and hear from us. business does not work in a vacuum. everybody here is being impacted. educational system, medical system, certainly business, and even, you know, judicial system. everybody gets impacted. i think business has a role, i think we should have a voice and i appreciate you giving us this voice and allowing us this platform to reach out to the president, to reach out to congress and say you need to come down here, see what we are experiencing and what our christmas is looking like. sandra: let me ask you about the blow to businesses you are talking about here, that these hispanic business leaders are warning of as this continues. can you quantify that for us? i mean, what maybe that s hard to do, but give us some sense of what you are preparing for and what you are preparing these small businesses for as more and more come over that border. think about the situation that every american small business is faced with right now
and i think that s where we need to go. we need to talk about the past and its context but then talk about how we re going to move forward in the future. i think joe biden was trying to say in order to get things done in the united states congress people are complaining a lot about us not getting anything done in congress. and the only way you can get it done is sometimes you ve got to deal with individuals who you don t like. for example, me and the current president. when they did and worked out with my good friend cedric richmond and hakeem jeffreys on the crime bill, prison reform, they then worked a deal. it s not that we changed our opinion of donald trump. but if there s something that we can do to benefit folks, you try to do the deals. but you still want to make sure that you tell the truth about those individuals. and i think he did that. i think the problem that he ran into, at least from my viewpoint, is you don t want to
bolton, this has been his thing. he s wanted to go and attack iran for years. so i am very concerned and very nervous. it is a critical matter of which we ve got to keep our response on, and i think those of us in congress we have to keep our eyes open and be very vocal and demand the administration communicates with us directly. well, you never know. maybe the combination of this presenting huge risk to this president, which i m sure he s aware of and he does have a natural reticence for military action, maybe it ll make his reach out to congress. and when he does, hopefully you guys can put things aside and work for the best result to this situation. let me tell you what s happening inside the party now. do you believe joe biden has something to apologize for? do you believe that these knocks on his busing stance, the 94 bill and now his statements about working with segregationist reveal he is out
it does not matter to me as much as round, havre. so because you have an important voice on the foreign affairs committee, what do you want to see here in terms of coordination with the white house, and how should this be looked at going forward? well, i couldn t agree more with what your initial statements were. number one, i think before there is any offensive attack or anything about going to war the president should come to congress. congress is the one that can declare war and the only one that should be able to authorize it. so i hope this president does not try to do anything as he has been doing with everything else to go around congress and come to us. senator rubio, he said, hey, the constitution says and even the war powers act which he then argued might not be constitutional, when the u.s. has attacked the president can respond. but isn t that about imminent threat to national security or interests, and would this qualify? exactly. i do not believe this will qualify,
i m not surprised i don t think anyone is surprised the white house is stonewalling in such a comprehensive fashion. they re going to lose in court. they have no leg to stand upon, and the cases that have gone to court so far they ve been losing. but clearly they trying to draw this out as long as possible. i think frankly hope hicks gives us a really good test case because their stonewalling has been so dramatic and so unsupported by law. so, you know, we have to take this first step to see if we can get answers under subpoena, and if we can t, then we go forward and we prosecute the case in court. so i think it s necessary, and yes, it s i think frustrating, and it is also dangerous in terms of a system of checks of balances that the administration would take us down this path. but congress is really left with no choice except to litigate to make sure we get answers. or to start an impeachment inquiry, maximize your powers and see where it goes from there. we could start an imp