we know there are elements within our caucus that felt it should be caps on the beds and i know strongly about it. i feel strongly about it. but the fact of the matter is the government is now open again. things are good ginning to function properly. i think that we have to look at this and see whether or not this is the best thing for the entire country at this point and maybe revisit this issue later. that is something that i think we need to take serious consideration about. i it don t think we ought to run the risk of shirting the government down. i think we just got a 45-second preview of the argument you ll be making over the next few days. thank you for your time. thank you so much for having me.
the person who best figured this out before donald trump, the guy who s the original wall fetishest, here he is. king brought that same model wall to the house floor way back in 2006. this is a guy who said he told trump quote i market tested your immigration policy for years. he s quoted as saying quote white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization. how did that language become offensive? how did it become offensive? king latter realized i think what he had said or that he had said it out loud, released a statement denouncing white spremism is. and brings us to the crux of the problem. donald trump is shirting down the government because heall most certainly correctly thinks
and thbrings us to the crux of e problem. donald trump is shirting down the government because heall most certainly correctly thinks his political fortunes are dependent on the steve kings of the world and people animated by bigotry and fear, people who began to fear their life under threat by desperate honduran women in flip-flops. what they want isn t policy. what they want is an ethically pure america and that s why this can t be solved in any normal deal making terms. joining me pramila who s work with immigrants before she came to congress. do you think a deal can be made? or do you think this is fundamentally existential and cannot be made? it s fundamentally existential. this has never been about a wall. he could have gotten funding a
that people can get out if through lease a fire or something like that. but as we looking at hardening targets. bad guys are just like water, they re always going to take the path of least resistance. so if you harden a target, if school is better prepared, better protected, that bad guy is going to think twice. it brings up the question of metal detectors, it brings up the question of dress codes, because there are calls across the country for schools to be safe. it s that whole argument about civil liberties and keeping us safe and making it a police state. if you want to have students come to school with their shirting tucked in. i think that s reasonable. we don t want to turn school
and lost that election. and maybe you want to pick a member of the fastest growing member of the minority in america, and that is the castro brothers. and that is interesting the k castro brothers from texas and not cuba. and you know with that. and it does more than check a box, because secretary castro is amazing. incredible. they brought him up here to d.c. to kind of shove him away are from the local politics, but also secretary perez. yes. and we are not just checking the boxes. and s.e. is shirting. well, it is lunacy, because older white men, and that is - where she is losing, and that is going to be her main problem area, and she needs a tim kaine on the ticket, and not some unknown maybe latino super unknown secretary that nobody