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Here's what you missed on Bucksexton with America now.

I find it fascinating that we are told these days that a wall doesn't work.

Now, I know that for this round, the administration has backed off of the demand for budgeting for a wall,

at least the beginning of a wall on our southern border. Wall, barrier, fence, all of the above.

But I do think that philosophically, we are getting into the realm of unreality when people say

things like a wall won't work. Well, it all depends on what your definition of work may be.

If one is trying to say that a wall is perfect, well, of course, then it doesn't succeed in the

mission that a wall is not sufficient to the task of securing our border in and of itself.

But that's never been what great walls, barriers, fences, any and all of the above have,

until there have been forces that are arrayed at the wall. There are guard towers. There's much

more than just a wall, of course. And so a wall is one of many aspects of security. But I thought it

would be interesting to just take a few moments to think about a history of walls. And how this is

one of the oldest forms of defensive structure, it really is the oldest form of just defensive structure.

And in human history, building a wall as a defensive fortification or as a means of protecting a city

or yes of keeping out invaders, keeping out the enemy or just keeping people out from

the neighboring country, all of these are things that have been, well, walls have been used for

these purposes. And to believe that walls don't matter is to believe that the physical world

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