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Heritage Explains

"9/11 Anniversary, Trump and DACA" Mass Ave: Episode 122

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

Education

4.7848 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Heritage expert Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and recent appointee to President Trump’s Election Integrity Committee, discusses the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). Hans clears up some common misconceptions about the program, and why at its core DACA and its formation was unconstitutional. He also comments on what President Trump’s recent announcement ending the program means from a legislative and constitutional standpoint.

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0:00.0

And let the great debate begin.

0:05.0

Welcome to Mass Ave.

0:07.8

We're here bringing you conservative news, policy, and insight from the steps of Capitol Hill.

0:12.2

I'm your host, Emily Vanderbush.

0:13.6

I'm Tommy Binyon.

0:14.6

How's it going, Tommy?

0:15.6

Well, it's going great.

0:16.8

Yeah.

0:17.8

Today's the 16th anniversary of September 11th terrorist attacks.

0:24.7

And as Americans, we all remember exactly where we were on that date and how we felt and we still feel that way today.

0:32.9

Our mantra about this is never to forget.

0:36.1

So let's never forget.

0:38.5

Yeah, D.C. always feels a little bit extra somber on September 11th here.

0:42.6

So, yeah, definitely remembering what happened all those years ago.

0:46.3

I caught a piece of Vice President's speech.

0:49.3

He was in Pennsylvania where Flight 93 went down.

0:52.2

His remarks were, I think, exceptionally powerful. He talked to, on the day of the attack 16 years ago, he talked to the authorities at the time and asked if the U.S. Capitol had been the target when the plane would have hit. And he thinks that the heroes on flight 93

1:13.8

saved his life and many others. And it was just a powerful moment that he was able to thank

1:19.6

those heroes' families who were in the audience in Pennsylvania. And it's true. You know,

1:25.8

the U.S. Capitol very well could have been the target of that flight. And we could have lost many of our political leaders, one of whom is the vice president today. Of course, we did lose many lives on that day. And we remember them and their families and their heroism.

1:48.9

And other issues going on, it was another hurricane weekend.

1:50.0

Yeah.

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