This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Hartman here with you.

Donald Trump now bragging that he brought the efforts of his colleagues, Jim Langford, in particular the senator, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, to their knees.

He's going to kill this bill coming out of the...

Now, we haven't even seen the bill yet.

We don't know what's in it.

What we do know from press leaks and comments... in it is

is pretty rigorous with regard to the border it strengthens the border and

bide and is all in favor of this as well at least over the short term

over the course of the next year. So number one it provides for I think over a

thousand new Border Patrol agents it It expands the detention facilities.

It increases the number of judges

who can adjudicate these cases

so that they can figure out who's actually,

you know, a genuine refugee fleeing persecution versus who's just somebody who's looking for a better life

You know which is the case in you know probably six billion people on the planet

You know we've got rules about who we let it and who we don't and but you can't enforce them if you don't have enough judges so

You know this would provide enough judges to do that

So any other Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and President Biden are working this thing out and it looks like it's a pretty good piece

of legislation and it funds Ukraine and it funds Israel as well.

And Donald Trump is out now saying, killed the bill right he said I'll fight it all the way a lot of

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