control our own border. so we re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we re going to do it one way or the other. we have to do it. not because it was a campaign promise, which it is. it was one of many, by the way. not my only one. we re rebuilding the military. our economy is thriving like never before. you look at other economies. they re doing terribly, and we re doing phenomenally. the market is up tremendously today. not that that s going. i ll go in and they ll say the market went down, but the market is getting close to the new highs that we created. we have all the records. we have every record. we re getting close to that point again where we ll create new records. our country is doing very well economically. and we ve done a lot. one of the things i side i have to do and i want to do is border security. we have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into our country.
side of the wall. and they had 23 murders. that s a lot of murders, but it s not close to 2000 murders. right on the other side of the wall in mexico. so everyone knows the walls work, and they re a better there are better examples than el paso. just look almost everywhere. take a look at israel. they re building another wall. their wall is 99.9% effective they told me. 99.9%. that s what it would be with us too. the only weakness is they go to a wall and then go around the wall. they go around the wall and in. okay? that s what it is. very simple. and a big majority of the big drugs, the big drug loads don t go through ports of entry. they can t go through ports of entry. you can t take big loads. you have people. we have very capable people, border patrol. you can t take women and girls,
to read the patch. folks who are on the front lines. my shadow abilities in the oval, i do believe i see sara sanders. we chase a lot of shadows in this job. i can t quite tell, but you would expect the press secretary would be in there. the front row tells you about the president s priorities. the officials who are a part of his cabinet who have the direct authority to carry out what he will talk about today. the people on the front line both in service to their country through these federal agencies and some people who have lived a hellish experience that the president believes is part of the reason this is necessary. we have often seen the president embrace angel families when he s trying to say there s a crime problem at the southern border that in some ways stems from the drug violence and the cartels, and in other ways is a result of policies and enforcement that lacked where there might be
groups sued in remain in mexico policy. they ve won on a lot. they ve won to reunite parents with their children and the asylum ban. i guess it keeps things in the public consideration. i know this summer there was a calculation made when they realized they could get kavanaugh or anyone of that to swing the supreme court in that direction more conservative. they thought they could be a little more you could call it reckless, bold, to push these things they knew would be at a district level but could perhaps come through on their side in the supreme court. the place they might have it wrong is they could reign in executive privilege. i think she s got exactly right. that s the calculation this white house has had in play for some time. let us bring in barry
make america great again. if you re going to have drugs pouring across the border, if you re going to have human traffickers pouring across the border in areas where we have no protection, in areas where we don t have a barrier, then very hard to make america great again. but we ve done a fantastic job, but we haven t been given the equipment. we haven t been given the walls. and in the bill, by the way, they didn t even fight us on most of the stuff. ports of entry. we have so much money we don t know what to do with it. i don t know what to do with all the money they re giving us. it s crazy. the only play i want to gi th don t want to give as much money, $1.375 billion. it doesn t sound like a lot.