neilson says that s not the policy. the hair she is splitting is the policy is full prosecution of everyone and then that requires the separation and the argument would be that having this forced policy, they were discussing it but they weren t necessarily doing it. it is a lot of hair splitting here to be fair. what they announced earlier was a zero tolerance policy. you send every border crosser to the justice department. this will lead to children being separated from their parents and basically saying don t bring your country illegally. the secretary is splitting hairs here. i want to ask you about the prayer rugs. today he seemed to equate it with terrorism. he tweeted border rancher. it is unreal people coming across the southern border, some
border tweeting an unverified claim that a border rancher found prayer rugs and people coming across from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise. one muslim group denouncing trump s tweet saying he was issuing a, quote, dog whistle to those who would falsely associate a prayer rug with terrorism. all of this is news that in 2017 president trump created an enemy list made up of members of his own administration. former white house communication aide cliff simms writing in his book, give me their names, trump said, his eyes narrowing. i want these people out of here. i m going to take care of this. we re going to get rid of all the snakes, even the bottom feeders. trump then writing down the names of 15 staffers, 10 of which he deemed could not be trusted. that list later spotted in his jacket pocket. as for the shutdown, president trump just tweeted moments ago saying, i will be making a major
border rancher, quote, we found prayer rugs out here. it s unreal. end quote. citing the washington examiner. people coming across the southern border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise. he is suggesting muslims are terrorists and that everybody should get worried about what s going on. yes. this isn t the first time the president has made a derogatory comment about muslims. that was a central theme of his presidential campaign. he campaigned openly on banning all muslims from entering the united states. now he is making the claim of spotting a prayer rug without any evidence to support it. you will recall that in the closing weeks ahead of the midterms he claimed without evidence there were middle easterners part of a caravan heading toward the border. even if there were prayer rugs, there s nothing wrong with there being prayer rugs or muslims who
inexperience had him understand that protocol. the people around him have him knowning that. i think it s important to be able to see what s happening there and talk to people on the ground. i think it is all petty. i think the speaker probably should have cancelled that on her own. president trump is trying to turn the subject back to his need far wall tweeting today another big caravan heading our way, very hard to stop without a wall. attempting to further his argument that terrorists are trying to cross the southern border tweeting that a border rancher found prayer rugs and people coming across the southern border, some of which would be a big surprise. one denouncing saying he was issuing a quote dog whistle.
sides to put politics aside and come together and end the shut down. we don t hear from him very often when it comes to anything in politics. he is making the point that look, there are so many of the 800,000 federal employees, so many of them are working right now with no paychecks coming. tsa agents, coast guard personnel, there are efforts to at least try to pay those employees that have been considered essential and are working right now. i think at the end of the day what people want to do is what democrats want to do is reopen the government. everyone stick around. we haven t even talked about muslims are dropping their prayer rugs and even more that s