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Fundamental issues that really need to be addressed to provide a secure border. along the way you might also want to include in that the u.s. coast guard. you want to build a wall. coast guard actually builds a wall 1500 miles from the shores of america and that's an important piece of this puzzle, also. so, we've got to do it co comprehensi comprehensively. not not just the wall, the pieces on the puzzles-- >> the problem with the democrats using shutting down the government to get what you want. i guess what people want to know, what would it take to be open? that is the part the democrats a...

>> we have 55 miles in this sector we started a job in 2006 we need to finish that job, we've got the personnel, we need the technology, we need the resources, we need the infrastructure, in order to control this border and manage it. part of our area is covered with some fencing on our east side, that thes for about 6% of our traffic, where we have no fencing over 90% of our traffic occurs in those areas. neil: all right, a lot of border patrol agents are directly affected by this ongoing border, you know, thing here and a lot of them are not getting paid but they feel so passionately about i...

Wall do you think they're going to write a check for 20 billion or 10 billion or 5 billion or $ 0.02? no they're paying for the wall in a great trade deal. neil: all right i have no idea how that would happen but by the way, the democrats are far beyond approach here. they too have been inconsistent on whether there's an urgency at the border or not. take a listen. >> you know, a part of a comprehensive immigration bill is not something that i would be automatically against. >> a wall is not who we are as a nation. >> 630 miles of border fence, that create a significant barrier to illegal immi...

Forward would allow that money to be bonded forward, so we know we get three to 5 billion a year in it, allow it to be bonded, so that that way, you could obligate future receipts for current construction and you could have the funding you need now based upon future receipts. neil: the president has also raised the possibility that money extracted from the mexican trade deal even though it hasn't been ratified yet could be used to pay for this. do you know how that would happen? >> i think that would take congressional action. i think we have to concede that ms. pelosi for apparently political...

A threat to the united states, and he should therefore, even before pearl harbor, have national powers to force companies to make tanks and weapons and airplanes, to increase the size of the navy and the army, and after that address, people changed their opinion. he educated the country. that's the president's responsibility if he's going to use this huge power. neil: but the facts would then have to back you up. there are a lot of people who don't deny that we have certain problems at the border here, but whether the wall is the answers, in the eye of the beholder many of the president fears ...