273. ‘Shut it Down’: Reporting from the US-Mexico Border
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
While President Trump was being inaugurated, I headed to the Southern Border to find out what changes are coming. Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Dannels fills us in. He also tells about his past meetings with President Biden, Kamala Harris, President Trump, and Border Czar Tom Homan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | This week, while President Trump was being sworn into office, I decided to head down to the U.S.-Mexico border to find out about |
| 0:22.8 | the big changes that are coming. |
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| 1:09.5 | Maybe some of you remember that four years ago, when President Biden was being sworn into office, I happened to be traveling down to the border as I frequently do to see what was happening at the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 1:12.0 | And I happened to stumble across the news. |
| 1:18.9 | I think I broke this internationally, that construction on the border wall, construction that President Trump had started after he finally won a big case in the Supreme Court in his first term, |
| 1:24.1 | the construction had halted overnight. Suddenly, these little cities that had been stood up to |
| 1:30.4 | quickly build as much wall as possible, they were abandoned. They look like ghost towns. There are |
| 1:36.1 | pieces of wall just left on the ground, construction equipment, abandoned cement plants that had been |
| 1:42.9 | put in the desert to build the footings and so on for the wall. |
| 1:46.9 | And it was Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Danyls who took me to that spot and told me what was going on. |
| 1:54.0 | This is the same spot that I had been to over the years to see progress and devolution and progress again. In my many regular trips reporting on the border |
| 2:04.2 | in the past two decades, I've said that it's almost like a living element because what |
| 2:09.6 | happens along the border changes dramatically with what types of policies are coming out of |
| 2:15.2 | Washington, D.C. And I've often had Border Patrol agents |
| 2:19.0 | over the years tell me off camera that if they were simply allowed to do their jobs, they feel like |
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