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Dollars for 33 miles of new border wall in the rio grande valley, another plan for eight more miles of border fencing will also start this month. >> all of this was based on the requirement of what the field operators were telling us there that they needed. every 14 days, we have as many people that showed up in san diego. >> the project moves forward as washington grapples with funding over border security. the president is pushing for more money for physical barriers. >> this is a moral issue. the lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, and financial well be...

Government. then floated a national emergency. he 'tried changing the name from a wall to slats. he even suggested lowering the price. well, it must be time for a rally. trump will head to the border on monday for a rally, one mile from mexico, where he's expect to do double down on the state of the union talking points that el paso was one of our nation's most dangerous city before a border barrier made it safer. that's not true. lawmakers there saying it was on the decline before border fencing was completed. the congressman whose district stretches the border opposes a wall. democrats are r...

The most dangerous cities in the united states. so you fact checked the president here in your piece. so break it down for us. >> that's entirely incorrect and the mayor of el paso is entirely correct. we have data for this. in the three years leading up to the construction of border fencing in el paso, which was completed in 2009, el paso was the third safest city with a population above 500,000 in terms of its violent crime rate. so trump is wrong on the first end. and then the second part where he said it got significantly safer after the wall is also not true. violent crime actually increa...

Themselves into san diego. do you disagree with that? >> no, and i don't really know anybody that does. i think we have to remind ourselves that border security is comprised of a lot of elements. democrats and republicans have agreed on that for decades. we all have supported physical barriers where they make sense. what i think the debate really should focus on is what the professionals say about where technology is best utilized, where border fencing should be utilized, where concrete barriers may make the most sense. and i think where most of us wish there was more conversation are on those...

Narrow path on some sort of border fencing. that's the only thing that democrats are willing to talk about something normandy fencing, a particular type of structure. trump would then call it a wall. but i think it seems that the increasingly likely path the president will take is to declare a national emergency to embark on this on his own behalf. i think actually from a political standpoint it's a bit of a win-win for him, in terms of how his base will interpret this. they will be happy he will take action. even if the courts strike it down, a lot of people said it could be a real possibilit...