the highest in decades coming across. how does that feel to see all the hard work that you have put in effectively sidelined and stepped on by this current administration? here is what i think. i hope the american people pay attention. it is shocking to say this. i have worked for six presidents starting with reagan. every president had their opinion how to secure the border. every president wanted a secure border. understand this. we have the first president in the history of this nation in joe biden who came into office and dismantled the most secure border we ve ever had. no president has ever done that. with the help of secretary mayorkas have dismantled every successful border enforcement strategy that donald trump created in his administration. we went from the lowest illegal immigration, 35 year low, illegal immigration down 83%. we went from the most secure border i ve seen in my career to the historic numbers.
because hospitals were guaranteed money. the entire american health system. we have a problem with our basic economics of the healthcare. so much is motivated by money. major corporations taking over. the thin margins that make it so in new york city, for example on a normal day in 2019 emergency rooms were at near capacity every single night. no surprise they get overwhelmeded. the push back against other therapies saying they have to come up with new cures. all of this has been around money and around greed and from the very beginning we ve been trying to get masks to people and tests and facemasks to people. everyone wanted a cut. i was watching people try to get supplies. everybody wanted a cut and make money. human greed is also as old as disease unfortunately. benjamin: new fox news poll that say americans aren t paying attention and not happy with president biden s covid
thank you for being with us today. it was a bit strange hearing the president say there is no federal solution to this because it seems all he has done so far is implement federal mask mandates and vaccine mandates and push states. how is this about turn happened? that s a wild show of humility from a party that says they have a religious obligation to control the weather and say they can t stop disease and omicron no matter how many mandates or policies they put into effect. here in washington, d.c. we aren t getting that same kind of thing. they shut down schools again even though it hasn t worked for two years and putting new mandates in businesses. they ve been pushing and pushing. it has been unpopular and not doing anything except for getting the tests that they really messed up. the reality. i spent christmas eve with 25 family members. when you have people like my parents flying in from florida and college kids coming home and you have kids petri dishes coming into the christ
to plan ahead then we wouldn t be where we are now. we could have done a better job. he talked about the home tests. how do you not know that omicron is an issue before the holidays when the rest of us all knew and everyone knows once you go into the holidays and people start traveling you will see a spike? not like the pandemic just started. now with omicron being more contagious. yeah, i mean over promising, under delivering seems to be the motto. exactly. i think that s the salient feature about his presidency. back in the campaign before he was president he was saying he would get a grip on it. he would eliminate this virus. all sensible people knew already the virus was not going to be eliminated. it would mutate and all sorts of variants but he said i m going to get rid of it and he doesn t get rid of it. it is a constant protest. julie: you ll never get rid of it first of all.
that he is always over promising and under delivering which is why he sets himself up for disappointing people. it is not just that inflation has got out of hand and probably going to be running for the rest of his first term as president. he said it was transitory. it is not just that the taliban took over afghanistan, it is that they took it over just two weeks after he said they weren t going to. at all points he is over promising and under delivering which sets himself up to disappoint people. all the way through his career when he was plagiarizeing other people s work. he is trying to make himself out as a more substantial guy than he is. when the truth comes through he disappoints people really badly. julie: you talk about overpromising and under delivering. the first thing that popped into my head is hae said regarding home tests. he had said had we had the wherewithal and the foresight