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Heather: a community says goodbye to a fallen officer. visitation will be held for arkansas officer stephen carr who was shot and killed execution style, the gunman was shot dead. officer car's funeral is tomorrow at the university of arkansas which turned. to honor the fallen officer. 42 officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty this year. a federal judge blocks the trump administration from using pentagon funds to build a border wall, releasing a statement saying the administration cannot use military construction money on additional border barriers. secretary of defense mark es...

Of new walls. some kind of game they played in the politics of it. but there are some features that can prevent the ropes and ladders that people are using now. >> why couldn't you do that? what do you mean it's not allowed if that's what's going to be more effective? >> yeah, you would think if we get something more effective that agent as and testing says it should be used and it isn't. the way the politics wrote out. >> is it a money thing? >> no, it's politics. they said the president couldn't have anything he learned off the prototypes to build the wall where he needed it so they have to ...

Answer? >> no, the wall definitely helps. it helps illegal activity from happening. prevents some from coming into the country and anchors the technology and response that agents will need to effectively control the border. >> given what we've learned from this report, can one argue that the current barrier is any more ektive than previous border barriers? >> no, the one out there now has been tested. now there were features we lerped about in the anticlimb and antibreaching testing that we're not able to access now because the appropriators kind of outlawed the use of some of these techniques...

Some of these skills he had as a real estate developer and promoter. he wanted more than anything i think for the journalists with him to be impressed because when he got back on air force one for the flight home he came back to us. we were all in the middle of eating our dinner, and he just wanted to know what we thought of the wall and kept asking did you like it, did you like it? what'd you think? was it serious? so he's very proud of this achievement obviously. >> but is it true, i think i saw it in your story. let me just say you and your colleagues are on a tear, unbelievable reporting c...

Something, anything he can, to point to as a campaign promise fulfilled with 2020 on the horizon. so he doubles, triples, quadruples down on his main campaign promise, the border wall. tweeting that, it is his words, going up obstruction by democrats in congress andcisely, zero -- zero -- zero miles of border barriers have been built where none existed before. they've only replaced about 60 miles of dilapidated barrier, which is not at all what the president is claiming. and there is more. two officials tell cnn the president recently said that he would pardon them if they had to break laws to...