Rep. Jordan Defends Trump’s Emergency Declaration: ‘Everyone Knows a Wall Will Help’

‘You don’t think drugs are coming across where there aren’t border patrol agents?’

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RADDATZ: "Congressman, can you give me an example where the president asked me for something Congress rejected and the president said he would do it anyway?"
JORDAN: "I don’t know of that, but I do know that this wasn’t a rejection because there was some money for the wall in this bill. So Congress said, it’s okay for some, but the president said, this is such a grave problem, I need more money to build more wall and to fulfill the campaign promise that I told the American people I was going to do."
RADDATZ: "Which is what Congress — which Congress specifically rejected more money.
JORDAN: Congress didn’t — they rejected more money, but they gave some for it. There was money that he can use that doesn’t require an executive order. He’s going to use that and do the emergency declaration. It will go to court, Martha, and we’ll see what the court says. All I know is this is a serious situation. This is a crisis. Look at the drug problem, the human trafficking problem, the gang violence problem. That’s why we need the border security wall and that’s why the president is making sure happens."
RADDATZ: "You say this is an emergency. The president says this is an emergency, but a legal border crossings as we have said are near a 40-year low. The DEA recently said the majority of heroin from across the southern border comes from legal ports of entry. As did the fentanyl bust you just talked about. That was in Arizona."
JORDAN: “Come on. Come on. So you don’t think drugs are coming across where there aren’t border patrol agents? They’re only getting them through where there are agents to stop it? That defies common sense."
RADDATZ: "I am reading government statistics here, congressman. Don’t these figures undermine the claim that this is an emergency? There is no doubt drugs are coming over. There is no doubt illegals are coming over, but you just heard that the majority —"
JORDAN: Everyone knows —"
RADDATZ: "The low of 40 years."
JORDAN: Everyone knows a wall will help."

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