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Coming year. joining us now, julia ainslie. julia has covered the border closely for us for the last several years. julia area this has become a political tool, it's been a chant at the president's rallies for years. the question is, will there ever actually be any any new wall along the border as the president promised? >> that's a good question because it's a tangible promise and something that's so toes hold the president accountable to. and peter rightly persisted and got the answer to, there have been no new miles of border wall where no wall existed before. and that's for a number of rea...

How many miles have former li exist the that have been renovated or replaced but new where nothing existed. >> 78 miles have been built where there was an existing form of barrier. we just started breaking ground on rgv where we're building miles of new wall where there has been no structure there at all. >> that's just now starting the construction of new wall begins actually now? >> that's correct. >> that's was peter alexander pressing them. after boiling that down, he got them to say we actually haven't built any new weiall. after the build the wall chants, there is no new wall. >> you cou...

Saying it is hard to say if that promise will be met by 2021. >> how many miles of wall has been constructed, not wall that's replacing old wall, but new wall has been built to this point? >> so, 78 miles of new wall has been built. >> how many miles of wall exist where there was no wall whatsoever? >> my response is every mile that's being build is new wall. >> how many miles new where nothing new existed? >> right now the 78 miles that have been built have been built where there was an existing form of barrier. >> today the "los angeles times" mocking trump for still pushing his crazy border...

National emergency. basically what that would mean is it's billed now, decide on the price of the land later. that's something that landowners texas are upset about. it's land that's been in their family sometimes for hundreds of years. most of the land where they want to build in texas is privately owned. and then as my colleague courtney kube and i just reported in the last couple weeks, they've begun investigations into the contracts that went out for border wall construction. there's a company called fisher sand and gravel out of north dakota that the president has personally touted for. a...

Negotiations about whether or not they can seize the land and pay later. that's the strategy they have now and it's one that jared kushner laz been assigned to carrying out as he is now kind of the unofficial border wall czar, if you will, by his father-in-law to carry this out. another issue though is the contracts. my colleague and i reported on the fact there's now an inspector general investigation into a company known as fischer sand and gravel that got a $400 million contract to build 35 miles of wall on the southern border, and it turns out they might not be able to carry that through. ...