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More than 400,000 individuals this fiscal year you are looking at the highest fiscal year on record for illegal immigration, illegal apprehensions coming into the country. it is catastrophic at the end of the day. i think the biden administration have the wrong border security strategy in place. i think they know it and need to change course and need to do it quickly. >> dana: do you think that's why they go back to the remain in mexico policy? >> i think that's one piece of it, dana. but i think it's important to remember they are only doing that because the court told them to. at the same ti...

But the honest truth is that there is a border strategy. there is a border security strategy at the department of homeland security. the president doesn't show you all of that because it's not a sea to shining sea wall. no one in border security believes that's necessary in order to secure the border. and, you know, when appropriators sit down at the table and they decide how they're going to spend this money, they know what that back story is and they're basically saying you're not going to get a wall that's going to stretch across the southern border. we're going to enhance the border where ...

This is, is kind of a shift, honestly, that's going on unrecognized, in the past, in the midterms, mitch mcconnell needed the president. the president delivered a couple of key senate races, went out there and campaigned. i think that table has switched. i think the president needs mitch mcconnell much more than mitch mcconnell needs the president, to maintain their power base. and so i think that's kind of one of those back stories that's not getting talked about. but the honest truth is that there is a border strategy. there is a border security strategy at the department of homeland securit...

>> bret: our top story at the bottom of the hour, president trump has announced the end of the partial government shutdown. he's calling for a three week one big bill to give negotiators time to work out a border security strategy. we are still waiting for the house to go into session for its vote on this deal. the markets were having a good day and there is no major change after the president's statement. the dow finished ahead 184, the s&p 500 gained 22, the nasdaq jump 91. for the week the dow and the nasdaq were up one-tenth of a percentage point, the s&p 500 was down two tenths. let's loo...

Democrats, supported the bill at the time, they had to tell the constituents they voted for it and it was all physical barrier fencing under that proposal. in 2007 the republicans offered an amendment walking back the physical barrier part of the bill because cdp was telling them they didn't want to spend money on a physical barrier, they want to technology and extra border patrol agents and other things in the conversation, the gop walked that back and gave full discretion to the secretary of homeland security how to defend the money they appropriated. >> it was what donald trump has done in ...