Difference of opinion on immigration legislation that weve put forward. Youve had different ideas. I have no doubt that as Attorney General, youll faithfully execute the office. I appreciate the answers that you have given today. Unanimous consent to submit a column written by our own Attorney General in arizona, Mark Burnovich for the hill. Without objection it will be included. Supporting your nomination. Let me talk to you about an aspect of immigration thats important in arizona. As you know, we have a large border with mexico. We have a program called Operation Streamline that has over the years been tremendously effective in cutting down recidivism in terms of border crossers. Its intended to reduce Border Crossing by expeditiously prosecuting those who enter the country illegally over a no
tolerance or Zero Tolerance policy. Its credited with being instrumental in achieving better Border Security specifically in the yuma sector along the western side of arizonas border with mexi
opposition party, to which the president said this. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. back with us, for. back with us ej deon and norm orrinstein. the president also said in this press conference that the build back better legislation could be broken up into bits that might be managed through the senate so they can get some of that legislation. same thing with voting rights. he indicated there are ways to pass some elements of what s in the various voting rights piece of legislation with some republican cooperation. so in both of those instances but in especially on voting rights today the president was clear it s not over. norm, what are the prospects as you see it going forward legislatively for joe biden and the democrats?
dana: one of the things they started to do the build back better bill has been languishing for a while. not going to pass before christmas. many democrats saying we should really work on the voting rights piece of our agenda so they are shelving build back better already so, to me, that means like the longer this sits out there, the longer he might look like a lame duck president before he even gets to the first state of the union address. he is like a lame duck president because even the new york times is writing an article about who should run for president telling him not to run for president. cori bush one of the squad members or one of the radical congresswomen is saying we re loading in 2022 because will joe biden. what we have are all of these people that already know democrat. he kept talking about, kept saying to myself what is he saying, why is he saying he is going to win? what he was saying was we stand with the people. we made historic progress. that s exactly my poi
years ago under republican george w. bush that there was a vote in a return to 1965 voting returns act. it seems a whole different world because of the contention, and the voting rights piece is a big one, but something that i have been thinking a lot about lately is redistricting. here in texas, we will start to redraw maps like other states across the country, and without the protections of the voting rights act, and then with the 2019 supreme court case that said basically partisan gerrymandering is good, and go ahead with it, that is what is so troubling to me in addition to the voting rights piece, and when you are looking at the john lewis voting rights piece, it is not just the voting, but it is the protection for how we draw the lines, and essentially, what are the rules of how people have them or represent the folks who have them. jake, you have talked about
watch leader of the kkk. right. now, let s go into this piece. the voting rights piece, which is interesting. his state right now is in the middle of this voting rights issue. many of the alabama motor vehicle offices were moved out of urban areas. people had to go to driver s licenses to get to the polls. here he is saying, oh, he plooefz in voter id, and then they just came up with an agreement with the department of transportation to fix this problem, and this is the devil is in the details. this is the first time in 15 years that people have not seen the full enforcement of the voting rights act, and there is still a problem. if they get into that piece, that is a big piece. then criminal justice. it almost sounds like he was in a different stand than president-elect donald trump. donald trump says he is putting more of a focus on supporting the police, but now we heard sessions say, yes, we support