Clyburn: Not Opposed to Wall, 'So Long as It Is Smartly Done'

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. He told show co-host John Berman he wasn’t necessarily opposed to the wall.

“So long as it is smartly done, listening to the experts – I don’t think we ought to put ourselves in the place of experts,” Clyburn said. “I’ve said we ought to have a smart wall. I’ve defined that as a wall using drones to make it too high to get over, using X-ray equipment to make it too wide to get around and using scanners to go deep enough to not be able to tunnel under it. That would be a smart thing to do.”

“Now, there are some walls that are already there,” he continued. “There are some barriers there already. They need to be repaired, and sure we ought to do that. If the experts say that under the circumstances that this particular port of entry, this needs to be reinforced with certain barriers, I don’t see us turning our backs on that.”

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