administration s immigration policy. before we begin bussing up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. in the last two weeks texas has sent roughly 1,000 migrants to new york and since april they ve sent 7,000 migrants to washington, d.c., where the mayor has asked for help from the national guard. joining me now is the former acting secretary of homeland security under president trump chad wolfe. thank you for being with us. what do you think of this policy? do you agree with what the governor of texas is doing, loading them on buses and just dropping them off in new york and washington without much of a plan in terms of dealing with those municipalities? they re just handing them over. this is what dhs has been doing for 17 months. they re sending them into communities all over the country whether it s in new york, it s
to the border, try to cross illegally, putting their lives in the hands of smugglers, the trauma they have to endure through that process. what i would focus on is over the past 17 months, thousands and thousands of children have been separated from their parents because the biden administration policies. when you exempt minors from title 42 but yet you apply it to their adults or family members, we have reporting on this you put title 42 in place. thousands of families are separating themselves before they get to the border under this administration that dwarfs what occurred in 2018. chad, you were a part of putting that policy in place of separating children from their parents. do you regret being part of that? look, i totally agreed with president trump when he ended the policy. what i said at the time, once you lose the trust of the american people, when you are instituting those types of
15 years ago in islamic movements, to me in terms of leadups to violence like january 6, the model is basic. you have a group of people, a fairly large group, in this country who are angry. they have incendiary moments coming up, whether there will be charges around mar-a-lago, like moments when major politicians, maybe including the former president, say things that are incendiary, and they look at that and say putting those things together i need to act. to me that s the radicalization i ve seen my entire career. there is a fringe that will do something at a place like an fbi office, jim. and, phil, that same poll asked the confidence of the fbi. i think this is notable. 65% have some confidence in the fbi. about a third have little or no confidence. it sounds as though the public wants to see this investigation continue and they have faith in the fbi.
justice. do you think there was election fraud? i think there s a number of election irregularities, illegalities, and fraud. that s been widely reported on both the right and the left. but enough to alter the outcome of the 2020 election? are you an election denier? i would say any type of fraud, any type of election fraud this is important. any type of i don t want to just bypass was it a little or a lot. any fraud should be addressed. i don t think we can say, hey, there s a little fraud, so that s okay. i think that s very important. who won the 2020 election? obviously joe biden is president. i just answered your question. he is the president obviously. he is the president. i ve seen folks from trump world parse this out. do you believe that he won that election fair and square? i believe i just answered the question, first. let me answer it in two parts. one, joe biden is president. two, a number of irregularities,
administration s immigration policy. before we begin bussing up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. in the last two weeks texas has sent roughly 1,000 migrants to new york and since april they ve sent 7,000 migrants to washington, d.c., where the mayor has asked for help from the national guard. joining me now is the former acting secretary of homeland security under president trump chad wolfe. thank you for being with us. what do you think of this policy? do you agree with what the governor of texas is doing, loading them on buses and just dropping them off in new york and washington without much of a plan in terms of dealing with those municipalities? they re just handing them over. this is what dhs has been doing for 17 months. they re sending them into communities all over the country whether it s in new york, it s chicago,