was true. so this goes beyond g hearsay. first, second, third. gregg: triple quadruple hearsay. the problem with this is where has the report and gone for me, as somebody who s into media, got the guy from der spiegel, who does not he makes up sources. mcclatchy is a reputable organization and they have to look at this and what this does or thehe organization. gregg: what about that? it raises questions. i looked last night when this came out for how the mainstream media handled it, what cohen said, what his so-called spokesman lawyer, lanny davis, said. and none of it gave me anyf confidencece that the sourcing about a cell phone that may have taken a vacation on its own somewhere near the czech republic, which is about all that seems to be reported, is the case.
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no. is it going to stop all illegal immigration? no. but it is going to reduce it and make it harder for illegal immigration to take place. that will deincentivize people from making an arduous journey, where many of them risk and sometimes lose their lives. gregg: do we know of cases where terrorists have come across the southern border? i think there s been a lot of speculation. i remember quitern well when the late senator john mccain was grilling the undersecretary for border security in 2004 about transnational criminals crossing the border and whether they are terrors that cross the border. honestly, he did not do a whole lot to convince me that dhs was able to detect whether terrorists were crossing the border war whether they in fact had at some point in the past detected them. regardless, terrorists are always looking for the soft spots to exploit, the vulnerabilities to exploit.
look at the medical screening facility at the border stations in the wake of the death this month of two young guatemalan children who had crossed the border and were taken into custody by customs and border patrol agents. the secretary s visit also comes on the heels of hundreds of immigrants being released onto the streets of el paso this week by immigration and customs and forward enforcement agents. they say they are constrained by law or for how long they can detain immigrant families. secretary nielsen, by the way, gregg, is due to visit border facilities in yuma, arizona, tomorrow. gregg? gregg: jonathan, thanks very much for joining us with more reaction is author of how to weigh tax fee, kristen tate, along with the author of dark winter, retired brigadier general tony tate and fox news contributor richard jeffers. the president s critics have long accused him of exaggerating
pressure to go because the media covered it so much about him not visiting the troops. therefore, we are readinghe mins at this point init terms of the president s motive around this. three, the bias of omission. rarely have i seen any reports, or it s been buried, that the first lady, whose footwear was actually mocked. she wore timberlands. what also you supposed to wear to a war zone? no one talks about the fact that the first lady melania trump is the first first lady to visit a war conflict zone since 1969, lady bird johnson. you don t read about that, i can guarantee you that we had michelle obama, any bush, that would have been covered. those are your three themes. gregg: i spent a couple of months in iraq in 2003, right after the outset of the war, and i wore timberlands. good thing the media didn t figure that out. congressman, what is your take on all this? without a doubt, gregg, happy new year. you were seeing a media that will pick apart anything that