the best you can buy starting under $25. only at the home depot. . the white house insists it s making good on its promise to build a wall on the border with mexico. in the recent budget there wasn t actually any money for it. there were allocations for security but not the wall itself. that hasn t stopped the administration from trying to argue otherwise. props and pictures of a chain link fence is being replaced by a steel wall this man says. we are building this now. there is money in this deal to build several hundreds of millionings of dollars of this to replace this. that s what we got in this deal. that s what the comes the don t want you to know. this stuff is going up now. why? because the president wants to make the country more safe. press second sean spicer made
similar claims with the same pictures the next day. there is one problem. construction of that steel wall began last summer, months before the election. cnn s gary tuckman went to the mexican border to find out the truth. this is gary tuck march from cnn. we start issed our day calling and sending e-mails to the white house, the president s press secretary and the budget director to ask about their incorrect claims about the fencing found on the border with mexico. we got no reply. you can t get close to it on the american side but you can when you make the short trip to mexico. how s the construction going? we are not allowed to talk about it. everything s safe? yeah. it s safe right now. there is unheapness about the construction in this desperately
poor outside watjuarez mexico. this is a temporary construction fence that was put up for the construction of the boarder fence. it gets taken down as the secure beararrier takes place. keeping a campaign promise, they say. but that s not true. this is from the obama administration. is that common knowledge in this area? yeah, absolutely. but on mexican side people we talked to give responsibility to donald trump? si. p donald trump? si. jose cassas lives across the street from the fence. he operates a food stand. he said, yes, it s donald trump s wall. because since he s been in office they re continuing to work on the fence. some say rocks get thrown at