Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. When you were chair of the House Oversight committee on who wrote the talking points, who were interested in the families mightve happened in new york, not to mention the Trump Organization and the trump foundation. We would have investigations in congress. Congress is hapless right now. When you were chair of that committee, you investigated. I think you would be investigating right now. Jason you know what. You know why congress is hapless . This Attorney General does nothing to provide documents that congress has issued subpoenas for. Math, come on in here and give us your perspective. This Attorney General is in name only. He i think hes one of the most feckless, ineffective Attorney Generals this country is ever had. Jason, i understand where youre coming from. I am a big fan of Jeff Sessions but i feel it for the last year and a half
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Organization and two Senior Company officials related to the payments to stormy daniels. Thats important because President Trump has no power tos pardon individuals convicted of state crimes. Joining me now to make sense of all this, chris hahn, radioow talk show host and former aide to senator chuck schumer. Matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union, and david bossie, former Deputy Chairman of the trump campaign. Thank you for joining us. Ig david, i want to start with you. The Attorney General went out of his way to say he was never influenced by any political consideration but i think, correct me if im wrong, one of the first things he did was make a political consideration to recuse himself on a case that he really did need to do it because of political considerations. Correct . O thats exactly right, jason. That bad de
country, the crimes are don t get committed and those people are still alive. it s a fallacy of causation. we have gang members. we have crime here. jason: no doubt. but i fundamentally don t understand why you don t see it. if somebody comes here illegally, if they ve gotten here illegally, they wouldn t have committed the crime. that s not necessarily true. that s a false argument. the issue we have is we are assuming those people who are now being rearrested or being deported and coming back are coming back across the border walking and that s just not true. two-thirds of the people are undocumented. a wall isn t going to fix it. we need to shift jason: you don t think it fixes a little bit? no. what a wall does is a temporary barrier. it doesn t fix the problem. it only makes the weight larger. solving the problem is drawing the people here. if you have a criminal, why don t we release people out of the jails into communities that
it. if these people are to the country, the crimes are committed and those people are still alive. it s a fallacy of causation. we have gang members. we have crime here. jason: no doubt. but i fundamentally don t understand why you don t see it. if 70 comes here illegally, if they ve gotten here illegally, they wouldn t of committed the crime. that s not necessarily true. that s a false valid argument. the issue we have is we are assuming those people who are now being rearrested or being deported and coming back are coming back across the border walking and that s just not true. two-thirds of the people are undocumented. a wall isn t going to fix it. we need to shift jason: you don t think it fixes a little bit? no. what a wall does is a temporary barrier. it doesn t fix the problem. it only makes the weight larger. solving the problem is drawing the people here. if you have a criminal, why don t we release people out of
asking me if the immigration status is relevant. it is not relevant. what is relevant is the individual and the individual actions which have been discussed. jason: his actions of coming here illegally ultimately led to her being killed by this person. that is the allegation. we will see if it s true, but that s the allegation. tom, you have dedicated is a fallacy of causation. he was here for four years with no problem. jason: we don t know that yet. hold on. i want to bring in tom. tom spent a lifetime in law enforcement protecting us and getting rid of some of the most nefarious criminals out there. tom, what is your take on this? i think my friend alan is way wrong on this and you are right. fact: he was in the country illegally. fact: if he wasn t here, this girl would be alive today. it s just a fact of the case. it s not a philosophy. this girl is dead today because he killed her and he was here illegally. if he hadn t been here, if we had a border wall and real