this show any longer. the fact is the president of the united states announced that he wanted to put 3,750 additional military personnel on the border. rather makes our 360 national guard troops look pretty trivial and insignificant. we don t want to be a part of this theater. we don t want to be a part of this political, you know, misdirection. california is better than that. the american people i think deserve better, and so california wants to stand tall. i want to ask you a question i asked beto o rourke last night when i was in el paso. there is fencing in el paso that separates el paso from juarez. it didn t exist for a very long time. there is fencing on your border, 140 total miles border, much of that is fenced in the state of california. i want to play you what i asked him and ask you the same question. this is what i asked o rourke last night.
this is what i had to ask o rourke last night. take a listen. if you could would you take the wall down sneer absolutely. you think if there s a referendum in the city, that would pass? i do. would you take the wall down that is currently up in the california border? not prepared to saw that. it s appropriate in some areas and inappropriate in other areas. but at major ports of entree, i believe it s approp art. there are appropriate places for barriers. buts i do not believe we should be playing into the current discussion, particular lawith a president that couldn t even spend the money congress appropriated him last year. he can t even get that money inivisted. why are we even having the conversation about additional
government. it is a horribly failed experiment. what is it about running this corporation and building this corporation that makes him qualified to be president? i will ask him that tomorrow night. jeff low, a senator from texas said that this handling of the situation was a home run swing. he went onto say it shows if he can find a balance and again to that s what democrats are seeking. you said that you were surprised at how much president trump talked about o rourke last night. he chose to go to el paso. it is a city he has never been to before. he has been to border cities. he kept bringing that up on