents do not award construction contracts. departments and agencies do, but only after congress, this is by the constitution, appropriates the money and if as some reports suggested he was talking about money that has already been earmarked then what he announced with great fanfare was not anything new. as cnn's reporting has shown, the president's claim that "we are already building and renovating many miles of wall," is only half true.