Being part of the Michael Cohen conspiracy, bad news for the president. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In just a little bit, President Trump will be touching down in el paso, texas. Thats the city that he lied about in the state of the union not even a week ago, falsely claiming it used to have extremely high rates of violent crime. And there hell hold a rally to deliver the same old sthik he has been doing for months. During which time he has managed to torpedo his approval ratings, do a faceplant, and convince people in the middle that the democrats are better on immigration. So now with only three days to go until another deal or another shutdown, trump is going back to the border. This weekend, blessedly, for once, a rare moment of complete, total clarity and candor about what this entire standoff is all about. Rather than the fake statistics, rather than the lies, rather than the lurid, gross, madeup stories stolen from movies about women with
We say were outnumbered but he wore a jacket that will bring your game tyrus last time i was her to work. I were overalls. Were talking about politics. If you when youre going to preach . Tyrus ill talk a little bit. Politicking. Harris lets get to it. The president doubling down on his message of the economy is surging under his leadership. Pushing the issue yesterday on a visit to ohio. A state that is seen as a linchpin on his 2020 reelection strategy. Watch. Speak of the nice part about running for president this time as opposed to last time last time, you know, i said i was going to do it but i didnt do it. But i said it was going to do it. This time ive done it far greater than i said i was going to do it. So its going to be really easy on the debate stage when they hit me with nonsense and i say, really . But africanamerican appointment is the best its ever been. Hispanic, asian, women, everybody. Its all the best its ever been. How do you top that in a debate . What are they go
back with me now, mark preston, eva mckend, paul begala, and chris still so tees anderson. let me let me ask you, paul, it turned his back on congress, accusing all this time that you haven t done enough to secure the border. he saying actually, look to a different branch. this argument goes all the way back to mccain kennedy. this is an argument that congress should be able to get together on, they should be able to figure it out. i mean, there should be more enforcement on the border, there should be better resources to take care of those who are seeking solace in a country that was built upon the backs of immigrants. and the fact that politics are just doing to get in the way. and i would argue that democrats and republicans have got to come to a table together equally to try and get something done. and just again, not to be a negative nelly here, i just don t see that happening. i don t see, at this state, how democrats and republicans can get something accomplished that is s
that s what republicans have been saying for almost two decades now, since the mccain bill that mark brought up. so, if this biden trying to call republicans on it, and saying this is for decades what you said you want, part a, part b, if he really means, it republicans are on record for a long time saying if to secure the border first before you can do anything else. but it s a false choice. i feel it s never that way. i mean, even when president obama made concessions, immigration reform was never really in play. the illusionary troy is a politics everyone. stay with, us much more live coverage of tonight s big news. president biden given his state of the union address, and lebron becoming the nba s all-time scoring record.
Since our last issue the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) has picked up enormous momentum. The ILIR was founded last December to raise the voice for the estimated 40,000 to 50,000 undocumented Irish people in the United States. Since the original meeting in Manhattan on December 9, a series of town-hall meetings have taken