He ran against ted cruz. Ted cruz won. He spent almost 100 million. We campaigned together. Jason chaffetz in for sean. Lets go back to mississippi and listen to the president. What the hell is he doing . What is he on . Do you remember . He made the statement that he was born for this. Anybody that says he was born for this, theyre in trouble. You know . I used to have guys come into my office. Sir, im the greatest salesman. The truth anybody that says theyre a great salesman, usually theyre not a very good salesman. Its true. Its those sneaky ones in the
back that dont talk. But you dont know about. Theyre the ones. But beto was nasty. And he said that he was born for it. Like he was born from heaven. He came down. If thats the case, some really bad things happened because he made a total fool out of himself. And he came out of texas. The great state of texas. He came out of texas a very hot political property and he went back as cold as you can be. He was a nasty guy, but he had a c
i went to the border patrol, incredible people, and ice, incredible people. tough people. they love our country. i said give me the specifications for the wall. they said we would like steel but we would also like concrete. i said what do you want? which one? so i did all three. because it s a different form of cutting. you can cut through steel but you can t through the concrete and you can t through the hardened rebar. we ve got it all. we also need see-through, sir. got to see who is on the other side. it s more expensive what we re doing but we re building. we should have anywhere from 400 to almost 500 myles turner wall we should have anywhere from 400 to almost 500 miles of wall built by the end of next year. the army corps of engineers is
borders and safe communities. we are now building a wall. [cheers and applause] build that wall, build that wall, build that wall, build that wall. we re building it. build that wall, build that wall, build that wall. we re fwlg it. and you think that was easy? we re building it. you think that was easy? when it came to the wall, not 10 cents, not 10 cents but we gave the military a lot of money and we took it from the military and we took it from here, we took it from there, we had to go to court and all of a sudden we started winning cases. we re winning cases now. winning a lot of cases. [applause] the wall is going up rapidly and this is a very serious wall. this is the exact everything they wanted.
building their hearts out. they re great people. we believe in keeping terrorists and materials and drug dealers the hell out of our country. and thanks to our tireless efforts on the southern border, tough place, illegal crossings have dropped 60% since may and we are faster than ever securing the southern border and soon it will be when the wall is completed secure like it s never been before. and i want to thank the country of mexico. they right now have 27,000 soldiers on our borders. 27,000. you know what that is? and they are keeping people out and i want to thank the president of mexico. he s an excellent person.