>> I am telling you right now, republicans are intentionally working to drive up inflation and
intentionally working to cripple our supply chain. Why? Because they wanna drive up inflation. They
think it's gonna help them in the midterms. They wanna cripple supply chains because they think it
will help them and in terms they're doing it on purpose to hurt you, your family, your wallet.
>> That is Tiktoker Paul in Texas, who has a theory
about what Greg Abbott is doing right now, that's already causing chaos at the border
and could have long term consequences for the price and availability of a number of
different products throughout the country. He gets into his whole theory in this video.
>> Right now, Governor Abbott here in the state of Texas is forcing the DPS,
which is our version of state troopers to stop every single truck coming out of Mexico,
every single truck into a safety inspection on its safety inspection on it. What they're
doing is they're backing up shipping for dozens and dozens and dozens of miles.
Normally a Mexican driver will bring a truck over across the border, they'll drop it at
a depot and an american driver will pick it up and drive off. They usually do about four a day,
they can't get one through, they can't get one through. Their backed up for Laredo is the largest
land ports in this country and they've got it backed up so goddamn far,
you can't even see the end of the goddamn line.
These are the sorriest in the world, Republicans are traders, they don't give a damn who they hurt,
who they just so long as they can get some power. I'm telling you people
vote blue, vote blue in every election. >> Okay, so you can see Paul in Texas on Tiktok.
Yeah, he has a lot more details about that, including updates. But
he's trying to raise awareness about what's happening because it's sort of
limited national news. But it's true, since last week commercial vehicles entering texas
have faced not only the usual federal immigration and customs inspections,
but new checkpoints set up by Texas police on the roadway immediately after a measure.
Mr Abbott said he was ordering in response to the flow of illegal drugs and human
trafficking across the border. Delays now stretch up to 14 hours and some drivers
have been diverted to Arizona and new Mexico. They're driving states away rather than wait
for this new suspiciously just a few months out from the election change that Abbott has made.
They love to talk about how inflation is really bad and
products are getting too expensive and they're not available on the
store shelves and the products aren't there. But look at what effect they're actually directly
having on that. Nalini I think it's fascinating. >> Yeah. I mean here's the thing, what republicans
do when they're in charge and they want to seem that they will save the day they change the rules.
They literally rig and change the rules. And what we are seeing here is across the
country Republicans are using inflation and Americans fear of gas prices rising
to just say this is the democrats problem when it's really price gouging
and folks actually setting up these conditions that are the problem, right?
And I think that it's really really insidious that someone who has not
protected his constituencies when the big storms happened last year and people were out of power,
out of food, out of resources to actually have the nerve to say, you know what, inflation is
going up. And it's like it's the democrats problem when he's the one who's in charge,
he's the one that's in charge of the state.
And he's just doing this because he knows Texans are actually upset
and that that Paul guy on that video, I need to recruit him to
run for office. He's amazing. >> Yeah, he's doing a good job
there and raising awareness about this. I want to give you a little bit more details.
The standoff has stoked warnings by trade groups and experts that US grocery shoppers
could soon notice shortages on shelves and higher prices guarantee if that happens, fox and friends
is gonna cover it. You think they're gonna mention what's going on in Texas? I doubt it.
Mr Abbott said that the safety checks were needed to increase oversight
even if state police were not legally authorized to search for migrants or drugs at the checkpoint.
So it's not just strategically seems to be designed to hurt as many people as possible.
Also he seems to be admitting that they might not be legally allowed to do what they're doing, but
they will proceed regardless. And by the way, in the city of far, which is a major international
bridge, $12 million in produce is shipped every day to the US, it's been shut down.
Now scores of drivers have set up a blockade of their own
in protest over the new inspections and a similar protest has happened in El Paso. And so
here's my question to Fox and Friends and Fox. Hey, trucker protest. They're trying
to raise awareness about something that's made it impossible for them to do their jobs.
Now I understand it's not about mandates or vaccines or whatever, but Abbott is making
it so they can't do their jobs stuff could be rotting in those trucks. They're making far
less deliveries than they were. When are you gonna send your reporters? When are you gonna
profile some of these truckers or are they not the right sort of truckers for your interests?
Any final thoughts Cellini? >> I mean this is what happens.
We have people who are actually standing up, taking a stand for some injustice that they
see that's happening to their lives and nobody wants to report on it or people don't wanna
report on it from the Republican side because they know it won't help their narrative of that.
We're just against the democrats and that's it.