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Really have few resources and troops from state national guards down at the border. what could make more impact in terms of hitting the administration and driving the point home that they're upset with this policy would be if we saw some governors from states on the border, texas and arizona that committed to state resources to assisting the trump administration with these border security efforts. if they stepped in, decided to send back home some of their troops, some of their equipment, that could hit the administration harder. >> melissa quinn, great to have you with us. thanks for your ins...

Year prison terms. >> trace gallagher in the los angeles newsroom, many thanks. arkansas gop governor asa hutchinson was dining with a president-elect, border security was on the menu, he joins us now. good evening. your readout of dinner tonight with the president? >> in very good spirits, worked hard all day with a lot of news happening, we talked about border security, some coming from border states and we were able to answer the pres.'s call for national guard resources to support border security efforts. i think this is the way for the pres. and thanks for those governors. i was delighted...

Secretary of homeland security back there in the bush administration so i've been at the arizona border, i've been at the texas border and what you've done is remarkable in the sense of really drawing attention to the problems in our system and focusing on improved border security efforts. your leadership in terms of being a spokesperson and identifying the problems, challenging congress to act is very significant and i want to thank general kelly, secretary nielsen, known her a long time. really proud of the job she's doing. in terms of arkansas, we value our immigrant population. they add a ...

And realize there is no problem and should let the professionals at border patrol continue doing their job. >> homeland security statistics show a sharp drop from about 1.6 million illegal border crossings in the year 2000 to just over 300,000 in 2017. so it's like he's a solution looking for a problem rather than a problem in need of a solution. he's already on the decline. the economy in latin america is improving, we have put in billions and billions of dollars worth of border efforts and border security efforts from bush to obama and now to trump. it makes it more difficult and more people...

Western mossul from isis, the iraq prime minister called it a new dawn and a new chapter in the liberation of mosul. the last p strong hold in iraq. vice-president mike pence has made a visit to the nazi concentration camp. thousands of jews and other prisoners from held there and killed during world war ii. >> several memos on president trump's immigration and border security efforts. it would mike it more difficult to seek asylum and substantially more undocumented immigrants to be detained and for them to be deported faster with limited court proceedings. u.s. president donald trump was...