secure, for border control and for frank lit wall or the barrier. i have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in and in terms of people writing in and tweeting and doing whatever they have to do. i ve never had this much support, and we ve done some things, as you know, that have been very popular, so i m going to ask brandon jutd to judd and few words. this group has apprehended last year 17,000 criminals trying to get across the botherrder, 17,0. that s one category and there are plenty of others. the other thing that has been so incredible is what they have done in terms of drugs and stopping drugs, and with that, and with everything else, plenty unfortunately come through our southern border, but i m going ask brandon to come up and say a few words and maybe introduce our friends and some very brave people. brandon, please, thank you. thank you, mr. president, we
send it over to the senate. interesting to see. i wonder whether mitch mcconnell trump s hold on senate republicans, that s the biggest question of the next few days and weeks and months. does he continue to have the stranglehold that anna said he correctly had over the first two years. the november elections, the firing jim mattis resigning and the stock market. a lot of things have come together to weaken that hold now and can mcconnell just say i m sorry, i m not bringing it to the floor? if it gets 260 votes in the house, report out of the last senate judiciary committee with republican votes and the same is true with appropriations bils bill can mcconnell say i m not bringing the bills? do you think next week when there s actual pressure from constituents when they need to do work epa, one thing to close and have a fight over the wall and have a short-term appropriation for homeland security, nothing other to close six other cabinet agencies because you re holding them
just do not understand, but difference is nancy pelosi is now in that room as the speaker of the house, and she is not playing games. she s made very clear, did an interview the other day saying isn t it on you, the reporter asked her, isn t it also own, don t you have some responsibility if you won t compromise and she said, no, i don t have any responsibility because the people do not support a government shutdown over thiswell wall. the government s campaign promise was mexico is going to pay for the wall and now you re asking the american people. donald trump is not about to drag me down the crazy hole. they need to get the government back open. donald trump and his white house are masters not of the deal but of distraction and deflection. it s been a pretty good day for nancy pelosi. people are practically playing tambourines and chanting happy songs, and you can sense and see with your own eyes the change that is happening there. there s women all over the place. there s childr
enemies. this is what i ll say about this though. i think that it seems like so long ago, but today a blue check was put on donald trump. that was a referendum on his and republicans closing argument in 2018. they did this already this, fearmongering, the thing about immigration, that these migrants and immigrants are rushing the bothered and we have to secure or border. they did this already in 2018 and they were rebuffed by the american people, and so for the president to come out today with carbon copies of mat uwhitaker standing behind him behind the press podium and whine about his wall on an historic day for democrats is on suffered and zs something that the american people told you they didn t want. this is not doing him or republicans any favor and i m waiting to see when republicans in congress will stand up with him. he wanted enough attention on he knew that if they called the press in there, everyone would take it live. everyone would cover it. it reminds me actually
birth certificate and at the end he said oh, yeah he what is born here and left. he got all this attention. the recent you asked the question why. it s obvious. because they then control the narrative. right. we ve had an entire where we were going to talk about oversight and talk about investigations and potential impeachment, and the attorney general of new york and instead for 30 minutes we re talking about what donald trump wants to us talk about which is donald trump, his favorite subject in the world. let s talk about the false narrative here though, right? he said something off the top that it was interesting to hear where his mind was though it was not in fact land to be clear. he said he s never had so much support. i ve never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security, control, the wall or the barrier. calls coming in, people writing in and tweeting. okay. if he is getting calls and tweets, that is not a measure of where the am