has been partly to blame, mischaracterizing el paso as one of the most dangerous cities in the country. it s not. in fact, it s one of the safest cities for its size. the trump administration decided to roll out family separation policies. it s the same city where migrants were held outside under a bridge by customs and border protection. yes, some people here believe that president trump has partly to blame for his rhetoric that he has used here, in singling out mexicans as rapists when he made the announcement he was running for the presidency and a lot of the conversation today is focused around his visit. no one who i ve spoken to here say they want him here. no one who i ve spoken to says they believe now is the time for him to come or he will heal the wounds that are still raw and very open here in this community. president trump held a rally here. it was not too long ago, in february. i want to play you what he had to say while he was here. 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens,
attention to the cruelty of the family separation policies, the detention in these facilities, so they don t want the democrats to lose sight by relitigating the obama/biden record. real quickly, to sabrina s point, january 2017, barack obama out of office, gallup poll, 90% of the democrats approved of his job. you covered eight year of the obaisma administration. i m anxious to get your thoughts on this attack. there was some criticism of president obama as well. it seemed like it was really obama on the table. barack obama s presidency was on the table, because joe biden is linked to him, because he was number two. in this climate that we have the hate and discrediting by a u.s. president on other presidents,
conditions. we saw that hoeartbreaking picture of the father and daughter. president trump hit his highest approval rating since taking office. is this proof the president s deflect and deny strategy may be working? i don t know if it s proof of that. i don t know if you can look at one poll or two polls or three polls and make a judgement like that. i do think that sometimes people who are polled are able to compartmentalize and perhaps that s what s going on here. they might be feeling okay with the economy or some other aspect of the president s agenda and are able to just focus on that rather than on the horrors at the border. as ryan pointed out, maybe the conditions are not the intended affect that the president wants. but we know that at least when it came to child separation, family separation policies, those were designed specifically to deter people from coming here. i think it was jeff sessions and former chief of staff john kelly
economy because of the predecessor s deal. and so what we re seeing now is the president standing up to the aggression that we saw, you know, with the iranians. there s no doubt that it was the iranians who are perpetrating this aggression with regards to, you know, the ships. and so it s the same with immigration. you know, in is an unmitigated crisis of the border. and his predecessor, barack obama, you know, as the president said in the clip that you played, he did what he could. he was the one who had started the family separation policies and, again, those images of the children being locked up, those were from the obama administrati administration. so you see a mpresident in good faith trying to urge congress to negotiate a deal here so we can stop the separations. so we can stop well, but, alexander, in reality, the drone was shot down, the president and he, himself, says he has hawks and doves in his inner circle. president went hawkish and then
systemic problem was, which was happening in honduras and guatemala. two things about that. one is, there was a crisis with obama and everyone called it a crisis. this administration struggled to have people call it a crisis. because at first, they weren t calling ate crisis among democrats and then the coverage is only about family separation and not about the actual problem that s happening. so they are just in a very different circumstance than barack obama was from the very beginning of this entire thing. barack obama was starting to deport people. and that s now when the democrats look at this and say, we essentially cannot agree with the president on anything to do with immigration, no matter what it is, and they ve just republicans don t agree on immigration, either. he didn t get immigration, and there are some real concerns in terms of family separation policies and the conditions that these kids are living in now. there s real concerns with human trafficking,