that's right, i'm sitting here with senator jerry moran, part of the bipartisan senatorial committees for being here this morning and here in general at the border. >> i'm pleased to be here with you and i am especially glad to be here at the border. this is my third visit in recent times to the border. i want to see if there's any progress being made, but mostly want to hear from the people who are involved in enforcing our laws, what tools they need, what help they need to get this crisis situation under control. there's a humanitarian issue here, a law enforcement issue here. there is a national security issue here, and this place needs a lot of attention across this border. >> senator, you are in a unique position to be able to answer this question. would be the purpose of a trip to the border by a high-level government official? the president united states, where the senators, like yourself? the president is not deprived of any piece of information that he needs or wants, so what to accomplish, what could he have accomplished, by visiting el paso? >> i don't know how we complain

we have jerry moran, chris coons, chris murphy, kyrsten sinema, john cornyn, thom tillis, myself.d group that is here to be able to look at the different issues. we are having great conversations with border patrol and union leaders in different business unit leaders and community leaders. we see the flood of people coming across. not only coming across, climbing over the fence, but the way they are actually doing it because the border patrol is occupied with so many thousands of people, it leaves the border open to come across. >> brian: we have this thing for parole now for five nations, but 120 have been represented, including last night. you treated out two pictures of chinese nationals being arrested by mounted border patrol. what are they up to? >> we walked up as a mounted patrol and engage with chinese nationals and climbed across the fence. they were running through the bush to be able to get into the main part. there's a pretty short window in this particular area of el paso, that if mounted patrol and others don't encounter them, they'll be right into a major city and d

brian, steve, ainsley we will talk about this later more in the show with kansas senator jerry morant they say right now we are being watched. told this yesterday. targets. >> brian: they have capable they can afford. give us leverage, shut it down when the governs tried a couple times. then all of a sudden mexico pays attention. >> ainsley: don't like being watched by the targets. >> brian: no kidding. >> ainsley: today is law enforcement appreciation day. thank the officers you see today. here on "fox & friends" we are showing our gratitude to the heroes who keep america safe every day. >> brian: senior meteorologist janice dean live on fox square with the troopers from new jersey. >> that's right. lieutenant blaze, who is protecting new jersey right now? >> all the other state troopers. >> how many of them? >> about approximately 2600. >> wow, tell me about your job. >> to my job is a station commander which is in charge of the station but i have all the road duty troopers with where a lot of people don't know this but we are the police for towns, i'm in warren county, new jersey.

at richard burr, bill cassidy, susan collins, lindsey graham, lisa murkowski, rob portman, jerry moran, todd young, thom tillis, mike rounds and mitt romney. republicans who voted for this bill in the senate. it's a good bill, could have been greater. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you jim -- thank the gentleman. revisited of johnson. >> my questions will be for mr. dench. and obviously the laws that congress passes are important, but mr. digit seems to me that the laws of supply and demand are also pretty powerful. certainly more powerful than anything we do in d.c. i -- so a recent survey by the associated general contractors i think found that 73% of respondents indicated that they would not bid on a federal project that had a project labor agreement as a requirement. i want you to tell me if i'm thinking about this in the wrong way. i look at a workforce crisis in this country. we have a lot of big things we want to get done. we don't have enough talented and hard-working people to get done what would want to get done. you've got a number of outstanding firms across