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You know, i think that jon meacham a second ago said you can't have negotiators in a corner. what you saw today was donald trump in an oval office stuck in a corner of a round office unable to find his way out of it. no path forward. no solution. and i think as your guests have said tonight, lawrence, we're going to gradually see house and senate republicans melt away from the president, join with the democrats, re-open the government, and then have a conversation about what the best way is to secure our border. >> jon meacham, you tweeted something earlier that really struck me and i'd like t...

Since you've been such a strong supporter and one of our greatest advocates for thean wat 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...

Joining our discussion now is john sandweg, former acting director of immigration and customs enforcement under president obama. john, i want to get your reaction to what the president said tonight, especially what he said about the criminal element at the southern border. >> well, obviously, a lot to cover here. i think the president, unfortunately, engaged in a number of real distortions about what's going on at our southern border. our border's never been more secure. you know, just 15 years ago, we had over a million people being arrested with only 5,000 border patrol agents there to stop ...

Addiction which begins legally through the prescription process. there has been no attempt by this administration to do anything about that part of this devastating drug addiction thatt this country has and has had for many years. that has nothing to do with the 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 yo...

Portions of the border where some kind of barrier can be built that has not been built? h. >> there's some areas where we need to replace existing walls. places in nogales, arizona, they use old crafts from aircraft landing, things from world war ii. generally speaking the areas where we need the walls, the walls exist and if they don't exist, it's because simply the terrain doesn't lend itself to it. what we really, really need are the immigration judges and got to give them credit for requesting 75 new immigration judges, but what we don't knee need is $5.7 billion dedicated to a wall that's...