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 17:38:59 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <ve4e0u$2av81$12@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>
> On 2024-10-08 15:48, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <ve429f$2a261$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
> >>
> >> On 2024-10-08 11:17, Skeeter wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Explain why you think so.
> >
> > Why would he support a border bill that had very little to do with the
> > border?
>
> If it was as terrible as was claimed, why would he oppose it?
Nice flip.