Thinks the media is cherrypicking these images and the president s aides are actually bringing him pictures showing these detained children smiling and plays games. More on that in a bit. The president has falsely blamed democrats for the situation on the border. He did so again today. I say its very strongly the democrats fault. Theyre obstruction. Theyre obstructionist, and they are obstructing. The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugeeholding facility. It wont be. You look at whats happening in europe. You look at whats happening in other places. We cant allow that to happen to the United States, not on my watch. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has been the point person to enforce the latest policy, and she has insisted the white house is enforcing the law, a point she made repeatedly in the white
i am considering exactly that. If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you, and that child may be separated from you as requir
please. i was just saying that the argument against this, of course, is that it actually takes pressure off china. when you have instability in europe, china also has its ambitions in east asia. china has maybe its own designs with regards to taiwan. so that s another factor to consider. 0bviously, they may be worried about the economic impact of sanctions. that may inadvertently hit china. but i think there are multiple interests for them as well in this equation. this is an equation with many variables. it won t be. crosstalk. so if russia makes a land grab for wherever and gets away with it, china thinks, 0h, we can do the same in taiwan? could it be that way? i don t know, that s a very dangerous proposition from the western perspective, if this were to happen. i would not be alarmist in this regard. i think china and you know, china and russia, they are not coordinating at the moment their attack broadly speaking, against the west. they re all looking after their own interests
ludicrous, and so it was a major mistake, and i m glad some republicans, especially in the senate, have called them out. and joe, you re one of the people who s called them out on paper. you were one of 140 republicans who sent a letter saying that, of course, violence like that isn t political discourse. i ll read a portion of your letter. history will mark this censure as a turning point for the rnc, a time of choosing between civility and patriotism on the one hand and conspiracy and political violence on the other. you know, i think so often, we see something that seems shocking, and we think it s a tipping point or a turning point. what makes you think, joe, that this one really is? it won t be, alisyn. it won t be a turning point. look, i m proud to have signed that letter, but i m a former congressman. the problem with that letter, alisyn, is there are too many formers. there aren t enough current. the current republicans generally keep their damn mouths shut.
under attack by an authoritarian regime. i think that will continue. the inflation, of course, will cause political problems at home, and there are a number of tools that the biden administration has to deal with it. none of them promise to eradicate the problem or even greatly ameliorate it, one thing i think wewill see is a release from the petroleum reserve. it will be coordinated, not just in the united states but other parts of the world. that may help. it won t be, again, a panacea, but it could add a little bit of relief. there are other things being talked about. a relief from the gas tax, or some senators have said we should top exporting natural gas. i don t see those things happening right now, in part because this export of natural gas is turning into the backbone of european energy security right now. so i don t see us curtailing that in order to keep prices at home down. and at this point, i don t see a lot of support for relief from
but because remember there was also reporting about a meeting donald trump had with some of his doj officials, we are again, he was being told that there was no fraud undermining the election. and he said, the words out of his own mouth, which actually constitute direct evidence, i don t care if there was no fraud, just say there was, and leave it up to me and my allies in congress! intent is usually hard to prove. it won t be, if we can just get this case before 12 people in a jury box. and that is up to merrick garland, where is merrick garland? that is the question every single day. glenn kirschner, thank you so much. always great to talk with you and make some sense of this. stick around for tonight s absolute worst as irony becomes the so-called free state of florida delicious export. that is next. that is next