CNN’s Jake Tapper wants the border deal to happen — even though he has no idea what’s in the bill.
During an interview with Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jared Moskowitz this week, CNN host Jake Tapper pressured the lawmakers to do something about the border crisis.
Lawler was blasting President Biden’s failed border policies when Tapper interjected.
“Yeah, but the Speaker said ‘no’ before – you just said, you haven’t seen the legislation, the Speaker’s describing it and saying it’s dead on arrival, you see —” Tapper said before Lawler jumped back in.
“Well with all due respect, you haven’t seen the bill and interestingly over the last few weeks the media’s been trying to pressure everyone to agree to a deal that hasn’t actually been produced,” Lawler shot back. “Why don’t we see what the final bill is and then let’s see if they pass it and then we negotiate.”
“Yeah and Jake by the way, the Speaker said ‘no’ because Donald Trump said ‘no.’ The speaker is Donald Trump’s ‘no’ boy, ok, on this subject,” Moskowitz chimed in.
“Look, I’ll give Republicans credit for a second. They have been highlighting the border for a long time. And we were late — we were late to start addressing it,” Moskowitz continued. “But now that we want to address it, now that we want to lower the amount of fentanyl coming in, now that we want to deal with nondocumented folks, now we want to deal with supposed terrorists potentially coming into the country, now the Republicans controlled by one man are saying, ‘no, no, no, we need this for next 10 months, we need more of it in fact for next 10 months so we can use it in an election.’ Both things are true here. This is why people hate Washington.”
Watch the clip above.