The Crowd-Funded Border Wall Is Not a Joke
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The strange tale of how a group of Trump supporters started building the border wall themselves, and why the southern border has become a proving ground and businesses and politicians who want to catch the president’s eye.
Guest: Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger. Read his latest story from the Southern border.
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| 0:51.4 | All the way down there is the Rio Grande. |
| 0:57.6 | You can see it's our wall. |
| 0:58.7 | We'll butt up against the Rio Grande and come straight up. |
| 1:02.7 | You're listening to a video that was shot along the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 1:06.9 | An Air Force veteran named Brian Colfidge is broadcasting live in the simmering heat. |
| 1:12.6 | You see all the construction crews. They've been working day and night. |
| 1:15.2 | He's showing off construction on his brand new, privately funded border wall. |
| 1:20.3 | We're getting it done. Our politicians are not getting it done. They're not going to allow President Trump to build a wall. |
| 1:25.4 | We have the only wall that's being built in the United States right now. |
| 1:28.3 | This is a new wall. This is not a replacement wall. |
| 1:30.3 | There was never anything here. |
| 1:32.3 | So just keep going. |
| 1:33.3 | We're not going to stop. |
| 1:34.3 | And thank you all for giving us your donations for this project. |
| 1:41.3 | Politico's Benjamin Shrekinger has been watching Brian Colfidge plan this project since December, |
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