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Essence of what we do, and, you know, i think the american people are tired of watching a government where people get locked down for no reasons except maybe political reasons. i mean, clearly the president showed, shown real flexibility here. for a guy who's not always that flexible. i mean, he has changed his view of this as he's gotten more information about how you secure the border, about ways to do that. we have consistently said that barriers were part of that. the president went from talking about a wall along the entire southern border at one point during the campaign as part of a cam...

For 70 miles of barriers and a whole lot more money than anybody's talking about right now. speaker pelosi has been for barriers in the past. you know, the whole idea that somehow 650 or 700 miles of barriers are appropriate but 702 miles are immoral, that is a incredibly interesting place to draw your line about what's moral and what's not moral. i think this debate got with way too political. i do think, let me say again, i think the president has shown more willingness to move so far than others have. but we need to solve this. we need to solve it in three months. it may look like right now...

Government open, to hold that hostage. i don't know if anyone realized, and the white house or the president, how that would react, and i think we saw the pushback. >> well, and on the 1.6 billion which, frankly, is what the administration asked for this time last year, 1.6 billion, that clearly included walls or barriers or whatever. i think surely we can deal with the semantics of this. and then the house stepped in with a much bigger number. the president liked that number better. john: 5.7 always sounds better -- >> exactly. and lots of democrats, john, in the last week put 5.7 out there a...

Government open, to hold that hostage. i don't know if anyone realized, and the white house or the president, how that would react, and i think we saw the pushback. >> well, and on the 1.6 billion which, frankly, is what the administration asked for this time last year, 1.6 billion, that clearly included walls or barriers or whatever. i think surely we can deal with the semantics of this. and then the house stepped in with a much bigger number. the president liked that number better. john: 5.7 always sounds better -- >> exactly. and lots of democrats, john, in the last week put 5.7 out there a...

For 70 miles of barriers and a whole lot more money than anybody's talking about right now. speaker pelosi has been for barriers in the past. you know, the whole idea that somehow 650 or 700 miles of barriers are appropriate but 702 miles are immoral, that is a incredibly interesting place to draw your line about what's moral and what's not moral. i think this debate got with way too political. i do think, let me say again, i think the president has shown more willingness to move so far than others have. but we need to solve this. we need to solve it in three months. it may look like right now...