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

7 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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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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