In this special episode of CBS News' "Inside the Beltway" host Chanel Kahl talks with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the ongoing crisis at the southern border, the ongoing government shutdown, and the potential for impeachment against the DHS chief.
00:02:15.140U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reopening four locations along the southern border that have been closed recently due to record high numbers of migrant crossings.
00:02:25.080Senior U.S. officials say the number of migrants processed at the border has dropped significantly in recent days.
00:02:31.900The Treasury Department says the national debt is now over $34 trillion.
00:02:37.180Congress returns to work next week ahead of deadlines on January 19th and February 2nd to continue government funding.
00:02:45.380Yeah, I've never seen the lines this long, man.
00:02:48.820Speaking news, just into CNN, the House Homeland Security Committee will formally begin impeachment proceedings against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:03:04.540CNN's Lauren Fox joins us now from Washington, D.C.
00:03:09.820Yeah, we are learning more information that in this new year, the House Republicans are planning to forge ahead with an impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
00:03:20.460Obviously, this comes at a really complicated political moment for House Republicans and for the Congress at large.
00:03:28.100That is because right now there is bipartisan efforts in the United States Senate to try to reach some kind of framework agreement that could actually improve border security along the U.S. southern border.
00:03:42.040They've been going on for weeks, and while they don't have an agreement yet, they are trying to reach one in order to pass this larger supplemental package, which would include funding for Ukraine and Israel, as well as money for the U.S. southern border.
00:03:55.520But this dynamic now that the House Republicans are planning to move forward with this impeachment proceeding against Mayorkas shows you just how hard it is going to be, even if the Senate can reach a deal, to get that deal through the House of Representatives.
00:04:10.380So right now, this is a this is a complicating dynamic as the Senate is continuing those efforts.
00:04:16.620And they're in Washington working today to try to find an agreement on that bipartisan border security proposal.
00:04:22.860But since the House Republicans have telegraphed for a while that they wanted to move in this direction or plan to now appear to be doing so, I think what my colleague Lauren was just talking about is the critical point here.
00:04:33.340You are so deeply engaged in the border negotiations that are going on in the Senate.
00:04:37.460Does this undercut any possibility of getting a deal onto the House floor?
00:04:44.160Oh, I certainly hope not, Phil, and thanks so very much for having me this morning.
00:04:49.280You know, yesterday I joined the bipartisan group of senators who are negotiating a solution to a much plagued, broken immigration system.
00:05:03.700I was very privileged to participate in that before I did.
00:05:08.320So I was hard at work in the office with my colleagues addressing the situation at the border and addressing the many other challenges that the Department of Homeland Security confronts.
00:05:19.600And after I participated in those negotiations in providing technical and operational advice to the bipartisan group of senators, I returned to the office to perform the work of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:05:35.340That is the one single fact about which everyone agrees.
00:05:39.000And our administration is focused on solutions, and we're really pleased to join a bipartisan group of senators who are similarly focused on solutions.
00:05:49.120Is there, and I think one of the questions.
00:05:51.140This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:05:58.720Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:06:03.900Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:06:08.200The people have had a belly full of it.
00:06:50.480A lot going on, and I want to thank our crack team of War Room production personnel and also the Real America's Voice team in Denver for putting that cold open together.
00:07:01.760So as we had everybody, had this audience on notice, because you guys understand exactly what's going on, the $34 trillion last night.
00:07:16.120This was, turned out to be 105 days, I think, 105 days to add another trillion dollars.
00:07:23.460The interest payment alone, they're finally admitting that the interest payment will be at least $900 billion.
00:07:30.480If you want to know why the population is virulently against Joe Biden on economics, and they don't talk about Bidenomics anymore, is that the purchasing power, the aggregate inflation, and the site true inflation has this.
00:07:47.720I'm going to try to get it up here in a little while, I think that your purchasing power has declined by essentially 20 to 22 percent, somewhere in there.
00:07:58.000So the fiat currency they keep issuing you, Federal Reserve notes, is worth less and less and less.
00:08:03.960This is exactly, this is the inverse of why the BRICS nations are trying to get off the dollar.
00:08:09.100And in all this, you've got the Biden administration, the Biden regime is trying to do a radical play to basically, they've already seized the assets of the Russians in our banks over here, their dollar reserves.
00:08:22.700That was done in the first days of the war.
00:08:25.480Now they're trying to convert it into cash and give it to the Ukrainians, which will only make our standing as the prime reserve currency even harder and exacerbate the de-dollarization process.
00:08:37.500At the same time, you have, we said that, look, here's the two, if you want the signal, here's the two big converging forces for us, and all driven by the administrative in the deep state, is this massive spending, which they will not address.
00:08:50.320And every time they talk about it, it's just more happy talk.
00:08:52.900Here's a fact that essentially 100 days after we hit $33 trillion, we hit $34 trillion.
00:09:01.960The reason McCarthy's back in Bakersfield, you know, thinking about starting up the hot dog stand again, he had the, what, the second or third shortest tenure of ever any speaker in the House.
00:09:11.300The reason he got fired was the debt deal back in May and June.
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00:20:52.360We wash, rinse, and repeat to make sure that you are fully armed.
00:20:55.380So you can't be spun by happy talk like the Fox guys on the couch and they're going to have – Johnson is going to be there with that deep voice today with knitted brow, just about to sign a strongly worded letter.
00:31:27.020What you need is criminal referrals for these guys.
00:31:29.500Mayorkas is a criminal, and the people around him are criminals.
00:31:31.900They knowingly and willingly broke the law here to exacerbate, initiate.
00:31:38.680They planned, initiated, executed, and exacerbated an invasion of our country, full stop.
00:31:43.840Ten million, including a combat division every day.
00:31:47.100And Natalie is going to be on the top of the hour to talk about how they're even lowering the vetting process.
00:31:51.860The non-vetting process they have, they're actually even doing worse than that when it comes to Chinese nationals, potential PLA military-age men coming into the country.
00:32:02.460Not that that should be a problem, should it, since Xi just told us, hey, if the election doesn't go my way in Taiwan on the 13th, that reunification is inevitable at the United States.
00:32:13.860And he says he told Biden that to his face.
00:32:16.960Eric Prince has already come out on this podcast last week and said, hey, I think the balloon goes up in April or May, in the spring, in the South China Sea, in Taiwan, for actual kinetic activity.
00:32:30.960Congressman Eric Burleson, Missouri 7, joins us.
00:32:33.720Sir, I noticed today you're not at the border for the photo op.
00:32:55.220And that's why I'm encouraging my colleagues and letting them know, along with others like Chip Roy, that if we're not going to shut down the border, then it's time to shut down the government.
00:33:05.900Look, it's not – it's quite unusual, at least the way Capitol Hill works, for a – what people would argue Burleson's a great guy, but he's a backbencher, for a backbencher to be taking on leadership.
00:33:19.520Because certainly leadership's down there, and they're going to give us some happy talk, and we need to spend more money here, and if we get the Ukraine deal done.
00:33:26.280And so why is this revolt – I guess there's 20 or 30 of you right now.
00:33:31.640We anticipate there will be over 100 by the time the war room does its work, and we're going to do the work.
00:33:36.320We're going to put everybody on notice.
00:33:39.000If you don't commit to shut the border down immediately and not give this illegitimate regime one more penny, then you're part of the problem.
00:33:47.460You're not part of a solution, and no amount of happy talk can get you there.
00:33:50.640What has made relative backbenchers take on leadership right now and say, hey, no more photo ops.
00:34:05.000I want to give them that soft wind of encouragement behind their sails, actually strong wind, to remind them that these are different times than we've ever seen in the United States.
00:34:19.320What we're seeing today is of a magnitude that we have never seen, which is the complete elimination of the dollar, complete, utter collapse of the dollar in our currency system because we have – and a complete invasion on our southern border.
00:34:35.920When you have 800,000 people over the last quarter, which is my entire congressional district, populate the United States, under Biden administration, we've had over 8 million people, which is the entire state of Missouri, plus 2 million people populate – come into this country.
00:34:53.020We're seeing – we're seeing an absolute invasion and an unraveling of what we call America.
00:35:04.280They're talking about putting forward some package and having a 1 percent cut and funding everything, funding all the NGOs, funding all of it.
00:35:12.240Do you honestly think a soft wind is going to change their perspective?
00:35:15.940Yeah, that's why I think that the more people like myself, Chip Roy and others, remind the speaker that this is – it's time for bold action and not something that's just lipstick.
00:35:30.260What I think the Biden administration wants to do, what Chuck Schumer wants to do, is just pass something and call it fixed.
00:35:50.880That solution, as you know, it's one where if the federal government isn't going to do its job, the states are empowered to be that safety net to come in and start deporting individuals, start actually enforcing the immigration laws.
00:36:03.700Because we can't tolerate another four years of any administration that just completely ignores what's on the books.
00:36:09.840It's time that we have real substantial change.
00:36:12.840Okay, all of that – the Hawley proposal is fantastic.
00:36:51.460The folks in Europe that you represent, if we had a town hall there today, what would the good citizens of Missouri 7 tell us about the border?
00:36:59.820What action would your constituents want to happen today?
00:37:03.480They would absolutely ask or demand for the government to be shut down, until we shut down the border.
00:37:11.220Look, my citizens, when I talk to them about, do we face a government shutdown, do I allow it to shut down?
00:37:17.180Their response is, oh, you mean that same federal government that's prosecuting Donald Trump, the same federal government that's prosecuting the January 6 people, grandmas and grandpas, who were basically walking at the Capitol?
00:37:28.500They have no desire to continue to fund this government.
00:37:33.960And so I think that it's given myself, hopefully a lot of other members, the boldness and the courage to be able to say we are not going to fund anything else until we shut down the border.
00:37:51.040Since the time that McHenry, who's gone, right, and McCarthy, who's gone, cut that deal, it was $31.4 trillion face amount.
00:38:01.700And we warned everybody, if you agree to this deal, you're going to have another at least $4 trillion of debt added by the time Biden's tossed them off.
00:38:12.840Right now, I think it's $2.6 trillion as of last night, $2.6 trillion, including in 100 days another $1 trillion.
00:38:20.980They're finally admitting to what the war room said, not just about the face amount, but about the interest.
00:38:25.940We said that we're going to have immediately be more than the defense budget and probably be, I think, $1.25 trillion in interest expense this year.
00:38:34.100They've just admitted overnight there's going to be at least $900 billion to a trillion.
00:38:38.360What do your constituents in Missouri 7 say about the spending?
00:39:40.240But Social Security and – well, Medicaid and definitely SNAP, you've got to get into right away.
00:39:44.380But the entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare should be off the table until the political class can show that they can cut massively, cut discretionary spending.
00:39:52.120And let me be brutally frank, a massive tax increase for the billionaires, the wealthy in this country.
00:39:59.460They're the ones driving the problem at the border.
00:40:01.280It's the progressives that get all these NGOs and, quite frankly, the Republican donor class that you know puts pressure on every guy in Congress to just look the other way.
00:40:10.540Why do you think Abbott had to have the bad net to his back to try to actually allow to be passed by the patriots in Texas this law that tries to stop the invasion of the country, which he doesn't really want to enforce?
00:40:21.020He's doing it half-heartedly because he has to, because of political reality.
00:40:24.780It's the donor class that's in back of this, and the donor class is going to have to start paying for it.
00:40:30.560We have to have – let me repeat this – massive tax increases for the super wealthy in this nation who are behind this.
00:40:38.600They're the lords of easy money on Wall Street.
00:40:40.520They're the oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
00:40:42.580They're getting away with this unscathed.
00:40:43.980In fact, they're profiting off it, and it's got to stop.
00:40:46.580And I realize as soon as you mentioned taxing, I didn't say we need tax cuts for the working class and the middle class and massive tax increases for the wealthy, massive tax – massive spending cuts of discretionary spending.
00:40:58.200Once you do that and you show people that, hey, there is a program here and you've cut out all this welfare overseas, you cut out the billions of dollars going to Ukraine, you cut out all this crap we're doing around the world and all the woke and weaponized in the federal government, only then can you begin to have a conversation with the American people.
00:41:16.480There's a little bit of Social Security and Medicare.
00:41:18.860That's like – that's not driving this.
00:42:41.560People that really need it, we've got to make sure that's taken care of.
00:42:45.100But those things are rife with – look, SNAP is all driven by the Frito-Lays and all those companies.
00:42:51.140We did this with Peter Schweitzer 10 years ago.
00:42:53.620The SNAP programs are driven in Congress.
00:42:55.380You know that the pressure comes from the lobbyist groups, from the fast food companies, and from everybody.
00:43:00.440They get that EBIT card, and that's what – this is why the heroes in Iowa and Nebraska, the two governors, and the pharmaceutical, Big Pharma, and the big fast food and processed food industry.
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00:45:47.180Every second of every day, more invaders come into the country.
00:47:46.160First, I just wanted to thank you in the war room for having Rosemary Jenks on yesterday on the border invasion and their new group, the Immigration Accountability Project.
00:47:59.820I hope everybody listening goes out and supports them as best you can, IAProject.org, IAProject.org.
00:48:38.900But the bottom line on the debt, right, the debt, if you go to the front page of Drudge, $34 trillion, et cetera, these numbers are so staggering.
00:51:49.300When he said Trump – hang on a second.
00:51:52.120I'm going to hold you through the break top of the hour.
00:51:53.920When you say Trump put, it's not Trump – it's not like the Greenspan put.
00:51:57.020It's not what Trump's doing as far as action.
00:51:59.320This is the convergence of the financial forces in our country that have basically come to a conclusion that under no circumstances will Donald J.
00:52:11.960The fiscal irresponsibility and monetary irresponsibility converge, weld it into a weapon to do whatever they have to do, throw as much furniture into the boiler room as possible to get as much steam to stop Trump.