Of an illegal immigrant, allegedly. If he was the one behind it, there were plenty of opportunities for Border Officials to arrest him and send him back to venezuela. They never did so. There were a lot of cracks in the system. He was able to buck the system and allegedly pull this off. What do you think of how this was handled . Well, thats whats so frustrating about this whole thing, neil. Really when you think about when and where it started in 2022, this guy came across the border. You know, for over two years now myself and a lot of other republicans governors have been saying, we have mass migration happening at the southern border, illegal immigration. We have a situation where this persons arrested in new york and is released and then theyre arrested again, in georgia and released and nobodys checking him. You have someone illegal breaking our laws. They should have been deported and now we have, you know, unfortunately in a horrific crime, a dead 22yearold. Neil and the georgia governor isnt the only one asking questions and demanding answers from the white house on all this of and adds the president occupant of the white house and the former one were at the border, 300 miles apart essentially the same time this week. Griff jenkins at mission, texas with more and the quest for answers. Griff. Griff hey, neil, good morning, and we just got the latest numbers. In the last 24 hours more than 7,000 migrants crossed the southwest border. The majority of them coming in places like arizona and california, but that doesnt mean that the spot that President Biden went, brownsville, one of the least trafficked areas doesnt get migrants. Take a look at the video, Fox Shooting A few hours before, migrants from venezuela and showing up. In brownsville, part of the rvc sector, part of the efforts of governor abbott. Right along the river there, you can see miles of razor wire and obstruction cutting down on the numbers. Now, President Biden didnt mention anything about the texas effort to slow it down, but he did lean heavily into his presidecessor, trump, and te them for not passing the bill. And we need to act, for those in congress to pass the bill and show some spine, who we work for, not the democratic party, the republican party, we work for the American People. Left out of the president s remarks, laken riley, the slain student you were talking with Governor Kemp about. 300 miles away former President Trump certainly did bring it up, listen here. I spoke to the parents of an incredible young lady and you saw her the other day. You saw what happened the other day in georgia and the parents are devastated. Theyre incredible people. But this is a joe biden inv invasion. Griff and neil, clearly the issue of immigration and fears of cases just like what happened to laken riley is leading top of mind for voters concerns. By the way, i asked President Biden, i shouted a question, i said, mr. President , do you bear any responsibility for lakens death because of our policies . He chose not to answer and walked away. Neil, back to you. Neil but he seemed to hear the question just fine. Griff jenkins, thank you very much, my friend. Griff in mission, texas. Lets go to the white house, the president , i believe, is in camp david this weekend and Lucas Tomlinson is gauging how theyre reacting to this. Congress hasnt passed its budget by the end of the fiscal year near 30 years. Your guest in the last hour, Senator Mullen from oklahoma blames the white house for this log jam. Were still trying to get a bipartisan bill through that will secure the border and also do national security. Theres a lot of poison pills that was put in late by the white house. Keep in mind, James Lankford when he started negotiating this in the senate, we started this in late september, first of october. The white house didnt even engage with the senate or James Lankford until the week before christmas. Senator mullen says once the white house got involved the Budget Process went off track and republicans could not accept it. Now, congress has passed its latest shortterm spending bill thursday to prevent a partial Government Shutdown at the end of the week to give lawmakers a week for their funding disagreements, to put a mildly. Democrats providing most of the votes and republicans were roughly split in the measure. In Senate Lawmakers approved 7713. House Speaker Mike Johnson says republicans were trying to turn the Aircraft Carrier back to real budgeting and spending reform not easy to do that. Johnson says he tried to negotiate the bills individually, 12 in all, of course, rather than wrapping into a single sprawling, take it or leave it omnibus bill which lawmakers for years have complained about thousands of pages of text dropped in the middle of the night and lawmakers given a short time to go over it. The gift that keeps giving in a weird way. Lucas, while i have you here, can you tell us more about the aid drop in gaza that the administration is championing, three big u. S. Transports part of that. Whats the latest . Thats right, neil, today for the First Time Since the october 7th hamas massacre, the u. S. Air force dropping aid into gaza directly to aid the palestinians, it was three u. S. Air force c130 cargo planes dropping 66 pallets, some 38,000 meals used by the u. S. Military, reels ready to eat. Its a huge dispute. Some people say its a slap in the face to the Israeli Government that the white house is doing this unilaterally, instead of having israel deliver this aid, neil. Neil im wondering about that relationship between the president right now and netanyahu because its coarse at best when the president is speaking out netanyahu is going too far and this campaign is too cruel. Usually these things are discussed behind closed doors, certainly not mentioned in the press, so all bets are off. Thats right, the tensions are getting even more public, just in the wake of that tragedy in gaza when the israelis tried to bring in a convoy full of aid and there were hundreds of palestinians, thousands that rushed that convoy, some shots were fired, warning shots, apparently, but it was not enough to stop a stampede that killed over 100 palestinians, so the white house decided to take this measure unilaterally and deliver the aid itself, neil. Neil on and on it goes. Lucas, thank you very much. Lucas tomlinson at the white house. Meanwhile, go to Tony Gonzalez from texas kind enough to join us again. Congressman great having you. First of all i want to get to the border, but first your thoughts on aid and gaza relief that the administration is providing. Obviously its come dated thing for the Israeli Government here and puts us at loggerheads maybe with the best humanitarian intentions, but you know the drill, its being received differently in tel aviv maybe than it is here, what do you think. Thank you for having me, neil. Having spent 20 years in the military, five years in iraq and afghanistan, i think back to the time where we were bombing the taliban and also delivering aid to the people of afghanistan at the same time. And thats the difficult part that i think israel is dealing with. How do you separate hamas from the people of palestine, i mean, the people of gaza that live there. How do you separate those two . Nobody wants to see the images of hundreds of people getting run over by aid trucks, at the same time, nobody wants nobody wanted to see october 7th. This is kind of the difficulty of the situation. I dont think its going to get better, i think its going to continue to get worse. The sooner hamas can be eradicated the sooner, you know, the people in that region can be safe. Neil you know, i guess the criticism that netanyahu has been is hes not making any distinction and that the talk was that if donald trump got back in the white house he would show unequivocal support for things that netanyahu is doing right now. I dont know whether you concur with that. Theres no easy answer to that, but what do you think . Yeah, ive seen the israelis do everything they can to protect its civilians, but how do you defeat an enemy that hides within civilians . Think back to the vietnam war and think back to iraq, some of these city by City Conflicts that the United States has had. Its a very difficult problem set, right . At one end you want to cut off the he had of the snake. The other end you dont want to be seen, you know, killing innocent people and thats a spot israels in from the United States point, i think the sooner we can help israel eradicate hamas period, the sooner everyone will be safe. Neil all right. I just did want to pick your fine brain on that, congressman, because its Breaking News the Relief Effort in gaza ongoing. Id like to go back to the border, of course, youve been concerned about the lack of progress on security, on dealing with the migrant surge. The president will apparently in his state of the Union Address, sign some Executive Orders on things like asylum, who qualifies for that. We dont know how far he will go, but hes doing one thing youve advocated, taking action on his own. What do you think . Yeah, the devil is going to be in the details. You know, many people talk about us that live along the border, you know, youll have guest after guest that claims to be a border expert, but nobody seems to want to help us, they just want to talk about us. Ive given up on the president , ton honest, neil. I think ive heard enough double talk for the last time. I feel like as if im alone, the people i represent feel as if were alone. Its a reason why im circumventing the white house, im going straight to the directors and the secretaries. I had a meeting this week with the director of ice. What happened to laken riley is absolute tragedy and should never happen in this country and one of the things i asked him was, how many criminal illegal aliens are at large right now . He said thousands. So i worry, yes, how do we get here, thats a problem. Everyone can talk about how we got here. I just want us to get out of here and make sure there arent more laken rileys around the country and part of that is, one, we cant keep playing checks, Writing Checks and assume dhs is going to fix the problem. They havent, theyve only made it worse. At the same time you cant remove funding from the organization trying to do its job. One of the things he told me at the very beginning of the conversation, tony, were Law Enforcement agency and we want to get back to enforcing the laws. Neil so when we do get back to enforcing laws, a lot of that has to depend on other countries enforcing deportations when we bring a lot of their residents back. Id mentioned earlier to one of your colleagues when it comes to those from venezuela, where venezuela is saying, no, were not taking them. I mean, what do you do about Something Like that . Where a country where youre deporting, well, two, to get them back there isnt taking them back . This is why i love coming on your show because you understand the details in it and one of the conversations, ive recently visited mexico, i met with two leading president ial candidates that are going to replace lopez obrador, both of them. And one of the things i asked them, hey, look, the United States doesnt have a great relationship with venezuela, thats part of what the administration is saying, hey, we cant deport the people back to venezuela, but you know who does . Mexico has a great relationship with venezuela. So what if i told you we deported these criminal illegal aliens by the thousands to mexico and mexico deported them by the thousands to venezuela, kind of a leapfrog approach, if you will. I was very clear, i go this is something that would show mexico is a partner in helping us secure this border and if you want federal funding from the United States, by the way, i sit on the House Appropriations committee, this is the level of support im looking for. 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Essentially, the judge can decide whether he is going to remove ms. Willis and mr. Wade from the case and then also determine whether that would, by Extension Disqualify her entire office. I think that it would. Thats the crux of what this decision is for, pending before the court. If he does disqualify them, there will likely be followon motions to dismiss the case entirely if its transferred to a new d. A. s office. Theres definitely more to come if theres disqualification for sure. Neil is there the possibility that, and can the judge go this far to say theres nothing here now. We have to start from scratch, everything . If the judge finds the big question thats kind of pivotal here is whether its enough that theres an appearance of impropriety or he has to find a direct conflict of interest. I think theres still some significant factual determinations that he has to make in terms of where that line is drawn and thats going to be based on prior case law. But ultimately if the case is transferred to another district attorneys office, that will start the process, likely from the very beginning or at least very far back from where it is now. Certainly not on the verge of going to trial. And so, even if it does continue, it will be significantly delayed, if not dismissed altogether at some point. Neil katie, you were nice enough to explain this process to me. Its a state case, not a federal case. Early on i think there had been a push i think by the trump folks if youre elected president its easier to get it tossed out, not so if its a state matter. Can you explain that and where that goes . Well, this is a state case. Some of the defendants early on, mark meadows, for example, tried to get this case moved to Federal Court based on their allegations that the offenses were related to their role as federal officials. That was denied. So its possible that it still could be moved, but it wont become entirely a federal case such like the January 6th Case in d. C. Which kind of covers similar allegations. Thats a federal prosecution altogether. So the removal to Federal Court was denied. Thats something that could be renewed if this case is brought by another district attorney, a state district attorney, but it has, for this purpose at this point, been denied for those folks who requested that. Neil you know, part of that thinking, katie, as you know far better than i is that donald trump gets elected president , he can go to the Justice Department and say, all right, this is done. This isnt happening. But the Attorney General has to ag