HEARINGS SO DEMOCRATS CAN’T DENY
WHAT’S HAPPENING.
>> Griff: FOR MORE ON THIS LET’S
BRING IN THE FORMER BORDER
PATROL CHIEF RODNEY SCOTT.
CHIEF, GREAT TO SEE YOU.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME.
LET’S GET RIGHT INTO THESE
NUMBERS GOING BACK TO WHEN YOU
WERE IN CHARGE GOING BACK TO
2020 FISCAL YEAR JUST UNDER
460,000 THERE.
THEN, OF COURSE, LAST FISCAL
YEAR 2022 INCREASED ALL THE WAY
TO RECORD-BREAKING NUMBERS
NEARLY 2.4 MILLION.
I AM TOLD ALREADY THERE IS
350,000 ENCOUNTERS JUST THIS
FISCAL YEAR SINCE OCTOBER 1ST.
WHAT IS YOUR SENSE WHEN WE HEAR
THE INCOMING LEADER KEVIN
MCCARTHY WHO MAY BE THE SPEAKER
GOING TO EL PASO AND MAKING
STATEMENTS LIKE THIS?
>> HIS ACTIONS HAVE PRODUCED THE
GREATEST WAVE OF ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION IN RECORDED HISTORY.
IF SECRETARY MAYORKAS DOES NOT
RESIGN, HOUSE REPUBLICANS WILL
INVESTIGATE EVERY ORDER, EVERY
ACTION, AND EVERY FAILURE.
WE’LL DETERMINE WHETHER WE CAN
BEGIN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.
>> Griff: SHOULD MAYORKAS RESIGN
OR FACE IMPEACHMENT?
>> I BELIEVE IF MAYORKAS HAD ANY
CREDIBILITY OR INTEGRITY HE
WOULD RESIGN.
PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT WE’VE
LOST CONTROL OF THE BORDER.
THAT ISN’T NECESSARILY TRUE.
THIS ADMINISTRATION
INTENTIONALLY GAVE UP CONTROL OF
THE BORDER.
THAT BORDER WAS NEVER MORE
SECURE THAN WHEN THIS
ADMINISTRATION TOOK OVER.
EVEN WHEN WE DID HAVE SURGES
THERE WERE MEETINGS EVERY DAY
AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOW CAN WE
PROTECT AMERICA BY SLOWING DOWN
THIS FLOW AND MAKING SURE WE
CONTROL WHO CROSSES THE BORDER,
NOT THE CARTELS?
THIS ADMINISTRATION GAVE
COMPLETE AND TOTAL CONTROL OF
THE BORDER TO THE MEXICAN
CARTELS.
THE SECRETARY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
SECURING THE BORDER AND HE NEEDS
TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
HE KEEPS SAYING THE BORDER IS
MORE SECURE THAN EVER.
HE COMPLETELY IGNORES WHAT HE
GETS BRIEFED ON DAILY WHICH IS
HOW MANY MILES OF BORDER ARE NOT
PAT ROLLED NOW, HOW MANY
GOTAWAYS THERE ARE EVERY SINGLE
DAY AND NOW WE TALK ABOUT
DETAILING AIR MARSHALS TO THE
BORDER.
YOU WON’T ARREST YOUR WAY OUT OF
THE PROBLEM.
HE NEEDS TO DETAIL JUDGES TO THE
BORDER AND DETAIN PEOPLE
CROSSING THE BORDER UNTIL THEY
HAVE HAD DUE PROCESS INSTEAD OF
RELEASING HIM.
THIS PROBLEM WOULD GO AWAY
OVERNIGHT.
HE NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
>> Griff: MCCARTHY TALKED ABOUT
HOLDING HEARINGS.
I THINK YOU WOULD BE A GREAT
WITNESS AND I HOPE THEY CALL
WHEN.
WHEN YOU RETIRED YOU GAVE AN
EXTENSIVE INSIGHT INTO WHY IT
WAS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.
IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE.
BUT LET ME ASK YOU, WHO SHOULD
MCCARTHY CALL TO THESE BORDER
HEARINGS?
WHO NEEDS TO APPEAR AND GO ON
RECORD?
>> I THINK CURRENTLY I HAVE SOME
HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, OF COURSE,
THE BEGINNING OF THE
ADMINISTRATION AND HOW SOME OF
THE DECISIONS WERE OR WERE NOT
MADE.
CURRENT GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES,
CURRENT BORDER SECURITY
PROFESSIONALS WITHIN THE
GOVERNMENT, THEY HAVE THE INS
AND OUTS AND KNOW NOW WHAT’S
GOING ON MORE THAN EVEN I DO AND
THEY WANT TO SPEAK OUT.
BUT THEY ARE UNDER GAG ORDERS BY
THIS ADMINISTRATION AND NOT
ALLOWED TO TALK TO REPORTERS.
YOU HARDLY SEE ANY LEADERSHIP
FROM BORDER PATROL OR CBP OR ICE
SPINNING PUBLICLY.
THIS ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T WANT
THE TRUTH OUT THERE.
I THINK THE HEARINGS SHOULD
FOCUS ON --
>> Griff: I HOPE THAT THEY CALL
THE CHIEFS OF ALL NINE BORDER
SECTORS AND PUT THEM ON RECORD
ON THE ROLLS TO FIND OUT HOW
MANY BORDER PATROL AGENTS WERE
ON THE LINE AND HOW MANY WERE
DRIVING BUSES AND BABYSITTING
WITH THE NUMBERS COMING ACROSS.
CHIEF, THANK YOU FOR YOUR
INSIGHT AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU AT