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Kids but they want border security. we had 60 million lethal doses of fentanyl come across the border in the last six months. 60 million lethal doses. there's human trafficking. we're treating people terribly. all the people coming across are children of god. they're coming from countries where the rule of law is broken, guatemala, honduras, et cetera. we need to help them have a functioning economy and wish the left would just help us work on those fundamental issues to solve this once and for all and mexico, our friends, but they need to fix their border situation. >> have you been to tour o...

By religion or race. these people are facing difficult conditions. >> this has been going on, it's my understanding, this is the fifth year this migrant caravan has travelled northward. how has the previous administration handled it. >> when i was at ice, we dealt with similar caravans, there's been a massive influx that is new to u.s. border policy or u.s. border situation. central americans have been coming up in very large numbers. our asylum laws are not broken, but our system is overwhelmed, you have this huge influx, this is only about 150 now, we had 50,000 last month, that puts a strai...

In the most horrible way. we criticize that we pointed that out through history. this is not consistent with tha that. if we turn our backs on nice people and keep using them as scapegoats -- >> martha: there are people from all over the world, eastern europe, people who want to come to this country and they have to go through a process in order to do it. they are very upset that they have to go through the process and yet, coming across the southern border is supposed to be a different set of rules. what would you say to them? >> i went through that process, so i'm with the group of people wh...

Likely to respond -- see this as a provocation and respond with some level of hostility. back to you. >> all right, matt bradley there, thank you for that. let's bring in karen skinner, a research fellow at the hoover institution. she is also a former member of the trump national security council transition team. with a welcome back to the broadcast here, the first question out of the gate, how does president trump solve the problem of north korea? because it seems like he may have stumbled upon some unwilling partners in russia and china. >> absolutely. this is the most dangerous border situa...

Porous border situation is outrageous, still believe that what merkel did with refugees is outrageous, still believe that the european project has gone badly off course. so, how is that addressed, moving forward? >> there's frustration with europe. it's overregulated. you have problems with security. they haven't given up on the european project. the whole history of europe has france and germany at its core. the post world war ii steel community. it still has tremendous resonance. it will mean shifting the balance between brussels and national capitals a little bit more. that's one of the mes...