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Over funding he's pushing for for his proposed border wall. before that happens, the president and vice president will have lunch with republican senators on capitol hill as some cracks in the gop grow over the shutdown. joining me now is republican senator james lankford from oklahoma. happy new year, haven't had a chance to say that yet. >> you bet. happy new year to you as well. >> after the address last night you said i am glad potus focused the border security foundation on tech as a crucial part of the larger border security strategy as i along with fencing and other actions. you're glad...

Talking criminal street gangs, these guys, essentially they prey on society. domestic terrorists. whatever word you want to use. and when we can't share that type of information with, you know, our law enforcement partners, particularly our federal eggs to get these guys out of here, it is a tremendous problem. pete: sergeant sean larkin, you know what you are talking about. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. pete: and thank you for your service. do you remember when democrats embraced the southern border security strategy, and a fence? we do. >> authorize some badly needed f...

Passing legislation to say you shouldn't be ripping kids out of their mommys' arms. >> why does this administration think this policy is good for them? >> i don't know is the short answer, katy. this is not a new problem. this is a problem that we've seen in previous administrations, something that we should have been prepared for. there's alternatives to detention. this is an outcome from a larger problem. we should be working well salvador and nicaragua and honduras addressing some of the root causes in those countries that's causing this migration to come up here. we should be helping them ...

Briefed on a border security strategy that includes mobilization of the national guard. that's troops on the border. this coming after the president announced he will be sending the u.s. military to secure the border with mexico until his long-promised wall is finished. >> i told mexico, and i respect what they did, i said, look, your laws are very powerful, your laws are very strong. we have very bad laws for our border. and we are going to be doing some things, i've been speaking with general mattes. we're going to do things militarily. until we have a wall and proper security, we're going t...

Explain to the audience just what kind of stress, what kind of stress relief it could be to have the border wall and eventually have the removal of these so-called sanctuary city havens? >> well, look, having physical barriers including a wall is an integral part of any border security strategy. you really have to have it. if the border is insecure, people just pour across, it goes without saying. not only does that encourage illegal immigration but so do sanctuary cities. if you know you can go somewhere where state and local government are going to protect you in violation of the immigration...