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Instruction of the governor of the state of texas has officially started construction on its own border wall it's the first time a u.s. state has eve done this. the first wall panels have gone up and start counting the beginning of what will start ou as a one-point 7-mile stretch and two fill in gaps where ther is no federal wall. its being built on state lands, was state money. the governor says texas is stepping up where the federal government is failing. >> they have advocated they're constitutional obligation to enforce the laws of the united states. texas is going to step up and enforce t...

Government is not securing the border or. what you're looking at is an initial 1.7-mile stretch of the wall designed to essentially fill in the gaps where the federal government never built a border wall out here. and governor greg abbott was out here touring the construction earlier, taking a look at these first wall panels going up. and he said for any critics who think it's not going to to be effective; think again. take a listen. >> it doesn't look like those bars are all that big. i have with me, this is the steel bar. it's heavy and it's wide. people aren't making it through those steel ...

In gaps where there is no federal law. it's built on state land with state mondayy. -- money. >> the biden administration abdicated its constitutional obligation to enforce the laws of the united states. texas is going to step up and enforce those laws. >> texas cannot use the steel from the piles that were bought and paid for by the federal government. those materials have been sitting in storage since january. that's when president biden halted all of form's president trump's wall construction. the feds won't sell that metal to texas despite having no intent of using. the contractor was buil...

Closer look at the equipment and what comes next. hello, william. >> good morning, bill. most of us don't like to waste money, buy things we don't use or start a project you don't finish. that is unless it's a border wall and you are president biden, who canceled 16 billion dollars in wall contracts when he took office. but in doing so, he not only stopped wall construction, but also installation of all that supporting technology, cameras, sensors, lights that agents depend on. what happened to all that high-end equipment taxpayers paid for? we found one of several stockpiles here near yuma. >...

Go back to 2009 and 2010 when republicans won in virginia and new jersey it was a har ginger of a 63 seat pickup for house republicans. democrats are scared to death if they lose this what it means for next year. >> dana: thinking about it and talking about it. we'll continue as the race is less than a month away. thanks doug and mo. >> this fencing is being put up right now by the state of texas. the state of texas has to get the approval and buy-in from the property owners that they want this fencing in front of their property. this fencing, the goal of the state of texas, is to do half a mi...