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Can name it peaches i don't care what they name it. now you really mean finish that wall. because we built a lot of it. >> so once and for all. you called elements of our federal government today to find out what is being built, how much and where. >> so no new wall has been built. sometime this month they're going to build the first new barrier of trump's administration. that's in the rio grande valley. it did not start this week or the day trump spoke. i asked customs and border protection to confirm this. they said what has started is vegetation clearing for this wall construction and you c...

Executive ability to transfer existing federal funds toward construction of the wall, bypassing congress. so what you could see happen is he reluctantly signs this deal assuming it passes the congress this week and that would avert the shutdown and fund the government, but he would find other ways to get more of the money that he wants for that wall construction. that seems to be according to our sources where things are headed at the moment. >> and he would need that because here's what he's getting in the deal. $1.4 billion for new border barrier. no concrete wall in that. and $1.7 be. billi...

Gabe gutierrez is along the u.s./mexico border. rehema ellis is in atlanta. gabe, i'll start with you there along the border. the wall. it's more than likely to be quite the focus of the president's address tonight. what's the sense from people there about the need for a wall? >> reporter: well, hi, there, craig. a lot of attention on the state of the union here in south texas. the new portions of the wall set to be built in some parts of south texas later this month. here in roma, texas, local officials expect new portions of the wall to be built by this summer. right behind me is mexico. thi...

Consumed washington, his point is that he has educated the public on the dangers of the border and he's laid a predicate to by-pass congress and start construction on his own authority. now that may or may not be the case. polls certainly might show some different opinions about that. a lot of people might agree with him about the need for a border wall. he has not yet, i think, convinced so much of the public that congress is going to go along with that. if you can't convince congress to go along with that, the question and whether or not you've really built a public base of support for it. y...

Talks about in that state of the union. >> exactly. i think this could be a preview of the big action that he could take on his own that he has himpbt hinted at for some time, which is that national emergency declaration to begin wall construction. he's pretty much already said that he doesn't expect the 17-member congressional committee to reach a deal, even though if you look at that panel, it's a panel full of deal makers. but the president does not seem to have any confidence that they will be able to come up with something, enough wall funding, enough border security that he will be satis...