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#481: What's Really Happening at the Border?

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🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Visiting the Texas-Mexico border, Rep. Michael Cloud saw what it was really like on the ground for Border Patrol agents, what the drug cartels were taking advantage of, and how secure the border actually is. The Texas Republican also visited an unaccompanied minors facility--and found out that around 40% of the girls there had been sexually abused on their way to the U.S. We also cover these stories:•House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is adamant that impeachment is still a possibility. •Around 90% of families asking for asylum didn't show up for their court dates, per Department of Homeland Security.•Another social media site is censoring pro-lifers.The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, June 12th. I'm Rachel Del Judas.

0:09.1

And I'm Kate Trinko. Today we feature Daniel Davis's interview with Representative Michael Cloud, who just went to the border.

0:15.8

Cloud shares what he saw down there and what can be done.

0:19.4

Plus, we'll talk about another instance of a social media company censoring pro-lifers.

0:25.0

By the way, if you're enjoying this podcast, please leave a review or a five-star rating on iTunes

0:31.0

and encourage others to subscribe.

0:33.1

Now, onto our top news.

0:38.8

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be less impeachment ready than some of her colleagues,

0:45.0

but she's not ruling it out.

0:47.0

Here's what Pelosi said Tuesday at the Peter G Peterson Foundation's fiscal summit. You've said in the past, you're not that path to impeachment.

0:55.8

Are you still, how do you reconcile those?

0:57.8

Well, it's not off the table.

0:59.8

You can't, I don't think you should impeach for political reasons and I don't think you should not impeach for political reasons.

1:06.0

It's not about politics. It's not about Democrats and Republicans. It's not about partisanship.

1:11.0

It's about patriotism to our country.

1:14.7

It's upholding the Constitution of the United States.

1:18.2

If in fact the executive branch can say,

1:21.4

you can never have oversight over us you have destroyed the system of

1:26.5

checks and balances which is the wisdom and the heart of our Constitution and

1:31.0

if you go down that path and you look to the Bill of Rights and the assaults that they make on the press, etc, then you are undermining the Constitution, not honoring your oath of office to support and defend.

1:44.0

Freshman lawmaker, Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a Democrat, is not backing down on her support of giving lawmakers a pay raise,

1:52.0

even after House Democrats

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