what are democrats sort of prepared to do to pull this back to where we at least have a policy debate and we re not worried about children being ripped out of their parents arms? i think that it s very important that democrats continue to press hard on this issue. because, as you said, this policy is still going on. i mean, that s the thing we have to remember. this isn t some historical exhumation of something horrible that happened in trump s presidency. this is the reality today in the united states of america at the border. so it s important for democrats, for activists, and just for citizens to say, hey, this is not who we are as a country. professor butler is exactly right. this is not what we stand for. these people are coming here to make a lawful claim for asylum. we need to honor our laws, honor our values, and we need to stop putting our children in metal things that are cages, no matter what you call them. my heart just hurt a little
the government, but the american people are actually the bosses, right? they work for us. and if we have questions about why they are not able to get security clearances, why they are lying about their ability to get security clearances, they have to answer to us. and we these are people who aren t just pushing papers in the white inhouse. jared is just overseas in six middle eastern countries last week including saudi arabia, where he met with mbs. if this guy can t get a security clearance and we re being lied tonc repeatedly about the fact that he couldn t get a security clearance and whye he couldn t get a security clearance, i have a big issue with that and they need to be transparent with the american people about what happened and why they continue to lie aboutha it. and just to pick up on something emily said, the worst thing that can happen isn t that they lied. the worst thing that can happen is unknown. only the intelligence community knows the worst thing that could hap