from iraq, we re not stopping the fight against isis, and we are not ceding the territory and the regional control to iran, that is a good message for the president. can i just add something, jason? i think it would be worthwhile, there is all this focus right now on what this means, the president s rough week, and the press has been struggling and focusing on that. this is a straightforward story of a president going over to visit the troops, saying hello, which is a customary thing to do, and we should be celebrating it for that in and of itself. jason: marc, do you think we will see a lot of corrections on the front pages of the newspapers and talk shows across the country? is that going to happen? no, absolutely not.ot they are already picking apart every word that he said. and to kim s point, the only video and the only audio we really need to hear is, are those troops were chanting usa, usa when the president and first lady walked in there, they love their commander in chie
there is only so much we can take after s investigations upon the investigation on the investigation. and i really do, a longon time ago, when president trump started the #witchhunt, people were laughing, but it really is true. they really have gone above and beyond looking forha something. it really is exhausting. i m really ready to get onto the other issues. jason: i used to be the chairman of the oversight committee, and you need to have some evidence and then you went after the people. that is not the way this is playing out right now, jeff. the message that it gives to those that are surrounding donald trump is pretty scary. this is all about politics and if the democrats think this is the right thing to do, they will pursue it. i m not sureic this is the right thing for them to do. they are creating an atmosphere of resentment and hostility that will eat them alive. it is not just going to hurt america where republicans live. it s not just going to hurt congress now, this is
port of entry and put them back in the hands of criminals. not a good move. jason: the rapes and the just exploitation of these people that are coming here, i don t know who to tell, i don t know how you and others who havn served the nation protecting the borders, how you tell the good ones from the bad ones. but it s not just human trafficking, right? let s talk about all the other things that are coming to the border that we say we are in opposition to, right? from drugs go through what you are also there to help protect the border. why do we do this? nancy pelosi said the president was making things up about criminality at the border. terrorists coming across the border, diseases coming across the border and i was shocked. i know what the data says because i veve been doing this r a long time. i.c.e. arrested 138,000 criminals, people with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, in the country this year. they did not just appear in this country, they came illegall
i.c.e., they do all these things, what is their message? how do you see this playing out? what s interesting, i was just talking about this on my instagram account. i can tell you, the reason why they do this is because they feel that, hey, the border security folks may not be voting for them, they support president trump. soot when you think about the ft that in 2006, barack obama himself said, u.s. senator, said that we needed secure fencing. he voted for the secure fencing act. people like hillary clinton, joe biden, chuck schumer, they all supported it. now they are against it, because president trump is proposing it. in addition to this, sebastian gorka mentioned something in the last segment that was very important. there are a number of criminals that are certainly trying to get in, not all, but certainly there are some. if we look back in 2017, i.c.e. out of their most folks they brought in, 74% of those folks had past criminal convictions.
but i think part of the message ought to be, and that is what the president said, come to the ports of entry, don t try to cross the border illegally. it s dangerous. that s a great point. first of all, i agree 100%. we are the most giving country in the world. we accept more refugees into the united states than any other country in the world combined. now president trump tried to do the right thing,no he tried to say, if you enter the country illegally, you won t be able to claim asylum, you need to go to a port of entry where you are safe, surrounded by federal agents, not at the hands organizations, and the aclu is quick to sue, like every time the president does something. a judge in san francisco says, yeah, the aclu is right, you have the right to enter illegally and claim asylum. do they understand what they did? they took the people out of the safety and w security of the pot of entry and put them back in the hands of criminal organizations who don t care about them, just giv