At today's Senate Republican press briefing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) lambasted President Biden's border policy.
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00:00Okay I want you to listen up here's the here's the drill. President Biden is in
00:19trouble politically. He's polling right up there with fungal infections. Part of
00:29the reason for that is that he gave in to the loon wing of his party and he
00:37dissolved the southern border. Now five months before an election he has to
00:45appear to be willing to do something about it.
00:50Hence this executive order and he expects you to report this epiphany that
00:59he has had. Take what the White House is is telling you, balance it on your noses
01:09like trained seals and report it uncritically. For five, for three years
01:19we have watched President Biden push on a door that has clearly marked, has been
01:28clearly marked for. He's mismanaged Congress, COVID, the national debt, the
01:35economy, inflation, crime, Afghanistan, Iran, the war in Gaza, the war in Ukraine
01:44and now of course the border. And every time I think the president has hit rock
01:53bottom. He has managed to find a shovel and continue to dig. Hence this executive
02:04order and I think that's what the American people see. The first question I
02:10would ask President Biden is this. It's a little late, isn't it Mr. President? It's a
02:17little late. You can't make this catwalk backwards. The president's border policies
02:26have allowed eight million people to come into our country illegally. If you
02:32try to come into our country today illegally you are a sucker. You are a
02:38sucker. All you have to do is present yourself at the southern border. Now for
02:45three years President Biden told us all there is no crisis at the southern
02:52border for reasons clearly stated on the teleprompter. And his plan to deal with
02:59the crisis at the border was to pretend that there wasn't a crisis at the border.
03:05Some of you reported that. Some of you didn't. Well when the American people
03:11figured it out, because they may be poorer under President Biden but they're
03:16not stupid, the Biden administration shifted strategy. It then said well we
03:22know there's a crisis at the border but we don't have any authority to fix it.
03:26That didn't work either because the American people aren't so deep stupid. So
03:33now he has decided to tell you that he has been born again. He has had an
03:40epiphany. He is now a border hawk and that's what he wants you to report. Look,
03:51you can cut the hypocrisy with a knife. You know I have seen the good side of
04:01politics but I've also seen the dark side. I spent 25 years in the major
04:08leagues of Louisiana politics before I was sent down to the miners here in
04:14Washington. I have seen the good side but I've seen the dark side and this is the
04:20most one of the most cynical things that I have ever seen a politician attempt to
04:27do five months before an election. It is insulting, it is cheap, it is contemptuous.
04:37The American people see that and I hope I hope you do too.
04:48Ricketts, you're the man.