5,171 applications for credible fear asylum request. 2016, 91,786. an increase of 1675%. do you think there is any fraud there, dinesh? i would like to step back for a moment and look at this a slightly different way. the founders looked at america as a kind of moral community. a group of people who have a common set of values and a common destiny. almost in some senses like an extended family. if someone came banging on your door and said listen, i am in fear because i m being chased by a gang, i would submit that the ordinary person would be a little skeptical before giving them asylum, before saying come in. you can move in because you have a credible fear. it s now become our responsibility. most people would say wait a minute. i have a direct obligation to my own. as for others, coming in from the outside, i am sympathetic. but on the other hand, it s not necessarily my problem.
i didn t know all of this. you have said in the past, you said once to larry king that you suffer from multiple personality disorder. i don t suffer from it anymore. i enjoy it. you said i do crazy things and you don t know you do or don t want to do. does that still happen in your life? well, i guess it does if you are drunk. sean: do you get drunk a lot? do you have substance abuse? no. i would love to develop it. drink what you could drink. sean: you said you can t drink. i take three kind of antidepressants every day. two kinds now. one is a blood pressure pill, so that s three. i take an antidepressant and a
but so much love. that s what i was going to tell you, sean, but you were going through this trash. no, you have been a good friend. sean: i want you to tell your story. i was so scared to go outside. everyone thinks i am a racist. i live on an island that is all brown peep. people. my daughter said every day people come in and we know who your mom is. i would go out on the street and people would rush up to me to tell me they loved me. they don t think what happened was [inaudible] and the other people saying mean things that are not political but just mean. it blew my mind. i have never felt this kind of
these images. it s not that the republicans are insensitive. the republicans are scared of being portrayed as insensitive. the democrats are using that charge, even though at heart they know it s fake. what i mean by that is look, we live in a world in which a lot of these problems, gang violence, domestic violence, these are epidemic particularly the favelas in brazil, the slums of bombay, all over china. these are global problems. america has never taken the position that our doors are open worldwide to anybody who is suffering from these problems. we create very carefully carved out exceptions, for example, political persecution or as you said earlier, religious persecution. that is it. but the democrats are using the fact that they are able to dramatize these problems on our border to create a kind of emotional stampede.
putting that aside, if you read the indictment and the logic of it, it kind of excludes the possibility that there could have been the kind of espionage conspiracy everybody was so whipped up about that because he investigation a start in the first place and led to mueller s appointment. if it is winding down, i sure hope it s winding down laura: a report out today that mueller is looking through the president s tweets. who thought he wasn t? who thought he wasn t? i have been looking at them too. kim, have you been looking at them? laura: i have to play this for you. preet bharara was on cnn today with wolf blitzer and they were excited about the tweet story. let s watch. the tweets he sends late at night and early in the morning, often out of anger, go some way to showing what is state of mind was and to prove obstruction