After weeks of closed-door meetings, rumors, and promises, Senate negotiators finally revealed their plan to confront 4 different national security emergencies. The $118 billion package provides $60 billion to help support Ukraine, $14.1 billion for Israel, $4.8 billion to deal with China's growing reach, and perhaps the most important ingredient, $20 billion to fund a series of changes to the U.S. immigration system. The border component, designed to win over skeptical House Republicans, may not be enough.
00:00:00.000Weeks of closed-door meetings, rumors, and promises, Senate negotiators finally revealed their plan to confront four different national security emergencies.
00:00:10.460The $118 billion package provides $60 billion to help support Ukraine, $14.1 billion for Israel, $4.8 billion to deal with China's growing reach,
00:00:22.400and perhaps the most important ingredient, $20 billion to fund a series of changes to the U.S. migration system.
00:00:30.760The border component, designed to win over skeptical House Republicans who've been forecasting for weeks the potential deal may not be enough.
00:00:39.240Speaker Johnson posting overnight, quote, this bill is even worse than we expected, adding, if this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.
00:00:48.680Republicans in the Senate have called this the most conservative border proposal in a generation.
00:00:54.480It cuts off all migration when more than 5,000 people attempt to enter on a given day.
00:01:00.080It expands the number of detention facilities and raises the standard for migrants to qualify for asylum.
00:01:06.160But House Republicans, who count immigration among their most important issues, are feeling pressure from their base and former President Trump to oppose the package
00:01:15.620and instead place the blame for the border crisis on President Biden.
00:01:20.080The border's a disaster. Nobody's ever seen a border like this.
00:01:23.100Pressed by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, Speaker Mike Johnson denied that Trump was exerting influence over his conference.
00:01:30.360Is Donald Trump calling the shots here, Mr. Speaker?
00:01:33.600Of course not. He's not calling the shots. I am calling the shots for the House.
00:01:37.580A new NBC News poll shows voters trust Trump more than Biden to deal with the border by 35 points.
00:01:44.440Now, with the proposal on the table, Republicans will be forced to decide between dealing with the issue now or wait
00:01:51.800and hope it will compel their voters to the polls in November.
00:01:55.980Senator, what do you say to Speaker Johnson, who says this bill is worse than he thought or whatever it was he said?
00:02:01.080I mean, how does one not see how these House Republicans are responding to this bill
00:02:07.360as not the hand of Trump and even Putin at play?
00:02:12.240And what do you say to Speaker Johnson directly about how they're playing this?
00:02:17.660Yeah, I say to Speaker Johnson, don't let the 30 hard right people in the House who are extreme.
00:02:23.900They wanted us to default. They wanted the government not to pay its debts.
00:02:28.320They wanted us to the government to shut down their extremists and they're running your show.
00:02:34.480Do the right thing. You know what the right thing to do is.
00:02:38.160You know, we need to fix our border. You know that it has to be bipartisan.
00:02:42.880The bill that you passed didn't get a single Democratic vote in the House or the Senate.
00:02:46.760How are you going to get anything done?
00:03:57.640I think she did great when she ran Michigan for me.
00:04:00.720I think she did okay initially in the RNC.
00:04:03.640I would say right now there'll probably be some changes made.
00:04:08.580Have you ruled out strikes inside Iran?
00:04:11.800Well, sitting here today on a national news program, I'm not going to get into what we've ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action.
00:04:22.680What I will say is that the president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people.
00:04:29.260The president also is not looking for a wider war in the Middle East.
00:04:48.500I'll just say the same thing one more time, which is I'm not going to get into what's on the table and off the table when it comes to the American response.
00:04:59.380However, House Republican leaders say they won't even bring the bill up for a vote with Speaker Mike Johnson saying, quote, this is just it's even worse than expected.
00:05:14.720He continues to lie, as Liz Cheney said.
00:05:18.240And he basically admitted he was going around spreading a lie about January the 6th, trying to get people to sign on a letter that would continue the lie and help Ken Paxson spread the lie in Texas.
00:05:36.280I mean, James Langford has said, I wish they would all read the bill.
00:05:41.160I wish they would understand how strong the bill is.
00:05:44.200But the sad thing is, and it's pathetic, and, you know, we say things can be two things at once.
00:05:50.500I mean, the new speaker is both dangerous and pathetic.
00:05:56.020Dangerous because he has decided, and he said it publicly, we're going to put politics over stopping fentanyl from coming into the United States.
00:06:05.980We're going to put politics above allowing our border security to stop terrorists from coming into the United States.
00:06:15.040We're going to keep the border chaotic for at least another 10 months because we want things to be as chaotic as possible for Joe Biden.
00:06:25.200It's just like Donald Trump saying he wants the economy to crash and he wants there to be a depression.
00:06:30.160He wants Joe Biden to be Herbert Hoover.
00:06:31.740So they don't give a damn about border security.
00:06:37.980They're willing to play into Putin's hand.
00:06:55.200Won't fund the relief of citizens in Gaza.
00:06:58.540So, again, this is all all of these things that are important are being stopped now because Donald Trump told a grown up man, don't do that.
00:07:09.000This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:07:16.640Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:08:03.180It's Monday, 5 February in the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:08:06.560The great unmasking continues as the globalist elite play into our hands.
00:08:13.180War Room Posse, we've got a lot of work starting today and throughout this week because there's a massive amount of action on Capitol Hill.
00:08:21.000And remember, the one commitment we make to you here in War Room, we won't give you a ringside seat.
00:08:27.060We'll actually put you in the ring as a combatant.
00:08:29.380And this week, you've done so much so far to actually smoke this out.
00:08:34.720But over this week and next week is where the rover is going to meet the road.
00:08:38.360The invasion authorization bill, as Mike Johnson, all of us said, it's actually worse than we could imagine.
00:08:47.380It's actually worse than just the leaks that Rosemary Jenks had.
00:11:14.300Mayorkas' position is like an emperor.
00:11:16.060At the same time, he's being impeached for not following, not enforcing the laws on the books.
00:11:23.340Bottom line, as we told you weeks ago, there's more than enough authority right now for the president of the United States to shut the border.
00:11:31.060And I got to tell you, I think since Johnson's told people no more CRs and that's the hill he's going to die on.
00:11:37.100March 1st, I believe you're going to see either shut the border down or shut the government down because this bill is dead in the water.
00:11:44.800I want to bring in, I've got Matt Rosendale from Montana.
00:11:47.920And surprise, surprise, one of the biggest critics of this bill has been Steve Daines.
00:12:02.640And the response by MAGA and the Warren Posse has been so intense in the last 12 hours that even Daines is coming and trying to wash his hands of it.
00:12:27.400You hit the nail right on the head, Steve.
00:12:29.780That is just how bad this piece of legislation is.
00:12:34.680McConnell's lieutenants are even backing away from it.
00:12:37.820I joined with Mike Lee, who came out today and said, you know something, if this is actually the closest that Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell have worked together, we saw that come out in Mitch McConnell's own words.
00:12:52.940It's the closest they have ever worked together on a piece of legislation.
00:12:56.600And this is the best that he came up with.
00:12:59.340Then there needs to be a change in the leadership of the United States Senate.
00:13:06.460Marco Rubio, who's part of the original Gang of Eight, came out yesterday evening early after he went through the bill quickly and said, this is, Matt, he said this is a parody, a parody of what a border security bill should be.
00:13:20.300Give us your thoughts on what the folks in Montana are going to support this, the good folks in the great state of Montana, big sky country.
00:13:29.940And when you start talking about the provisions that not only of the additional spending that it would put in place for Ukraine and the ability for my workers to make declarations about what is or is not an emergency, conversations that we have had over the last several weeks concern me dramatically.
00:13:50.520And that is what it would put in statute to allow this continued invasion of our country, that the border control CBP would not even be able to virtually address the invasion unless you exceeded 5,000 illegals a day entering into our country.
00:14:10.440And then it would be a May, take some additional action to try and curb this invasion.
00:14:18.500We're talking about an additional 2 million people a year immediately would be authorized to come into our country illegally.
00:14:25.200And when President Trump regains his authority in the White House, statutorily, he would be prohibited from securing the very border that he had already secured back in 2019.