Laura got it. Sean catch. Boom, touched on. I have a great show. Laura good evening from washington, im Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. Just ahead, my exclusive interview with secretary nielsen who tells us her plans after an reportedly very contentious meeting with the president last week. Plus, devin nunes unloads on the Justice Department and implies that it may be hiding serious wrongdoing. Joe digenova is intimate. To top intel chips flatly contradict on brendans to congress. Andy mccarthy has all the details. And spike lee reps the United States and trump while in france as his new antiamerican film gets a standing ovation. That and more tonight. But first, another daca detour jeopardizes the g. O. P. s new midterm momentum. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Despite what you hear from the media and the left, the president and the Republican Party are winning on the issue of immigration. A majority of americans support tighter border enforcement, are against, by the way, even increases in legal immigration, and support defunding sanctuary cities. Check this out, even in california a new uc berkeley poll finds that 59 of californians say it is very, or somewhat important to increase deportations of illegals. Music to my ears. A full 49 support temporarily banning people from majority muslim countries from entering the United States. That goes even further than President Trumps travel ban from just six majority muslim countries. Did i mention thats california . Determined to fulfill his Campaign Promises and focus on americans first, the president urged congress on capitol hill today as they have since taken office to tighten immigration restrictions. We are calling on congress to secure our borders, support our border agents, stop sanctuary cities, and shut down policies that release violent criminals back into our communities. We dont want it any longer. Weve had it. Laura the American People have had it. Its about time we end the old, twisted approach of catch and release at the border. For all you common sense voters out there, this get tough approach makes perfect sense. The grassroots, i think the majority of the Republican Party is more unified than ever behind this agenda of the president. So leave it to a small, liberal band of republicans to try to splinter the party just before the Midterm Election. Beautiful. By the way, over daca, of all things. It turns out that at least 18 republicans, you see the gallery there, has signed something card, called a discharge petition. If it would essentially give the democrats and a few liberal republicans run of the house floor and the ability to bring several immigration bills to a vote, including a bill granting amnesty to the daca kids. Normally a discharge petition is launched by the opposition party. It requires 218 signatures to engage. So in this case 25 republicans and all the democrats would need to be in favor to support it. So cnn is reporting tonight, by the way, that they already have the numbers for the petition but the lawmakers could provide no evidence to that fact. The peculiar thing here is that the discharge petition again was launched by republicans as a challenge to g. O. P. Leadership and of course to the president. Florida republican carlos curbelo, notorious open borders republican, the prime movers. But the petition has been signed by others as well, including, unbelievably, utahs neil love. Will hurd of texas. Mario diaz bullard and charlie dent of pennsylvania whose votes dont count even though hes already resigned. Fred upton of michigan. David reichert of washington. Colorados mike kaufman. Chris collins. Billy stefanik of new york and mark on monday of nevada. New yorks contact goat is also considering signing these representatives should be ashamed of themselves at this point. Come on. By defying their leadership and the white house, what do they d do . They demoralize the base of the g. O. P. And they weaken unity before the Midterm Election. So rather than keeping a focus on the economy that is booming, these republicans have decided its in their political interest to turn the spotlight to immigration and the daca kids. Who cares if it means handing over power to the opposition to do it. On thursday, speaker ryan reacted to this discharge petition uprising during a press conference. We never want to turn the floor over to the minority. And what i dont want to do is have a process that just ends up with a veto. We actually want to solve the daca problem. Going down a path and having some kind of spectacle on the floor that results in a veto doesnt solve a problem. That is why i think its important for us to come up with a solution that the president can support. Laura the president already offered something in the democrats said no to it last february. Come on. Wasting time. Its not up to a minority of republicans whose views, by the way, did not prevail in the 2016 election cycle to now at this point try to reset the National Debate on daca. Its absurd. If they want to do something to actually help america, what they should do is urge some more moderate democrats to help reform, lets say, the asylum process that is being abused today by illegals. You know that asylum applications have increased by 1700 over an eight year period alone . I wonder why thats happening. At a moment noun has the generic ballot tightening from a previous 13point advantage for democrats to basically within the margin of error, basically a dead heat now. This is not the moment to distract voters from their number one priority, the econom economy. To allow this discharge daca petition to proceed could be a midterm turnout killer, and it will splinter the party. Focus on the things that are working in the things that will win you the majority in november. Keep the majority. Jobs, wages, safety, and yes, pocketbook issues. So if you are upset like i am about what these liberal republicans are trying to push, call your congressman, call your congresswoman, tell them how you feel about this. This parliamentary stunt will not go down well with the g. O. P. Base, i can tell you that right now. My radio lines were ringing off the hook today. You would think, by the way, that republicans just back up for a moment, would learn their lesson at this point after that disastrous 2007 bushmccain amnesty. That went down in flames. A lot of us and talk radio were up in arms about that and lead the revolt against that. And after the disastrous 2013 schumerrubio gang of eight fiasco, that amnesty behemoth was so bad even rubio himself disowns it now. At least he learned his lesson. Republicans as the party in power have a real chance to break the Midterm Election curse, not lose many seats, maybe not lose any, maybe even pick up a few seats, but only if the amnesty fanatics are defeated once again. And thats the angle. Joining me now for a reaction is republican congressman Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and has cosponsor in his own immigration bill. Congressman, here we are again. Getting a eight, disaster. Bushschumer went down in flames, 1200 pages. The mccainbush disaster back in 20062007, another killer for republicans. Your view here . We have control of the house, we have control of the senate, we have the white house. It why would we turn that control back over to the democrats and have another fiasco like the ones that you just described . Its important to address this issue, but this issue is how are we going to secure our borders, close the loopholes like the asylum loophole that you just described, and there are many others, and make sure that people have confidence that their government will keep them safe in their communities and along the border of this country. Thats what the legislation that i along with mike mccall, chairman of the immigration subcommittee, martha mcsally, chairman of the board or committee, came up with and it does address the daca situation in a fair way, but only in exchange for making sure that we dont let this problem continue in the future. Laura so in this discharge petition madness people have is, their eyes are glazing over im sure, but its really important because weird stuff can happen with a discharge petition, as you know. Wouldnt ann catch and release. They wouldnt end the chain migration. All these things that are multiplier effects on illegal immigration and immigration amnesty in this country. Massive increases in legal immigration, none of it would be affected. The risk is you will get an unbalanced bill where you work address daca and none of these other things and 180, 190 democrats were joined with 30 or 40 republicans and pass something that the overwhelming majority of House Republicans and the overwhelming majority of the American People and certainly the Republican Base would not be satisfied with because it wouldnt address the problem. Laura but congressman cabello said a discharge petition is precisely the way to get this done. Lets watch. No one here is interested in a spectacle. We are interested in having a debate. We are actually interested in answering the president s call to action in september of last year when he challenged congress to come up with a bipartisan solution to this immigration question. This discharge petition process is probably the most constructive ever because we are not bringing forward one bill. We are offering the opportunity for four bills to come to the floor, including one thats backed by immigration hardliners and another that would be drafted and filed by the speaker of the house. The answer is he should work with the Republican Leadership and with the committee, the judiciary committee, to produce one bill that republicans can get behind and the president can sign into law. Laura chairman, thank you so much. I just book moments ago, by the way, exclusively with Christian Nielsen about her relationship with the president and pressing immigration issues. Great to have you. Thank you for coming to the set tonight. You had a big, fiery hearing on capitol hill today. Its always fun. So this is a big day for you. Kamala harris decided to hit you on the issue of separating children from their parents, lets watch. Your agency will be separating children from their parents. What we will be doing is prosecuting parents who have broken the law just as we do every day in the United States of america. I can appreciate that, but if that parent has a 4yearold child, what do you plan on doing with that child . The child under lagos to hhs for care and custody. They will be separated from their parents. Its what we do in the United States every day. Laura if the immigration sob story as we call it on the radio, which is not to be diminished. These are heartbreaking situations. How do you as dhs secretary come back with the emotional push on this . How can you do this and you kept saying basically this is the law. How do you deal with that . It is the law, as you know and i had an Exchange Last week with a different senator that tried to cut me off saying this is your philosophy and i said its not a philosophy, if the law. If you enter our country illegally we will refer you for prosecution and prosecute you. At the end of every sob story, 73 border assault, kate steinle, where is the compassion for the flip side the conversation . Laura the American People dont get the same treatment from Kamala Harris and others who we will be quoting tonight in the show because its always a oneway street and i think those who are charged with actually enforcing the law are always meant to be the bad guys and yet the american citizens elected donald trump because they wanted that situation were reversed. Its america first. Youve actually done a lot and a lot of this doesnt get discussed. H1b visa abuse, thats bringing in Foreign Worker abuse. Working with doj. Working on other ways to protect the american worker. At one of the things that is really frustrating is this asylum fraud. Weve been documenting it on the show. We have american lawyers flying down to mexico coaching clients. They say its advising clients. What can you do on an executive level if congress doesnt get off its backside and get this done . Its really frustrating, i got to be honest. I really share the president s frustration on this and that of the American People. The way the system works right now the threshold is so low, about 80 past that initial interview but only 20 are granted asylum by a judge, which tells us that 80 of that is either just a flat out fraud or somebody who thinks they can come here because they want a job here. Lets not assignment. I want to reunify with my family, thats not asylum. I just want to come to the United States. Not asylum. We have legal ways to do that but its not through asylum. Laura we hear there might be another caravan. I dont know where we got the new caravan, a biblical, people are coming up again because they feel like as long as they get to the border they can get into the country and they will ultimately be released, correct . Or are they not being released . We are metering, which means that if we dont have the resources to let them in on a particular day they are going to have to come back. They will have to wait their turn and we will process them as we can, but thats the way that the law works. Once they come into the United States we process them. We have asked congress to fix this loophole. Its a huge gaping loophole that we need to fix because it is so abused. Laura one of the other thing is that i think is very frustrating to the American People is the fact that we have these repeat border crossers, people who have jumped the border multiple times, have been deported, come back into the country and yet they still get the oh, my gosh, what are you going to do about the poor immigrants, our communities are being shattered because of this enforcement. You have actually overseen a huge increase in border enforcement and workplace enforcement, raids and so forth, which i think are being welcomed by the American People, but again, the media and the democrats are hitting you for shattering communities. Lets go back to kate. How sad is it that the congress of the United States cant pass a law to simply increase penalties for criminals who have been deported to come back . The house passed it, we can get the senate to pass it. Also we communities, we just broke through that house last week. If the gentleman had deported four times and had final orders of removal five times and we are still dealing with him because we cant completely the system doesnt work. You deport him and he comes back, which is why as you know we need a wall. Laura whats happening with the National Guard at the border . That was a big controversy here in washington. I traveled the country a lot. It seemed again like the people are saying its about time. I hear that on the radio all the time. People calling it, why dont we get the National Guard, why dont we get extra help . You have news on more troops now going to the border, tell us about that. Very appreciative of the support of secretary mattis and the department of defense. We have about 1600 now. With our second request we will have about 2200. Originally we were focused on Border Patrol support but now weve extended it so we will support the folks at the ports of entry and are intel and analysis. Its a huge force multiplier. Laura california, jerry brown saying we are not going to be assisting in Immigration Enforcement. One of the california National Guard troops actually doing . They are supporting cbp. They are just doing it behind the scenes. There are specific things that we worked out. They are supporting. We want each governor to do more. I talk to each governor, talk to them about once a month to give them the new border figures, what we are doing. We will continue to try to get california to do more. Laura we just talked to Bob Goodlatte on the show and hes very concerned about these immigration centrist. I called them liberal republicans, who are pushing this new daca amnesty right now and trying to push this discharge position, it ran through the house of representatives at least. What do you Want Congress to do and this president to get this Immigration Enforcement done the right way in order to satisfy his promises to the American People . I think the president has been very clear on this. Its very easy. We need a wall. We need to close the loopholes and then we need personnel and resources that we need. Apprehension without detention removal is not border security. Weve got to have the beds. We got to be able to apprehend, detain, and then remove. Thats judges, lawyers, detention bets. Its a very easy formula to have border security. Border security is part and parcel to the sovereignty of a nation. Laura how many people, about crossed the border last month in the United States . Family units. Take the original caravan location. We had about 100,000 people that crossed that port of entry each day. Most of that is legal traffic but again we are talking about millions, hundreds of millions of people that cross. About 1. 1 each day between the two borders. Its a lot of traffic, but buried in there of course are those who are seeking to abuse the system. Its a broken system. With got to work with congress. Congress has got to close these nobles. Laura 203 increase in illegal border crossings from march 2017 to march 2018 i think my family units overall.