AS AWFUL AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S TOTALLY
UNNECESSARY POLICY OF TEARING CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS
IS, IT TURNS OUT IT COULD GET DARKER THAN THAT, AND THAT IS
WHEN THEY BEGIN TO USE THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DOING THAT,
BEFORE THEIR STATEMENTS I WANT TO UPDATE YOU ON THE STATUS OF
THIS CHILD TEARING AWAY POLICY --
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>>THOSE NUMBERS ARE CRAZY, I'M NOT GREAT AT MATH BUT I BELIEVE
IT WORKS OUT TO ONE CHILD EVERY 30 MINUTES.
BEAR THAT IN MIND AS
WE GO FORWARD WITH WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BIBLE, FIRST WE
HAVE SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS.
>>WHERE DOES IT SAY IN THE BIBLE THAT IT IS MORAL TO TAKE
CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR MOTHERS?
>>I'M NOT AWARE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S COMMENTS OR WHAT HE
WOULD BE REFERENCING.
I CAN SAY THAT IT IS VERY BIBLICAL TO
ENFORCE THE LAW.
THAT IS ACTUALLY REPEATED A NUMBER OF
TIMES THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
>>IMAGINE IF JESUS WAS WATCHING THAT EXCHANGE RATE THERE.
I
DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY OF THAT STUFF BUT I DON'T THINK IT WOULD
BE WELL RECEIVED.
>>I KNOW THAT PEOPLE IN POWER LOVE TO QUOTE THAT PART OF THE
BIBLE WHERE THEY SAY GIVE UNTO CAESAR WHAT IS HIS.
THE ONLY
REASON THE BIBLE TELLS YOU THAT IS SO YOU AREN'T IMMEDIATELY
EXECUTED, WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENED BACK IN THE DAY.
BY THE WAY, ONE
PERSON DIDN'T AGREE WITH THAT, HIS NAME WAS JESUS CHRIST, AND
HE WAS EXECUTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
SO THIS IDEA THAT
YOU SHOULD BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE GOVERNMENT, THAT'S WHAT JESUS
WOULD WANT, IS PREPOSTEROUS, LET ALONE COMING FROM A
CONSERVATIVE.
SO IF BIG GOVERNMENT RIPS YOUR KIDS AWAY
FROM YOU, REMEMBER, JESUS WOULD HAVE BOWED HIS HEAD.
>>LET'S BE HONEST, THE CONCEPT OF RIPPING CHILDREN FROM THEIR
PARENTS AS THIS BROAD PUNISHMENT IS INCREDIBLY BIBLICAL, IT'S
JUST NOT THE BIBLE THAT EVERYBODY CITES.
IT'S OLD
TESTAMENT WERE GOD FLOODED THE WORLD AND KILLED EVERYBODY
BECAUSE HE WAS UPSET.
>>IT'S THE WRONG PART.
>>IT'S NOT THE JESUS LOVES EVERYONE AND THINKS THEY
SHOULDN'T BE HUNGRY PART.
>>IF ANYONE TRIED TO RIP MY TWO-YEAR-OLD OR FIVE-YEAR-OLD
DAUGHTER AWAY FROM ME, YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE THE WRATH I
WOULD FEEL AND I WOULD DISPLAY.
AND ACTUALLY MY OPPONENT,
CONGRESSMAN YODER, WAS RECENTLY NAMED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE
HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE AND THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
AND WENT TO TEXAS TO FIGURE OUT THE SITUATION, CAME BACK, SAID
IT WAS HEARTBREAKING, BUT WHAT HAS HE DONE TO FIX ANYTHING?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I WILL SAY HE DOESN'T EXACTLY HAVE A LOT OF
RESPECT FOR THE BIBLE SO MAYBE THAT'S WHY -- THE SEA OF GALILEE
THAT JESUS WALKED ON, KEVIN YODER WHEN HE WAS A CONGRESSMAN
TOOK A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO ISRAEL AND GOT DRUNK AND WENT
SKINNY-DIPPING IN THE SEA OF GALILEE.
>>WILD PARTY.
>>BUT I DO WANT TO GIVE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE CREDIT BECAUSE
I WAS A LITTLE STUNNED THAT EVANGELICAL LEADERS CAME OUT
AGAINST THIS POLICY BECAUSE IN MY OPINION THEY HAVE BEEN
HYPOCRITICAL IN THE PAST IN THEIR SUPPORT OF TRUMP, BUT OF
ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, REVEREND FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAYING
FAMILIES, QUOTE, BEING RIPPED APART, WORK, QUOTE, DISGRACEFUL,
TO DO THAT WITH DISGRACEFUL, FOR HIM TO CRITICIZE TRUMP THAT
HEAVILY IS SHOCKING.
>>I'M NOT A BIBLICAL SCHOLAR, MAYBE SOMEONE CAN SEND THIS
INFORMATION, I DON'T KNOW WHICH VERSE THIS WAS FROM, BUT I
BELIEVE THERE IS A REFERENCE IN THE BIBLE THAT IT WOULD BE
BETTER TO TIE A ROPE AROUND A ROCK AROUND YOUR BODY AND THROW
IT INTO THE OCEAN BEFORE HURTING A CHILD.
SO MAYBE THEY COULD
READ THAT PART BEFORE TEARING THE KIDS AWAY.
THERE WAS A
LITTLE MORE FROM THE INTERACTION WITH SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS,
ANOTHER REPORTER WANTED TO PROVIDE HER A LIFELINE, A CHANCE
TO SHOW SOME SORT OF HUMANITY ON THIS ISSUE, LET'S SEE WHAT SHE
SAID.
>>IF DEMOCRATS WANT TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF
PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES THEY CAN COME AND SIT DOWN WITH THE
PRESIDENT AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
>>DON'T YOU HAVE ANY EMPATHY?
YOU ARE A PARENT, DON'T YOU HAVE
EMPATHY FOR WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH?
THEY HAVE
LESS THAN YOU DO.
>>SETTLE DOWN.
I'M TRYING TO BE SERIOUS BUT I'M NOT GOING TO
HAVE YOU YELL OUT OF TURN.
>>THESE PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING.
>>BRAD, I KNOW YOU WANT TO GET SOME MORE TV TIME BUT THAT'S NOT
WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE YOU.
GO AHEAD, JILL.
>>IT'S A SERIOUS QUESTION, THESE PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING, THEY
COME TO THE BORDER WITH NOTHING, AND THEY PUT CHILDREN IN CAGES.
YOU ARE A PARENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN, DON'T YOU HAVE ANY
EMPATHY FOR WHAT THEY GO THROUGH?
>>JILL, GO AHEAD.
>>SHE IS A MONSTER, HE GAVE HER EVERY CHANCE TO SHOW SOME
COMPASSION, BUT AFTER WATCHING THAT I THINK BACK TO THE WHITE
HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER AND I WISH MICHELLE WOLF HAD SAVAGED
HER MORE, I WISH HER ENTIRE SPEECH HAD BEEN ABOUT THAT
WOMAN.
>>I HAVE DEFENDED HER 100 TIMES ONLY BECAUSE TRUMP ASKS HER TO
GO DO THESE THINGS AND SHE IS A MINION AND SHE HAS TO DO THEM --
ON THE OTHER HAND SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO TAKE THE JOB.
>>SHE COULD QUIT ANY DAY.
>>SHE IS ON HER WAY OUT I THINK.
>>SHE SAYS NOT.
>>SO CONFIRMED, SHE IS ON HER WAY OUT.
>>SHE SAID SHE IS PRAYING FOR CLARITY.
SHE'S GONE.
>>I'M PRETTY SURE THAT AFTER TODAY GOD WON'T BE RESPONDING.
BY THE WAY, WE KEEP MAKING REFERENCES TO TEARING FAMILIES
APART AND THERE HAS BEEN THIS WAVE OF ACTIVISM AROUND THIS
ISSUE, MANY PROTESTS OF KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER, SO I THINK
FOR MOST PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE RELIGIOUS OR
NOT, WHAT RELIGION YOU FOLLOW, THERE IS THIS NATURAL AVERSION
TO THE CONCEPT OF BREAKING FAMILIES APART.
NOW I WANT YOU
TO SEE HOW THE WHITE HOUSE HAS TAKEN THAT MESSAGING AND WHAT
THEY ARE USING IT FOR, LET'S BRING UP THIS NEXT GRAPHIC --
SO YOU'RE SEEING, THIS IS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, IT SAYS THERE,
LOOK AT THIS, JUAN PINA WAS PERMANENTLY SEPARATED FROM HIS
DAUGHTER AFTER SHE WAS STRANGLED, RAPED, AND MURDERED
BY AN ILLEGAL ALIEN.
JAVEEL SHAW, SR.
WAS PERMANENTLY
SEPARATED FROM HIS SON WHO WAS TRAGICALLY MURDERED BY AN
ILLEGAL ALIEN GANG MEMBER.
SO FOR THOSE PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT
THEIR FAMILIES BEING UNNECESSARILY AND CRUELLY
SEPARATED, THEY ONCE AGAIN TRIED TO SCARE YOU WITH THIS BOGEYMAN
OF FOREIGN MEXICAN CRIME CROSSING THE BORDER AND KILLING
AMERICANS.
IT'S SICK.
>>SENATOR MERKLEY WANTED TO GO DOWN AND CHECK OUT ONE OF THESE
FACILITIES AND THEY WOULDN'T LET HIM DO IT, A SITTING U.S.
SENATOR, HE'S A REPRESENTATIVE, THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLE, BUT THEY
FINALLY LET IN SOME PRESS I'M SURE AFTER DRESSING IT UP AS
MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BUT AN MSNBC REPORTER SAID IT LOOKED LIKE THE
KIDS WERE IN PRISON, THEY WERE HELD IN OVERCROWDED BUILDINGS
FOR 22 HOURS A DAY, AND HE SAID THEY FEEL LIKE ANIMALS LOCKED IN
A CAGE BEING LOOKED AT.
>>THAT WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE FACILITY WHO
SAID THAT TO THE REPORTER, THE PERSON MAINTAINING THE KIDS,
SAID THERE LIKE ANIMALS LOCKED IN A CAGE.
THEY ARE LET OUT INTO
THE SUNSHINE ONLY TWO HOURS A DAY.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, I WANT
YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE POINT JOHN WAS MAKING, THEY ARE BEING
CRITICIZED FOR TAKING THESE LITTLE KIDS AWAY FROM THEIR
PARENTS, AND BY THE WAY IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEY TELL THE PARENTS
DON'T WORRY, WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THEM A BATH, AND OF COURSE
THEY DON'T, THEY TAKE THE KIDS AND MOVE THEM STATES AWAY AND
THEY DON'T TELL THE PARENTS WHERE THE KIDS ARE.
IT'S
HEARTBREAKING, ANYONE WHO HAS KIDS, AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T AND
YOU HAVE AN OUNCE OF EMPATHY YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IS
HEARTBREAKING.
AND THEN THEY TAKE THE CRIMINALS THAT KILLED
PEOPLE OR WHATEVER AND THEY MOVE THE SHELLS AROUND, AND THEY ARE
LATE, THEY SEPARATED PEOPLE FROM THEIR FAMILIES -- WAIT A MINUTE,
THE KIDS DIDN'T DO THAT, YOU TOOK THE KIDS AWAY.
THERE ARE
10-YEAR-OLDS IN CASA PADRE, DID THEY DO ANY OF THAT?
BUT WHAT
YOU DID IS IMMIGRANTS/KILLERS, IMMIGRANTS/KILLERS, WE WERE
TALKING ABOUT KIDS AND YOU SWITCHED THE TOPIC TO CRIMINALS,
YOU DID THAT TO DECEIVE PEOPLE.
>>AND IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
DREAMERS AND THEN THEY TRIED TO COMPLETE THE DREAMERS, WHO WE
KNOW COMMIT CRIMES AT LOWER RATES THAN OTHER AMERICANS, THEY
OWN HOMES AT HIGHER RATES, THEY PARTICIPATE IN THE MILITARY
MORE, HIGHER GRADUATION RATES FROM COLLEGE, THEY STARTED
SPREADING THAT DISGUSTING AMERICANS ARE DREAMERS TOO B.S.
IT'S DISGUSTING.
>>I CAME TO THE COUNTRY LEGALLY, I CAN BECAUSE I THINK
IT'S THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, MY PARENTS CAME, AND WE BELIEVE IN
THE AMERICAN DREAM, SO IN THAT SENSE WE ARE DREAMERS.
BUT BY
THE WAY, THEY WOULD STOP THAT TOO.
THE REASON SARAH HUCKABEE
SANDERS IS REPEATING DONALD TRUMP'S LIE ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS
MAKING US DO IT, IT'S PREPOSTEROUS.
THAT IS 100% A
LIE, UNMITIGATED LIE.
THEY SAY IF THE DEMOCRATS WOULD AGREE TO
OUR HARSH LAWS MAYBE WE COULD STOP TAKING AWAY PEOPLES KIDS'S.
THAT'S NOT TRUE.
WHAT DO THEY WANT THE DEMOCRATS TO AGREE TO?
FUNDING FOR THE WALL, THERE'S A WHOLE LIST, INCLUDING BY THE WAY
KEEPING THE KIDS FOR LONGER.
WHY WOULD THEY AGREE TO THAT, THAT'S
INSANITY.
AND THE LAST THING, THEY WANT TO END LEGAL
IMMIGRATION.
THEY SAY WHETHER YOU WON THE VISA LOTTERY --
THAT'S A DEBATABLE POLICY ISSUE -- BUT WHAT THEY CALL CHAIN
MIGRATION, THAT'S AMERICAN CITIZENS BRINGING THEIR FAMILY
MEMBERS HERE, THAT'S THE MOST COMMON LEGAL WAY TO COME TO
AMERICA.
THEY ARE TRYING TO ATTACK LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
THEY
DON'T BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR A SECOND.
>>THEY ALSO RECENTLY STARTED LOOKING INTO NATURALIZED
CITIZENS FOR ANY IRREGULARITIES IN THEIR IMMIGRATION PAPERWORK
TO STRIP IMMIGRATION FROM ALREADY LEGAL CITIZENS.
IT'S AN
ALL OUT ATTACK, AND THE FACT THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS
RIPPING CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND PUTTING THEM IN
WHAT CAN BE CALLED CONCENTRATION CAMPS OR INTERNMENT CAMPS,
BECAUSE THEY CAN'T LEAVE AND IT'S A HUGE CONCENTRATION OF
KIDS, THAT IS INSIDE AN ABANDONED WALMART, THAT IS SO ON
THE NOSE FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO HOLD THESE
KIDS HOSTAGE TO TRY TO GET FUNDING FOR THE WALL AND STOP
LEGAL IMMIGRATION.
>>IT'S A LITTLE CONFUSING, YOU SHOULD NOT PAY AS MUCH ATTENTION
TO THE NEWS IS I'M FORCED TO FOR MY JOB BUT I HEAR TRUMP
SPREADING THE LIE OF THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS' FAULT, THEN YOU GET
SESSIONS AND HUCKABEE SANDERS TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE -- SO
WHICH IS IT?
IT'S A TERRIBLE, CRUEL THING THE DEMOCRATS ARE
MAKING US DO, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS WE HAVE TO DO IT BECAUSE IT'S
BIBLICAL TO DO SO?
>>THEY ALSO SAY IT'S THE LAW, IT'S NOT, IT'S A POLICY
GUIDELINE.
CONGRESS DID NOT SAY RIP KIDS FROM THEIR FAMILIES.