steven miller. a couple questions to begin with.ively attacking governor desantis of florida. because joe biden as we know is a top medical and health expert. he has been right about so much in his career, and during his senate. career, and a president. and a candidate when he was attacking vaccines. so this constant of the vaccine and poe -- politicalization of mask wearing. he can careless how many illegal aliens come into this country from all corners of the planet who have coronavirus, who have the delta variant. maybe have other diseases, long successfully fought off by americans healthcare system. even worse, you have rapists, sexual predators, and ms-13 coming across the border. what kind of mentality does it take for a president of united states, when he has the power to do something on southern border allows this kind of mayhem to take place and keeps attacking republican governors. >> you have to begin by understanding something that you covered. which is that the left ring wing program is intentional, not accidental. what

steven miller, i want to ask you a couple questions to begin with.ssively attacking governor desantis of florida because joe biden as we all know is a top medical and health expert, and he's been right about so much in his career and during his senate career and as a president and as a candidate of course when he was attacking vaccines and so forth. so this constant politicization of the vaccine and the constant politicization of mask wearing, while at the same time, the president is solely responsible really under the constitution for securing the southern border, and he could care less how many illegal aliens come into this country from all other corners of the planet who have coronavirus, who have the delta variant, maybe have some other diseases long successfully fought off by americans healthcare system. even worse you've got rapists, sexual predators, ms 13 coming across the border, what kind of mentality does it take for a president of the united states when he has the power to do something on the southern border allows this kind of mayhem to

olivia, i know that steven miller's wife, katie miller, is pushing back on that and worked with you inhat kind of arguments were they making against taking in afghan partners and refugees when you were there? what did you witness? >> i feel like this argument is frustrating because when i was in the white house working on these issues, it was nothing but increasing restrictions on immigration and restricting refugee admissions, and all of these categories are part of that process, and the sivs are part of that, p-2s, all fall into the pipelines of these offices with resources that were gutted during the trump administration, many of us who worked with refugee issues were pushing to make sure they did not reduce the ceiling number for refugees and ensure that this process continued, especially prioritizing the interpreters who had served overseas with military and intelligence officers would be able to get through that system, and it was a very challenging situation and these claims that trump would have done this differently and saved all of them, he had several years to do that and th

steven miller, former top adviser to president trump went on the news to say it is a costly politicalsons. it is extraordinarily expensive to resettle a refugee in the united states. they get free health care, free education, free housing, free food. >> plus, miller suggested without evidence that afghans who have been granted those visas could pose security threats. >> we are no longer in control of the central apparatus in afghanistan to be able to vet anybody. >> advocates who have helped afghan refugees are pushing back hard on miller saying it is unconscionable for him to reject those who helped u.s. forces in afghanistan and in some cases saved american lives. >> there is no us and them. there is just an "us." steven miller never wore a uniform a day in his life. >> his group helped resettle thousands of refugees. he points out in the past refugees like those from vietnam made their american communities stronger. as for any possible security risks -- >> that couldn't be farther from the truth. these are individuals who went through a 14-part process in order to enter the u.s. th

>> first of all i don't give a rip what steven miller has to say about anything.he significant point here is the united states gave our word to people and the united states has to be the kind of nation that keeps our word. president biden's speech was shameful today. it was a campaign speech. everybody knows what he campaigned on. everybody knows to quote bob gates, he has been on the wrong side of almost every major foreign policy issue for 40 years. what the american people needed to hear today is that he has a plan for the ongoing national security crisis that's happening at the kabul airport. it involves americans, but it also involves a lot of people who fought alongside americans so that we wouldn't have another 9/11 on our soil, we would take that fight to the taliban. so the fundamental misunderstanding that the american people have is not because of any place that the military's failed. obviously the military failed in the planning for this. but the fundamental problem we have is that the troops haven't failed over the last 20 years. politicians have fail

. >> and also you have people like steven miller engining up anti-refugee outrage in the u.s. helene, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> a rogue's gallery of donald trump allies swearing up and down that if the ex-president was still in office he would have presided a perfect exit from afghanistan. and he would have gotten all the interpreters and translators out safely. that doesn't sound true. but there is someone knowing it's not the case and she was there in the trump administration when the issue came up. elizabeth troy who served. there were cabinet meeting about this during the administration where steven million miller they would undermine anyone working on solving the special immigrant visa issue. pence was fully aware of the problem. we got nowhere because trump and steve. miller had watch dogs at doj, and state. that made it more tralg calking she went ton to say quote the fear of people across the trump administration to counter enablers was palpable. olivia troy joins me also director of the republican accountability project. olivia thanks for coming on this mor

right now steven miller and donald trump are at mar-a-lago and they're throwing up because this is noto see. i actually go as far as saying that a lot of the things that we see going on politically, especially when it comes to voting rights throughout the country are not because of the 2020 election. it's because of this census and what we knew is that there's no such thing as economic anxiety. the media did a disservice calling it that. it's cultural anxiety. there are people who feel as if they're being replaced. it's not true, but that's how they feel. they're showing out with their violence, with their anti-semitism, racism, xenophobia and bigotry. we're just peeling the bandaid off who we really are. >> they're showing out especially in some conservative places in media. i want you to look another this whole replacement idea. it's not just at the white nationalist rally. it's found on the fox propaganda network. >> the democratic party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots with new people, more obedient voters from the third world. demographic

why did steven miller in the last administration slow it down? be able to slip in, raising the cap on special immigrant visas to get rid of t some of this backlog. the state department under multi administrations, why was it so slow at processing these? we are where we are. what's most important, brianna, there's nobody who never doubts we'll be in a war again. if we fail to follow through on a commitment to these afghans, that's going to put a serious national security at risk. we have a fund set up to help afghan refugees and their families and have roadway ed, this is what's amazing to me, $80 million. it shows that the heart of the american people are with these folks' plight. >> you're seeing members of your party, some of whom you mentioned there, president trump, certainly others, mike pompeo, nikki haley, mike pence, and they criticized the president biden administration despite contributing to this siv log. what's your reaction to them rewriting history? >> you know, it's amazing. what breaks my heart probably more than anything on a pol

they say steven miller peddled ray sis hysteria as the trump administration was taking steps to negotiatelies behind. so former president trump is wrong ri lit siding what is going on now claiming he would have done a better job at evacuating refugees. how was the process handled? >> yeah, it is lewd chris for him to go around saying he would have handled this better. he has four years as president to get them through the system. that system was destroyed because of his main enenabler and under neat that cap there are others, and it was critical because you see a lot of people did not get through the crisis system. but we would not be having a system that is already challenging with thousands of people doing, it, is not meant to evacuate thousands of people at once if they had been properly processed to begin with. >> and tell me what went on internally when there was memos, in fact, at what miller was peddling. and he was the white house aides very close to president trump until the end, fiercely anti-immigration. >> yes, these were staunch anti-refugee people. i met with ngos that were

obviously you see people like steven miller out there and some of the crazy far right saying things like, this is an alternative plan to populate the united states with muslims. no. this is the united states following through on its commitment it made. we failed the people of afghanistan, but we can at least not fail these people we've made a promise to. so, everybody in congress and everybody in politics right now is pointing fingers at the other side trying to see if they can get -- both sides own this. republicans and democrats failed you, the republican and democratic administrations failed you. donald trump negotiated a terrible deal and made it clear we wanted to leave. and joe biden executed an awful pull-out. >> republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, thank you so much. good to see you again. we're standing by for president biden to begin speaking on covid and vaccines and boosters. we'll bring that to you live. the remarks come as president biden is also facing mounting pressure over the catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan, including backlash from some democrats.

the right of donald trump on immigration issues, which is no surprise given the fact he mentored steven millered the most controversial immigration policy to come out of this administration. he defended the family separation policy. as i wrote in my column, this is a man who's made a career out of denying the fact of systemic racism by using false stats that paint black people as more violent than white people. stats that i found based on my analysis of larry elder's writings come from a white su supremacist who larry elder repeatedly quoted in his books and as recently as 2016, he was featuring a white nationalist website on his site. i feel like there's just not enough information out there about the incredible danger that this man poses to immigrant rights and racial justice issues. >> so, jean, i'm going to imagine that a lot of people in our audience have the same question that i have as i listen to you tick through the history of larry elder, which is how is it possible that a state like california, when californians are polled about this, are showing him to be a, if not the lead contend

at the time is disputing that, saying that actually, that is not how things went down and that steven miller and other officials tried to undermine the program to actually help these refugees or, excuse me, the interpreter, those who worked alongside the u.s. military, to be able to get these visas to be able to get out of there. olivia troy said trump had four years while putting this plan in place to start evacuating allies. do you think we'll see more of this from the former trump officials? >> i think we'll see finger pointing in all directions over the next weeks and months. some of this did start under the trump administration. he set us on this timeframe but biden also had an ability to change the timeframe. and he knew he was inheriting from trump a whole slue of policies that were not necessary ly the top policies. he should have gone through and made sure this is what he wanted the withdrawal to look like. >> under trump, 500 taliban fighters were released and some were commanders that took over these cities and led to onslaught. we have to remember there's a lot of blame to go aro

we have had former members of the administration come forward and talk about steven miller essentiallyo there is another side of this. there is another side that doesn't want any of them here. so do you think that the politics around bringing more people in are going to be challenged by that xenophobic attitude we are seeing play out? >> it is no secret that the trump administration carried out extremely xenophobic and immigration policies. when we look at the turmoil happening now. we have to ask as well, this -- afghanistan is a responsibility and that falls upon the shoulders of virtually ever president since george w. bush. one of the things we see, what was the trump administration doing when they were not preevacuating out under the siv program these afghan interpreters and nationals and allies. it is because of stephen miller and his ret trick and the xenophobia of the trump administration that there were many thousands of afghans we could have worked on evacuating much earlier than even this year. that being said, the politics of it, i can tell you september 11th happened when

and then on the humanitarian side this is an atrocious policy cooked up by steven miller back in theorces people to be raped and kidnapped and the image of the united states is under tremendous assault as a result of such crazy policies. and my message for the administration is, look, we've taken years, there's no excuse for that. let's speed up what's happening with people at the border and process claims faster. it can at least mitigate some of the damage from yesterday's decision. >> i want you to talk about two things, talk about both what this means practically for the biden administration because as i understand it this will require concurrence from mexico and then, of course, the piece that neal is right to highlight this is a humanitarian crisis. this was morally reprehensible policy. what happens to these asylum seekers? >> absolutely. thank you. great to be here. it is so important to say what does this really mean? and i want to be clear. this isn't just about immigration. if we need to look at this court case -- if you're a progressive and care about reproductive rights a

said how the trump administration handled the issue of resettling afghan refugees talking about steven miller here. take a listen. >> you would say what do you want? do you want a little iraqs across the country, the united states? and it was hurtful to hear that and offensive to many of us in the room who had served on the ground in both countries. i've been to both countries. these are the people that helped keep us alive, helped navigate us around the country and to hear this naive, hateful rhetoric being said in cabinet-level discussions when we're making decisions specifically on items like the refugee ceiling and what would happen on that, to hear that rhetoric. we knew what we were up against. when you look at the days of these people, they were stuck for three years. that number increased under the trump administration. i found out there was one person in the state department doing the security checks there for thousands of people. >> donna, the xenophobia she's talking about there, not surprising, still sickening. i want to you talk about both what the biden administration inherited

spent and our people standing trying to get back to america from afghanistan, that's thanks to steven millereld up every step of the way. host: let's stick to the infrastructure debate. here's monica in california, kentucky. democrats need to get the job done. let the republicans vote no and face their voters in the mid terms. those holding out need to look at the big picture. maryanne in northern cambria, pennsylvania. democratic caller. what do you say? caller: well, i say that they ought to go ahead and pass the infrastructure, the $1.2, which is bipartisan. why continue this infighting? they are so -- hellbent on working together, this is what they say they want to do. then pass the one. and then worry about the other one later. if that's what they have come up with, ok, the roads, that's what we need done. who did they think is going to pay for all of this? it's going to be our children. i am registered as a democrat but i voted republican. but right now they both need to come together and do something. host: maryanne you support what passed in the senate with bipartisan support, that $

in a final, but shaunae miller-uibo becomes only the second woman in history to win back to back olympic gold at the 400. and she completes a historic sweep for the bahamas. steveno the mental toughness and tenacity it took to defend tonight. >> 49.20 she is the first dominican republic woman to win an individual medal in the sport of track and field in the olympic games. but allyson felix, number 10 in a season's best 49.4 she is tied with the legend, carl lewis, on ten olympic medals phenomenal performance and the grit at the end that she displayed was phenomenal >> what we just witnessed was pure greatness allyson felix. she was in lane 9. nobody to key off of she's only went under 50 seconds one time this year and found her best race in a final to finish with a bronze medal. shaunae miller-uibo dominated this race. 48.3 in the final of the 400 that is fantastic. she deserves that title. back to back olympic champions >> so shaunae miller-uibo -- despite all the injury woes we've told you about but look at allyson felix. yes, she's under duress. yes, she's fighting for bronze but her form does not falter and as long as you keep your form, you're expecting tha