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So let's just take it piece by piece here. is this a national emergency when you consider southern border arrests have dropped dramatically over the past couple decades? they're going down not up. >> first of all, let's take that apart real quickly. one of the reasons they've gone down is because we've applied a multilayer strategy of barriers, technology and personnel. which is what the experts are still wanting the congress to do. the other element of that -- >> congress did just do that in the border security spending bill. it was $23 billion total when it comes to border security with the ...

This is not near what the barriers the administration has been talking about. if you look at the numbers your 7800, more than 7800 border arrests at the yuma, arizona sector in two month of last year. that is just one portion. it is amazing to see the numbers. >> yuma is part of the border that was approaching operational control but the problem is policies changed, barriers are obsolete and need to be upgraded. the border patrol needs the resources to get boots on the ground and to deter migration. people are coming now because the politics allow anyone who arrives with a child to claim fear ...

President trump blew up the bill he'd backed under pressure from anti-immigration advisers, looking at you steven miller, and the right wing media. now democrats control the house. the leverage has increased but president trump is pushing a one-sided version of compromise that doesn't reflect political reality. as trump points out democrats supported a border fence in the fast with senator schumer, barack obama and hillary clinton backing the 2006 secure fence act which led to a decline in border arrests. in 2013 more than a dozen republican senators voted for an obama-era immigration reform t...

President trump is going to make his first oval office address in primetime tonight to make his case for the border wallment some of the statistics that the administration has been using are misleading and do not add up. our john avalon is back and not a moment too soon and he is going to join with us the reality check. hi, john. >> yes, in a primetime address tonight, president trump may declare illegal migration on the southern border as a national emergency, but as we have seen, border arrests are declining and that is going to occur with this gambit on the longest government shutdown in hi...

Think made her a favorite for this job. ainsley: no doubt she is very smart. we know her personally. we wish her the best. she worked on this show for a long time. steve: she did, indeed. confirmation hearings upcoming for both if they are nominate you had. brian: i read that national security advisor john bolton says oh yeah i think i want to take that position and no longer put it at the cabinet level. that would be something that i find it hard to believe that she would agree to because that would be a step back from the prestige that nikki haley had. steve: well, stay tuned. in the meantim...