Dan Crenshaw: Walls Work, This Is Commonsense

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CRENSHAW: "Well, it’s been interesting. What I have seen firsthand is the dysfunction and dishonesty of the debate itself. Right? So for the last few weeks, what we’ve seen is the constant rhetoric from the Democrats which say, 'We will negotiate this as long as the government’s open.' So I think the President did the right thing by reopening the government and calling the Democrats on this and saying, 'Okay, let’s have a good faith negotiation. We want to know why this $5.7 billion number is wrong. We want to know what your expertise is. We want to know what studies you are looking at that say this won’t work.' Because they haven’t been able to provide that yet except for talking points about it being medieval and immoral. That's not a rationale. There’s no fact behind that. There’s no evidence, no rationale behind that. That's not a right way to have a debate. I came here to have real policy debates. So I feel like we’re having a policy debate and I feel like the other side has been having a political debate over whose fault the shutdown is and other things that distract from the actual issue, which is how we secure the border. And Governor Abbott is exactly right: Walls work. They work as a mitigating factor for someone moving from point A to point B. They work as a funneling option as well so we can move resources to where we need. These things work. This is commonsense. We all used to agree on it until it got very political."