that smuggler taking off from police. back out here live, it s not just people coming across the border daily. it s massive amounts of drugs including hundreds of pounds of fentanyl and cocaine. thanks, alexis. republican senator from montana steve daines says he s a northern border state with a southern border crisis. thanks, senator, for being here. do you believe that designating these cartels as terrorist organizations is a good idea and do you think it will happen? well, it s a good idea. look, enough is enough. these mexican cartels are invading our country. they re spreading fentanyl and methamphetamines across our communities. 100,000 americans now are dying every year because of this. that s equivalent to having a major airliner crash every day
today conveniently ran out of time for questions on this topic. the president laughing about it is more interested in scoring political points instead of coming to agreement and compromise. martha: geraldo? that s taking way to seriously. what president biden should do is absolutely drop the spontaneous humor. he has bad quips. he s not good at it. his timing is off. maybe he has hearing problems, i don t know. he always falls flat when he tries these spontaneous jokes. so far as his reaction to senator josh hawley, probably at least since january 6th, 2021, the most conservative member of the united states senate, biden just reflectively opposes anything that he s for. in terms of senator hawley specifically, i recall in 2021
he was the sole vote in the united states senate against the establishment of a hate crimes bill having to do with asian americans in the wake of a plethora of hate crimes against asian americans. hawley was the only vote against that proposed legislation in the united states senate. here he opposes hate crimes bills when it comes to asian americans but he s for it when it comes to christians. we have to wait and see what this manifesto has to say. it s a hateful deed, an evil deed regardless of what the motivation of the shooter was. but we have to i think be patient and see what happens. i mean, it s pretty clear there was an attack on a christian community, a church, a christian school. and as you say, we re going to wait to see what is in the manifesto. i hope we get to see that soon. on another note, katie, looking at some background on the law
of josh hawley saying, oh, our base, this is what we want. well, our base wouldn t be this base if the leadership acknowledge the facts and truth at the very beginning. so, let me ask you after the election. what is the trigger, then, for mcconnell to do this? because that s as forceful as he has been about this issue. maybe there is not a ton of debate going on in the republican party. but there is one around whether embracing the january 6th rioters is a liability or advantage come november. some, maybe mitch mcconnell himself, but someone has decided it is a liability. it is a liability and it is probably reflected in their internal polling. mitch is nothing if not calculating. mitch is nothing if not dialed in. and so while josh hawley thinks, yet, this is where the republican base is, it s a small portion of the republican base that buys into what the rnc did, relevant to the potential loss come this