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Do to protect our country, like human trafficking, flow of illegal drugs and gangs, that are going to make sure while we've achieved significant drop in illegal alien border crossings, this is something that's in our country's long-term national security interests. >> the actual construction can wait until the fall? >> it's not a question of wait until the fall. a lot of things have to happen. you've got to start doing planning and things. we'll take the first steps now and continue to seek funding through the fy '18 and make sure it's completed. >> on michael flynn, does the president feel th...

Year 2018. we got about a 40 minute briefing on topics today. the president is asking for money for border security and in that money for border security, there will be money to repair and replace existing sections of fence in addition to putting in some new fence. when talking about bricks and mortar of a concrete wall. sean spicer said the goal of the president is building the wall. here he is. >> the president made it very clear, his priorities have not changed. there will be a wall built. it's important to prevent human trafficking, gangs like ms 13 from coming in, the flow of drugs and il...

There's going to be a case where people had a prior clearance that between the time they filled it out and had it adjudicated, they could have engaged in something and the onus is on the individual. >> all right. i do want to ask you about the wall. yesterday president trump reportedly said that he's going to delay pushing the wall through. can you just clarify what the status of that is? >> the president's priorities have not changed. there will be a wall built. it's important to prevent human trafficking, gangs like ms-13, the flow of illegal drugs, illegal immigration. there's a national se...

Costs. we have an artificially propped up insurance system right now because of these payments. i think that we've got to make sure that we do everything we can to put a system in place that would solve that. jonathan? >> to follow up on the wall and flynn. on the wall, just want to be clear. so is the president no longer insisting that there is money for the wall in this current appropriations bill? >> the president's priorities are clear for fy-17. there are a lot of things that we can do in the remaining months, up until the end of september for planning and making sure that we get everythi...

In the case of people who had a prior clearance that between the time they filled it out and had it adjudicated they could have engaged in something. whether or not they updated that is always the onus is on the individual. >> i do want to ask you about the wall. yesterday president trump reportedly said that he's going to delay pushing the wall through. can you clarify what the status of it is? >> thank you. the president made it very clear. he tweeted about this earlier. there will be a wall built. it is important to prevent human trafficking, the flow of illegal drugs, illegal immigration. ...