inaugurated. i can t say it anymore clearly of what it means for washington, dc to be a sank taker city and be shire that people who live here feel free to call on their government for help. and call on the government dor help she did. red straight governors like abbott in texas and doozy in arizona have been sending illegals to our nation s capitol by bus for the last few months. some even arrived as recently as this morning. this is a very small, little, tiny portion. we re talking about 4,000 people out of millions who have crossed our border. and now that bowser is seeing what border states have been dealing with since biden and harris came into office, it s not in my backyard. the department of defense of course is jumping all over this saying, quote, the secretary takes this request for assistance very seriously. the question now becomes, if it s so easy for bowser to call in the national guard and get legitimate, immediate response from the department of defense,
back when trump was being inaugurated. i can t say it any more clearly what it means to for for washington, d.c. to be a sanctuary city and to ensure that people who live here feel free to call on their government for help and call on the government for help. she did red state governors like abbott and texas and deucy in arizona have been sending illegals to our nation s capital by bus for the last few months. some even arrived as recently as this morning. this is a very small little tiny portion we re talking about four thousand people out of millions who have crossed our border and now the border is seeing that border states have been dealing with since biden and harris came in office. it s not in my backyard. the department of defense, of course, is jumping all over this saying, quote, the secretary takes this request for assistance very seriously. the question now becomes if it s so easy for bouser, then call in the national guard to get legitimate immediate response f
co-chair of the second amendment caucus and the author of a new book which is called my american life. congressman boebert, thanks for joining us on the ingraham angle. you participated in that vote. thanks so much jason. why did you vote no? jason i refuse to use the democrat strategy by calling this even an assault weapon ban. this is a straight-up gun grab. this bill would make the most popular guns in america, like certain glocks and shotguns, illegal. this bill is the largest transfer of power from the american people to the federal government in modern history. not only is this bill wrong, this bill is blatantly unconstitutional. the score has already said that americans have the right to possess weapons that are in common use. i think 20 million ar-15s is considered common use. i promise you, shotguns, glocks, and these ars qualify as that and if fancy nancy pelosi and
the democrats who had written it, had written it wrong. was too broad, too partisan, somehow. it was written in such a way that it was in appealing to republicans. but that was fixable. he insisted that all the other democrats that pushes the wrong way, they had written a bill wrong, but if you wrote the bill right, republicans would support it. why wouldn t they? he insisted his colleagues and to the public and to the press that the other democrats had just done this wrong way, but he joe manchin knew that republicans supported voting rights and therefore there was a voting rights bill that could get republican support if it was written correctly. and then to his credit, sincerely to his legitimate credit, senator manchin put his money where his mouth was. he said you know what, i actually know the right way to do this, i will write a new bill. he said he would prove his theory of the case, by jettisoning the for the people act, that other democrats supported. he said no, i will write
possible. senator manchin said he had a plan. the problem, according to senator manchin, is not that republicans were obstructing this for the sake of obstructionism, no the that they were wholesale against any protections for voting rights, he said it was simply that this for the people act was the wrong bill. the democrats who had written it had written it wrong. it was too broad, too partisan. it was written in such a way that it wasn t appealing to republicans but that was fixable. all the other democrats that approached this the wrong way, they written the bill wrong. if you wrote the bill right, republicans would support it. he insisted to colleagues and public and press that the other democrats had just done this the wrong way. he knew that republican supported vote rights and that, therefore, there was a voting rights bill that could get republican support if just written correctly. to his correct, sincerely to the