but the notion that somehow we re insecure i mean, i have two daughters, i have a wife, you know, i come to d.c., i flew from san diego today. i can tell you, they are safe. they are safe in san diego, much safer than they would be here in d.c. you get the impression if you re watching from home, right, that there are hoards of people pouring over the border, jumping over walls at every moment. what do you say? what do you think? i think that s ridiculous. is that a fair assessment, just from no. that s the thing that s kind of funny. you go to the border and see long lines of people waiting to come in, but that s through the land ports of entry. so we have a problem of having huge wait lines to come in. and enough resources to handle it. right? we have plenty of resources. the reality is, we have never had so few people coming across the border as undocumented people. the reality is that it was back in 2000 or before that that we had a lot of people. the numbers are wa
the country. and the notion that we have a crisis there, a security crisis, is absolute nonsense. we do have a crisis of sewage, i can tell you that, for a fact. if they want to invest a lot of money, $5.7 billion, let s fix all the sewage issues. let s fix all the environmental issues. but the notion that somehow we re insecure i mean, i have two daughters, i have a wife, you know, i come to d.c., i flew from san diego today. i can tell you, they are safe. they are safe in san diego, much safer than they would be here in d.c. you get the impression if you re watching from home, right, that there are hoards of people pouring over the border, jumping over walls at every moment. what do you say? what do you think? i think that s ridiculous. is that a fair assessment, just from no. that s the thing that s kind of funny. you go to the border and see long lines of people waiting to come in, but that s through the land ports of entry. so we have a problem of having huge wait line
that baby is the same as my child at home right now. it is chilling. it is really difficult to watch. i absolutely agree. this is a window into the way that this system is currently working. i think that the fact the way that we talk about immigration in this country, republicans are talking about immigration like there are hoards of people climbing over the border and bringing, as they say, bringing drugs, bringing disease. they talk about these people as if they are animals and if they are coming to murder you and everyone you love when the reality of the situation is that you ve got all of these refugees, you ve got all these people fleeing their home countries looking for a better life because they are terrified of the place they are leaving behind and desperately trying to find something better for their child. the fact that they show up in this country and that something like this could happen to a child in u.s. custody is just awful. it s interesting, because the
kept saying the crown prince has denied it, he strongly denied it. we heard him say that about vladimir putin as well. john, i want to play you something else the president said about the u.s. policy at the southern border. they have to. they re going to use lethal force. i have given the okay. if they have to. i hope they don t have to. but you know, you re dealing with a minimum of 500 serious criminals. so i m not going to let the military be taken advantage of. i have no choice. but yesterday, secretary mattis said that those troops won t be using lethal force. so how does that square? it doesn t square. that s exactly the point. he s trying to use the military as sort of this deterrent and to convince his supporters he s actually putting the military at the border to throw back these hoards of innovator innovator. mattis said any use of force by our troops to protect border patrol would be in an extreme
a decision that he s mad about what s happened to the country and what s happened to his legacy under president trump and sees it as justifying extraordinary steps, which is coming out and basically calling him a liar, a fear mongerer and attacking the notion of sending troops to the border as a stunt. you know, it s really interesting as well, one of the most striking thanksgiviings i yesterday that came out of president trump s mouth at his rally in virginia he said people keep telling him he should be stressing the excellent economy we have, he said people say you should be talking about the economy and it s great we have it but sometimes it s not that exciting to talk about the economy. his choice to instead focus on this caravan and sort of create this misleading impression that these hoards of people tomorrow are going to show up and overrun the country, as opposed to present themselves for asylum at the border maybe two months from now is clearly an emotional