all the various technologies to deal with the border and the integrity of this thing. we were never a wall away. it was never a panacea. but it is part of an equation of barriers and ways to detect who comes across. but it s not the big problem. the big problem are the rules. what is asylum? where do you apply for asylum? how does that process work? who processes those claims. yeah. and where? how many people? they have a budget shortfall right now. they don t have the places to keep these people. that s why they need that s why they need the money. that s why they need the big overhaul. both sides have been in power. i don t believe in that both sides in this one. i don t like to both sides things. i think the obstructionists to what has been happening with immigration overall, the obstructionists have been republicans. okay, so, oh, you want too much. you want people to be able to come into the country in an orderly, humane way. how is that bad? that s not bad. we spend m
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having to possibly come in to contact with people on horses and so on and so forth. that is the that s the definition of systemic, whatever it is. systemic racism, systemic whatever. it s built into the system. the system is created or set up in a way that it isn t fair to anyone, really. i agree. now, look. we have a this and that. this is you use any part of your horse or your tack the wrong way to abuse somebody, you re going to be held to account. they ll do that investigation. that is i m telling you, don, i believe that politicians on both sides do not want to fix this situation. it works too well for them broken. the right gets to demonize what i characterize as the brown menace. look at these people, coming here to take your job and ruin
protecting our democracy act. it proposes ways to prevent presidential power from being exploited. and when we saw how executive norms were abused under trump, how far does this bill go in stopping that from happening again? well, it s a bill very much like the sweeping post watergate reforms that were designed to address the abuses of the nixon administration. here we attack the politicization of the justice department, the way the former president used it as his private law firm and used it to go after his political enemies. we protect whistle-blowers. we protect inspector generals from being fired except for good cause. we make it clear that a president who commits crimes can be held accountable. we told the statute of limitations so they don t escape justice by staying in office. we give enforcement mechanisms to the hatch act so that a president can t use the federal workforce as his campaign
because it was too big. he did have the numbers, but it was too big. he wanted to do too much. there was too much they wanted in it. how much is that humane, for someone to be humane, how is that too big? i don t think it is. but i m saying what was in the proposals that were put forward. you got to be small. you want to do the dreamers, do the dreamers. do it. the right won t do it. why? because they want family reunification and all these other little things they believe are cheats to the system. they won t just do the dreamers. trump said he would. the right came to him and said be quiet, and then he shut up about it. he just talked about the wall. i ve got to ask you, why do you why is investing in it, if it s a overhaul, a complete overhaul investing in humanity, how is that too big? i don t think it s too big. i m happy for them to do it. yeah. look, here is what needs to change on the border. anybody who is down there sees it this way, okay. yes, you need your ph