rights of this country to protect its border and the right for bor border pa l patrol ageno protect themselves. kevin mcaleenan took the same treatment, while the minority leader in the senate, chuck schumer led a group of democrat senators down to mcallen, ground zero, for this crisis and he blamed the president s administration for not coming to the table. he s waiting on them. take a listen to this. h you change the policy from the top. that includes the president, that includes mr. miller, that includes the top people at cbp. we would like to work with the republicans but so far they ve been intransigent. we re waiting for them to come together with us. we hope and pray they will.
look, i have done everything i could to get this wall. i shut the government down when i needed to. that s what he would say. he will veto the resolution including against people of his own party to stand up for what he believes in. so this question as to whether this is a new trend among republicans wanting to split with a popular president among republicans. you had a vote this week going against the war in yemen. you have a push to hold saudi arabia accountable for the murder of khashoggi and a push among republicans. does the white house fear it is facing i don t know if intransigent is the word but a republican party willing to challenge him. i don t get the sense they fear him. they think republicans who stray will suffer. i don t see a lot of fear here.
and, of course, all these separate and in some cases overlapping probes being done by various house committees right now. and if any of these i think there are two things that have to happen. one, if any of these probes produce evidence of criminality, and, two, that evidence is such that it moves public opinion in a way that republicans, you know, are impacted, that s when you move to impeachment. if they don t produce evidence of criminality, then you don t. i think the tricky question is what happens if we find clear evidence of criminality by the president and the republicans don t move? but that is when they have to explain it to the voters, and if impeachment becomes off the table, not because there s no evidence of a crime by the president, but republicans are just being intransigent, you re going into an election cycle when you have all the republican members of the house up for re-election, you have a number of them in the senate, including in swing states, and you have the
but this will only good uglier seeing the mobbing of pro-maduro militia here, battered by the crowd and spared only by colombian police. and if the symbolic bid to get aid in peacefully failed, then these scenes are what venezuela is left with. you saw some defections there. there were 60 in total yesterday. that appears to have grown now to a total of over 100. that s venezuelan soldier surrepresenting to colombian officials to get a bit of few you possibly could argue. we re told that number could pa grow. that could be the big takeaway that the military s control is eroding to some degree to the low-level ranks but also, too, those scenes cynics say this may have been the point to show the maduro government is intransigent, doesn t want to let food in. now we have to bring it to the white house with the beating of
not look at one person willing to negotiate, bidding against himself, and another that was incals trant, we re not intransigent. they would not move whatsoever and say we think it s the person that s trying to negotiate, it s his fault. that s unfortunate, but perception in politics does make a difference. congressman. we have got to have a wall where we need it. the bottom line and the president understands that. kristin: i only have a few seconds. congress has three weeks to get a deal, would you be willing to promise for daca recipients and tps recipients. look, that would be bidding against ourselves and i ve never been in favor of that. and the border patrol says every time you guys talk daca or amnesty, we get another huge surge. i don t want people dying on the way here or pulled into sex trafficking. let s just get it done.