world. people listen to that and could have easily heard, this isn t a priority. isn t that a problem? you know, here s what i understand from my conversations with the white house and with folks who are doing their best to fix what has been a very broken system. i think the white house and i see the challenge we face on immigration not as a border issue. these are challenges that exist long before migrants get to the border. that s why i m very supportive of the work being done by vice president kamala harris to address root causes. we have to do more than that, though. we ve got to work with our hemisphere partners. congress has a role to play in opening up legal pathways. i will say, kate, i asked the president to come to the border when he was a candidate. i welcome him to the border. the border is about more than just immigration.
the question is whether or not we care enough to do it and if action isn t taken, then the message everybody is sending is it doesn t matter what you do as law enforcement. because we re not going to hold you accountable. so yes, sending that message loud and clear is absolutely critical. rachel, it does strike me as we re talking about the department of justice that no doj officials appeared at the hearing. a couple of them including the attorney general are going to appear before the same committee next month. first, what s your reaction to doj officials not being there, and what do you want to see lawmakers ask them during that hearing? i was very upset that they were not there, because, again, what it communicates is this isn t a priority, and when you communicate this isn t a priority, it tells survivors you don t matter and there s no reason to speak up because our justice system isn t going to protect you anyway. their lack of presence, they sent that message loud and clear.
can he take the bull by the horn while nancy sits on panels and say impeachment isn t a priority for us? she has to agree to a vote in the house to initiate an impeachment inquiry. it s hard to believe but in 1974 that vote was 410-4 to launch which doesn t mean he will be impeached. you have to be careful in trying to dot the is and cross the ts so we don t find ourselves in endless court battle with the president claiming executive privilege for lawyers and every one else. did you say 410-4? correct. you couldn t get 410-4 on the fact that i m bald today. thanks so both you have. what a spirited discussion. it s got a lot of detail. the case for impeaching trump.
we re losing all these lies. human trafficking, drug trafficking, violence, i mean saving american lives isn t a priority. why do we have of the govt.? what is their role? sean, you re exactly right. i loved your opening statements. look. the vast majority of the country, understand, this is a crisis. democrats get t republicans get it. independents get it. the only people who don t get it are democrats in washington d.c. and it comes right down to tissue. democrats in washington are more concern about stopping the president than they are in helping the country. more concern about stopping president trump, than deal wealth 400,000 apprehension on the border last year alone, and drugs, the gangs, the human traffic violence that you talked about. so until their constituents tell them, that s why it s great, you put the number on there. until the constituents tell them, focus on the country. focus on the crisis. we re not going to get this problem solved and we saw that
i m kind of nervous. going to meet girls who ve been chosen to tell their stories to the first lady of the united states. i m wondering how i can help them. what is they really want to say? the girls i m about to meet, like many in liberia, come from families that somehow survive on just a few dollars a day. getting girls in school and keeping them there usually isn t a priority. and school can be dangerous for girls here. sexual assaults are a big problem. i really hope i can help them tell their stories because i understand what they re up against. i m a child from this continent. i m an african child whose parents came from very humble beginnings, whose grandparents weren t educated.