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| Recognized over and over coming into our country, and they couldn't figure out why. | ||
| That child had been trafficked, and he was posing as a family member. | ||
| They had kidnapped a child, and when they recognized him multiple times, they realized he wasn't part of that family. | ||
| So, what was happening at that border was dangerous. | ||
| I went to a rape crisis center. | ||
| Nothing at that border was humane, and nothing protected American citizens, nor many of the people coming through it, because I firmly believe many of those women and children were trafficked. | ||
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Attorney General, 16 minutes found that 75% of the immigrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have public criminal records. | |
| Is that true? | ||
| Do you mean in our country? | ||
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The Venezuelan migrants who were sent to the country. | |
| Okay, well, they're not Venezuelan migrants, they're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country, who are committing the most violent crimes. | ||
| So, if you committed a murder in our country, we're going to keep you here and we're going to seek the death penalty and we're going to keep you in prison because our victims' families deserve that. | ||
| But we don't have to charge them with average crime. | ||
| We can deport them and get them out of our country and save room in our prisons because they should have never been in our country to begin with. | ||
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So, you confirmed they didn't commit a crime, right? | |
| Is that what you're confirming? | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Thanks, Joe Bondi. | ||
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Attorney General, how many cases of fraud? | |
| How many cases of fraud are you investigating? | ||
| Joe's down so many cases of fraud they've made. | ||
| How many are you investigating? | ||
| C Spanish, if viewers are familiar with the progressive advocacy group Move On, Ronna Epting is the executive director, has served since 2019. | ||
| And Ms. Epting, I want to start with the rallies, the hands-off rallies this weekend on Saturday. | ||
| What role did MoveOn play in those rallies that took place in all 50 states in Washington, D.C.? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, Saturday was a great day for people that care about what's happening in this country and wanted to speak up. | |
| MoveOn has millions of members all across the country, and our role is to give people information and the tools to make their voices heard with their lawmakers. | ||
| And that's exactly what we've been doing for 27 years, and that's what we were doing this Saturday. | ||
| We were tapping into the energy that we've been seeing since Donald Trump took office for the second time. | ||
| And we noticed that there is just organic, genuine, authentic concern about what's coming out of this administration. | ||
| And we saw an opportunity, and with a set of partners, we said, let's help the people make their voices heard. | ||
| And so that's what we did. | ||
| And we had over 1,300 actions on Saturday. | ||
| So, what did those rallies do? | ||
| What's the message you take from them? | ||
| What should lawmakers take from them? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, the challenge is, and it was responding to this challenge, is you know, Trump administration intentionally has been driving a flood the zone strategy, running on all cylinders, very aggressively driving policies and executive orders that, quite honestly, have been offensive and concerning to millions of Americans. | |
| And so, these actions on Saturday were about, you know, the folks have heard it, around hands-off, hands-off our Social Security, our Medicaid, our education, hands-off veterans' benefits. | ||
| It was hands-off our rights, our constitutional rights, our right to free speech. | ||
| We've been seeing a lot of attacks from this administration around threatening to cut these programs, threatening our rights around the First Amendment. | ||
| People are being disappeared and deported with no due process. | ||
| So, it was a number of issues, and we saw signs all across on so many, so many concerns that people have. | ||
| And a lot of discussion after these rallies on what they could mean for two years from now, for election 2026, the midterm elections. | ||
| A lot of questions on Capitol Hill to members of Congress already looking ahead to 2026. | ||
| Republican Majority Whip John Barrasso was talking about Republican prospects in 2026. | ||
| I want to play that and then get your response. | ||
| President Trump won based on two things: that the Democrats were the party of high prices and an open border. | ||
| No one doubted President Trump's ability to get the border closed. | ||
| 137,000 illegal immigrants in March of last year, Biden, this past much down to 7,000. | ||
| So he has been able to do that. | ||
| The Republicans are going to be judged on the economy, which is why I'm not going to be able to do that. | ||
| The Fed Chairman's saying inflation is going to potentially go up and there's great uncertainty. | ||
| That's why I want to get this comprehensive economic plan in place as soon as possible. | ||
| The certainty that the tax increases are not going to be there, the certainty that we have American energy and those jobs, the certainty we're bringing jobs back into the country, all of those things are going to make sure that by the election, 18 months from now, that people say, yeah, we're on the right path. | ||
| Republicans have gotten the country back. | ||
| The country is back on track. | ||
| I mean, right now, from, I think it's even your own CBS poll, in terms of right track, wrong track, right direction, wrong direction, we're at the highest we've been in 20 years in terms of the direction the country is heading. | ||
| John Barrasso is saying there that people are happy with where the country is heading, the right track, wrong track numbers. | ||
| What would your response be to that, especially in the wake of what we saw from those rallies this weekend? | ||
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Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. | |
| I mean, we saw over 3 million, some reporting 5 million people that came out all across the country and, you know, blue states like New York City and 54 actions in the state of Florida. | ||
| I mean, we had a protest in Ashland, Wisconsin, which is a deep red area for Trump. | ||
| We had 8,000 people show up in a town of 7,800, which means people all across that region drove to Ashland to attend those protests. | ||
| So I think John Barroso should maybe look around, listen to its constituents. |