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From a security standpoint we are letting our guard down. >> he is one of the former dhs heads that has penned this letter to the president and congress to thend shutdown. >> it's quite a warning because it comes from the five different homeland security secretaries who span different administrations. this is a letter addressed to congress and to president trump. the most remarkable name on the list is john kelly who until just a month ago was the chief of staff for president trump. now he is calling on his old boss to end the shutdown. so much of the national security apparatus continues to b...

Either a tunnel underneath that concrete wall or a ladder going over it. so we'll have to see if this is acceptable to the republican base. more to the point if it's acceptable to the rush limbaughs and ann coulter's of the world. remember, president trump tried it earlier in the week. fudge the difference between a concrete wall and metal fence and the right wing media wasn't having it and why he then was against a spending deal he was once for. so, again, we'll have to see what kind of off ramp comes from this. both sides saving face. that is what matters most. this is a political issue for ...

All of those other world leaders there. if it's safe enough for the leaders of canada and france and germany and turkey and all of these other countries, clearly, the president of the united states could have been there from a security standpoint. so then symbolically you get into the politics of the moment and both president trump and president putin have made clear that the atlantic alliance that we know it, that nato is not something they are independence in contributing to and in putin's case, something he is very much proofed to and sought to weaken in every turn. it's a symbolic jab in t...

Safe staying in their countries, they're going to continue to come north. so it is in our best interests to continue to support them. that's things -- that is something that we've done in the past. we did that actually when i was at homeland security. then secretary kelly convened a conference specifically to support the central american countries and look at both from a security standpoint and an economic standpoint how to best support them to hopefully stem the need for people to leave those countries and come to the u.s. >> david lapan, appreciate your expertise. thanks for being with us. ...

Don't have to leave and make this journey. >> that's absolutely right. it's counterproductive to talk -- talk is one thing. it certainly would be counterproductive to cut off aid or to put these poor countries at further disadvantage. i mean that's part of the reason that individuals are leaving those countries. it's the poverty, it's the violence, it's those factors that if we're not able to support those countries and create conditions where the residents feel comfortable and safe staying in their countries, they're going to continue to come north. so it is in our best interests to continue ...