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The u.s. border. meanwhile, customs and border protection agents continue to face threats from human and drug smuggler as fentanyl deaths skyrocket and a agents come under attack. according to the cpb in the latest attack, quote, the agent was attempting to apprehend approximately 12 to 15 migrants, a smuggler in mexico struck out at the agent, hitting the agent with a large object believed to be a 2x4 board. texas' attorney general says as cartels get stronger, border patrol agents's hands are tied. >> they're not allowed to do their jobs. they're being put in logistics, as opposed to stoppin...

He just said that he is listening to the people at dhs. when i was at dhs we never talked about a while. but we always talked about barriers and fences and things that are needed in certain parts of the border. and i think democrats have supported that. if you look at the last several appropriations bills, they have funds in various types of berries and fences pay some have been rhetorical. just about the idea of the concept of wall. i think if we can move up beyond that and what is actually needs at the border, then real dialogue will take place. eric: you do have to go to sun city new mexico...

Running through the port of entry and san diego. when it comes to its function, it assists the 45,000 men and women of the border protection, no question. if you want to deal with a dug issue, you don't do it with a southwest border. you've got to get an addiction in baltimore and detroit and other cities across the united states. you've got to look at the two largest cities. but the drugs that come through the southwest border tend to come through the ports of entry, hidden in compartments or trucks, on trains, individual passengers, that i come in by air, by submarine out of colombia into ce...

Of murders. no other way of putting it. how did investigators track down ortiz? >> well, not much of a complicated story, quite frankly. this guy confessed to four counts of murder over the last few weeks in the la redo area and is locked up here in laredo right now as the authorities figure out whether there is anything else they need to charge him with. who is this guy? there is a fifth circuit court of appeals document in which a man by the very same name who worked for the border protection was a witness. there is biographical information listed. this person was in the united states navy f...

Hasn't said before. he's been very clear with regard to majority of american people do want protections for dreamers and president has been clear. he's fine with making that concession to provide protections for dreamers but wants it with the assurances that democrats will help to fund this wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. he's being quite clear that daca is off the table if we don't make some agreements on the border protection. >> but hasn't he dismissed potential deals that would have given him just that in the past? >> sure, yes, he has. also, furtherance to what we heard at the t...