department s july 2017 country reports on terrorism. and i m quoting now. there are no known international terrorist organizations operating in mexico. no evidence that any terrorist group has targeted u.s. citizens in mexican territory, and no credible information that any member of a terrorist group has traveled through mexico to gain access to the united states. now, you might be saying okay, that s a report from july of last year about conditions back in 2016. what about now? maybe it s changed. well, here s what a senior administration counterterrorism official told cnn yesterday about current conditions, and i m quoting, while we acknowledge there are vulnerabilities at both our northern and southern border, we do not see any evidence that isis or any sunni terrorist groups are trying to infiltrate the southern border. those are the facts not just as we know them but as knowledgeable people in the president s own administration do. this isn t about the merits of this or that immi
and the idea of circling the wagons and saying, you know, we re going to run this like a again, a crime organization is not the right example. i m not using that. but we re just going to pick from family. it s crazy. that is again, it s happened in a couple of instances in this country. it is the outlier, and i don t think it s a model that should be replicated, ba us ecause it against this idea of meritocracy of ideas and instead to the idea of blood being the strongest of all ties. ultimately, what ought to tie us together in the political environment is the merritt of her ideas and ability to advance those ideas in making arguments, rather than simply a blood tie. what do you make of people making the argument that nikki haley might be a strong republican candidate for president in 2024? well, i think that s the obvious. i think she s running. i don t think john lerner would be attached the way she is to
fund-raiser today, she s going to do this fund-raiser at the lawyers office for the accuser. this is taking place in early october, october 1st. oh, now it is candle know my counsel because they got so much bad publicity. but they were already fund-raising off it. if it is not politics, protecting a woman, standing up for justice, then why are they fund-raising on it? tammy baldwin, a woman. that is every g.o.p. commentator, anyone else, presupposes that this is all rooted in politics. but what is disappointing and shameful is no one on the senate judiciary committee has commented about getting to the truth and the accuracy or justice for this individual, if it is true. it would seem to me that the g.o.p. are making arguments that they should be an investigation. we should find out. why would you, as a g.o.p.
gop are making arguments that they should there should be an investigation, we should find out. why would you, as a g.o.p. member, not want to know with a lifetime appointee, that you of the votes to get through, why wouldn t you want to know whether he committed this bad act? why would you not want to get to the truth? laura: you want keith ellison? i want to know whether it s true. you can go vote for him after that, if you want. but republicans don t want that. now they have to vote for somebody if they find out it s true. laura: if somebody accused one of us from 36 years ago where we have no memory of anyone there, we didn t know the date, even the year, i guess, is confusing. and we don t know the location, how would you if i was up for a lifetime appointment and that happened to me laura: how would you investigate it? the fbi investigates old cases all the time. i m not saying if it is viable you may not come to a conclusion. i would want the investigation.
last night i saw a letter going out by former yale law school students, current yale law school students a pretty small group saying that judge kavanaugh is elevated to the supreme court it will actually lead to the deaths of people. that sort of rhetoric actually just turns people to the other side of the political spectrum. if you are making arguments that are that unhinged, i think that fundamentally judge kavanaugh, president trump and the republicans, they are going to win this battle. ainsley: sorry, judge kavanaugh when he was at the podium right after the president nominated him, he was talking about how the majority of his law clerks that he hired are women. i know that he hired your wife. and you know, when you you were a student during seminars. you see him from one light. is he your superior, your leader. i know yale is very liberal. you are a conservative. you found a partnership with him there but when your wife worked for him, what did she say? what s he really like be