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We've got to start with first principles on the border crisis.

We've got to start with baseline concepts here.

Fundamental view of this country, what we're all about and what we're trying to accomplish

and what the rule of law actually means.

What you'll find is that we're arguing about the details in this country right now.

We're arguing about the details, but we're not getting into difference in foundational

separation in our political philosophy between the left and the right.

There are all these people right now who think, oh, the Democrats want this crisis to stop

too.

The Democrats don't actually want people coming over the border 100,000 plus a month

so that they can flood the immigration system, they can claim faulty asylum, they can stay,

they're sending their children, they're enriching the cartels, the Democrats don't want

any of that, right?

No, actually they do.

And that's what people are just starting to see now.

This is happening exactly as predicted and largely as planned.

The problem that the Democrats have with all of this is that we're seeing it and it's

happening faster than they anticipated.

I want to explain this to you, but we got to make this very clear.

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