months and say i don t want to talk about isis is back. there are no other players in the region who really care about fighting isis, and isis will come back. they re in much better shape nowen than they were when they first emerged in the middle of the obama administration. chris: mo, one of the arguments trump supporters make is the intelligence community is not always right and, obviously, the number one thing they point to is the so-called slam dunk that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which is what cia director george tenet told bush 43. an overwhelming majority of our intelligence community are dedicated professionals who are really good at what they do. do they get everything in everything right? absolutely not. but they don t get everything wrong either, as this president tends to portray whenever he disagrees with them. to wage a public battle with your own intelligence community seems like a huge concern for a
chris: talk about barrier withs rather than a wall. okay. okay. let s call it a barrier, but let s call it a fence. let s go in the middle, a fence. chris: okay. let s look at the cost of one mile of technology. it will cost $1-2 million per mile. one mile of fencing is going to cost $25-26 million. if you look at every border patrol chief since bush, obama and trump when i ve asked them this question in appropriations, how much time does a fence buy you, how much does it slow them down, they all have said, quote, a few minutes or a few seconds. if you look at border patrol union, the border patrol before 2012 said that a wall was useless because they could go ahead, go under, go around, and it is a waste of taxpayers dollars. chris: let me bring in senator hoeven because the president keeps calling this a crisis, and i want to look at some statistics on that, and this brings up some measures that
chris: talk about barrier withs rather than a wall. okay. okay. let s call it a barrier, but let s call it a fence. let s go in the middle, a fence. chris: okay. let s look at the cost of one mile of technology. it will cost $1-2 million per mile. one mile of fencing is going to cost $25-26 million. if you look at every border patrol chief since bush, obama and trump when i ve asked them this question in appropriations, how much time does a fence buy you, how much does it slow them down, they all have said, quote, a few minutes or a few seconds. if you look at border patrol union, the border patrol before 2012 said that a wall was useless because they could go ahead, go under, go around, and it is a waste of taxpayers dollars. chris: let me bring in senator hoeven because the president keeps calling this a crisis, and i want to look at some statistics on that, and this brings up some measures that
months and say i don t want to talk about isis is back. there are no other players in the region who really care about fighting isis, and isis will come back. they re in much better shape nowen than they were when they first emerged in the middle of the obama administration. chris: mo, one of the arguments trump supporters make is the intelligence community is not always right and, obviously, the number one thing they point to is the so-called slam dunk that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which is what cia director george tenet told bush 43. an overwhelming majority of our intelligence community are dedicated professionals who are really good at what they do. do they get everything in everything right? absolutely not. but they don t get everything wrong either, as this president tends to portray whenever he disagrees with them. to wage a public battle with your own intelligence community seems like a huge concern for a
chris: talk about barrier withs rather than a wall. okay. okay. let s call it a barrier, but let s call it a fence. let s go in the middle, a fence. chris: okay. let s look at the cost of one mile of technology. it will cost $1-2 million per mile. one mile of fencing is going to cost $25-26 million. if you look at every border patrol chief since bush, obama and trump when i ve asked them this question in appropriations, how much time does a fence buy you, how much does it slow them down, they all have said, quote, a few minutes or a few seconds. if you look at border patrol union, the border patrol before 2012 said that a wall was useless because they could go ahead, go under, go around, and it is a waste of taxpayers dollars. chris: let me bring in senator hoeven because the president keeps calling this a crisis, and i want to look at some statistics on that, and this brings up some measures that