only democratic votes. under arcane senate rules, that means they have to go through the parliamentarian to get everything approved to basically get her permission to include what they want to include in the bill. we have been waiting all last week for an answer from that parliamentarian on whether the immigration stuff could be included in the democrats bill. then this weekend she finally issued her ruling saying the democrats immigration proposal as it was presented to her, no, she is not going to let it be put in the bill. basically said it was too broad and democrats need to go back to the drawing board. now, even before the parliamentarian issued a ruling this weekend, democrats said that they had other plans, that if she said no, they would not give up, they would not take no for an answer, they would keep revising their plan and coming up with new proposals until it passed muster with the parliamentarian because they are going to pass something.
mentioned earlier, we also have the election bill. we also have the to pass. we have a bunch of immigration stuff that s going on. so what is happening here in texas is centered by the abortion ban but so much more and we see that hard right turn in the state. and what s happening here is really interesting in terms of locking in some of these political folks we ve seen because we re coming up on redistricting. many folks thought well, has this pendulum swung too far to the right? is it going to snap back? i actually think this is the beginning of a longer term. the next three to five years perhaps in terms of texas hunkering down on this. i think that s important to have in terms of the context of what s happening on the ground here in texas. joyce, i want to zoom in specifically on texas and that abortion mandate. ag garland suing texas. can you talk us through the
know. but together those are all the agencies that do immigration stuff in the u.s. federal government. and there is no one formally in charge of any of those agencies right now. up to and including the whole department of homeland security. they re all run by acting officials who have been slotted in thereafter the last people running those agencies left or were fired. it s all short termers, no one confirmed by the senate, no one who s been vetted at all in anyway, except for the white house, which is great at that. in the time that no one has officially been running any of the agencies that handle immigration for the u.s. government. the trump white house has unveiled their three most radical immigrant policies since the muslim ban. just in the past few weeks with nobody running all those immigration agencies, they have announced their new plan to basically block people from applying for asylum in this country. they announced their new plan to make it so only people with lots of mon
the u.s. government does not have the department of homeland security, chief of customs and border protection. a chief of immigrations and custom enforcement, the government does not have a chief of the u.s. sit zernship and immigration services, all of those agencies have similar sounding overlapping names, i know. but together those are all the agencies that do immigration stuff in the u.s. federal government. and there is no one formally in charge of any of those agencies right now. up to and including the whole department of homeland security. they re all run by acting officials who have been slotted in thereafter the last people running those agencies left or were fired. it s all short termers, no one confirmed by the senate, no one who s been vetted at all in anyway, except for the white house, which is great at that. in the time that no one has officially been running any of the agencies that handle immigration for the u.s.
that is where they are. that is where the democrats all are. they are in the cul-de-sac. the rest of the country went forward. as soon as mueller let out the report the rest of the country went forward and said so what? that is what happened this week with the mueller hearing. we are on a track with the president and his policies, the economy is growing and doing well. we have to take care of the immigration stuff. but the democrats are over there in the cul-de-sac; particularly, nadler, schiff, cummings and the various groups that want to just keep investigating the committees in congress that want to keep investigating. it s a problem. yeah. congressman, mcclintock, what is your take on it? they don t call it trump derangement syndrome for nothing. it requires a certain amount of derangement. that is what we are seeing from the democrats. the air force calls it target fixated that he get gets so fixated on the target he crashes in to a mountain. the first calls by the democrats