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Southern border. >> well, that's exactly right. and congress on a bipartisan basis has passed some legislation to try to expand treatment for it, but we've also, and ironically, in the homeland security bill that the president is nowll holding up, there are additional funds to screen for drugs that are coming across the t border. as you say, a lot of the opioid addiction crisis is a totally homegrown crisis, but to the extent we have a problem with drugs coming across the border,g they're coming across the ports of entry and we have provided additional funds in the bill that the president has ...

Since you've been such a strong supporter and one of our greatest advocates for thean wal we have decided to extend your deadline to get on the list." and that, that is what the president's request for network broadcast time tonight was all about. heas used it to raise money for his re-election campaign, pretending to his supporters that the money they would contribute wouldey be used to secure the border and he did not say one new thing in that speech thatin he read from that teleprompter in the oval office tonight. here's the essence of the president's speech. >> my fellow americans, tonight...

Secure the border fund to have your name sent to me after my speech." that was all a lie. in the finer print of the e-mail, it says the contributions are to the trump make america great again committee. that is the president's re-election committee. the president lied to his supporters in that e-mail today telling them their contribution wouldon be to an official secure the border fund. immediately after the speech, the president then sent out another fund-raising e-mail saying, "friend, president trump just finished his speech addressing ourd national securi crisis on the southern border and ...

He talked about how the city, if it had to have walls, there had to be doors in those walls and had to always be open to all the pilgrims from all the lost places who had been hurdling through the darkness toward home. and that's the kind of rhetoric we tend to expect to hear from the epicenter of power. we didn't hear that tonight. >> let's listen to what another democrat said tonight after the president's speech. this is beto o'rourke in el paso, texas, where he's lived his whole life at the border. this is beto o'rourke's, in effect, video response to the president tonight. >> we're literal...

Kinder, gentler, mr. trump. but there is justice jackson's metaphorical loaded weapon sitting there and if he chooses to pick it up andme use it, do n count on courts considering this something they want to intervene in. >> let's listen to what nancy pelosi said in response to the president in what she described as the humanitarian challenge. >> the fact is that women and children at the border are not a security threat. they are humanitarian challenge. a challenge that president trump's own cruel and counterproductive policies have only deepened and the fact is president trump must stop holdi...