are upsetd about the delayed checks to furloughed federal government employees which i am sympathetic towards. but the president is making the case that we have americans being victims of crime, homicide, sexual assault, other violent assaults that we have trafficking and that we have that s going across the border.tr human trafficking, drug trafficking. to me, it s about life and death or inconvenience. this is not manufactured. you can t tell the son of officer singh that is a manufactured crisis. this is a real life and death situation for many american families and i wanted to get your reaction to tonight s. first of all, the president gave an outstanding speech. it was concise.to, it was compassionate and truly compassionate. he provided the context both in terms of what s going on in the border, the expense, which is deminimis and who is really responsible. let s keep a few things in mind when you watch schumer and pelosi, they are pathological liars.
loved ones again. children who grow up without fathers and mothers. parents who are forced to bury there children. now because of the devastation and impact of uncontrolled borders, even democrats once fully supported these border walls. b in 2006, democrats and republicans did come together to fund a partial a border wall secure fence act. 64 democrats in the house voted in favor of the billce in the senate. it passed with overwhelming support in both parties. chuck schumer, who says this is a manufactured crisis, he voted for the wall. hillary clinton voted for it. barbara boxer, dianne feinstein voted for the wall. barack obama, joe biden, but now that president trump is in office, well, now the wall is somehow immoral? take a look at one of the single most blatant flip-flops in american political history. take a look. i voted numerous times when i was a senator to spend money to build a barrier, to try to prevent
trucks for drugs coming into our nation. we can hire the personnel we need to facilitate trade and immigration at the border. we can fund more innovation to detect unauthorized crossings. the fact is that women andri children at the border are not a security threat. they are humanitarian challenge. a challengeth that president trump s own cruel and counter productive policies have only deepened. and the fact is president trump must stop holding american people hostage. let s stop manufacturing ang crisis, must reopen the government. thank you. leader schumer. thank you, speaker pelosi. my fellow americans, we address you tonight for one reason only. o the president of the t united states, having failed to get mexico to pay for his ineffective, unnecessary border wall, and unable to convince the congress or the american people to foot the bill has shut down the government.
professionals at the border want and need. this is just common sense. the border wall would very quickly pay for itself. the cost of illegal drugs exceeds $500 billion a year. vastly more than the $5.7 billion we have requested from congress. the wall will always be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with mexico. d senator chuck schumer, who you will be hearing from later tonight, has repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other democrats. they changed their mind only after i was elected president. democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis. and they have refused to provide our brave border agents with the tools they desperately need to protect
waiting for. the next paycheck goes out, as you know, sean, on friday. and that s the first paycheck that will have been missed if the standoff continues. sean: look, there are very significant issues here. on an emotional side, when i spoke to the parents last night on this program pierce corcoran 22 years old killed by illegal immigrant. a 5-month-old child will never see his father again. that would be police officer singh. 90% of the heroin coming into america, we talk a lot about the opioid epidemic. that s coming from our southern border. and then, of course, there have been violent crimes. there have been sexual assaults and violence in general. it s not it s 98% it s not the 98% of people that want an opportunity, butut these are real crimes being committed against real americans.ntut bret: right.ea and the democrats will say this is not a crisis we can solve this. and that s the question in the middle of america do people after this speech and after what you will hear