weaponizing its attack line on donald trump, but he appeared to have given them plenty of ammunition. let s get the latest from rich edson in washington. rich? good afternoon, neil. much of the respect presidential field has criticized the department of justice over this. they re also taking issue with the former president s alleged behavior. his campaign says it raised roughly $2 million last night at a fund raiser in bedminster, new jersey just hours after the former president appeared at his arraignment in a courthouse in miami. as his federal indictment dominates the gop race for president. i don t think that most republicans support the conduct that is detailed in that indictment. it s reckless, it s harmful to the american national security and it doesn t show the judgment that you need to be an effective president during difficult times. former vice president mike pence told the wall street journal, these are very serious allegations and i can t defend what is
what i say is that what happened in his first two years? he had nine million people crossing the border. all of it done on purpose. i believe that i don t believe many of the statistics coming out now. they re doing a little shell game, who is coming in, encountered, who is coming in with their app. so we have to get to the bottom of that. there s no doubt that the secretary mayorkas, although he s not incompetent, all of this was done on purpose. i think that s what is coming out. it was done on purpose to drop nine million migrants in to the united states. neil: there s a lot of back and forth on that as you re aware. one of the things that seems clear to me is usually someone who is being pressured to resign or now be impeached is served up if his boss feels the same way. in this case, the president of the united states. there s no indications the president does feel that way. so this guy isn t going
disintegration of sovereignty of people coming in. nine million people since the president was inaugurated. that is representative clay higgins. the latest republican now to introduce articles of impeachment against mayorkas. chairman mark green won t say the i word but has said that they re going to put together a packet and have hearings and send to it the judiciary committee and let those folks decide whether or not to impeach. not all republicans are convinced that impeachment is the right way to go here. democrats say this is all political theater. it s obvious this hearing isn t really about border security. it s about house republican leadership catering to its most extreme maga members that want to impeach someone, anyone at all.
anywhere. what do you think of that? look, i pragmatic. i understand reality. if we get him impeached in the house, it s doubtful that he will be convicted in the senate and the president is not going to fire him or anything. look, at the end, even if he does, he s just going to get somebody that will do the same thing. the president was involved in this. the president was the one that changed many of those policies, many of those executive orders. it was the customs and border protection agents on the ground telling mayorkas and probably the president, this stuff you re doing is not working. it is making things worse. they refused to listen to him. again, this was all done on purpose. i don t know why, neil. why they did it on purpose. there is no doubt that this was done on purpose. neil: if you don t mind my switching gears. you re keeping up with this latest 37 count indictment against donald trump. maybe more could follow. there s a sort of extreme view