about them, and it s really about demonizing immigrants. certainly that s not who we are the court blocked that. it should not have been done in the first instance, and wolf, there were when it came to reunificati reunification. many families were released. everybody stand by, there s a lot more we need to discuss. we will after a quick break.
because the party chose to go down this road, playing to racists and xenophobes, demonizing immigrants, allowing a manufactured crisis at the border to shut down our government. when you do that, what you get is someone like congressman king, someone who feels emboldened to use language that s not a dog whistle. it s straight-up hateful. it s a bullhorn. the latest was just this week when the congressman told the new york times, quote, white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization how did that language become offensive? why did i sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization? well, today congressman king just made excuses for what he clearly said, sounding an awful lot like he is trying to paint himself as a victim. i regret the heartburn that has poured forth upon this congress and this country and especially in my state and in my congressional district. but the people who know me know
you just said that the president demonizing immigrants, and this is another sort of sleight of hand that the left loves to try to put over on the american people. he has never demonized immigrants. he is against illegal aliens. breaking and entering into the country. he s against a lawless border. he loves legal immigrants. he s married he s married let me tell you this, i have asked you in the past, and i will ask you again today to stop referring to me as left. let me remind you that i was a republican when donald trump was a democrat. i was a republican when donald trump was an independent. you re a very leftist republican. i was supporting republicans when donald trump had hillary and bill clinton at his wedding and was giving nancy pelosi money. so the fact that people like you have enabled donald trump to take this party hostage and change and give up and compromise convictions and principles, republican ones that i grew up with does not make me left. i fled left, i f
i mean, this is an entitled rich spoil little brat whose only call to fame is being his daddy s son who hasn t built anything of his own, who hasn t done anything of his own, who is somehow trying to hang on to the fame of his father in order to have some level of relevancy. steve is right, he didn t even make the cut that his brother-in-law and sister did to be part of the oval office and the white house staff. daddy kept fredo back home, so who cares what donald trump junior says. who cares what donald trump jr. says. i don t want to talk about that entitled little brat. you just said that the president demonizing immigrants, and this is another sort of sleight of hand that the left loves to try to put over on the american people. he has never demonized immigrants. he is geagainst illegal aliens. he s against a lawless border.
immigration problems we have in this country for folks who are here illegally, there is a deal to be done here. the question is whether they have the political courage to give the president a pittance, a few billion dollars out of this larger package to meet a political need of his. joe, did you hear last night a willingness to compromise? no. the president just restated where he was. if i don t get my wall i m not re-opening the government. i m going to take my ball and no one can play until i get what i want. should democrats give what rick santorum called a pittance? there is more than a pittance here. i agree with the senator we need to look at it as a broader border security. the president didn t say anything about daca. didn t say anything about dreamers. there was nothing there. while he may have identified a humanitarian crisis that he helped create by separating families, most of the speech was about trump vintage 2015 demonizing immigrants. he spent roughly a quarter