they ll keep their head down, keep serving americans, but even across the globe, with our allies, with people that might have to be persuaded, to cooperate in joint operations, to find terrorists that want to do harm to america and kill people in and out of our country. yeah, let s start with the service piece of this. people say to me a lot. hey, thank you, for your service. i appreciate that. there are a lot of ways to serve this country, joe, including the fbi, the cia, the police, the firemen, the peace core. there are lots of ways to serve. these are serving professionals, they don t deserve this. secondly, overseas, this is just so detrimental. it undermines confidence in these institutions. when the fbi shows up in africa, to investigate killing of americans, or the cia are trying to ramp up a joint operation in a country in central america, this undermines their confidence
is no problem making sure that the people that are coming in are going to be more likely to create jobs for more americans and grow this economy. that is fine. but i think donny pointed it out, when you start talking about we don t want people from norway, or we do want people from norway. we don t want people from haiti. that makes it abundantly clear that this is all about race. so, yeah, i agree with heidi, it can be merit-based. but if it s merit-based, again you are going to be getting a lot of people from the continent of africa. you are going to be getting a lot of people that may not be white but also it is important, as you said, willie that we make sure that there is a balance in our system and that while we protect our borders, we make sure we are not overrun by illegal immigrants, at the same time we have to keep america open like you said for people
americans. so if you want to make an argument based on merit. you are not left with a great explanation for why the president would call these countries s-holes. joe, if he completely misses the point of immigration, the people from haiti and ghana are the people fleeing those countries because they believe america will give them a better life they are working to contribute and work hard for that life. he showed a complete misunderstanding of our immigration system and why you want those people coming to america. right. there is a combination. obviously, the united states has to we have to look for the refugees fleeing their countries, fleeing political oppression, fleeing religious oppression. that s how our country was founded. but there is no problem. at least i don t think there is any problem having a merit-based system for immigration and there
ignores the evidence that immigrants that come to america from nigeria actually have a higher education level than americans. so there you go, willie, more ignorance spewing from a president who i thought was going to spend this week trying to prove that he s fit for office and he hasn t lost a step mentally, but these bizarre rantings and ravings sound i ll say it sounds like grandpa sitting in front of the tv set when he s getting old and losing it and the sort of thing, you can t say that, grandpa, be quiet. except this guy is president of the united states and the damage it does, especially when paul ryan, mitch mcconnell and other republicans remain silent in the face of such hatred and bigotry. only a small hand. joe, of republicans coming out last night and condemn whack the president is alleged to have said according to washington post. we will get into the specifics of what he said.