Chris Murphy Assails Donald Trump, GOP Over Death Of Bipartisan Border Bill

  • 4 months ago
At a Senate Democratic press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) spoke about the bipartisan border bill.

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Transcript
00:00 Thank you Senator Schumer, thank you Senator Stabenow.
00:03 For four and a half months I sat in a room with Senator Lankford, Senator Sinema, representatives
00:10 of Senator McConnell and Senator Graham.
00:14 Many of those meetings happened in a room just around the corner as we negotiated the
00:19 toughest, most serious bipartisan border security bill in a generation.
00:25 This was not window dressing, these were real, fundamental changes that would allow the President
00:32 of the United States to get the border under control.
00:35 An ability to shut down the border to asylum process during periods of high transit.
00:42 A fundamental reform of the asylum processing system so that no one stays in this country
00:48 for ten years while their case is being processed.
00:51 Instead we get those cases done in a matter of months.
00:57 And raising the standards to apply for asylum, raising the credible fear standard to make
01:03 sure that only the most deserving cases are entering the country.
01:07 At the same time we opened up legal pathways of immigration, the biggest expansion of family
01:13 and worker visas in a generation as well.
01:18 On Sunday night when we unveiled that bill there were 30 or 35 Republicans who were in
01:24 play.
01:25 24 hours later there were four.
01:30 There's one answer for why that happened.
01:32 Donald Trump told the Republican Party that he would be better off this November if the
01:37 border was a mess.
01:38 His people looked at that bill, came to the conclusion that it would have allowed the
01:43 President to get the border under control and Republicans turned against it.
01:49 If Republicans think this situation at the border is an emergency then let's give them
01:55 another chance to do the right thing.
01:58 Many of them, for instance, thought that the House might produce a better product, a different
02:06 bipartisan approach.
02:07 Well that didn't happen.
02:09 This bill is the only and most significant bipartisan deal on the table.
02:15 And so I haven't been shy about sharing my opinion with Senator Schumer.
02:19 I think we should bring this bill back up for a vote.
02:23 Let's see if Republicans have decided to do the right thing for the country instead of
02:27 doing the right thing for President Trump.
02:31 This is a popular bill.
02:34 It's a bill that would make a difference.
02:37 And my hope, my recommendation is that we will give Republicans another chance to put
02:42 their votes where their mouth is.
02:44 Do Republicans just care about the border as a political wedge issue that they can beat
02:48 President Biden over the head with or do they actually want to solve the problem?
02:52 Because we have a bill written by conservative Republicans in the Senate that would solve

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