i m maria bartiromo. today invasion at the southern border. 371,000 migrant encounters nationwide in the month of december alone. compare that to the entire final year of the trump administration in 2020 with where they had 405,000 for the whole year. something if former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe warned us about in the first three months of the biden administration, right here. we didn t have a problem four months ago. we had no national security issue like we have down there right now. now. this was a situation where the biden administration was so eager to want to declare trump policy cruel at the border that they, that they took away policies that were clearly working, and they reversed agreements that we had with with guatemala, honduras and el salvador and with mexico to stop the traffic at mexico s southern border. and they invited this crisis, they created this crisis. and so i think it s important know that they own this crisis. this was tot
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
people as the central players shush, don t tell them. well, cats out of the bag. it s happening. i think it happened today. thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added, with
arguments in the defamation damages trial, and how much he should pay. meanwhile trump continues to work behind the scenes and on social media to tank a deal on border security and foreign aid in the capitol. we will show you the latest post. we will play for you the handful of gop lawmakers standing up to the former president. also ahead, president biden hits the road following a surprisingly strong economic report. the data is so good, even a former trump adviser had to admit the president should be dragging about it. we will go through a significant development in the hostage negotiations with israel and hamas as the cia director will now travel abroad in the hopes of closing a deal. willie, you know, in washington, the big question is if the republicans are going to stab keep stabbing ukraine in the back, keep stabbing israel in the back, and calling for open border until donald trump is the president of the united states. the lead editorial in the wall street jo
i m maria bartiromo. today invasion at the southern border. 371,000 migrant encounters nationwide in the month of december alone. compare that to the entire final year of the trump administration in 2020 with where they had 405,000 for the whole year. something if former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe warned us about in the first three months of the biden administration, right here. we didn t have a problem four months ago. we had no national security issue like we have down there right now. now. this was a situation where the biden administration was so eager to want to declare trump policy cruel at the border that they, that they took away policies that were clearly working, and they reversed agreements that we had with with guatemala, honduras and el salvador and with mexico to stop the traffic at mexico s southern border. and they invited this crisis, they created this crisis. and so i think it s important know that they own this crisis. this was tot