david: homeland security secretary kirstjen nielson visits the el paso border in texas. i am david asman, this is "bulls and bears," thank you for joining us. we begin with that crisis at the border, president trump calling to congress to act, tweeting, congress must get together and immediately eliminate the loopholes at the border. this is a national emergency. businesses also warning about the economic impact of a border. but president trump said that security is his main concern. >> i agree. it is going to be a big toll but trade and commerce and making money for a country -- that is all very important. but to me, the most important job i have is the security of our country, even more important than those other things. david: white house is looking for ways to limit the economic data of a shut down, larry kudlow suggesting scening truck -- keeping truck lanes open for trade. >> one area we've explored to try to keep the freight lanes open, the truck lanes. i have talked with various officials, that is possible. david: texas attorney general ken paxton is joining us,

and doug zones fro -- joining fm alabama, and kirstjen nielson. >> you know have you someone like mitch mcconnell saying, i am sorry chuck schumer saying this first time we're getting into this democrats who run for president they inoculated themselve without casting a vote yea or i nay. they would say they are for something like this if he voted no, it would say this plan by alexandria ocasio-cortez is so far out there we can't get most liberal people to vote. >> chad, john layfield, we can't afford this stuff. when i had a professor on earlier he said deficits don't matter, because we have a recession in europe. it seems that a dog and pony show. they are trying too distract from fact we have a huge deficit. we can't do anything with i'm breaimmigration and healthcare, everyone is just throwing big bombs at each other, nothing is really getting done in dc. >> there is no effort to try to plan the budget and reduce deficit. a couple week ago, said balances by 2034 much there are questions about that. they have not balanced budget since late 1990s. there have been a lot of people on lef