From: Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Kamela Harris on 60 minutes = FAIL
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 12:17:44 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <ve3qqm$28i14$7@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>
> On 2024-10-08 10:34, NoBody wrote:
> > Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed by CBS News' Bill Whitaker
> > about whether it was a "mistake" for the Biden administration to go
> > soft on its border policies during a tense exchange on Monday's
> > special election episode of "60 Minutes."
> >
> > "You recently visited the southern border and embraced President
> > Biden's recent crackdown on asylum seekers, and that crackdown
> > produced an almost immediate and dramatic decrease in the number of
> > border crossings," Whitaker said. "If that's the right answer now, why
> > didn't your administration take those steps in 2021?"
> >
> > "The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken
> > immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we
> > need Congress to act. It was not taken up," Harris responded. "Fast
> > forward to a moment when a bipartisan group of members of the United
> > States Senate, including one of the most conservative members of the
> > United States Senate, got together, came up with a border security
> > bill.
> >
> > "Well, guess what happened? Donald Trump got word that this bill was
> > afoot and could be passed, and he wants to run on a problem instead of
> > fixing a problem. So he told his buddies in Congress, 'Kill the bill,
> > don't let it move forward.'"
> >
> > "I've been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a
> > problem that started with your administration," Whitaker said. "But
> > there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across
> > the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter
> > of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump."
> >
> > "Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you
> > did?" Whitaker then asked.
> >
> > "It's a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day
> > one, literally, we have been offering solutions," Harris responded.
> >
> > https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-asks-harris-whether-mistake-biden-admin-go-soft-border-vp-repeatedly-dodges?fbclid=IwY2xjawFyTABleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU7b1A3i67zYH1ZuuRcDgOkGCtU25HYve9RL5lNUqEw1DXjdyJOP88WFjg_aem_oRywo9a6LtumpPT67x6Nsw
> >
> > No she has not offered solutions. That bill did nothing to strengthen
> > the border and repeating the lie doesn't make it true.
>
> If the bill did nothing to strengthen the border...
>
>
> ...why did Trump want it killed?
What a dumb question.