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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171029:11:32:00

aware of the situation. that from the government. alex, thank you so much. prototypes for the president's big beautiful wall, as he calls it, have been unveiled along the u.s./mexico board. >> one of the eight prototypes commissioned by the trump administration could serve as a blueprint. miguel marquez explains it all. >> reporter: president trump said he wanted a big, fat, beautiful wall. these are his 30x30 foot options. one of these eight contestants could stretch 2,000 miles across the border? >> a chance one of them gets selected. eight of them get selected or a mix of them are selected for construction. >> reporter: they sit like giant tomb stones east of san diego in the no man's land right on the u.s./mexico border. the president has consistently said a wall will be built along the entire border.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171029:11:33:00

he says 2,000 miles of border wall. you say we will put it up where we need to? >> there is testimony already out there. a testimony by the former chief of homeland security, which was general kelly, in which he in testimony said that you wasn't see a walk from sea to shining wall and put the wall where it makes sense. >> reporter: they are referring to the same john kelly who is the president's chief of staff. the costs for just these test walls, $20 million, building any one of them across the entire 2,000-mile border could cost more than $20 billion. beyond this, whether the $20 billion to build the entire wall comes, that is for another day? so, right now, our focus is to complete the process of construction of the prototypes. >> reporter: so the prototypes or the contestants for the president's big beautiful wall, they are done. but it's going to take another month for the cement to dry and the walls to settle before they

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:52:00

drug that's 50 times more potent than heroin coming into the u.s., people are addressing from china, he'll address that with president xi. also mentioning the wall, building the wall to keep drugs from coming in from the south. and you talk to other people like craig most, who lost his son, he says this is too little too late from the president. we'll talk to craig in a second and get his response. but first to you sanjay, wide ranging there, hearing from both the president and first lady. what did you make of that? >> first of all, it's a public health emergency, that was the big head line before. as we talked about different from national emergency. language is important. because this isn't new dollars likely coming in to help address this opioid crisis as passionate as he was, not new moaning coming in necessarily. and maybe money changing hands but that's a big point of distinction within that

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:10:00

said that you won't see a wall from sea to shining sea. we'll put it where it makes sense. >> reporter: deferring to the same john kelly who is now the president's chief of staff. the cost for just these test walls, $20 million. building anyone of them across the entire 2,000 mile border could cost more than $20 billion. beyond this, whether the 20 billion to build the entire wall comes, that's for another day. so right now our focus is to complete the process of construction of the prototypes. so the prototypes or the contestants for the president's big beautiful wall, they are done. but it will take another month for the cement to dry and walls to settle before tested and then they'll go at them seeing if they can be scaled, climbed, did you go under or breached. you will test these walls to their maximum? >> correct. >> reporter: on the mexican side of the border prototypes met

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:44:00

we must stop the flow of all types of illegal drugs into our communities. [ applause ] for too long dangerous criminal cartels have been allowed to in filtrate and spread throughout our nation. anest and a a ton itching astonishing 90% come from across the border which we are building a wall which will help in this problem. we'll have a great impact. my administration is dedicated to enforcing our immigration laws, defending our maritime security, and securing our borders. we also have to work with other countries to stop these drugs where they originate.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:53:00

community. also, there is a commission report that's coming out next week that former governor chris christie is heading that commission and that's going to have specific proposals. but tour point he sort of tell a scoped what many of those things are likely to be, targeting doctors about prescribing habits, targeting companies like cvs who said we won't give out more than seven days of opioids, encouraging others to do the same. talking about china and trying to cut down on the raw ingredients coming from places like china. talking about the wall and how he thinks that would improve or prevent some of these drugs from coming across. we've done a lot of reporting on that. that's not clear it will make ha difference. he also talked about harm reduction like providing treatment within prisons. something that i think is a bit surprising that he said. but talking about this idea that we have to reduce harm as a part of treat thg crisis of opioids. but where he spent most of his time, brooke, that i know you

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:12:00

not only for the wall but tall the ancillary cameras and roads that go with building a wall. it's not clear they will get that funding. but these eight examples may be the beginning of president trump's big beautiful wall. brooke? >> big beautiful wall above and below ground. along the border there, thank you very much. again waiting to hear from the president of the united states and along him the first lady opioid emergency. back with you in a flash.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:11:00

with disbelief. so when you see these what do they represent to you? >> for our country we think it's an insult. >> reporter: mexican citizen who teaches border issues at san diego state university says a 30-foot wall would deter migrants but not everything. >> 30 foot wall 2,000 miles stop drugs? >> drugs enter u.s. through different ways, port of tries to satisfy by land. >> reporter: and tunnels, lots of them. if we could take a picture of the land underneath us, what would it look like? >> a lot of tunnels, obviously. and probably in this moment someone is building a tunnel. >> reporter: at least some of these walls come with tunnel deterrence too. big beautiful walls above and below ground. now, the customs and border protection says they requested $1.6 billion for next year.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171026:18:09:00

that's the existing barrier between the u.s. and mexico. and one of these contest end walls could be the winner. these are his 30 by 30 foot options. one of these eight contestants could soon stretch 2,000 miles across the border. >> there is a chance f one of them gets selected. eight of them get selected or a mix of them get selected for construction. >> reporter: they sit like giant tomb stones east of san diego on the u.s. mexico border. the president has consistently said a wall will be built along the entire border. >> he says 2,000 miles a border wall. you say we'll put it up where we need it. >> well, there is testimony out there. there was a testimony by the former chief of homeland security which was general kelly, in which he in testimony

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