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This? at the president's direction we are confronting it head on in many ways. let me try to quickly some rise. we have championed a border wall system which includes infrastructure, technology and additional personnel. we have implemented virtually every measure within our authority to end catch and release to keep aliens with no legal right to stay from being released into our country. we have worked with the pentagon to deploy troops to the southern border, which has helped us achieve tens of thousands of apprehensions and turned backs of illegal aliens. we have dramatically increased refer...

And what they've offered, incoming chief of staff mick mulvaney was on fox news sunday and he said they haven't come down from 5.7 billion. they did not say what the number was. democrats, they are hoping, welcome to some center when it comes to the funding. we are talking about maybe $3 billion here. for political reasons. >> doug: i think we are talking about fundamental political positioning. >> lawrence: they don't like the optics of the wall. >> doug: i agree. >> lawrence: we know we are not going to just get a physical wall in all aspects of the border. they have called it the border wal...

Trump have put policy and real physical border security on the table. democrats are generically saying we're for border security but they don't define it. so when -- >> republicans are the ones saying that democrats like chuck schumer have voted for the wall in 2006, the fence thing. the president has talked about different aspects of the wall, the border wall system. there's parts of the wall in places like yuma that have worked. so when it comes to putting real solutions that are tangible, they should let it. and democrats have said let's a polish ice and abolish ice. >> and 1 1/2 years ago ...

>> merry christmas. >> the sticking point in the talks to pass a spending bill has been that funding for a border wall system. last night the senate passed a short term spending bill to keep the federal government open in february of next year into that point. it did not provide new funding for the wall. today the house was expected to vote on that legislation. now it's all in limbo and the white house has raised the possibility the president may veto the bill. yesterday house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows urged the president to do just that. >> mr. president, we're going to back you up...

Like a health care-level failure. >> harris: actually come in arizona, i would say that's not true. also having lived near the border and i still do for part of the year. they want border security but it doesn't look the way we often talk about it. because of our border down by no there is a hard wall, if you will. but not throughout. we understand that certain parts have to be because of the topography and logistics. you got the cartel so vicious on that board to pay their flying planes over. you need technology, you need more than this. part of the misnomer with this, too, from the very begi...