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Laura Coates Live

Key senators signal border deal may be dead

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A significant bipartisan border deal and foreign aid package appears on track to fail in the Senate later this week amid continued attacks from former President Donald Trump and top House Republicans. Republicans opposed to the deal, including Trump, have attacked it as too weak even though it would mark a tough change to immigration law and would give the president far-reaching powers to restrict illegal migrant crossings at the southern border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So if there was any doubt in anybody's mind, Republicans on the hill have made it well crystal clear tonight.

0:14.0

They really, really don't apparently want to solve immigration.

0:18.0

Not now, not today anyway.

0:21.0

By CNN's count, a majority of Republicans in the Senate are leaning against the

0:26.0

border bill.

0:27.0

If frankly, this doesn't look good.

0:29.6

Senate GOP whip John Thune tonight saying that a Wednesday vote would be too early, a clear sign

0:35.2

that most Republicans would block it if the vote comes that day.

0:38.9

Meanwhile Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing the bipartisan, I repeat, the bipartisan border deal is dead on arrival.

0:47.4

If it makes sense, it makes it to the House at all.

0:50.8

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pronouncing it a bad deal, the conference adding the hashtag

0:56.6

kill the bill, a bill which would also include aid for Ukraine and also for Israel.

1:02.1

Montana Democratic Senator John Tester has had just about enough of all of it.

1:10.0

People went to work in good faith and did it and all of a sudden good faith out the window.

1:15.0

So why is a deal worked out by a Democrat, a Republican, and an independent now suddenly on life support.

1:24.0

Some would say it comes down to two words,

1:27.0

Donald Trump.

1:29.0

The former president saying the quiet part out loud, again, oh, there isn't really a quiet part when

1:34.8

Donald Trump might be concerned claiming that what he calls radical left

1:39.0

Democrats are laying a trap for Republicans, quote,

1:42.7

just in time for our most important ever election.

1:47.5

Joining me now to break it all down.

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