Today we're going to talk about the rights epic misstep on the issue of immigration

and I interview Fox L.A.'s Alex Michelson about Republicans refusing to take yes

for an answer on the border, whether Americans are starting to feel the effects of a

strong economy, and what the rights meltdown over Taylor Swift is saying.

I'm Ryan Taylor Cohen and you're listening to no lie.

I cannot remember a time when Republicans weren't wailing about the border, like

about drugs and the rapists and the weapons and the crime all owed to our quote-unquote

wide-open borders. Like you can't turn on the TV in October of an election year

without hearing the usual drumbeat about migrant caravans and hordes of brown

people coming to kill your wives and sell drugs to your kids. And then of course

the election happens and I guess

those caravans conveniently vanish only to miraculously return on the eve

of the next election. And so with Donald Trump contending with a raft of different prosecutions, with his recent judgment for $83 million owed to a woman who a judge found he raped, with his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire watered down by relatively dismal showing for someone who considers himself an incumbent.

Of course, Republicans are turning their attention to the tried and tested issue of the border.

And their plan now was to spend the next 10 months

wailing about this while pandering to a base that has been conditioned into living

an abject fear at the imminent prospect of their own cultural

disappearance at the hands of these migrants,

according to Fox News and Tucker Carlson and the rest of the right-wing media ecosystem

that exists to pedal fear, and then of course to sell you disaster prep kits and gold coins.

But Joe Biden called their bluff basically saying okay if you want a law send me a bill and I'll sign it.

And the bill he endorsed would speed up the asylum process to consider cases within six months as

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