1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,343 WORKERS. AND JERRY CONLEY WEIGHS IN. 2 00:00:12,345 --> 00:00:12,241 THEN ANOTHER JOINS US TO TALK ABOUT BORDER SECURITY. 3 00:00:12,243 --> 00:00:17,512 WATCH "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" AT 7:00 A.M. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. 4 00:00:17,514 --> 00:00:23,233 JOIN THE DISCUSSION. ON DAY 18 OF THE GOVERNMENT 5 00:00:23,235 --> 00:00:27,020 SHUT-DOWN PRESIDENT SPOKE TO THE NATION FROM THE OVAL OFFICE 6 00:00:27,022 --> 00:00:30,523 ABOUT WHAT HE CALLS A HUMANITARIAN AND SECURITY 7 00:00:30,525 --> 00:00:33,966 CRISIS ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER. THIS IS ABOUT 10 MINUTES. 8 00:00:33,968 --> 00:00:44,085 MY FELLOW AMERICANS TONIGHT I AM SPEAKING TO YOU BECAUSE 9 00:00:44,087 --> 00:00:45,877 THERE IS A GROWING HUMANITARIAN AND SECURITY CRISIS AT OUR 10 00:00:45,879 --> 00:00:49,349 SOUTHERN BORDER. EVERY DAY, CUSTOMS AND BORDER 11 00:00:49,351 --> 00:00:52,548 PATROL AGENT ENCOUNTER THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 12 00:00:52,550 --> 00:00:55,873 TRYING TO TER OUR COUNTRY. WE ARE OUT OF SPACE TO HOLD 13 00:00:55,875 --> 00:00:59,229 THEM, AND WE HAVE NO WAY TO PROMPTLY RETURN THEM BACK HOME 14 00:00:59,231 --> 00:01:02,618 TO THEIR COUNTRY. AMERICA PROUDLY WELCOMES 15 00:01:02,620 --> 00:01:07,021 MILLIONS OF LAWFUL IMMIGRANTS WHO ENRICH OUR SOCIETY AND 16 00:01:07,023 --> 00:01:12,922 CONTRIBUTE TO OUR NATION. BUT ALL AMERICANS ARE HURT BY 17 00:01:12,924 --> 00:01:16,997 UNCONTROLLED ILLEGAL MIGRATION. IT STRAINS PUBLIC RESOURCES AND 18 00:01:16,999 --> 00:01:22,570 DRIVES DOWN JOBS AND WAGES. AMONG THOSE HARDEST HITTER 19 00:01:22,572 --> 00:01:25,328 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANIC AMERICANS. 20 00:01:25,330 --> 00:01:29,978 OUR SOUTHERN BORDER IS A PIPELINE FOR VAST QUANLTS OF 21 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:34,504 ILLEGAL DRUGS, INCLUDING METH, HEROIN, COCAINE AND FENTANYL. 22 00:01:34,506 --> 00:01:39,601 EVERY WEEK 300 OF OUR CITIZENS ARE KILLED BY HEROIN ALONE. 23 00:01:39,603 --> 00:01:44,396 90% OF WHICH FLOODS ACROSS FROM OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. 24 00:01:44,398 --> 00:01:48,504 MORE AMERICANS WILL DIE FROM DRUGS THIS YEAR THAN WERE 25 00:01:48,506 --> 00:01:51,431 KILLED IN THE ENTIRE VIETNAM WAR. 26 00:01:51,433 --> 00:01:57,451 IN THE LAST TWO YEARS ICE OFFICERS MADE 266,000 ARRESTS 27 00:01:57,453 --> 00:02:02,045 OF ALIENS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS, INCLUDING THOSE 28 00:02:02,047 --> 00:02:09,897 CHARGED OR CONVICTED OF 100,000 ASSAULTS, 30,000 SEX CRIMES AND 29 00:02:09,899 --> 00:02:14,821 4,000 VIOLENT KILLINGS. OVER THE YEARS THOUSANDS OF 30 00:02:14,823 --> 00:02:19,099 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN BRUTALLY KILLED BY THOSE WHO ILLEGALLY 31 00:02:19,101 --> 00:02:22,273 ENTERED OUR COUNTRY, AND THOUSANDS MORE LIVES WILL BE 32 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:29,248 LOST IF WE DON'T ACT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, 33 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:33,880 A CRISIS OF THE HEART, AND A CRISIS OF THE SOUL. 34 00:02:33,882 --> 00:02:38,798 LAST MONTH 20,000 MY GRANT CHILDREN WERE ILLEGALLY BROUGHT 35 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,758 INTO THE UNITED STATES, A DRAMATIC INCREASE. 36 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,667 THESE CHILDREN ARE USED AS HUMAN PAWNS BY VICIOUS COYOTES 37 00:02:46,669 --> 00:02:51,032 AND RUTHLESS GANGS. ONE IN THREE WOMEN ARE SEXUALLY 38 00:02:51,034 --> 00:02:55,065 ASSAULTED ON THE DANGEROUS TREK UP THROUGH MEXICO. 39 00:02:55,067 --> 00:03:00,006 WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE THE BIGGEST VICTIMS BY FAR OF OUR 40 00:03:00,008 --> 00:03:04,102 BROKEN SYSTEM. THIS IS THE TRAGIC REALITY OF 41 00:03:04,104 --> 00:03:07,160 ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ON OUR SORENSTAM BORDER. 42 00:03:07,162 --> 00:03:12,349 THIS IS THE CYCLE OF HUMAN SUFFERING THAT I AM DETERMINED 43 00:03:12,351 --> 00:03:15,618 TO END. MY ADMINISTRATION HAS PRESENTED 44 00:03:15,620 --> 00:03:19,941 CONGRESS WITH A DETAILED PROPOSAL TO SECURE THE BORDER 45 00:03:19,943 --> 00:03:26,939 AND STOP THE CRIMINAL GANGS, DRUG SMUGGLERS AND HUMAN 46 00:03:26,941 --> 00:03:27,742 TRAFFICKERS. IT'S A TREMENDOUS PROBLEM. 47 00:03:27,744 --> 00:03:31,854 OUR PROPOSAL WAS DEVELOPED LIE LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS 48 00:03:31,856 --> 00:03:36,975 AND BORDER AGENTS AT THE DEPARMED OF HOMELAND SECURITY. 49 00:03:36,977 --> 00:03:39,150 THESE ARE THE RESOURCES THEY HAVE REQUESTED TO PROPERLY 50 00:03:39,152 --> 00:03:43,165 PERFORM THEIR MISSION AND KEEP AMERICA SAFE. 51 00:03:43,167 --> 00:03:47,206 IN FACT, SAVER THAN EVER BEFORE . 52 00:03:47,208 --> 00:03:51,748 THE PROPOSAL FROM HOIMENTS INCLUDES CUTTING -- FROM 53 00:03:51,750 --> 00:03:53,654 HOMELAND SECURITY INCLUDES CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY FOR 54 00:03:53,656 --> 00:03:57,436 DETECTING DRUGS, CONTRABAND AND MANY OTHER THINGS. 55 00:03:57,438 --> 00:04:02,128 WE HAVE REQUESTED MORE AGENTS, IMMIGRATION JUDGES AND BED 56 00:04:02,130 --> 00:04:10,006 SPACE TO PROCESS THE SHARP RISE OF UNLAFELL MIGRATION FUELED BY 57 00:04:10,008 --> 00:04:13,426 OUR VERY STRONG ECONOMY. OUR PLAN ALSO CONTAINS AN 58 00:04:13,428 --> 00:04:17,585 URGENT REQUEST FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL SUPPORT. 59 00:04:17,587 --> 00:04:21,571 FURTHERMORE, WE HAVE ASKED CONGRESS TO CLOSE BORDER 60 00:04:21,573 --> 00:04:26,485 SECURITY LOOPHOLES SO THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN CAN 61 00:04:26,487 --> 00:04:32,653 BE SAFELY AND ARE YOU MAINLY RETURNED BACK HOME -- AND HAD 62 00:04:32,655 --> 00:04:38,084 YOU MAIN LE RETURNED BACK HOME. FINALLY, LAW ENFORCEMENT 63 00:04:38,086 --> 00:04:42,023 PROFESSIONALS AFTER REQUESTED $5.7 BILLION FOR A PHYSICAL 64 00:04:42,025 --> 00:04:44,984 BARRIER. AT THE REQUEST OF DEMOCRATS, IT 65 00:04:44,986 --> 00:04:48,826 WILL BE A STEEL BARRIER RATHER THAN A CONCRETE WALL. 66 00:04:48,828 --> 00:04:51,985 THIS BARRIER IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL TO BORDER SECURITY. 67 00:04:51,987 --> 00:04:55,394 IT IS ALSO WHAT OUR PROFESSIONALS AT THE BORDER 68 00:04:55,396 --> 00:05:00,952 WANT AND NEED. THIS IS JUST COMMON SENSE. 69 00:05:00,954 --> 00:05:05,694 THE BORDER WALL WOULD VERY QUICKLY PAY FOR ITSELF. 70 00:05:05,696 --> 00:05:10,745 THE COST OF ILLEGAL DRUGS EXCEEDS $500 BILLION A YEAR, 71 00:05:10,747 --> 00:05:16,985 VASTLY MORE THAN THE $5.7 BILLION WE HAVE REQUESTED FROM 72 00:05:16,987 --> 00:05:19,300 CONGRESS. THE WALL WILL ALWAYS BE PAID 73 00:05:19,302 --> 00:05:24,507 FOR INDIRECTLY BY THE GREAT NEW TRADE DEAL WE HAVE MADE WITH 74 00:05:24,509 --> 00:05:28,550 MEXICO. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER, WHO YOU 75 00:05:28,552 --> 00:05:32,268 WILL BE HEARING FROM LATER TONIGHT, HAS REPEATEDLY 76 00:05:32,270 --> 00:05:37,335 SUPPORTED A PHYSICAL BARRIER IN THE PAST, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER 77 00:05:37,337 --> 00:05:39,554 DEMOCRATS. THEY CHANGED THEIR MIND ONLY 78 00:05:39,556 --> 00:05:45,372 AFTER I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT. DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS HAVE 79 00:05:45,374 --> 00:05:49,217 REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CRISIS, AND THEY HAVE REFUSED 80 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:53,594 TO PROVIDE OUR BRAVE BORDER AGENTS WITH THE TOOLS THEY 81 00:05:53,596 --> 00:05:58,437 DESPERATELY NEED TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES AND OUR NATION. 82 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:05,197 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REMAINS SHUT DOWN FOR ONE REASON AND 83 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:07,671 ONE REASON ONLY. BECAUSE DEMOCRATS WILL NOT FUND 84 00:06:07,673 --> 00:06:11,118 BORDER SECURITY. MY ADMINISTRATION IS DOING 85 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,707 EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO HELP THOSE IMPACTED BY THE SITUATION 86 00:06:17,709 --> 00:06:20,684 . BUT THE ONLY SOLUTION IS FOR 87 00:06:20,686 --> 00:06:25,675 DEMOCRATS TO PASS A SPENDING BILL THAT DEFENDS OUR BORDER 88 00:06:25,677 --> 00:06:29,757 AND REOPENS THE GOVERNMENT. THIS SITUATION COULD BE SOLVED 89 00:06:29,759 --> 00:06:34,237 IN A 45-MINUTE MEETING. I HAVE INVITED CON 90 00:06:34,239 --> 00:06:38,703 CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TO -- CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TO THE 91 00:06:38,705 --> 00:06:39,301 WHITE HOUSE TOMORROW TO GET THIS DONE. 92 00:06:39,303 --> 00:06:45,143 HOPEFULLY WE CAN RISE ABOVE PARTISAN POLITICS IN ORDER TO 93 00:06:45,145 --> 00:06:48,582 SUPPORT NATIONAL SECURITY. SOME HAVE SUGGESTED A BARRIER 94 00:06:48,584 --> 00:06:53,819 IS IMMORAL. THEN WHY DO WEALTHY POLITICIANS 95 00:06:53,821 --> 00:06:58,458 BUILD WALLS, FENCES AND GATES AROUND THEIR HOMES? 96 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:01,764 THEY DON'T BUILD WALLS BECAUSE THEY HATE THE PEOPLE ON THE 97 00:07:01,766 --> 00:07:06,016 OUTSIDE, BUT BECAUSE THEY LOVE THE PEOPLE ON THE INSIDE. 98 00:07:06,018 --> 00:07:12,187 THE ONLY THING THAT IS IMMORAL IS THE POLITICIANS TO DO 99 00:07:12,189 --> 00:07:16,231 NOTHING AND CONTINUE TO ALLOW MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE TO BE SO 100 00:07:16,233 --> 00:07:22,409 HORRIBLY VICTIMIZED. AMERICA'S HEART BROKE THE DAY 101 00:07:22,411 --> 00:07:25,369 AFTER CHRISTMAS WHEN A YOUNG POLICE OFFICER IN CALIFORNIA 102 00:07:25,371 --> 00:07:32,279 WAS SAVAGELY MURDERED IN COLD ALIEN WHO ILLEGAL 103 00:07:32,281 --> 00:07:35,101 JUST CAME ACROSS THE BORDER. THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN HERO 104 00:07:35,103 --> 00:07:38,624 WAS STOLEN BY SOMEONE WHO HAD NO RIGHT TO BE IN OUR COUNTRY. 105 00:07:38,626 --> 00:07:43,169 DAY AFTER DAY, PRECIOUS LIVES ARE CUT SHORT BY THOSE WHO HAVE 106 00:07:43,171 --> 00:07:50,005 VIOLATED OUR BORDERS. IN CALIFORNIA AN AIR FORCE 107 00:07:50,007 --> 00:07:55,747 VETERAN WAS RAPED, MURDERED AND BEATEN TO DEATH WITH A HAMMER 108 00:07:55,749 --> 00:07:59,270 BY AN ILLEGAL ALIEN WITH A LONG CRIMINAL HISTORY. 109 00:07:59,272 --> 00:08:04,617 IN GEORGIA, AN ILLEGAL ALIEN WAS RECENTLY CHARGED WITH 110 00:08:04,619 --> 00:08:12,743 BEHEADING KILLING, AND DISMEMBERING HIS NEIGHBOR. 111 00:08:12,745 --> 00:08:15,864 IN MARYLAND, MS-13 GANG MEMBERS WHO ARRIVED IN THE UNITED 112 00:08:15,866 --> 00:08:22,267 ATES AS UNACCOMPANIED MINORS WERE CHARGED AFTER VICIOUSLY 113 00:08:22,269 --> 00:08:25,080 STABBING AND BEATING A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL. 114 00:08:25,082 --> 00:08:29,524 OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS I HAVE MET WITH DOZENS OF 115 00:08:29,526 --> 00:08:34,771 FAMILIES WHOSE LOVED ONES WERE STOLEN BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. 116 00:08:34,773 --> 00:08:38,988 I HAVE HELD THE HANDS OF THE WEEPING MOTHERS AND EMBRACED 117 00:08:38,990 --> 00:08:45,380 THE GRIEF STRICKEN FATHERS. SO SAD, SO TERRIBLE. 118 00:08:45,382 --> 00:08:50,765 I WILL NEVER FORGET THE PAIN IN THEIR EYES, THE TREMBLE IN 119 00:08:50,767 --> 00:08:55,672 THEIR VOICES AND THE SADNESS GRIPPING THEIR SOULS. 120 00:08:55,674 --> 00:09:01,282 HOW MUCH MORE AMERICAN BLOOD MUST WE SHED BEFORE CONGRESS 121 00:09:01,284 --> 00:09:04,908 DOES ITS JOB? TO THOSE WHO REFUSE TO 122 00:09:04,910 --> 00:09:08,889 COMPROMISE IN THE NAME OF BORDER SECURITY, I WOULD ASK, 123 00:09:08,891 --> 00:09:15,910 IMAGINE IF IT WAS YOUR CHILD, YOUR HUSBAND OR YOUR WIFE WHOSE 124 00:09:15,912 --> 00:09:26,771 LIFE WAS SO CRUELLY SHATTERED . D TOTALLY BROKEN 125 00:09:26,773 --> 00:09:27,895 EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS PASS THIS BILL TO END THIS CRISIS. 126 00:09:27,897 --> 00:09:33,352 CITIZENS CALL THEM AND TELL THEM TO FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE 127 00:09:33,354 --> 00:09:39,054 DECADES SECURE OUR BORDER. THIS IS A CHOICE BETWEEN RIGHT 128 00:09:39,056 --> 00:09:43,751 AND WRONG, JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE. 129 00:09:43,753 --> 00:09:48,366 THIS IS ABOUT WHETHER WE FULFILL OUR SACRED DUTY TO THE 130 00:09:48,368 --> 00:09:53,932 AMERICAN CITIZENS WE SERVE. WHEN I TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE, 131 00:09:53,934 --> 00:10:00,169 I SWORE TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY, AND THAT IS WHAT I WILL ALWAYS 132 00:10:00,171 --> 00:10:06,283 DO, SO HELP ME, GOD. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT. 133 00:10:06,285 --> 00:10:09,987 DEMOCRATIC LEADERS NANCY 134 00:10:09,989 --> 00:10:10,904 PELOSI AND CHUCK SCHUMER RESPONDED TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 135 00:10:10,906 --> 00:10:14,414 FIRST NATIONAL ADDRESS. THEY CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT 136 00:10:14,416 --> 00:10:17,918 AND CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS TO RE-OPEN THE GOVERNMENT AND 137 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,636 SAVE THE BORDER SECURITY DEBATE FOR LATER IN THE YEAR. 138 00:10:20,638 --> 00:10:26,636 GOOD EVENING. I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 139 00:10:26,638 --> 00:10:28,405 SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TONIGHT ABOUT HOW WE CAN 140 00:10:28,407 --> 00:10:33,286 END THIS SHUT-DOWN AND MEET THE NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 141 00:10:33,289 --> 00:10:37,290 SADLY, MUCH OF WHAT WE HEARD FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP THROUGHOUT 142 00:10:37,292 --> 00:10:41,428 THE SHUT-DOWN HAS BEEN FULL OF MISINFORMATION AND EVEN MALICE.