but we ll find out more . with we hope i found this exchange, congressman, with jen psakiki kind of interesting. > check this out. what is the president priority ? would it be stopping potential terrorist attacks or letting these migrants come in ? well, again, i i think as weou noted just a couple of weeks ago when there was reporting about the number of individuals who were on the watch list being stopped at the border, that was the border patrol doing their jobs. that was the system working. the system isjo working. congressman, when we have chinese nationals sneaking sneaking into the country, south americans, cubans, people from nigeria somehow make their way up through south america all the way the to the border. but it s working and that s what my caucus said operational control. well, clearly the system is not working and hisis definition of secure and operational control are different than the definition every sane american uses. and you know, you justyo haveu o wonder wha
of this conversation, tom, and in full disclosure we talk often about it. i was just in panamá the last week, foreign minister erika telling tony gonzales who was on the program earlier that some 52 known terrorist individuals crossed that dangerous jungle where i was and it s this pipeline, tom, that runs from south america all the way to our border in texas where you are seeing there you can see the boat, those migrants, most of them haitians, they are coming across the jungle and then they are being taken to a little town called las blancas and go 12 straight hours directly to costa rican border and be let out to continue their journey yet this has implications of national security. absolutely. let s be clear, there is no national security. there is no homeland security. without border security. that s just common sense. as i ve said for months, this is a national security crisis because half of the border
that. the biden administration said they want to do that and failed at it and chicago is another example of what we are seeing across the country and what americans want to change with. griff: speaking of change, kristin, i want to get your reaction to that story. it seems to me that it might have been more prudent to look at the volunteer workforce and say, you know, we need diversity here, let s start find a way to change the makeup perhaps by bringing in more diverse dosets but mass firing them all and leaving at ear piece instead, that doesn t seem like the smartest move, your reaction? yeah, i don t quite understand it. they tried to diversify, it didn t work. i mean, you know, i don t know why this was the answer to that, so griff: it seems that the stories gain momentum and go viral because people look at it and say that really defies
what we saw in del rio weeks ago, we will see over and over again unless something happens. i appreciate you going down to the darian gap and covering it firsthand. historically those numbers around 8,000 migrants pass through there a year. that number is ten times as much and only getting worse. this administration has to act and it has to act now. griff: it does, indeed. we re out of time and i ve got to let you go. i was trying to find out when i got back last night if anything had changed on the spending negotiations on capitol hill. just 10 seconds, do you have insight where we are? spending is out of control. when you re negotiating from 3 and a half trillion to one trillion it s a loser all the way around. inflation continues to spiral out of control. griff: thank you for taking the time and have a congratulate rest of your saturday. jacqui: more on spending on the negotiations on capitol hill. a member from california, jared
beth barr, a school board member that has now stepped down because of the pressure in lowden county and parents like you are describing speaking out. where does this go? that s a great question, griff. i believe that the the situation that is happening across the country we see kind of in a very interesting way specifically in lowden county and i do feel that parents more than ever are being empowered to participate in this basic democratic process which is the process in which they are involved in their school boards and in their school board elections and in their school board meetings and now is the time to continue to encourage parents to continue to be advocates for their children, to look for ways in which they can be part of the process. i would encourage parents to, you know, i know that there is a