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Wall on the entire southwestern border, in some places, it is going to be a good idea, and at some places it is going to work, but there are areas that the southwest border that is virtually impossible to put a fence up. you get to the big mountains, the canyons, stuff like that -- >> laura: the president has never said put them in the mountains, the rio grande river, excuse me for putting you in pima county, obviously i knew where hudspeth is. we were referencing another sheriff earlier. the thing about this, but i don't understand, just a few years ago, pretty much everybody agreed we needed...

Or not welcome. no country wants a free flow of humanity across the border. i don't know any country personally that wants that. >> the wall is not necessarily the right way to fix this. we already have 7 miles of fencing. there's definitely ways we can improve. >> laura: does operation gatekeeper work in san diego? >> i don't recall the specifics of it. we have a lot of friends there already. we have it all away to el paso. there's plenty of other things we need to do. for example, making changes because of the tunnels they've built for those of the true criminals smugglers. >> laura: i will ...

Operation gatekeeper in san diego. that was a bill clinton initiative. i covered it for cbs news. in 1996, i was at the border. huge barrier, steel barrier. they were all for it. what has changed? >> one of the issues is donald trump is an expert at creating a crisis. >> laura: you deny that this is a crisis at all. >> it's a problem we can deal with efficiently. we have the resources and the people, we have the ability. >> laura: we don't have the people. i hate interrupting you. i don't want to do it but we don't have the manpower to process. >> he creates a crisis and compromises and then -...

Force veteran sleeping in the streets tonight. >> priority needs to take place. 160,000 family units. a ninth circuit judge ruled tha we can't detain families more than 20 days. back when we first started we had these hearings and once we filled planes up with 90 percen less ga some judge in the ninth circuit says which means they get released and that's why there i a surge of's family members rig now because they know they want to be detained, they get released to the public and then don't show up for court. if they show up for court they lose their case, less than 2 percent lead. that is an ...

Border just before christmas, what was your experience and what can you share with people? >> what i know for a fact is that the border patrol agents that are working very, very hard tirelessly to make sure we are safe, they are doing a lot of humanitarian efforts, working with people who are not well and they are definitely focused on keeping our border safe and i was actually reminded of operation gate keeper which happened in 1990's during clinton administration and it was when they increased budget, increased number of border patrol agents and they -- they built the wall that's down across...