Welcome back. Today on Capitol Hill,
Congress said to vote on the Lake and Riley Act
pushing for change after the murder of a 22 year
old Georgia student we've been talking about at the hands
of an illegal immigrant. The legislation requires ICE detain illegals
charged with theft as Riley's accused killer was arrested multiple
times but always released.
Believe it or not, later on in that very same
chamber,
President Biden will deliver his State of the Union address.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise back from cancer treatment is
ready to go.
First off on your health,
Congressman, how you feeling? Hey,
Brian, great to be with you.
I'm feeling great. God answers prayers.
I got the clean bill of health from my doctors
about 3 weeks ago and came back to work and
back,
you know, doing my normal schedule.
So, you know, in remission,
very, very blessed. And you were back at baseball practice
2 hours ago.
I'll play in second base.
So if that's not an indication that you're OK,
I don't know what is,
congressman for you. You want to talk about Lake and
Riley.
I thought it's a no brainer.
You would think people watching around the world.
Of course ICE should try to get rid of illegal
immigrants that have committed crimes,
but that's not happening in sanctuary cities.
Do you think you're going to get some pushback on
the lake,
Lake and Riley, Bill? Well,
we're going to have a robust debate.
I I hope we have an overwhelming vote.
But Brian, one way or another,
we're going to force everybody to take a side here.
I mean, most Americans think it's crazy,
number one, that we have wide open borders,
letting people in illegally by the millions,
let alone if someone here illegally is caught breaking our
laws.
They're literally let out the next day.
You saw them beating up cops in New York.
Let out the next day.
You saw what what happened,
you know, committing theft, let out and then ultimately the
the killer of Lake and Riley was one of those
people who was literally caught breaking laws and then let
out of jail right away so that they could go
and commit murder.
And it's happening in every community in America.
It's not isolated. We're naming this bill after Lake and
Riley because of the tragedy that happened there,
but it should never happen anywhere.
No family should have to go through what Lake and
Riley's family went through.
Yet we're seeing it all too often because Joe Biden
opened the southern border and he refuses to work with
us to close it.
But we're going to keep pushing this issue and fighting
to get our border under control.
And guess who's pushing for you?
Many people in Chicago, many people in Philadelphia,
and a whole bunch of people in New York,
many of which vote Democrat but understand how their lives
have been screwed by this lack of cooperation with ICE.
I want to talk about something else.
It seems like despite people saying that you have a
fractured party,
despite the way you've sometimes acted in the House,
not you, it seems like everyone is uniting around President
Trump.
Former President Trump, as Mitch McConnell said,
I am in. Joni Ernst said I am in.
And the governor of Virginia said I back Donald Trump,
your thoughts about where this party is right now,
You're seeing a coalescence around Donald Trump.
You know, over the last few months,
President Trump has built up a very,
I think, a real inspired movement because people remember how
good things were when Donald Trump was president.
You know, we had a healthy economy.
We had a secure and closed border.
We had energy security. Our friends around the world,
by the way, knew we had their backs.
And our enemies weren't running roughshod over our friends because
they didn't know what might happen if they attacked us
or our our friends around the world.
That's not the case today on any of those fronts.
And I think there are a lot of people that
have buyer's remorse who voted for Joe Biden.
So you're seeing Donald Trump's coalition grow,
not just Republicans, you're seeing Democrats,
African Americans, Hispanics, his numbers,
President Trump's are growing in a lot of different places.
And I think it's going to continue to grow till
November because people are fed up with the direction under
Joe Biden,
but they also remember how good things were under Donald
Trump.
And we need to get our country back on track.
And nobody can do that better than Donald Trump.
It's unbelievable because you want people to remember and Democrats
want people to remember how bad things were against Donald
Trump.
And you say, I want people to remember how great
things were for Donald Trump.
Maybe everyone's going to make their own decision.
Congressman Steve Scalise, thanks so much.
The best news is that you're back in action and
ready to go.
Great to see you in the game.
God bless you. Thanks a lot.