break, ne only way to get big things done in washington, d.c. is to actually work across the aisle. this is why the american people sent us up here, to get things done, not burn this place down. we re going to mike in one second. let s follow up to what you just said there. isn t there a deal to be done between republicans and democrats, where you talk about heroin coming across the southern border and saying instead of building this wall, throwing it out there, focus more on ports of entry, where 90% of the drugs come in? instead of erecting steel slats, as you said, a fourth century solution, build smart walls. our military is building smart walls on battlefields to confuse our enemy. if they re coming at you, the smart walls go up and they
that s what we have to pay to get a secure border and get legal immigration reform, which we definitely need, i think the point that people are missing is if we don t secure our border we are going to be in the same situation three, five, seven years from now so until we secure that we can t get to the legal immigration reform we so badly need. shannon: we keep hearing left and right we want to secure the border, it s about how you get it done so we will watch. i think that s what the president did over the weekend where he said fine, no wall, fence, steel slats, whatever. if we all agree we have to secure the border and we funded it in the past, let s fund it again and move forward. shannon: we will see if there s any movement tomorrow. thank you very much for stopping in and we will watch the president tomorrow night. thanks. illegal immigration taking center stage at the swearing in of democrat gavin newsom, the new governor of california. a protester interrupting his inaugura
infrastructure. he came into this when he was campaigning in 2016 talking about a concrete wall but since talking to experts at the border, he has realized there are other technologies that work such as fencing, steel slats, that works and that s what he is going for. you can see he has come off of $25 billion, now he s down to $5 billion. is negotiating, the hard left aren t getting anything back to him. heather: when you last met with him did you know he would take a step and address the nation about this? i didn t know when he was going to do it but yes, he absolutely told us he was going to address the nation which i think is the right thing to do, take the case directly to the american people, let them make the decision based upon the facts. heather: he says he will declare this national emergency as a workaround for congressional approval to get this wall built.
white house understand that he has to do something, and i am not sure that going to the border is going to help him at all. . i mean, that s kind of a stunt, too, right? so how is that going to help him? well, he could announce tomorrow night in his oval office speech, laura, that he s declaring a national emergency, diverting billions of dollars already appropriated to the department of defense for the u.s. military to go ahead and build that wall. he could, but the question is, if he does that, why are we on day 17 of the shutdown? if he had the authority all along, which he claims that he does, and democrats will dispute that, they will immediately take this to court, but if he could do it all along, and this was truly a national emergency, that national security is at risk, you wonder, well, what was it all for? and i think there are real questions about what happens not just on the federal land, putting on steel slats, but what happens to private land? are you taking this in s
we have to build a wall. going to build a wall. we re going to build a big, beautiful wall. steel slats. we don t use the wall necessarily. great border security with a wall or a slat fence or whatever you want to call it. i informed my folks to say that we ll build a steel barrier, steel. it will be made out of steel. what is it? that s the question. democrats were upping the pressure, planning to block all bills until mitch mcconnell ends the shutdown. with me now is mark thompson, radio host of siriusxm s make it plain show and nick compesoori. i feel it s literally a reality show from the announcement to visiting the border to the address from the oval office that we re going to hear tomorrow night. the issue is this is a reality show where lives are at stake,