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I think he was one of your students. i know he has a question for you here, congressman. >> i hope onhas recovered by now. >> that's the thing, congressman, it was a b minus and maybe david gave me this question so i can have participation points and you can retroactively pull me up to that b. set aside the idea of a concrete edifice. do you believe, based on what you know now, that the 654 miles of fencing that have been built are sufficient or do you think any more are justified? >> i don't have a technical judgment about what shape every mile of that fence is in. what i do know is that ther...

Of this. there's already fencing, 654 miles of fencing or barrier along the border now. much of it needs to be shored up. some of the needs to be shored up. there are already -- there's already legislation and efforts in place before the trump administration to shore that up and add new fencing. so why are we fighting over something that's already happening? is it a failure on us, the media, to not tell the american people that? is it a failure on the democrats who haven't framed it right? or is it on republicans who are going along with the president for something already in the works, the go...

>> well, you know, again, first thing i want to do is make sure that we have the technology, the right number of personnel. border patrol is losing more men and women than they're actually hiring in border patrol. we've got make sure that we provide security underground because of tunnels. tunnels. keep in mind that there has been what, 290 tunnels that they discovered going under the walls or fences, should i say, for a long time. and then, of course, sea, because of the coast guard has to play a role, and then air, we need drones, we need helicopters and airplanes. >> but even just to get a ...

Provide security underground because of tunnels. tunnels. keep in mind that there has been what, 290 tunnels that they discovered going under the walls or fence, should i say for a long time. and then of course sea, because of the coast guard has to play a role. and then air. we need air stats. we need drones. we need helicopters and airplanes. >> but even just to get a deal, as a compromise, would you consider additional fencing? >> well, again, we got to look at what we have right now. right now we have 654 miles of fencing. 300 of those miles are vehicle barriers. and if you're familiar wit...

654 miles of fencing or barrier along the border now. much of it needs to be shoerdre up. much of it needs to be shored up. there's already legislation and efforts in place before the trump administration to shore that up and add new fencing. so then why are we fighting over something that is already happening? is it a failure on us, the media, to not tell the american people that? is it a failure on the democrats who haven't framed it right? or is it on republicans who are going along with the president for something that is already in the works, the government is shut down, we're fighting ov...