devastating car fire. nine women giving birth to 12 boys and girls including three sets of twins. ainsley: three sets of twins? half of them are twins. that s great. thank you, steve. turning now to the growing homeless crisis in los angeles. the number of people living on the city streets surging 16% from last year to more than 36,000 people. well now fed up homeowners and business owners are taking matters into their own hands. they are building barriers to deter the homeless from setting up camps on their properties. here with more are two los angeles business owners. peter and maria from the hungarian culture alliance. thank you for joining us. thank you for having us. ainsley: you are welcome. maria, tell us what s happening with your business? homeless individuals sleeping outside of your door? well, not necessarily. we have had a lot of tents set up along the sidewalks around our business and at
effectively says look, secretary of the army, your mission is secure to border. you have 30 days. use whatever forces you need. write up the rules of engagement and provide you with whatever funding is necessary. you will secure the border. now while the army does that, we can proceed with building barriers. we have an organization called the u.s. army corps of engineers. they can be tasked to build barriers. tucker: well, i thought they were for flood control. they have all sort of missions inside the united states. but army forces are engineers. brigades of engineers that can be put to work on the border and build barriers. he doesn t need special permission. he has the constitutional authority to act as the commander-in-chief. he doesn t need any help from congress at all. so this is a national emergency. let there be no doubt about it. tucker: you are confusing me. i live here. it was my understanding that the point of the u.s. army
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secretary of the army, your mission is secure to border. you have 30 days. use whatever forces you need. write up the rules of engagement and provide you with whatever funding is necessary. you will secure the border. now while the army does that, we can proceed with building barriers. we have an organization called the u.s. army corps of engineers. they can be tasked to build barriers. tucker: well, i thought they were for flood control. they have all sort of missions inside the united states. but army forces are engineers. brigades of engineers that can be put to work on the border and build barriers. he doesn t need special permission. he has the constitutional authority to act as the commander-in-chief. he doesn t need any help from congress at all. so this is a national emergency. let there be no doubt about it. tucker: you are confusing me. i live here. it was my understanding that the point of the u.s. army forces was to guarantee the
means to provide border security. when that required building barriers in certain key strategic areas. neil: you re open to, you don t want to call it a wall, but you re open to that. i don t care what you call it. the fact is that where that was necessary we built it. as you probably know neil: but that s not satisfactory now, you argue those structures are satisfactory to you. we ve already spent money in the last year to reinforce those existing fences and those strategic areas. neil: you want to leave it at that and not go beyond what you ve already done. i want to have the most effective border security. and that means not only those barriers in those strategic areas where they already are, it means also hiring more border patrol people, it means making sure that we have the technology to detect border crossings, it means providing more resources at the ports of entry to screen and detect drugs coming through the port of entries. a 2,000 mile wall what you know