Biden’s open-border policies have wreaked havoc on this country. Crime has skyrocketed, school systems are collapsing under the weight of the influx, and American taxpayers are funding the care of people who broke the law to be here. It’s complete and utter insanity. The problem has escalated to.
but i am really wondering if this is not going to be a bigger problem than they anticipate. reporter: but chris, who runs a republican latino advocacy group in the state, says voters in the primary animated by inflation and the border security debate are more worried about the candidates confident bona fides. i think what voters are going to be looking for are people who are going to fight against the biden administration, who are going to fight for conservative principles. i don t think the carpet bagger thing is an issue at all. reporter: christopher, who wrote the book on carpet bagging, says candidates parachuting into states they haven t lived in for years is not nearly as much of a deal breaker for voters as it was decades ago. residency isn t always as important as we might expect it to be in large part because our toll polyticks are so polarized. the potency of the carpet bagger charges could face several tests in next year s
50% not. kacie, you re always in a better position than we are to judge how these movements affect the likely outcome. in your handicapping, what does it look like? i think what this means ali is that democrats are essentially shooting down what republicans are hoping will be the solution to this crisis which was that we were hearing a one year long continual funding, a punt on this border security debate, right? so they got to the point saying we don t want to do what they want to do on beds, they would rather have a one year deal. democrats are not hearing the message that that will not fly for them. it does, i think make a shut down more likely because it takes one of the options off of
government shutdown and the border security debate. i have to point on the intelligence issue regarding the president s intelligence briefings, i interviewed him a couple months ago in the oval office. one thing he said really stuck out to my colleague, josh dawsey and i. he said, look, i have a gut, my gut tells me a lot more than anybody else s brain can tell me. that s how he views the advice he s getting from within the government and within the administration including from his own political appointees. he has incredible faith in his own beliefs and own core instincts. robert costa, you are always talking to the hill so it s in that spirit i ask, what has this leak revealed? if not surprise, is there any kind of embarrassment? there s not surprise because most republican law make who are have a relationship with the president are often calling madeline westerhout, the president s assistant outside the oval office. they know it s often best to go through the president directly
inevitable? well, brian, i think it was inevitable and it s not entirely new, to be honest. you know, this is how president trump has decided to conduct his presidency and conduct his time in office. he has a very different routine during the day than his predecessors. he treats the intelligence services as you just got into very differently than his predecessors, and at this point, he s unrestrained. he has a new chief of staff, acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, who does not have the same control over the president and over his decisionmaking process that john kelly did, the retired four-star marine corps general who was ousted at the end of last year and the president is increasingly turning to his son-in-law, jared kushner, a senior adviser in the white house who in many respects is functioning as the chief of staff and making a lot of these decisions as it pertains to the government shutdown and the border security debate.