Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 05, 2024


Illegal Immigrants Beat Up NY Cops & FLIP OFF the American People, plus the Senate's TERRIBLE Immigration Deal


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Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Fergus discuss the release of a group of illegal immigrants who were let go without bail after being caught on video beating up two NYPD officers in Times Square. Cruz and Fergus react to the DA s decision to let them go.

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00:00:05.440 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.300 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about with the Senate immigration bill
00:00:12.860 and a lot of questions I want to ask you.
00:00:15.080 But before we even get into the details of that,
00:00:17.700 I want to talk about the state of the country with immigration and illegal immigration.
00:00:21.800 And there is a flashpoint that has happened this past week
00:00:24.740 with an illegal immigrant who flicked off basically the United States of America 0.99
00:00:29.300 after trying, I would say, to kill a police officer 0.96
00:00:33.020 where they beat police officers. 0.95
00:00:34.860 There's a group of them and they all walk free.
00:00:36.900 And apparently, from what we've been told,
00:00:38.460 they may even be on their way or already in California right now.
00:00:41.740 Your reaction to that moment?
00:00:44.120 Ben, I don't know that there's a story that has pissed me off more
00:00:47.520 in a long, long time
00:00:50.180 than what the New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg did here.
00:00:54.300 So the story, as you know, is a group of illegal immigrants,
00:00:57.220 basically a gang of them, beat up two NYPD cops,
00:01:02.460 beat them, kicked them, assaulted them,
00:01:05.300 and then they were arrested 0.92
00:01:07.100 and they got released within hours with no bail.
00:01:11.080 They were just let go.
00:01:12.740 And as you noted, the image of them walking out
00:01:16.020 and with both hands flipping off the entire country,
00:01:21.180 I think that is the image of this election.
00:01:24.920 When people go vote in November,
00:01:27.760 just remember that guy with both middle fingers extended
00:01:30.920 because that's what Joe Biden is saying to you.
00:01:33.920 That's what the Democrats are saying to you. 1.00
00:01:36.900 They are saying, screw you. 1.00
00:01:39.120 They don't care. 1.00
00:01:40.840 And they are destroying,
00:01:43.300 they're destroying our country.
00:01:46.060 And it is the idea 0.98
00:01:49.000 that illegal immigrants can beat up cops 1.00
00:01:52.340 and there are no consequences.
00:01:53.800 It's perfectly okay.
00:01:55.940 According to Democrats,
00:01:58.180 it is so toxic.
00:02:01.260 Every elected Democrat should be forced
00:02:04.100 to address this
00:02:05.740 and to denounce Alvin Bragg.
00:02:08.620 There's also a brazenness aspect
00:02:10.660 of this attack on these police officers.
00:02:12.600 It was caught on camera
00:02:13.640 because it was at Times Square.
00:02:15.440 This wasn't in some back alley
00:02:17.560 in another part of the city
00:02:19.360 where there was some sort of major crime
00:02:21.620 that was happening
00:02:22.340 and then the police got involved
00:02:23.700 and there was a fight.
00:02:24.640 This was just an assault on police officers
00:02:26.960 at Times Square
00:02:28.420 in an area where these illegal immigrants 1.00
00:02:30.660 clearly felt like
00:02:31.500 they can do whatever they want to do.
00:02:33.220 There's no reason to believe honestly otherwise
00:02:34.840 because we allow them into this country. 0.99
00:02:36.540 We give them a court date
00:02:37.440 that could be seven years from now.
00:02:39.300 And their reaction coming out of jail
00:02:42.080 because of Alvin Bragg.
00:02:43.600 And I want you to go into Alvin Bragg as well.
00:02:45.220 This is an activist George Soros DA
00:02:47.020 and he's been confronted by this
00:02:49.320 and he basically is doing the same thing
00:02:51.260 as those illegal immigrants.
00:02:52.180 He's flicking off the justice system saying,
00:02:54.120 I'm in charge,
00:02:55.460 I'm an activist DA
00:02:56.460 and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
00:02:59.080 Now that is exactly right.
00:03:00.600 Alvin Bragg is one of the sadly many
00:03:03.020 Soros DAs across the country.
00:03:05.160 George Soros has spent millions of dollars
00:03:07.740 electing radical left-wing DAs
00:03:09.920 who let violent criminals out of jail
00:03:12.420 and they go commit more and more
00:03:14.120 and more violent crimes.
00:03:15.280 And we've seen it across the country.
00:03:17.220 We've seen it in New York.
00:03:18.320 We've seen it in Philadelphia.
00:03:19.660 We've seen it in San Francisco.
00:03:20.920 We've seen it in LA.
00:03:22.660 You know, Alvin Bragg,
00:03:24.160 right after they let these illegal immigrants 1.00
00:03:26.980 out of jail with no bail,
00:03:29.100 reporters tried to get Bragg to comment
00:03:31.840 to answer why he'd done so.
00:03:33.220 And he basically ran away from the reporters,
00:03:35.720 refused to answer.
00:03:36.760 And then subsequently,
00:03:38.160 here is the explanation Bragg gave.
00:03:40.540 I'm going to quote it, quote,
00:03:42.400 in a court of law,
00:03:43.460 our profound obligation is to make sure
00:03:45.440 we have right people charged
00:03:47.660 with the right crimes.
00:03:49.260 I don't think New Yorkers want to charge
00:03:51.660 the wrong person.
00:03:53.180 There is a presumption of pretrial
00:03:55.720 non-incarceration for every case,
00:04:00.540 except those with charges of homicide
00:04:04.340 or the death of a victim.
00:04:07.060 Now, that is utterly insane.
00:04:10.980 I want you to focus on what he is saying.
00:04:13.620 I'm going to read it again.
00:04:14.900 There is a presumption.
00:04:16.220 Well, actually, the first part.
00:04:17.820 Well, we want to make sure
00:04:18.740 the right people are charged
00:04:19.840 with the right crimes.
00:04:20.920 These guys are on video.
00:04:22.680 We've all watched the video.
00:04:24.640 We know exactly who it is.
00:04:26.080 We know what they did.
00:04:27.200 There's a video of it.
00:04:28.220 They do it brazenly
00:04:29.460 in the middle of Times Square.
00:04:30.940 Nobody is worried
00:04:31.860 that you got the wrong guys here.
00:04:33.300 We know they're guilty.
00:04:35.220 They were videotaped.
00:04:36.440 When you beat up a cop
00:04:37.960 and kick two cops repeatedly 0.84
00:04:40.140 on the ground,
00:04:41.700 there is no defense to that.
00:04:43.780 So the first part of his statement
00:04:45.060 makes no sense.
00:04:45.900 But the second part,
00:04:47.520 if anything, is even crazier.
00:04:49.260 Let me read you the second part again.
00:04:51.520 There is a presumption
00:04:52.760 of pretrial non-incarceration
00:04:56.400 for every case
00:04:58.940 except those with charges of homicide
00:05:02.140 or the death of a victim.
00:05:04.220 In other words, Ben,
00:05:06.300 your wife or your mother
00:05:07.820 or your daughter or your sister 0.99
00:05:09.200 is violently raped. 0.97
00:05:11.640 Alvin Bragg is saying 1.00
00:05:12.900 we will release the rapist. 0.98
00:05:15.780 If she's not dead, 1.00
00:05:17.820 we'll release the rapist 0.98
00:05:19.200 before the trial. 0.96
00:05:20.800 Someone commits horrific
00:05:22.460 child abuse
00:05:24.100 and child molestation.
00:05:25.480 What is Alvin Bragg saying?
00:05:26.620 We will release the child molester
00:05:29.040 before the trial. 0.66
00:05:31.520 Someone beats you,
00:05:34.620 your son,
00:05:36.400 within inches of his life,
00:05:38.180 almost to death,
00:05:39.680 and you don't die.
00:05:41.400 Alvin Bragg is saying
00:05:42.580 you can beat someone
00:05:43.920 almost to death
00:05:45.080 and he's going to release the criminal.
00:05:47.400 That is so utterly insane.
00:05:52.920 It is a policy
00:05:55.320 that on its face
00:05:56.680 just produces chaos
00:05:59.520 and lawlessness
00:06:01.740 and it produces
00:06:03.980 what New York City has right now.
00:06:05.620 It's not just New York.
00:06:07.580 This is something
00:06:08.240 that we're seeing
00:06:08.920 all over the country
00:06:10.280 where illegal immigrants 0.56
00:06:11.640 are able to commit heinous crimes.
00:06:13.620 People die,
00:06:14.320 as you just mentioned,
00:06:15.060 and there's no accountability.
00:06:16.800 And Congress,
00:06:17.580 by the way,
00:06:18.280 backed that up this week.
00:06:20.140 There was a bill,
00:06:21.280 I call this a no-brainer bill,
00:06:23.540 that was a bill
00:06:24.600 that was really simple
00:06:25.540 to deport illegal immigrants 0.99
00:06:27.180 if they are caught
00:06:28.420 driving under the influence.
00:06:30.240 Now,
00:06:30.440 there's a shocking number
00:06:31.920 of people that have died
00:06:33.060 at the hands
00:06:34.220 of illegal immigrants 0.94
00:06:35.080 who have been driving drunk.
00:06:37.040 And so,
00:06:37.760 this bill was to say,
00:06:39.000 look,
00:06:39.320 you're in this country illegally, 1.00
00:06:41.000 you get caught with a DUI, 0.97
00:06:42.920 we are going to deport you, 1.00
00:06:44.260 and a hundred and fifty
00:06:45.960 Democrat senator
00:06:46.980 voted against that bill.
00:06:48.660 A no-brainer bill.
00:06:50.100 What the heck is going on?
00:06:51.280 That's the words literally
00:06:52.260 from Elon Musk on this.
00:06:54.040 Today's Democrat party
00:06:55.460 systematically
00:06:56.500 puts criminals
00:06:57.980 and illegal immigrants
00:07:00.040 ahead of the interests
00:07:01.880 of American citizens.
00:07:03.780 So,
00:07:04.180 if you're out driving
00:07:05.060 on the road,
00:07:05.740 if your wife is out 0.53
00:07:06.880 driving on the road,
00:07:07.720 if your kids are out,
00:07:09.740 and a drunk driver
00:07:11.360 slams into them 0.96
00:07:12.680 who's an illegal alien,
00:07:13.640 the Democrats are saying,
00:07:15.240 nope,
00:07:15.520 don't deport them then, 0.93
00:07:16.780 they are literally
00:07:17.840 endangering
00:07:19.000 our families.
00:07:20.880 And,
00:07:20.900 and,
00:07:21.080 and,
00:07:21.760 listen,
00:07:22.720 this has gotten so bad
00:07:24.400 that,
00:07:25.320 that even,
00:07:27.000 even some folks
00:07:28.160 in Hollywood
00:07:28.740 are jumping ship.
00:07:30.460 You know,
00:07:31.100 the,
00:07:31.340 the comedian,
00:07:32.440 this guy,
00:07:33.140 Michael Rappaport?
00:07:34.480 Yeah.
00:07:35.080 Um,
00:07:35.620 look,
00:07:35.920 he's a loud mouth,
00:07:36.960 he puts these,
00:07:38.020 you know,
00:07:38.620 profane Twitter rants
00:07:40.280 online.
00:07:41.020 Uh,
00:07:41.960 he hates Trump, 0.93
00:07:42.820 he hates me, 0.98
00:07:43.560 he, 0.98
00:07:43.740 he is a big,
00:07:45.700 big leftist.
00:07:46.640 And,
00:07:46.740 and you know how he responded
00:07:48.180 to what happened in New York?
00:07:49.420 He put out this rant
00:07:51.060 and I'm going to,
00:07:52.640 I'm going to quote from it,
00:07:53.600 although I'm going to try to
00:07:54.440 sanitize it a little bit.
00:07:56.340 He slams his fist on the table
00:07:58.400 and says,
00:07:58.980 quote,
00:07:59.960 this is why when I say
00:08:01.660 voting for expletive,
00:08:03.260 Donald Trump is on the table.
00:08:05.380 Voting for expletive,
00:08:06.940 Donald Trump is on the table.
00:08:08.800 And he goes on to say,
00:08:10.320 the other day in New York City,
00:08:11.780 six illegal aliens
00:08:13.100 jumped a New York City cop,
00:08:15.040 NYPD's finest.
00:08:16.640 They jumped a New York City cop
00:08:18.520 in Times Square
00:08:19.420 and were arrested
00:08:21.220 and released without bail.
00:08:24.640 And he continues,
00:08:27.100 quote,
00:08:27.980 released without bail,
00:08:30.100 came out of the courtroom
00:08:31.160 on some two-pack,
00:08:32.960 raising the middle finger
00:08:34.320 with the Detroit Red Wings jersey.
00:08:36.980 Let me tell you something.
00:08:38.920 What the F is the world coming to
00:08:41.360 if you could be from another country, 0.99
00:08:44.640 beat up a cop in New York City,
00:08:47.220 and walk out with no F and bail?
00:08:51.000 What the F is the world coming to
00:08:54.340 when you have angry left-wing comedians
00:08:59.420 now ready to vote for Trump?
00:09:02.040 The Democrat Party,
00:09:03.960 they've lost their minds.
00:09:06.160 And there's also,
00:09:08.500 and you and I have talked about this,
00:09:09.800 and I think this is a really important moment
00:09:11.620 we should just highlight it again.
00:09:13.760 Don't look at what they say.
00:09:15.460 Look at what they do.
00:09:17.220 You look at Mayor Adams in New York City,
00:09:19.280 and what he says is,
00:09:20.560 we're a sanctuary city early on.
00:09:22.320 We're a loving city.
00:09:23.480 Come one, come all.
00:09:24.500 We'll accept all the illegal emirants. 1.00
00:09:25.860 Now he's saying we can't afford it.
00:09:27.820 Now he's saying it's a humanitarian crisis.
00:09:29.740 Now he's saying this is all the fault
00:09:31.240 of the Texas governor,
00:09:32.800 Greg Abbott,
00:09:33.280 for busing people there.
00:09:34.860 And so he's saying one thing,
00:09:36.620 but doing another.
00:09:37.520 And then he says we have a problem,
00:09:39.000 yet New York comes out.
00:09:41.720 New York City has come out,
00:09:43.500 and now they're giving prepaid credit cards
00:09:47.740 with real cash on them
00:09:49.380 to illegal immigrants.
00:09:51.520 Even the rapper, 50 Cent,
00:09:53.720 has said maybe Trump is the answer.
00:09:55.700 This is the second, you know,
00:09:56.740 basically liberal that you just mentioned
00:09:58.140 the first comedian there,
00:09:59.060 now 50 Cent,
00:09:59.980 an African-American famous rapper,
00:10:02.300 saying I don't understand how this works.
00:10:04.360 Somebody explain this to me.
00:10:06.180 How we're giving money to illegal immigrants,
00:10:08.280 it's clearly incentivizing them,
00:10:09.660 and when I say it's not a little bit of money,
00:10:11.240 it's 53 million is going to be distributed
00:10:13.920 among illegal immigrants in the city
00:10:16.200 in the form of prepaid credit cards.
00:10:18.100 So when you say don't come here,
00:10:19.840 as Mayor Adams has said,
00:10:21.060 but he says here's 53 million,
00:10:22.780 if you do come here,
00:10:23.580 what do you think's going to happen?
00:10:24.800 They want them to come.
00:10:26.540 Look, that is exactly right.
00:10:28.900 They are literally paying illegal immigrants. 0.60
00:10:31.820 They are giving them prepaid credit cards.
00:10:37.040 Now, mind you, New Yorkers,
00:10:38.460 who do you think's paying for that? 0.98
00:10:40.180 That's coming from New York taxpayers.
00:10:42.680 So they come to New York, 0.80
00:10:44.940 they beat up cops,
00:10:46.540 they get released,
00:10:47.980 and they get paid to do it.
00:10:49.460 And by the way,
00:10:50.720 it is not just New York.
00:10:53.720 We are seeing this pattern consistently
00:10:56.860 in terms of Democrats.
00:10:59.200 So another story that broke,
00:11:00.680 also in just the last couple of days,
00:11:03.520 Washington State took $340 million
00:11:06.900 of money from the federal government
00:11:09.020 during COVID,
00:11:09.780 and it was COVID relief funds.
00:11:11.820 And what did they do with it?
00:11:13.120 They voted to give that money,
00:11:16.060 $340 million illegally,
00:11:18.580 to illegal aliens,
00:11:20.120 and to send them checks,
00:11:23.000 to send checks,
00:11:25.360 $1,000 cash giveaways,
00:11:27.720 to illegal aliens
00:11:28.960 who were not eligible
00:11:30.520 under the congressional stimulus program.
00:11:33.600 Well, Washington State says,
00:11:34.720 well, gosh,
00:11:35.120 we're going to take the Fed's money
00:11:36.200 and just pay illegal aliens.
00:11:38.640 Well, you know what?
00:11:39.220 If you pay people to come there,
00:11:41.620 you shouldn't be surprised
00:11:42.920 when more than come there.
00:11:44.800 Yeah, Mayor Adams also said this this week.
00:11:47.780 He insists that the New York City
00:11:49.940 migrant crisis,
00:11:51.540 quote,
00:11:51.780 has nothing to do with
00:11:53.400 sanctuary city status.
00:11:56.240 Your reaction to that,
00:11:57.800 that total incompetency?
00:12:00.280 Well, he wants to blame it 1.00
00:12:01.820 on that madman in Texas, 0.99
00:12:03.320 and that would be Greg Abbott. 0.96
00:12:04.440 As you know,
00:12:05.060 I'm kind of offended
00:12:06.400 that he's referring to Abbott
00:12:07.540 and not me
00:12:08.040 when he talks about 0.94
00:12:09.260 a madman in Texas, 0.66
00:12:10.360 but, you know, 0.99
00:12:10.900 that's who he was talking about.
00:12:13.720 And, all right,
00:12:14.720 I'm going to do something.
00:12:15.800 I've never before quoted
00:12:16.700 Michael Rappaport,
00:12:17.520 but I'm going to go back
00:12:18.200 to something he closes his rant with.
00:12:20.140 He says, quote,
00:12:21.520 and he's a New Yorker,
00:12:22.340 he says, quote,
00:12:23.240 maybe my city
00:12:24.340 is not the greatest city
00:12:25.920 on Earth anymore. 0.92
00:12:27.400 If you could beat up cops,
00:12:29.300 if you could beat up cops
00:12:30.660 in the greatest city in the world
00:12:31.980 and be released without bail,
00:12:33.740 are we the greatest city on Earth?
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00:13:13.500 And Mayor Adams
00:13:14.540 taking a lot of heat this week.
00:13:16.660 He may be,
00:13:17.460 by the way,
00:13:17.900 Senator,
00:13:18.280 the first Democrat
00:13:19.600 that I've seen so far
00:13:21.360 in this cycle
00:13:22.040 to actually say
00:13:23.500 that we need to start
00:13:24.260 deporting people.
00:13:25.160 He says,
00:13:25.840 only if they're doing
00:13:27.120 violent acts.
00:13:28.240 This was on local news
00:13:29.960 in New York City
00:13:30.840 doing damage control.
00:13:32.180 Well, listen,
00:13:33.380 I've been saying this
00:13:34.380 over and over again.
00:13:36.180 The national government
00:13:37.020 must do its job.
00:13:39.140 This is not a responsibility
00:13:40.460 that should be placed
00:13:41.620 in the lap
00:13:42.100 of all of these big cities.
00:13:43.920 We're seeing what's
00:13:44.420 taking place in Chicago
00:13:45.640 and Denver
00:13:46.320 and Boston.
00:13:47.560 All across our country,
00:13:49.500 big cities
00:13:50.040 are having to do
00:13:50.820 the national government job.
00:13:52.500 And those migrants 1.00
00:13:53.360 who are here
00:13:54.100 because they want to be part
00:13:55.620 of the American dream,
00:13:57.260 that's what we say yesterday.
00:13:58.940 But those who
00:13:59.840 are breaking our laws,
00:14:01.280 we need to re-examine
00:14:02.800 the laws that don't allow us
00:14:04.900 to deport them
00:14:06.320 because they're doing
00:14:07.760 violent acts.
00:14:08.600 We cannot create
00:14:09.440 an atmosphere
00:14:10.140 where you're going to
00:14:11.220 bring violence in our city.
00:14:12.840 I mean,
00:14:13.480 he says one thing like that.
00:14:15.480 He's actually saying
00:14:16.240 we should deport
00:14:16.940 violent people
00:14:17.600 that do violent acts,
00:14:18.760 yet he's giving out
00:14:19.620 millions and millions
00:14:20.360 and millions of dollars
00:14:21.280 to illegal immigrants
00:14:22.020 to come to his city.
00:14:23.260 Yep.
00:14:23.660 And the elected DA
00:14:25.740 is letting violent criminals
00:14:27.460 go who are assaulting cops.
00:14:29.120 And by the way,
00:14:29.780 it's not just
00:14:31.460 Alvin Bragg's fault.
00:14:32.600 It's not just
00:14:33.200 George Soros' fault.
00:14:34.300 It's also the governor's fault.
00:14:35.960 Kathy Hochul,
00:14:36.800 under the New York laws,
00:14:40.000 has the authority
00:14:41.140 to dismiss Bragg.
00:14:42.780 And if you remember,
00:14:43.760 there was a very hotly
00:14:45.300 contested gubernatorial race.
00:14:46.980 Lee Zeldin ran against her
00:14:48.780 and he promised
00:14:49.480 if he was elected governor
00:14:50.520 he would fire Alvin Bragg.
00:14:52.960 And so the voters of New York
00:14:54.560 had the opportunity
00:14:55.340 to fire Bragg.
00:14:57.000 And if you remember,
00:14:57.920 during that campaign,
00:15:00.260 Lee Zeldin was on
00:15:01.120 the campaign trail 0.89
00:15:02.100 and a deranged man
00:15:04.100 assaulted him,
00:15:05.660 leapt on stage,
00:15:07.160 had a keychain with,
00:15:10.240 it was actually
00:15:11.200 a hardened plastic keychain
00:15:13.440 in the shape of cat ears,
00:15:15.540 but the ears were like a knife.
00:15:17.120 And he tried to 0.93
00:15:18.100 basically cut Zeldin's throat.
00:15:21.200 And Zeldin is a veteran.
00:15:23.800 Zeldin served in the Navy.
00:15:24.800 And so Lee defended himself
00:15:26.860 and the guy was arrested.
00:15:28.800 And the guy who tried
00:15:30.580 to assault and murder
00:15:32.320 the Republican candidate 1.00
00:15:34.260 for governor
00:15:35.040 was released the same day
00:15:37.180 without bail,
00:15:38.740 just like these guys.
00:15:40.740 And so this is a problem
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00:17:54.880 Senator,
00:17:55.300 there's a bill,
00:17:56.220 and I want to talk about
00:17:57.400 the side of the Senate bill
00:17:59.060 on immigration reform.
00:18:00.880 There have been words
00:18:01.820 thrown out this last week
00:18:03.020 about mass amnesty
00:18:04.320 could be a possibility,
00:18:05.920 about brokering
00:18:07.060 some sort of deal
00:18:07.820 that would basically say
00:18:08.740 if you're in this country,
00:18:09.700 you've been here for,
00:18:10.520 you know,
00:18:10.780 a year or two,
00:18:11.360 we're just going to hand you
00:18:12.420 over the American dream
00:18:13.540 with no accountability
00:18:14.380 for you breaking
00:18:15.480 into this country.
00:18:16.420 Where are we
00:18:17.780 with this bill
00:18:18.440 and what's happening
00:18:19.340 right now?
00:18:20.500 Well,
00:18:21.040 the so-called
00:18:22.300 Senate immigration bill
00:18:23.740 is an absolute mess
00:18:25.520 and I've been leading
00:18:26.880 the fight against it.
00:18:27.920 In fact,
00:18:28.200 I did a press conference
00:18:30.320 about a week ago
00:18:31.340 where I described it
00:18:32.480 as a steaming pile 1.00
00:18:34.340 of crap. 1.00
00:18:35.840 So my views on this 0.99
00:18:37.220 are not ambiguous.
00:18:39.480 And that was putting it
00:18:40.240 mildly,
00:18:40.640 by the way,
00:18:41.080 because it really is
00:18:41.880 that bad.
00:18:42.360 So let's step back.
00:18:44.280 Let's give some context.
00:18:45.500 And one of the reasons
00:18:46.200 we do this podcast
00:18:47.100 is we have a chance
00:18:48.860 to explain things
00:18:49.960 at a level of detail
00:18:51.120 you can't get anywhere else.
00:18:52.300 So why is there
00:18:54.080 an immigration deal
00:18:55.080 that's being discussed at all?
00:18:56.300 And the reason is
00:18:57.280 the Biden administration
00:18:59.120 desperately wants
00:19:00.520 a supplemental funding bill
00:19:02.820 to pass.
00:19:03.340 And in particular,
00:19:04.100 they want more money
00:19:06.020 for Ukraine.
00:19:06.680 They want more money
00:19:07.760 for Ukraine
00:19:08.420 and they've wrapped
00:19:09.980 the Ukraine funding
00:19:11.260 together with
00:19:12.700 emergency military funding
00:19:14.720 for Israel.
00:19:15.780 They wrapped the two
00:19:17.160 of them together
00:19:17.940 along with some funds
00:19:18.980 for Taiwan.
00:19:20.120 Well,
00:19:20.820 Senate Republicans
00:19:21.920 took the position
00:19:22.980 that we will not vote
00:19:24.900 to move that forward
00:19:26.060 unless we have a deal
00:19:28.220 to secure the border.
00:19:29.240 And we were actually,
00:19:30.360 all of the Senate Republicans
00:19:31.760 were united
00:19:32.520 a month ago
00:19:33.840 in saying,
00:19:34.720 you've got to secure
00:19:35.620 the border.
00:19:36.060 We're not going to secure
00:19:37.020 Ukraine's border
00:19:37.920 until we secure our own.
00:19:40.020 And that has to be part
00:19:41.800 of this funding deal.
00:19:42.660 So what happened?
00:19:43.940 What happened is
00:19:45.320 Mitch McConnell
00:19:46.440 deputized James Lankford,
00:19:49.720 Republican senator
00:19:50.580 from Oklahoma,
00:19:51.740 to negotiate
00:19:53.280 with Chris Murphy,
00:19:55.780 very liberal Democrat
00:19:57.040 from Connecticut,
00:19:58.200 and Kyrsten Sinema,
00:19:59.980 Democrat slash independent
00:20:01.880 from Arizona.
00:20:04.140 The three of them
00:20:05.100 have been negotiating
00:20:06.040 for several months now
00:20:07.160 and trying to reach
00:20:08.900 a deal.
00:20:09.740 They're saying that
00:20:11.060 they essentially
00:20:12.160 have a deal.
00:20:13.300 The problem is
00:20:14.500 the deal they've reached,
00:20:16.040 I think,
00:20:16.500 is a terrible deal
00:20:17.760 and it does not
00:20:19.480 fix the problem.
00:20:21.200 Now,
00:20:21.480 that being said,
00:20:22.900 Chuck Schumer
00:20:23.680 desperately wants
00:20:25.220 this deal to pass
00:20:26.780 and Mitch McConnell
00:20:28.380 desperately wants
00:20:30.280 this deal to pass.
00:20:31.320 Why is that?
00:20:32.940 Well,
00:20:33.420 for Mitch,
00:20:34.140 his number one
00:20:35.380 priority is
00:20:36.260 Ukraine funding.
00:20:37.240 It is clear
00:20:37.900 that he is
00:20:38.580 deeply committed
00:20:39.580 to funding Ukraine.
00:20:41.200 And so,
00:20:42.220 when it became
00:20:43.300 clear that the
00:20:44.280 Ukraine funding
00:20:45.080 would not have
00:20:45.760 the votes to pass,
00:20:46.620 especially in the House,
00:20:47.800 where a lot of
00:20:48.620 House Republicans
00:20:49.360 are vocally opposed
00:20:50.980 to additional funding
00:20:52.200 for Ukraine,
00:20:53.520 Mitch,
00:20:54.020 I think,
00:20:54.560 seized upon,
00:20:55.500 okay,
00:20:56.360 let's see if we can
00:20:57.760 get something
00:20:58.480 that we can say
00:20:59.800 secures the border
00:21:00.740 and if that will
00:21:01.480 get Republicans
00:21:02.120 in the House
00:21:02.640 to vote for Ukraine
00:21:03.860 funding,
00:21:04.440 Mitch will be happy.
00:21:05.700 Initially,
00:21:06.580 as this deal
00:21:07.660 was discussed,
00:21:08.940 we were being told
00:21:10.060 by James Lankford
00:21:12.920 and by the negotiating,
00:21:15.620 by leadership,
00:21:17.420 that the deal
00:21:19.000 would force Biden
00:21:20.480 to secure the border
00:21:21.560 to fix the problem now.
00:21:22.880 And my view was great.
00:21:24.220 Look,
00:21:24.580 if we can do that,
00:21:26.100 if we can force Biden
00:21:27.120 to secure the border,
00:21:27.920 that is worth doing,
00:21:29.920 it's interesting,
00:21:30.720 however,
00:21:31.040 as we sit here,
00:21:31.880 you and I are recording
00:21:32.820 this on Sunday.
00:21:34.020 It's going to come out
00:21:34.640 Monday morning.
00:21:35.460 As we sit here today
00:21:36.600 on Sunday,
00:21:37.600 I still have not seen
00:21:39.320 the text of the bill.
00:21:40.820 Wow.
00:21:41.800 Virtually nobody else
00:21:42.860 has either.
00:21:43.440 So I have no idea
00:21:44.480 what's in the bill.
00:21:45.640 But hold on,
00:21:46.240 that's what Nancy Pelosi
00:21:47.260 says is good about Congress,
00:21:48.780 right?
00:21:48.980 We don't know what's in the bill
00:21:50.140 until we pass the bill.
00:21:51.380 So isn't that,
00:21:52.020 that's just like a normal
00:21:52.920 day of business,
00:21:53.760 isn't it,
00:21:54.140 at this point?
00:21:54.840 Yeah.
00:21:54.980 That is exactly
00:21:56.020 what Nancy Pelosi said
00:21:57.520 about Obamacare.
00:21:58.440 You've got to pass it
00:21:59.160 to figure out
00:21:59.660 what's in it.
00:22:00.520 Now,
00:22:00.740 Chuck Schumer has announced
00:22:01.960 he's going to force a vote
00:22:03.160 on this bill on Wednesday.
00:22:05.600 And as I said,
00:22:06.500 we still haven't seen
00:22:07.700 what's in it.
00:22:08.220 So what's happened,
00:22:09.320 look,
00:22:09.560 James Langford,
00:22:10.200 he's a friend of mine.
00:22:11.020 He is a good
00:22:12.060 and decent man.
00:22:13.020 He was a pastor
00:22:13.740 before he was a senator.
00:22:16.140 He's got a good heart.
00:22:18.140 He is earnest.
00:22:20.020 He's well-liked
00:22:20.940 on both sides of the aisle.
00:22:22.200 He came back
00:22:23.360 from negotiating this deal
00:22:25.300 and he went and visited
00:22:26.220 every Republican senator.
00:22:27.700 So James came to my office.
00:22:28.960 He sat in my office
00:22:30.560 and talked through orally
00:22:32.620 different elements
00:22:34.040 that he said
00:22:34.680 were in the bill.
00:22:35.480 And so there are
00:22:35.940 different elements.
00:22:36.700 One of the elements
00:22:37.480 that he emphasizes
00:22:38.420 is he says this bill
00:22:40.280 will tighten
00:22:41.800 the asylum standards,
00:22:43.140 make it harder
00:22:43.940 to qualify for asylum.
00:22:45.880 He also has said
00:22:47.280 this bill will limit
00:22:48.480 the use of parole,
00:22:50.140 which is the legal authority
00:22:51.840 that Biden has used
00:22:53.100 to release millions
00:22:54.240 of illegal immigrants.
00:22:55.260 Now, both of those
00:22:56.040 are good if it in fact
00:22:56.980 does that.
00:22:58.000 But as I said,
00:22:58.660 we haven't seen the text,
00:22:59.500 so I'm not convinced
00:23:00.420 it even does that.
00:23:01.720 The fact that they're
00:23:02.640 not willing to release
00:23:03.600 the text is a big,
00:23:05.080 big, big warning sign.
00:23:06.720 It also apparently
00:23:08.160 has some concessions
00:23:10.080 for the Democrats
00:23:10.840 in terms of giving
00:23:11.860 work permits
00:23:12.780 to illegal immigrants.
00:23:14.380 I don't know the details
00:23:15.220 of that,
00:23:15.640 but I certainly
00:23:16.300 don't like that.
00:23:17.800 And then the provision
00:23:19.060 that has attracted
00:23:21.160 the most attention
00:23:22.180 is it has
00:23:24.620 what Lankford
00:23:25.960 characterizes
00:23:26.820 as a safety valve
00:23:28.080 that says
00:23:29.480 if the number
00:23:30.800 of illegal immigrants 0.94
00:23:32.160 exceeds 5,000 a day,
00:23:35.440 then extra tough
00:23:37.940 sanctions kick in.
00:23:39.480 And the way
00:23:40.520 Lankford describes it,
00:23:42.320 it, quote,
00:23:43.040 shuts down the border.
00:23:44.400 It prevents
00:23:45.240 it prevents
00:23:47.600 the Biden administration,
00:23:48.620 he says,
00:23:49.600 from accepting
00:23:50.860 any asylum applications.
00:23:52.680 And he said
00:23:53.180 that's designed
00:23:53.960 as like an emergency release.
00:23:55.720 Now, in December,
00:23:57.840 the last month
00:23:58.540 we have data for,
00:24:00.060 the number of
00:24:00.700 illegal aliens
00:24:01.400 coming in
00:24:02.340 was over 300,000.
00:24:04.880 It was more
00:24:05.440 than 10,000 a day.
00:24:06.920 That is the highest
00:24:08.160 month in the history
00:24:09.000 of our country.
00:24:10.100 We've never had
00:24:10.920 a month
00:24:11.480 with that many
00:24:12.540 illegal immigrants come. 0.65
00:24:14.300 Lankford is arguing,
00:24:15.580 well, this emergency
00:24:17.100 relief valve
00:24:18.220 would force
00:24:19.500 the administration
00:24:20.240 to cut that in half
00:24:21.780 from 10,000
00:24:22.720 to 5,000.
00:24:23.900 Now, look,
00:24:24.280 I agree cutting it
00:24:25.000 in half would be good.
00:24:26.300 Here's the problem.
00:24:27.680 That, I think,
00:24:29.620 effectively
00:24:30.460 normalizes
00:24:31.520 5,000 a day.
00:24:32.860 It says
00:24:33.780 we're okay
00:24:35.220 with 5,000 a day.
00:24:36.620 And by the way,
00:24:37.240 5,000 a day,
00:24:38.140 if you do the math,
00:24:39.580 that is over
00:24:40.500 1.8 million
00:24:42.000 illegal aliens
00:24:43.020 a year.
00:24:44.360 It is almost
00:24:45.020 2 million a year.
00:24:46.160 So if you look at
00:24:47.120 over the 3 plus years
00:24:48.700 of the Biden presidency,
00:24:50.480 we have seen
00:24:51.340 over 9.6 million
00:24:53.140 illegal immigrants
00:24:53.860 come into the country. 0.97
00:24:55.680 1.8 million a year,
00:24:57.220 that's nearly 6 million.
00:24:58.760 So it's basically
00:24:59.540 Republicans saying,
00:25:00.800 you know what,
00:25:01.640 we're good
00:25:02.380 with two-thirds
00:25:03.440 of Biden's
00:25:05.320 illegal immigration
00:25:06.180 with the invasion
00:25:07.160 and by the way,
00:25:08.220 with that essentially
00:25:09.200 extending into perpetuity.
00:25:10.520 I think that makes
00:25:12.060 no sense whatsoever.
00:25:13.620 Why is he forcing
00:25:15.260 this bill
00:25:15.900 if there's still
00:25:16.740 this much opposition
00:25:17.800 to it?
00:25:18.380 Does he think
00:25:18.960 that he could truly
00:25:19.760 get this rammed through
00:25:20.780 and somehow
00:25:21.220 the House
00:25:21.680 would go along
00:25:22.320 with this?
00:25:23.420 So,
00:25:23.800 understand what's happening.
00:25:25.800 Senate Republican
00:25:26.580 leadership
00:25:27.120 has basically
00:25:28.040 declared war
00:25:29.060 on House Republicans.
00:25:31.200 So,
00:25:31.800 I have been leading
00:25:32.660 the fight against
00:25:33.320 this bill
00:25:33.780 and we have
00:25:34.380 the last two weeks
00:25:35.280 at our Senate
00:25:35.740 Republican lunches.
00:25:36.720 to say we have had
00:25:39.080 energetic
00:25:41.580 disagreements on this
00:25:43.220 would be the
00:25:43.840 understatement
00:25:44.400 of the century
00:25:44.980 and I have been
00:25:45.680 standing up
00:25:46.280 as of a number
00:25:46.860 of other conservatives
00:25:47.720 making the case
00:25:49.000 against this
00:25:49.640 and many of my
00:25:50.660 Republican colleagues
00:25:51.560 are getting
00:25:52.380 really pissed off.
00:25:54.400 I've asked them,
00:25:55.360 so the question
00:25:55.920 I asked my colleagues,
00:25:56.940 I've said,
00:25:57.340 listen,
00:25:58.140 I think the chances
00:25:59.240 of this bill
00:26:00.640 passing the House
00:26:01.940 are zero percent.
00:26:04.580 And by the way,
00:26:05.180 when I first said that,
00:26:06.720 the proponents
00:26:07.700 of the bill
00:26:08.240 were like,
00:26:08.580 no,
00:26:08.820 no,
00:26:08.940 no,
00:26:09.080 no,
00:26:09.160 no,
00:26:09.260 it's going
00:26:09.580 to pass the House.
00:26:10.320 The Speaker
00:26:10.680 loves it,
00:26:11.180 he thinks it's great
00:26:12.040 and I'm like,
00:26:12.720 that's the most 0.95
00:26:13.120 ridiculous thing 0.99
00:26:13.920 I've ever heard 0.98
00:26:14.480 but that's what
00:26:14.960 they were claiming.
00:26:16.080 Then last week,
00:26:17.320 Mike Johnson,
00:26:18.000 the Speaker of the House
00:26:18.780 came out and said,
00:26:20.000 this bill is dead
00:26:21.200 on arrival
00:26:21.800 in the House,
00:26:23.320 which is exactly
00:26:24.160 what I told my colleagues
00:26:25.220 but you've got
00:26:26.740 somewhere between
00:26:28.660 a third
00:26:29.420 and two thirds
00:26:30.300 of the Senate Republicans
00:26:31.380 that desperately
00:26:32.900 want to vote
00:26:33.460 for this bill
00:26:34.020 and in our lunches
00:26:35.200 are arguing vociferously
00:26:37.440 for this bill.
00:26:38.100 Mind you,
00:26:38.620 they don't know
00:26:39.000 what's in it
00:26:39.420 but they just want
00:26:41.000 to vote for a deal
00:26:42.500 and look,
00:26:43.840 a lot of the usual suspects
00:26:45.220 who are out
00:26:46.060 being self-righteous
00:26:47.140 and saying,
00:26:48.080 we've got to do something
00:26:49.120 by the way,
00:26:50.280 the Wall Street Journal
00:26:51.240 has done multiple editorials
00:26:52.940 urging Republicans,
00:26:54.240 you've got to pass
00:26:55.060 this Senate deal.
00:26:56.940 Presumably,
00:26:57.480 they don't know
00:26:58.140 what's in it.
00:26:59.220 We haven't gotten text.
00:27:00.540 I don't know,
00:27:00.980 maybe they gave
00:27:01.480 the journal text
00:27:02.320 but their view
00:27:03.880 and what I've said
00:27:04.960 is listen,
00:27:05.880 initially,
00:27:06.600 the argument
00:27:07.100 that was given
00:27:07.760 was we were going
00:27:09.080 to force Biden
00:27:09.860 to actually secure
00:27:10.800 the border.
00:27:11.340 If this bill did that,
00:27:12.740 I'd support the bill.
00:27:14.320 Yeah.
00:27:15.240 But as the negotiations
00:27:17.400 went on,
00:27:18.220 the talking points changed
00:27:19.440 and so it started
00:27:20.220 with we're going
00:27:20.740 to force Biden
00:27:21.300 to secure the bill.
00:27:22.520 Now here's what
00:27:23.120 their talking point is.
00:27:24.640 Well,
00:27:25.420 okay,
00:27:25.800 we agree Biden
00:27:26.740 will continue
00:27:27.180 to have an open border
00:27:28.080 and the crisis
00:27:28.600 will continue
00:27:29.260 but they say
00:27:31.060 this creates
00:27:32.960 new tools
00:27:34.120 that if Donald Trump
00:27:36.040 is elected
00:27:36.620 he can use
00:27:37.880 to secure the border.
00:27:39.660 So you want to talk
00:27:40.240 about moving the goalpost.
00:27:41.480 First of all,
00:27:42.060 we were going to force
00:27:42.620 Biden to do it.
00:27:43.580 Now they can see,
00:27:44.500 nah,
00:27:44.760 we're not doing that.
00:27:45.980 But gosh,
00:27:47.820 go lickety split.
00:27:48.920 This is good
00:27:49.400 for Donald Trump
00:27:50.120 because it'll give him
00:27:50.900 new legal tools
00:27:51.760 to which I've responded
00:27:53.280 to my colleagues,
00:27:54.840 Donald Trump
00:27:55.400 doesn't need
00:27:56.440 new legal tools
00:27:58.080 to secure the border.
00:27:59.260 How do we know that?
00:28:00.220 Because he did it already.
00:28:01.800 When Joe Biden
00:28:02.700 became president
00:28:03.520 we had the lowest rate
00:28:04.480 of illegal immigration
00:28:05.280 in 45 years.
00:28:07.560 He did it by ending
00:28:08.540 catch and release.
00:28:09.360 He did it with the
00:28:09.880 Remain in Mexico agreement. 0.79
00:28:11.200 He did it by building
00:28:12.080 the wall.
00:28:12.800 We can do that again.
00:28:14.040 Trump can do that again.
00:28:15.240 And mark my words,
00:28:17.500 if and when Trump
00:28:18.380 is re-elected
00:28:19.140 you will see
00:28:19.640 illegal immigration
00:28:20.460 drop instantaneously
00:28:22.640 because we've seen
00:28:25.580 that movie before.
00:28:26.740 That's what happened
00:28:27.580 previously.
00:28:28.520 And when Biden
00:28:30.060 became president
00:28:30.840 we saw immigration
00:28:31.760 jump,
00:28:33.200 skyrocket
00:28:33.940 instantaneously.
00:28:35.880 And so the arguments
00:28:36.920 being presented
00:28:37.700 in support of this bill
00:28:39.540 are utterly disingenuous.
00:28:41.440 It's we've got to do it
00:28:42.340 to give Trump tools
00:28:43.240 that he doesn't need.
00:28:44.080 And by the way,
00:28:44.680 he doesn't want.
00:28:45.520 He said,
00:28:46.080 don't pass a bad bill.
00:28:47.480 I don't want this bill.
00:28:48.580 I don't need those tools.
00:28:49.960 And yet,
00:28:51.100 the proponents
00:28:51.720 of the bill are saying
00:28:52.520 that we should do it anyway.
00:28:54.020 Final question on this
00:28:55.380 and that goes back
00:28:56.280 to something
00:28:56.620 you mentioned earlier
00:28:57.880 when you were talking
00:28:58.800 about the image
00:29:00.080 of those illegal immigrants 0.73
00:29:01.340 who had beaten
00:29:02.780 the New York Police
00:29:04.220 Department officer.
00:29:05.660 They get out of jail.
00:29:07.200 Apparently,
00:29:07.760 they get to go on the run
00:29:09.340 and get on a bus
00:29:10.180 that was from
00:29:10.800 Catholic Charities
00:29:11.480 from what we've been told
00:29:12.400 and headed to California.
00:29:14.420 By the way,
00:29:14.920 lying about their name.
00:29:16.360 Shocker there.
00:29:17.740 And this is the world
00:29:19.220 that we have now.
00:29:20.040 And you mentioned
00:29:20.940 quickly,
00:29:22.640 you said,
00:29:23.540 this needs to be
00:29:24.960 the center of the campaign.
00:29:26.600 When you say that,
00:29:28.060 that's not just
00:29:28.880 the presidential.
00:29:29.840 You're talking about
00:29:30.800 everyone that's running
00:29:31.720 for office,
00:29:32.820 that's a conservative,
00:29:34.600 and not even just
00:29:35.580 running for federal office.
00:29:36.920 This is a state's issue
00:29:38.980 very much as well,
00:29:40.480 no matter where you are
00:29:41.380 in the country.
00:29:42.600 Absolutely,
00:29:43.520 yes.
00:29:44.400 And understand 1.00
00:29:45.560 how spectacularly stupid 1.00
00:29:48.740 what Senate Republican 1.00
00:29:50.560 leadership is doing.
00:29:51.960 This is the number one
00:29:52.880 issue in the country.
00:29:53.720 People are furious.
00:29:54.580 They understand Joe Biden
00:29:55.740 created it.
00:29:57.880 I've asked leadership.
00:29:59.800 I've turned to Mitch
00:30:00.520 and said,
00:30:00.900 Mitch,
00:30:01.200 tell me how this bill,
00:30:03.520 in what universe
00:30:04.420 does this bill
00:30:05.060 pass the House?
00:30:06.200 And if the answer is
00:30:07.640 it doesn't,
00:30:09.260 then what is accomplished
00:30:10.620 by forcing a vote
00:30:11.680 on this bill
00:30:12.220 that will split 0.65
00:30:12.840 our conference,
00:30:13.560 that a bunch of Republicans
00:30:14.920 will self-righteously vote yes.
00:30:17.020 Others,
00:30:17.800 myself included,
00:30:18.740 will vote no.
00:30:20.100 What is accomplished?
00:30:21.320 And they give no answer
00:30:22.260 to that.
00:30:22.600 They don't have a response.
00:30:23.900 But here's really
00:30:24.720 what's accomplished.
00:30:26.240 It is all about
00:30:27.520 political messaging.
00:30:28.740 This enables Chuck Schumer.
00:30:30.420 It enables every Democrat 0.68
00:30:31.940 running for re-election.
00:30:33.440 It enables Joe Biden
00:30:34.540 to say,
00:30:36.560 number one,
00:30:37.200 to not secure the border,
00:30:38.580 to leave the crisis
00:30:39.320 exactly as it is.
00:30:40.440 But number two,
00:30:41.020 to say,
00:30:41.680 well,
00:30:41.880 we wanted to secure
00:30:43.060 the border.
00:30:44.180 But the Republicans
00:30:45.180 stopped us.
00:30:46.780 This is all about
00:30:47.940 giving political cover
00:30:49.360 for Democrats.
00:30:50.340 And I'll tell you
00:30:51.240 why Republican leadership
00:30:52.860 in the Senate
00:30:53.400 wants to ram this
00:30:54.300 through in the Senate.
00:30:55.080 And listen,
00:30:55.700 they probably can get
00:30:57.000 the votes in the Senate.
00:30:58.000 They'll get all the Democrats
00:30:59.040 and they'll get
00:30:59.940 a dozen or more Republicans
00:31:02.100 in the Senate.
00:31:02.720 That will pass it
00:31:03.580 in the Senate.
00:31:04.760 The reason they want
00:31:06.040 to do it is then
00:31:07.120 once they've passed it
00:31:08.440 in the Senate,
00:31:09.520 use it as a club 1.00
00:31:11.000 to beat the crap 0.98
00:31:12.780 out of House Republicans 0.94
00:31:13.980 and to defeat
00:31:15.580 the House Republican majority.
00:31:17.100 It is literally
00:31:18.000 Senate Republican leadership
00:31:19.800 helping the Democrats
00:31:21.700 in the House
00:31:22.460 because every Democrat
00:31:23.680 in the House
00:31:24.220 will say,
00:31:24.760 well, gosh,
00:31:25.320 we had a bill
00:31:26.480 that would have stopped 0.81
00:31:27.200 illegal immigration,
00:31:28.020 but, you know,
00:31:28.900 you Republicans
00:31:29.920 didn't want to do it.
00:31:31.120 And I will tell you
00:31:32.000 the argument
00:31:32.540 that is making me
00:31:33.500 most angry.
00:31:35.380 There are a number
00:31:36.080 of my Senate Republican
00:31:37.160 colleagues
00:31:37.660 who are going out
00:31:38.260 to reporters
00:31:38.800 and they're puffing
00:31:39.960 out their chest
00:31:40.700 and explaining
00:31:41.360 what self-righteously
00:31:43.200 what great statesmen
00:31:44.980 they are.
00:31:46.180 And they say
00:31:47.240 the only reason
00:31:49.220 someone's opposing this
00:31:50.800 is that, quote,
00:31:51.840 we want the issue
00:31:53.280 rather than to solve it.
00:31:55.000 So they're blaming
00:31:55.540 it on Trump.
00:31:57.040 They say everyone
00:31:57.660 opposes this bill
00:31:58.620 and you're just
00:31:59.100 taking Trump's orders
00:32:00.120 and it's because
00:32:01.200 we don't want
00:32:02.220 to secure the border.
00:32:03.520 We want it to remain bad
00:32:05.300 in order to be able
00:32:06.720 to campaign on it.
00:32:07.560 And I will tell you
00:32:08.480 this past week
00:32:10.520 I yelled at my colleagues.
00:32:12.120 I said, 1.00
00:32:12.740 screw you 1.00
00:32:13.560 because I want 1.00
00:32:15.980 to secure the border
00:32:17.100 desperately
00:32:18.000 and the reason
00:32:18.960 I oppose this
00:32:19.860 is it does
00:32:20.780 not do that.
00:32:22.000 But I said,
00:32:22.400 you know what you're doing?
00:32:23.540 You are reading
00:32:25.480 Chuck Schumer's
00:32:26.540 talking points
00:32:27.460 and your lie
00:32:29.920 will be used
00:32:32.200 to re-elect Democrats
00:32:33.820 to the Senate
00:32:34.400 and the House.
00:32:35.340 You are,
00:32:35.680 you're not even,
00:32:37.080 you're simply 1.00
00:32:38.420 being useful idiots 1.00
00:32:39.980 and sadly 1.00
00:32:41.680 they have no response
00:32:43.460 to that.
00:32:44.060 They just go back out
00:32:45.180 and tell the reporters 0.99
00:32:46.080 the same damn thing 0.99
00:32:46.920 all over again. 0.99
00:32:48.060 Yeah,
00:32:48.240 I agree with you.
00:32:49.160 I think this is the
00:32:49.960 issue of the year
00:32:51.500 right now.
00:32:52.340 National security standpoint,
00:32:53.680 we talked about
00:32:54.420 the illegal immigrants 0.96
00:32:55.240 on the terrorist watch list
00:32:56.120 coming across
00:32:56.620 the southern border
00:32:57.160 as well.
00:32:57.840 We're going to keep 0.99
00:32:58.580 covering it for you.
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