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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 2/6/24

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Bipartisan Senate border bill on thin ice

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0:00.0

The House Republicans have no answer here. They have no alternative

0:06.7

bipartisan product. What they seem to want is just chaos. They want to keep the border unsolved as a problem so that it benefits

0:17.0

them in the upcoming election. That's really cynical, but it's also pretty transparent.

0:23.0

And I don't know that they're smart enough to get away with it.

0:27.0

The lead Democratic negotiator in the bipartisan border deal calling out House Republicans who are refusing to

0:35.0

take action on an issue they claim is a top priority.

0:39.3

And ask a question, Willie, whether they're really smart enough to get away with it, which I actually, you know,

0:46.5

started thinking over the past couple days. You've got all of these Republicans

0:51.5

who are following this guy from Louisiana who just

0:54.8

sort of stumbled into the speaker's ship and it doesn't seem to be that effective.

0:58.9

This guy is now putting around the Republicans political neck an open border for the next

1:08.2

eight months and all that that that brings the collapse of Ukraine to former Soviet

1:16.9

KGB agents invasion and the the refusal to find Israel in its time of need.

1:26.0

And so you have all of these Republicans in the House,

1:29.0

a lot of them who want to do the right thing,

1:32.0

but they're blindly following this young

1:35.2

inexperienced speaker who is blindly following a guy with 91 counts against him.

1:42.4

That's the important point right there. 91 counts against him.

1:43.4

That's the important point right there that yes, it's speaker Johnson voicing this but he is a vessel for what Donald Trump wants and just carrying out orders and it was even by today's political standards guys

1:54.3

yesterday was kind of a stunning day where you had people who'd been on board

1:58.4

people who had worked on this legislation this bipartisan legislation talking about Senate Republicans here.

2:05.1

Not crazy MAGA Trump senators talk about mainline conservative

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