Lying through their teeth
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the spring of 2014, officials at the Department of Homeland Security were facing a crisis |
| 0:06.2 | at the southern border. |
| 0:07.8 | A flood of Central American refugees were fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries |
| 0:13.2 | and entering the United States illegally. |
| 0:16.1 | As Secretary of DHS, Jay Johnson strutled to come up with a solution. |
| 0:21.3 | His agents aggressively stepped up criminal prosecutions and deportations, and they rounded |
| 0:26.5 | up entire families, holding them for prolonged periods in makeshift border patrol detention |
| 0:33.0 | centers. |
| 0:34.4 | Until a scathing federal court order ruled the practice must stop. |
| 0:38.4 | Johnson also briefly considered and rejected a plan to separate children from their parents, |
| 0:44.5 | a proposal the Trump administration adopted last spring. |
| 0:48.6 | Johnson was one of many voices this week calling Trump's policies immoral and un-American, |
| 0:54.6 | the president under intense pressure finally relented and rescinded the family separation |
| 0:59.8 | practice via executive order. |
| 1:02.9 | But what is Johnson's solution? |
| 1:04.8 | And did the policy's heapersoo during the Obama administration work any better? |
| 1:09.6 | We'll talk to Jay Johnson on today's episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:14.2 | There is absolutely no collusion. |
| 1:16.2 | I didn't make a phone call to Russia. |
| 1:18.7 | I have nothing to do with Russia. |
| 1:21.0 | Everybody knows it. |
| 1:22.3 | Because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. |
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