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-mexican border. > joining us from montana is brandon judd. oining us here in our studios in washington, rebekah maureen covers politics for usa today the first line of questioning, stephen -- of thent managing editor "washington times." > brandon, border apprehension dramatically wn from the peak of the surge in may and june. what happened? down and ose numbers maybe most importantly, who gets credit for that? >> you first have to take a look at the driving factor that pulls people to come to the united main illegally, and the magnet that we call it is the catch and release program. people cross the board illegally and they know hey are just going to be released into the interior of the united states to wait for an deportation hearing they -- people tend to cross our borders illegally in large numbers. ever since the u.s. government tarted the migrant protection protocols or the mexico program decreased rs have dramatically because people don't want to wait in another country pending their asylum or proceeding. so once we turned that magnet o

brandon judd. joining us here in our studios in washington, rebekah maureen covers politics and border today." r "usa and with the first line of questioning, stephen --, assistant managing editor of the "washington times." >> brandon, border apprehension numbers are down dramatically from the peak of the surge in may and june. i'm wondering, what happened? why are those numbers down and maybe most importantly, who gets credit for that? mr. judd: you first have to take a look at the driving factor that pulls people to come to the united states illegally, and the main magnet that we call it is the catch and release program. any time that people cross the border illegally and know they are just going to be released into the interior of the united states to wait for an asylum or deportation hearing they -- people tend to cross our borders illegally in large numbers. ever since the u.s. government started the migrant protection protocols or the weight in -- wait in mexico program those numbers have decre

steve: brandon judd, joining us from montana on this holiday week, the president of the national border patrol council. thank you for being with us. happy new year. mr. judd: merry christmas, happy new year to both of you, rebekah and stephen, thank you very much. steve: let's return to rebekah morin. if you read the political tea leaves, it seems that an endorsement is in the offing for president trump. rebekah: yes, definitely. he said around february, i believe, so he's, again, that's the first president that the national border patrol council has ever endorsed. it sounds like they're going to do it again. i expect to hear it soon, and maybe possibly with president trump by his side. steve: stephen, let me follow up on that point. you brought up the issue of the drug cartels and just how prevalent they are along the border, and a problem that is not going away. stephen: it's interesting. i've seen a homeland security official in the last couple of weeks had estimated that drop in the number of central americans coming in has literally taken billions of dollars off of the cartels' pro

join >> joining us from montana is brandon judd and joining us here in our studios in washington, she covers politics and border issues for "usa today." and with the first line of questioning, stephen dinan, assistant managing editor of "the washington times." stephen: brandon, border apprehension numbers are down dramatically from where they were the peak of the surge in may and june. i'm wondering, what happened?

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heard from other 2020 dem joining us live is a president of the national border patrol counsel brandon juddnks for coming on this morning. mayor pete is is one of the moderate up on stage right now. what do you make of the plan? >>what he's doing is he's advocating to bring back the catch and release program it's a known fact that the main reason that people cross the border illegally is so they can exmoit the immigration loopholes it that we have. and if you look back at all of the number every single time that we've had a major increase in numbers it is because catch and release had program has been implemented mayor pete's plan will actually put catch and release on steroids and it is a very bad plan and cause chaos on border. >> look at key point from his immigration plan, and this includes maintaining separation between federal immigration enforce. and state and local governments. would end harmful border and terminate asylum agreement what do you think of those two bullet points? >> so asylum corporation agreement that we have that's what has driven number down that's what -- that is

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. ♪ c-span'seek on newsmakers, brandon judd, border patrol council president talks about border policye trump administration, efforts to reduce illegal administration into the u.s., and how cartels enteral traffic across the u.s.-mexico border. southwest crosses the border illegally without the say-so of cartels. they control illegal crime on the border. these cartels operated every in everywn -- operate single town on the southwest border and they are very violent and dangerous. all you have to do is look at the murder rate in mexico to understand. the u.s. intelligence community has estimated criminal cartels 80% of somewhere around the country in mexico right now. that is on the high-end, there are lower estimates, but if you go lower, the fact criminal cartels control any part of mexico should be concerning. and it makes everything very dangerous. that is one reason why border patrol agent get frustrated with politicians that say it is ok for people to cross the border illegally. politicians are encouraging a ofy vulnerable segment population in south america to put themselves in t

prize-winning columnist for the "new york post," michael goodwin, national border patrol president brandon juddople killed in the drug cartel violence 40 miles from our texas border over the weekend. former department of justice attorney hands -- hanz spakosky. don't want to miss us. join us at the top of the hour. liz: thank you, lou. lisa page tells "the daily beast" she is breaking her. [silence] lens not because of the department of justice inspector general report on fisa abuses that report is due out in a week. we have a former fbi director danny coulson. good to see you. lisa page is talk now because she claims president trump mocked her and peter strag at a rally. what do you think. >> that is a smokesscreen. the content of the text messages showed so much bias, the inspector general was concerned that the bias would carry over into official action that would lead the fbi to do something ill toward or inconstitutional. it is not the text messages being sent. it tells us about motive and about action. liz: to your point lisa page says in the interview she says quote, has no idea, does no

here is a clip of brandon judd commenting at crime cartels at the u.s.-mexico border.video clip] >> how widespread are these cartels along the border? >> nothing crosses the border illegally. that does not matter if it is individuals coming across the border to claim asylum, narcotics, counterfeit goods -- nothing crosses the southwest without theally say-so of criminal cartels. they control every illegal crim. these criminal cartels operate in every single town on the southwest border, and they are very violent, dangerous, and all you have to do is look at the murder rate in mexico to understand just how bad it is. the united states' intelligence community has estimated that criminal cartels control somewhere around 80% of the country in mexico right now. that is on the high end. there are lower estimates, but even if you go lower, the fact that mono cartels are controlling any part of mexico should be concerning, and it makes things very, very dangerous. that is why border patrol agents politiciansed with that say it is ok for people to cross the board or illegally.