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Joe: Republicans know how horrible ICE in airports is for them in the midterms

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

President, Government, Congress, Election, Brezinski, News, Giest, Politics, Campaign, Washington, Ms Now, Scarboro, Issues

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Joe: Republicans know how horrible ICE in airports is for them in the midterms

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0:00.0

The Fox News alert, chaos erupting at America's airports.

0:03.8

This line in Atlanta showing people lined up around midnight for flights leaving this morning.

0:08.8

I've been here almost two hours.

0:10.6

There are three and a half hours that we might not make it.

0:13.3

My flight is boarding right now.

0:15.1

Oh no. Way ahead of you, kid.

0:33.1

All right.

0:34.1

The Trump administration is putting ice agents in airports across the country as travelers wait in extremely long lines.

0:42.7

What do they do to make the lines shorter, like the ice agents?

0:46.6

What is their function? Do we know?

0:50.1

Okay. But on Capitol Hill, there could be a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security before Congress leaves town for a two-week recess. Okay. But on Capitol Hill, there could be a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security before Congress leaves town for a two-week recess. That's despite for us and Trump again yesterday telling Republicans any funding for the agency has to be tied to the Save America Act. We'll dig into all of that.

1:07.8

Well, we can dig as long as we want. That's just not going to happen. Okay.

1:11.4

There's that.

1:12.4

Meanwhile, here in New York. I'm just saying, I'm not even, that's just a fact.

1:16.0

You asked John Thune and other, they'll just say, that's just not going to happen.

1:20.6

Well, he's hoping for it.

1:22.8

Do you know what your original birth certificate is?

1:25.4

Well, actually, I do. Oh, good. The original? Yeah, you need the original. The original. Yeah, well, they're going to kick you off the voters' rules if you don't have it. My mom doesn't remember where I was born. You know, Willie, that, seriously, for most of me, because life she's not known. New York or Washington. She was born. I said where you were born?

1:44.7

Where you're born?

1:45.3

Her mom was like, oh, I don't know.

1:47.0

You know it.

1:47.7

It's the 16th.

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