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I mean, usually it takes the president 55 minutes at a rally to get out all those lies and false statements. this time, he crammed it into eight minutes by reading a teleprompter. i don't think it advanced his case one a bit, lawrence. in terms of the wall. in fact, a lot of the facts he used don't make sense in connection with the wall. for example, whennn he talks abo drug interdiction. went have a drug interdiction problem. senate democrats and republicans have worked to try to provide more -- more efforts targeted there at the e points of entry. right? a 2,000-mile-long wall doesn't have a...

In terms of the wall. in fact, a lot of the facts he used don't make sense in connection with the wall. for example, whennn he talks abo drug interdiction. went have a drug interdiction problem. senate democrats and republicans have worked to try to provide more -- more efforts targeted there at the e points of entry. right? a 2,000-mile-long wall doesn't have anything to do with trying to slow it downny at ports of entry. so this is why it's important that senate republicans get together with democrats and pass those twode house bills to open the government. >> and senator, when you -- when t...

Would have been an emergency a year ago or two years ago. what makes it now? there is no immediacy to this. they haven't offered another solution. the wall doesn't address the emergency. if people are penetrating through the border, how does the wall do that? the solution doesn't match the emergency either. this falls apart in lots of directions. the other thing that i think really strikes me is we haven't seen from the republican part lots of smart solutions. comprehensive border security is about all borders. how do we do that if it's an emergency. what are the means? there lots of different...

You see john cornyn saying this raises a whole host of problems. >> he's going to have some trouble, jackie, justifying a national emergency. look at these numbers. we got a graphic to show southern border arrests over these past many years. you see how it's gone down and it's going down right now. >> right. and, you know, the president has obviously manufactured a political crisis, but my colleagues at the "washington post" actually have done some great reporting about a smaller bubbling crisis about, you know, unaccompanied minors and larger families that are now crossing the border. so whet...

Mulvaney said it best before working for trump and when he said this is a childish idea to think a wall will protect us. what has been done, walls have been built along portions of the border. the portions that make sense. we've made massive investments. we have tripled the number of border security agents, we have drones and sensors and we have planes. a wall ask a colossal waste of money for a crisis that doesn't exist. the border security money that we've spent has worked. the number of unlawful crossings has gone down dramatically in the last 15 years. the number of undocumented people in ...