brian: time now for news by the numbers. i urge you to get doctored if you are not dressed already. $400 million that s how much a north dakota firm will be to bailed border wall. fisher sand and gravel by the refuge next year. that s good news for them. under a defense department contract. we have gone outside. and right around here is where i m going to stop. next nine years. that s how long it s been since the potato crop forecast has been this low and that means we could see a french fry shortage, bloomberg blames cold and wet weather. i m going to look for another source. i will walk for the last time just right around here. $299. that s how much money a man thought he was paying for an apple watch. amazon packaged up something and sent it to london that was not an apple watch. it was a plunger inside by the time amazon found out about mistake the watch was sold out. ainsley.
about a half mile of the border fence used. and very, very importantly, i asked this organization, was the government involved in any way in construction. she said zero percent. but they got the blessing from president trump as well as the department of homeland security. take a listen to this. the government should be doing it but it is not getting done. and we re not trying to build entire southern border wall. this is protest wall. the president supports it. dhs supports it. so we ve had the blessing of our government to move forward with this project. reporter: prominent conservative names are attached to this like tom tankreto and steve bannon, former adviser to the president, prince, the founder of black water usa and among the conservatives attached to this. we did reach out to customs and border protection about what they are saying and they are deferring all comments to fisher sand and gravel and it is moving very quickly at this stage of things. they are setting their sig
work will supplement what the trump administration is doing. nick valencia joins me now. so the group started fundraising in december, but this is the first we re hearing of this organization putting the money to use. who are these people? reporter: well according to this organization called we build the wall, one of the most highly trafficked areas on the southern border, they estimate a thousand migrants and between 200,000 and then $300,000 of drugs cross there and this is private land and they were encouraged to start construction. the company going the building, fisher sand and gravel industries, it was this year that they bid on a request for proposal from the u.s. government. and things stalled. recently a federal judge ruled that president trump can t tap into department of defense funding to try to fund the wall. they got their own funding through a gofundme. about $20 million and on friday they started construction. things are moving quite quickly. in just four days they ha
you don t have a wall system, we re not going to have a country. laura: is he back on the construction site today. i loved it joining us now for reaction is the ceo who submitted one of those prototypes, fisher sand and gravel ceo tommy fisher joins us from phoenix. okay, fisher sand and gravel. you guys have been in business for, i don t know, since 1952. it s a family run company. and what was it like to have the president check out the prototype today? it was a great honor for myself and all the employees and hopefully my dad looking down from heaven to see where we have come to. to have that opportunity to demonstrate to the president and all the people of america what we are capable of building, it was just a great honor. and i would also like to thank your commitment and determination to keep border security front and center with all your viewers as well, laura. laura: absolutely. i want to play a sound bite. this is the president, you know, he was looking at all the differ
really offer. laura: i love it. not taking sides which prototypes is best this is why you are a good businessman. how many jobs are we talking and really quick what types of jobs are these good paying jobs? only american products and only americans workers, right. all-american with all-american grit. we probably if we did the big project, the 700 miles you are talking thousands of jobs with us and our partners. the smaller job, probably 1,000 jobs. but here s the big differences. our product and our patent pending system does not need cranes. when we go into the mountains, laura in 30 minutes you could be running one of our escalators and pull back wall forms you would see 30 feet of perfect wall built. laura: tommy fisher. fisher sand and gravel. fabulous with the president out there on the project. i have a question, should president trump send federal troops to sanctuary cities? that seems wild, right? well, we are going to debate it directly ahead.