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To both democrats, republicans. but being from the border, i always get a kick of people that go down, spend a few hours there. they think they know the border better than cornyn or some of us there. because we've lived there all our life. let me explain this. for example if you look at the latest a, you're worried about drugs, look at the latest dea report. more drugs come through the ports of entry than in between ports. but we're not even talking about ports of entry, number one. i'm just saying. i'm just saying. let's finish this. and some of us have been working this longer than some of t...

You heard him keep going back to the idea of wanting the u.s. immigration system to be merit-based. and wanting to improve border security. broadly speaking, those are things that i think members of both parties can agree to. we don't know what happened when the cameras left the room but i think the people who are going to walk out of that meeting very pleased with the white house officials who have the president just sort of control that room for the better part of an hour with the cameras on and looking like he wants to make a bipartisan deal. democrats who now will see an opening and republ...

Ports of entry. i'm just saying. let's finish this. some of us have been working on it longer than others. number one, if you look at the 11 or 12 million undocumented, 40% of them came from visa overstays. you can put the most beautiful wall out there, it's not going to stop them. they will come by plane, boat, or vehicle itself. so the other thing that we are going to look at, the wall itself, mr. president, you talk to your border patrol chief or the former border patrol chiefs, i asked them how much time does a wall buy you? they say a couple minutes or a few seconds. these are the border ...

Off. this is going to be a significant and ongoing threat. >> reporter: we're getting the gusts, you know. i'm at the naples pier. the gusts are starting. i'm going to actually keep my hand on the railing as i come down here because it's just -- you don't know when the gust is coming. >> and a sight in tampa that even long-term residents had never seen. hurricane irma pulled a huge amount of water out of hillsboro bay. meteorologists call this a reverse storm surge. thomas roberts has been reporting on this monster storm all day long, and he joins us now from tampa. thomas, what can you tell u...

It at all. and the state department forced to pull down a post for its global site for embassies. why was the government promoting the president's private club at mar-a-lago in the first place? welcome back to "early start," i'm christine romans. dave has the morning off to rest his voice. >> president trump this morning showing flexibility on funding for his promised border wall indicating it might not be a deal breaker in ongoing talks to fund the federal government past friday's shutdown deadline. white house officials signaling that an offer from democrats for funding border security measu...