the president wants to continue to play games with us. chris: bottom line, are you saying, no negotiations until the president reopens the government? are you saying as speaker pelosi does, under no circumstances, no new money for the wall? i am not saying that. i am saying yes to the first part. to the second part, it seems as if the president started talking about - - and his statement yesterday but he realized, i have been talking about various for a long time. a smart wall would be a barrier. a smart wall would be using drones, sensors, x-ray equipment to be an effective wall.not just something that would be a monument to 16 - - one s existence.
him. he knows it s not a cure-all. how do i know he knows it? he s been told that. don t question his intelligence. question his motivations. question his ability to tell you the truth about why he s doing things. thank you for watching. cnn tonight with d. lemon starts right now. did you watch the photo-op today? i did. and what d you think? i thought that was a nice white hat he had on. i also thought that, look, i don t like him putting the men and women who are doing that job of keeping us safe in this position. right. putting all those bags of drugs, they re all now forced to support a farce. the drugs don t come across the border on foot in any major way. the tunnels that i had to walk in that el chapo documentary, those are real, but most come through the ports of entry in vehicles. he doesn t talk about the x-ray equipment the way he talks about the wall because he doesn t give a damn about the drugs.
he knows it s not a cure-all. how do i know he knows it? he s been told that. don t question his intelligence. question his motivations. question his ability to tell you the truth about why he s doing things. thank you for watching. cnn tonight with d. lemon starts right now. did you watch the photo-op today? i did. and what d you think? i thought that was a nice white hat he had on. i also thought that, look, i don t like him putting the men and women who are doing that job of keeping us safe in this position. right. putting all those bags of drugs, they re all now forced to support a farce. the drugs don t come across the border on foot in any major way. the tunnels that i had to walk in that el chapo documentary, those are real, but most come through the ports of entry in vehicles. he doesn t talk about the x-ray equipment the way he talks about the wall because he doesn t give
you have to have see through. you have to know what s on the other side of the wall. you could be two feet way from a criminal cartel and don t even know they re there. now we have equipment to take care of that, x-ray equipment, et cetera. what do you think about the importance of three sooe through? when i have a see through wall, sir, i know what s approaching before it approaches. we have great partners in mexico with law enforcement on that side. i can call them for assistance. i don t get the opportunity to get ahead of a threat if i can t see the approach. and what s the danger of not having the see through. we found smugglers were using the fence to hide behind, rocking our agents or large
and it worked 95%. and that wall they can get over very easily. these walls they can t. but, you know, for the people that say no wall, if you didn t have walls over here, you wouldn t even have a country. you wouldn t even have a country. and by the way, the state of california is begging us to build walls in certain areas. they don t tell you that. and we said, no, we won t do it until we build the whole wall. but there are certain areas, as you know, where they are really wanting us to build a wall. because people are complaining, people are pouring in. so, you know, they don t talk about that. [ inaudible question ] well, i do have a preference. the problem is, you have to have see-through. you have to know what s on the other side of the wall. and i mean, a preference is something like that. the problem is you don t know what s on the other side of the wall. and if you don t know what s you could be 2 feet away from a criminal cartel and you don t even know they re there. now,