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White house. no early read yet. all we heard in the president where he said reviewing the funding bill with my type at the white house. what we do know is in the bill, $1.375 billion for pedestrian fencing that will be built in the rio grant sector of the texas border between the united states and mexico. $725 million more border security technology. $570 million for noninvasive inspection equipment at ports of entry and $270 million for construction and improvements. there's some debate over what the bill would allow to be built. it says that it needs to be steel bollard wall like the wall th...

Point at the top. the reason why the president wants that design over the bollard wall if someone tried to get over that fence, someone can throw a rope over the bollard wall. if you have a steel picket fence, you can't throw a rope. there's some restrictions over where the wall can be built and not built. some places where it cannot be built include the santa ana wildlife refuge, the national butterfly center and some parts of the lower rio grande wild life refuge. local officials in four border tones will have final say on whether or not the wall can be built in those areas. in warsaw poland...

Our border. the amount of money to secure that amount of mileage doesn't even secure the southern border of mexico let alone our southern border. >> the reason why i ask is, apparently the senator's office says that the appropriation would allow the border patrol to allow a new steel slatwall which the president has been promoting and that would win over more people maybe then we know. maybe yourself included. >> we are waiting to see the language, and our southern border, 55 miles from what i've been told currently, and i hope i'm wrong. but i can tell you that based on the conversations with...

Their hands on the money, if you will, and then figure out all of these answer after that. >> so if the president does declare a national emergency, how soon could construction on a wall begin? >> reporter: it would be about an 18-month project. but some officials are saying they actually could begin building that high steel slat wall that they're talking about within 45 days. but there are still other complications. there are areas where potentially the federal government does not own the land. they would have to invoke eminent domain, take that property away from private property owners, pot...

Wall? i'm surprised that that is really under consideration. >> under consideration, look, is a negotiating tactic. is it really going to happen? how will congress and the courts react to all of this? but this is what's on the table, and they're looking at the potential of a 300-mile construction project, possibly using military troops, contracts, or the army corps of engineers. a lot of questions still to be answered. it seems like they want to get their hands on the money, if you will, and then figure out all of these answer after that. >> so if the president does declare a national emergenc...