Sen. Michael Bennet: ‘If we can’t fund Ukraine, there’s no reason for [Congress] to be here’

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a member of the original bipartisan “Gang of Eight” working group on immigration, joins Chuck to detail the path forward on border reform as Senate Republicans clash over a potential deal. Bennet also looks back to how the debate has changed over the past decade, as a pathway to citizenship is unlikely to be included in the final package.

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0:00.0	Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd, cast. So right now Senate Republicans are
0:10.6	clashing internally over a border deal that would also green light further aid to Ukraine and Israel by the way.
0:16.4	House Republicans meanwhile are advancing an impeachment process against the current
0:20.2	Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkis, all due to the situation of the border.
0:26.0	Just one more example of how immigration remains at the center of our politics on both the campaign
0:29.6	trail and on the hill. The question is that a feature for a bug.
0:34.0	Joining me today is somebody who has seen every single iteration of a border deal, I think.
0:40.0	He's laughing now.
0:41.0	Senator Michael Bennett, Democrat from Colorado, he was appointed in 09 and immediately
0:45.6	was part of machinations trying to do a border deal before the 2010 elections.
0:52.0	It gets scrapped. It gets
0:53.3	elected. He's a part of the gang of eight that by 2013 got an immigration
0:59.1	deal out of the Senate, only to have John Boehner not bring it to the floor in the house.
1:03.0	To his credit, John Boehner has said it's one of the things he regrets the most.
1:07.0	And now here we are again, another border deal.
1:10.0	All those other ones had pathways to citizenship.
1:12.0	This one actually doesn't and yet
1:14.8	Republicans are struggling with this one as well so to sort of get a better
1:19.7	understanding I'm in Michael Bennett's office here now. There's not many I was looking for the
1:26.1	Dion Sanders. There is I'll tell you I don't have the Dion Sanders
1:30.3	cut out I do somewhere up there is John Boehner's book.
1:35.0	Oh, where he regrets.
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