Jeh Johnson: Comforting Trump Used Words Border Security More than the Wall in His Address

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JOHNSON: “As the former Secretary of Homeland Security, familiar with what is required on our border and familiar with all of the different things we ahve on our border, and as a lawyer that negotiated all kinds of complicated deals, i look at this and I say to myself if we could just extract out of this all of the emotion and the politics, two good lawyers, who are good wordsmiths, could fix this in 45 minutes. Literally. For example. There is fence, there is wall, there is steel wall, there is concrete wall — when does something become a fence versus a wall? And I took a little bit of comfort from what the President said last night because he used the phrase border security more than he did wall. Signaling perhaps, or at least those that wrote the document for him, signaling perhaps that there might be some compromise out there under the general rubric of border security.”