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Locations? all of these questions require some very useful, thoughtful negotiations on how best to spend the taxpayers money. >> eric: you have a good point from a 654 miles back in 2006 that the democrats supported fencing but now a third of that, 234 miles in laredo, for example, the river valley. why do the democrats then approve it in 2006, but they are so against fencing, it's not a wall but a fence? now? >> sandra: we don't know if it is a concrete wall, a steel wall or cyclone fence. we don't know that -- >> eric: don't mean to interrupt you up at the president said a slat steel fence. ...

$527 billion. they're asking for 200 dirty for miles. in 2006, the secure america act reported that the democrats and many of those in power today past that and supported it. that put a fence on 654 miles. right now you're talking about the steel fence. the same thing. one third smaller they were for it. a bigger one in 2006, but now they're dug in doing everything they can to stop it. >> that is a valid point. if you talk to democrats, their responses because of president trump in the rhetoric he has used around this issue. they say that the matter you're referring to came in a very different...

Afforded the 2006 secure fence act that had a fence. now you have a fence. there's miles of the border. the president is not saying let's put up a wall on all those miles, he's saying just 234 miles of the fence. the democrats have already supported and already is 654 miles of a barrier that the democrats have supported in the past. so why don't they just call it a fence? the president can call it a fence and a wall. this is really become a political pawn between both sides, when you're dealing just basically with 254 miles, not the whole stretch. >> eric, you're making the mistake admirably o...

You and that is something he made clear they have got to agree he has the same right as the last president to try to improve border security including barriers and vehicle barriers on the southern border. neil: have you heard whether he might entertain declaring an emergency? >> i have not heard that. that is his prerogative. i think the part people have to understand is there are four presidents that helps improve this in a row. you have 1954 miles of international border and right now 654 miles of that, pedestrian barrier or vehicle barrier. what the president wants to do is 234 more miles. ...

She says more technology to scan cars and trucks. more agents. better port of entry, infrastructure. we've heard president trump and republicans express support for those things as well. that's where everybody agrees. the wall is the big question right now. as someone who represents border communities, do you think democrats should be willing to pay for a wall in some areas of the border? >> look, there's already 654 miles of fencing across the united states. as the sheriff said a while ago in west texas, what do you have? you have the large cliffs. i've been there. those are huge cliffs. then...