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CBS anchor corners senior Biden adviser with her own answer while grilling her on border crisis: 'What is the White House doing?'
CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan grilled senior Biden adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday over President Joe Biden's inaction on the border crisis.
While interviewing Bottoms on "Face the Nation," Brennan wasted no time getting down to brass tacks. With Republicans and Democrats both placing blame for the border crisis at Biden's feet, Brennan wanted to know exactly what the administration is doing to alleviate the crisis.
"What is the administration doing to urge migrants not to come?" she asked.
Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, did not directly answer the question. Instead, she focused her response on Title 42 ending this week, which means migrants will be allowed to stay in the U.S. while immigration courts process their asylum requests.
Brennan used Bottoms' question-dodging response to press her point.
"This will means more people coming into the United States," Brennen pointed out. "So that's why I come back to that fundamental question of what is the White House doing to say, don't come to the border and try to claim asylum?"
Bottoms responded with a vague answer. She said the government wants "people to avail themselves of a lawful process" and said the U.S. border crisis a is "global issue." She did not say Biden is urging migrants to stop coming to the U.S.
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Later in the interview, Brennan questioned Bottoms over Biden's refusal to visit the U.S. border despite recently traveling to within hours of it.
"Why doesn't he go to the border? He was just in Arizona. Why wasn't it worth his time?" she asked.
At first, Bottoms suggested that logistics difficulties associated with presidential travel is why Biden has not visited the border. Then, when pressed on the issue, she deflected and said, "Well, I can't speak to why he has or has not gone."
Anything else?
At the White House press briefing on Monday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized the "border is not open."
"I wanna be very clear to folks that the border is not open," she said.
\u201cKARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "One of the reasons that I wanna be very clear to folks that the border is not open and we will remove using Title 8 is because by not being very clear on that we are doing the work of the smugglers."\n\n\ud83e\udd14\u201d— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1671479771
While that may be the rhetoric coming from Biden's spokespeople, the point his critics are making is that Biden's immigration policies are inviting migrants to come to the U.S. Indeed, the border does not need an "open" sign to signal to migrants that, if they claim asylum at the border, they have a good chance of not being deported.
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An advisor to President Joe Biden claimed that the "MAGA Republican agenda" was to "essentially destroy the United States of America" during an interview Sunday.
Keisha Lance Bottoms made the comments while a guest on "The Sunday Show" with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.
“There is a MAGA Republican agenda that gives no consideration to the rule of law, that has no respect for a woman’s right to choose, that wants to defund the FBI,” said the senior adviser for public engagement. "There is a MAGA Republican agenda that thought that it was OK to attack our nation's capitol on January 6th."
Bottoms was responding to a set of goals laid out by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and called the "Commitment to America" ahead of the pivotal midterm elections.
Biden has taken to using the phrase "MAGA Republicans" in order to accuse his political opponents of extremism. In August, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went as far as to say MAGA Republicans fit the definition of fascists.
Capehart asked Bottoms if the administration would continue to hammer away at Republicans by using the "MAGA" description before the midterms.
“I think it will always be important to call out any effort there is to destroy, essentially destroy the United States of America,” Bottoms continued. “President Biden has been very clear he wants to work in a bipartisan effort. He has worked in a bipartisan effort. He’s been able to get things done on behalf of our country, but when you have a MAGA Republican agenda that has no respect for the Constitution, that has no respect for free and fair elections then it is important for all of us, not just the president, not just me, for all of us to call it out for what it is.”
Capehart also criticized the plan put out by Republicans as having too few specifics and details.
While most experts have predicted that Democrats will lose enough seats in the U.S. House of Representatives to flip control over to the Republicans in the midterm elections, some recent polling shows Biden has made a slight uptick in popularity.
Here's the full interview with Bottoms on MSNBC:
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