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Ground by government district r contractors. since president trump has taken office, some new border structure has gone up. last year, a 20 mile stretch was built and when you look at it, the question is, is it a wall or a fence? and does that question even really matter? according to customs and border protection officials, there are eight projects in the works. the trump administration's request for 5 billion more would pay for an additional 215 miles of new and replacement fencing. that could include areas like this, where miles of long standing wall end. but critics of the wall say there a...

The president has made clear, a border waum, border fence, border structure of some kind, is basically mandatory for him to sign off on any deal to reopen the government, so where does that leave things? well, at this point, lawmakers on capitol hill say they're looking into next week. they're looking into 2019, they're looking into the moment on january 3, where democrats retake control of the house, for the first action of any kind, legislatively, to try and reopen the government. here's the catch. that action doesn't necessarily portend a reopening of the government. nancy pelosi the incomi...

Fence, it is a wall. you just misreported it. we are going to build a wall. >> so he says, we're going to build a wall, it is not a fence. he accused us of misreporting or somebody in the press at that press conference that day misreporting it, but yet it seems he may go for a fence or some kind of steel slat structure or something like that. >> yes, i think it is interesting to see how it evolved over the time. we have the president going from a wall where we were talking about the specifications of the wall and what it would be able to do in terms of keeping people out. >> yeah, there are pr...

A shorter-term extension. a number of different options. but the reality right now, jim, even though there may be legislative action shortly after democrats take the majority in the house, there is no sense it's necessarily going to go anywhere. senate republicans feel very burned by what happened last week when the president decided not to sign something that had been agreed to unanimously in the chamber. and they have made clear, they don't want to move forward on anything until the president signs off. and that basically puts everyone in the same place they have been for a matter of days. e...

Blank house nations. he says he's not racist. he says he's the least racist person ever. based on what you have seen, do you agree? >> well, i think he has a track record here. and i think the track recordings far back. but in reality, what we need to get to is a legislative solution for daca. we have succeeded in federal court here in california to enjoin the administration to accept enrollments under the current program. it needs to be memorialized in statute. >> part of this deal that was presented to the president last week did include some funding for a border wall or border fence or some...