mean, to the left some of the last debate comments about immigration. look, a couple things. number one, i don t think you re going to see that and remember when we re talking about the border and border wall, there is another part of that conversation we are talking also kids in cages and family separation policy. if we re going to go back to that conversation, part of that conversation is not a politically good conversation for the president. over the last couple weeks part of his going after the squad has been to move away from the conversation because you have so many members visiting the conditions. he ran on build the wall and mexico would pay for it. that s not happening. he ran on build a wall. he can say the supreme court is going to let me do it and i m going to do it. absolutely. look, it s a victory for him and we ve seen that in his twitter feed tonight.
over stayed their visa. so under stayed their visas so building a wall, while i can certainly agree that there is a room for barrier fencing in the debate over border security, but most of the people here didn t cross the southern border. you re forscoring political points. this is about whipping people up at rallies. he s built this or seeking to build a big extensive wall that won t solve the underlying problem. i would be the first person at the table to have a conversation about border security and immigration if that s what republicans and the president wanted to do but that s not what this is about. karen, again, on the campaign trail or debate stage when it gets to be the republican or democrat, the argument i built i said i d build a wall, supreme court agrees with me, i m doing it is clearer and understandable than a discussion about barrier fencing has a role but, you know, the ramifications
we ve been so focused on the wall we move aid way from that part of the political conversation and people that live on the boarder states, they are interested in having that conversation and also interested in understanding how the wall will affect the land that they live on. oh, yeah. scott, i mean, it is a more i don t know, it s a tougher discussion for democrats after today. oh, look, this is a very simple thing now. donald trump ran on boarder security. he is securing the border. democrats are running on decriminalizing border crossings and free health care for people that come here illegally. they look like they are inviting the entire world to come here illegally and they have no interest in securing the border and donald trump is going to say i ran on securing the border, i fought all the way to the supreme court. it s happening. if you go with their policies, we ll have no borders at all. turn on the tv. it s a crisis. this is as lean as it gets for a political argumen
the purse and that the president didn t have this authority the groups argued violated the law but today the supreme court said the government showed that these groups. challenging it didn t have sufficient standing. the government did a good job showing that and so this is a big win for the president. this is not over yet. it can play out in the lower courts. the wall continued to be built with funds we should note that some of them will go toward replacing, as well. replacement fencing which is all that s been build or that s been done so far with just they have been characterizing it as a new wall but replacing existing fencing. yeah, that s right. the president tries to frame it new wall, certainly most of it has been this replacement fencing. the president argues that this is all about protection because the fencing was crumbling and needed to be replace for the there to be a secure barrier
about building a wall and it s less effective and it s not as powerful as what the democrats previous argument could have been which was you promised to build a wall and mexico to pay for it and neither has happened. they can t make that argument anymore. no, you re right. i think there is probably one other line in there, anderson of the president s talking points. i would envision him saying the democrats tried to stop me and the supreme court says i win, right? so look, again, from the perspective of the president, it is a great talking point. we have a talking point, though, on the democratic side to talk about okay, but what about the people who are here? if we can all agree that there is now a crisis at the border, build your wall if that s going to keep people out but i suspect part of where this conversation is going to go on the context of this election because it is dire and grave and we have all of these children and families that at some point we have to figure out how to