Jesse Watters: He’s a LAME DUCK

[0:00] So this comes after the president's big newsmaking interview with 60 Minutes where he signaled [0:04] that he'd be willing to work with Democrats on immigration. Watch. [0:09] Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterm? Do you think the crackdown hurt you? [0:13] I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A plus for closing up the border. [0:17] I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because we also took people [0:24] that had good jobs that created one violation for breaking of the law, and that was that they [0:30] came into the country illegally. So you think your deportation policy went too far? [0:35] It was too tough. I think it might be too tough, yeah. [0:37] Oh, then from immigration to introspection, things getting a little existential when [0:42] President Trump was asked if he could ever forgive his fiercest enemies. [0:47] Let's say you pass away, you're entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise [0:55] is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, anyone who you have expressed hate [1:05] for over the years. Do you think you can do it? [1:08] I found them to be extremely dishonest people, very bad people, very bad for our country. [1:12] I love our country far more than I can love people and people like that. [1:16] Is the answer no? [1:17] The answer is no. I want to be honest. [1:19] Before the night asked you. [1:19] Can I be honest? [1:20] Yes. [1:20] I probably cannot do that now, because I do hate some of my enemies, and I always will. [1:26] All right. [1:27] The one thing President Trump can do is make a ton of news. [1:30] So we had news all day from the 60 Minutes interview, and now all of this to chew on after [1:34] the briefing. [1:35] Jesse, I think that when President Trump talks about immigration, everyone reads into it exactly [1:40] what they want to read into it. [1:42] If you think he said, I'm for amnesty, then you can like pull that out of there. [1:45] If you think he says, I don't think I will actually do that, you can pull that out of there as well. [1:49] What do you think he was trying to signal to Democrats that he would be willing to do on [1:53] immigration? [1:54] I don't know, but any signal to the Democrats on immigration reform would be a betrayal. [2:01] Amnesty, if that's what we're talking about, and I hope we're not. [2:04] I don't think he said that. [2:04] I hope we're not. [2:05] I don't want any deal, Dana. [2:06] I don't want anything like that, and the country doesn't want that either. [2:10] Reagan did an amnesty deal right after the midterms, 86, 3 million illegals were given [2:16] citizenship, and 1988 was the last time a Republican ever won the state of California. [2:22] So if we do a deal, the same thing is going to happen to the great state of Texas. [2:27] I don't think what happened with the ICE deportations was too tough. [2:33] They weren't effective enough. [2:34] The base, not happy with the cost of living, but also looks at if Biden brings in 20 million [2:41] into the country and only 2 million go home, that's not a very good batting average. [2:46] So the base expected probably HB1s frozen, no Indian nationals, no Chinese nationals taking [2:55] up all the spots at the universities. [2:57] And they probably wanted workplace rates, because that's the magnet. [3:02] And that didn't happen. [3:04] So there's a little bit of a concern there. [3:06] I don't think Trump would do that, because Miller is in his pocket. [3:10] Now, the other thing is the question from this guy, Ross Ross, whatever his name is, they're [3:15] basically like, yeah, you're about to die. [3:17] So you're about to die. [3:18] You're probably not getting into heaven. [3:19] But maybe the only way you could get in, if you basically say you forgive all these [3:27] people that tried to kill you and impeach you and put you in prison. [3:31] What the hell kind of question is that? [3:33] I mean, the guy is not on his deathbed. [3:35] They're acting like they're reading him his last rites. [3:38] He's a lame duck. [3:39] There's two more years where we can still put a lot of people in prison. [3:43] We probably won't, because for some reason, we suck at it. [3:47] But if we could just get a couple of them, that's fine. [3:51] And then he'll just go out the door with pocket pardons. [3:54] Probably one in each pocket, just in case, Jessica. [3:58] Okay, Jessica, I was going to go to Emily, but he said Jessica, so we've got to go to Jessica. [4:02] Do you think the Democrats would be willing to do something with him on immigration where [4:07] then the president does a big signing ceremony and gets credit for it? [4:11] Absolutely. [4:12] Abdul El-Sayed even said if he wants to call it like Trump care for all, [4:16] and it's what Medicare for all would be, I would do that deal. [4:19] The problem is, and Jesse already laid this out, it's Miller time, baby. [4:24] And Stephen Miller has sunk bipartisan immigration legislation a number of times, [4:28] back when he was working with Jeff Sessions and then also in 2018, [4:32] when President Trump was considering a DACA deal. [4:35] And Lindsey Graham said, [4:36] as long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we are going nowhere. [4:41] I imagine that's still the case. [4:43] To Jesse's point about the fact that the base was upset that you didn't go far enough in this, [4:49] you don't get anywhere between 7% and 12% of Republican voters going for Democratic nominees [4:55] that you've spent months calling gay vegans if your policy hasn't gone far enough. [5:02] It's because it went too far. [5:04] And the president's instinct on that is correct. [5:07] I don't think so. [5:07] I know you don't think so, but you haven't dealt with the results at all. [5:09] I think I know the base a lot better than you do, Jessica. [5:12] Okay, well, I know how to read numbers better than you do. [5:14] And I know who voted for who. [5:14] Okay, well, I know a lot of Hispanics voted against the president [5:18] because of the ICE deportations. [5:20] And that should tell you that you shouldn't bring more Hispanics into the country [5:24] because they're going to vote for you. [5:26] They call that political suicide, Jessica. [5:29] All right, well. [5:29] And I'm not going to commit it just to make a few people happy. [5:32] You already committed it. [5:33] That's a thing that you don't understand. [5:34] No, we can come back from this. [5:36] Okay. [5:36] We hope. [5:36] You're only half dead. [5:38] Good luck with all of that. [5:38] There is a pulse. [5:40] Barely. [5:42] Not really. [5:42] I think that we have just done this dance too many times. [5:48] Is Donald Trump different? [5:50] You know, did we hear from a new president tonight? [5:52] He's exactly who he has always been. [5:55] On 60 Minutes, he had a few moments of levity, [5:58] messing around with Ross a little bit. [6:00] They had some nice moments. [6:02] He seemed connected to reality a little bit. [6:04] Other times, not so much. [6:05] I particularly love the, you made $3 billion. [6:07] Well, Ross, you should also trade stocks. [6:09] But then he wakes up this morning and boom, he's an election denier again. [6:15] He posts on True Social. [6:17] Does anyone really believe that the election was honest? [6:19] It's all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter. [6:24] He's going back to his greatest hits, which have failed time and time again. [6:28] They will fail in court if he decides that he wants to move in that direction, [6:31] or he can find a lawyer to actually try to pull this off. [6:35] And that's how you keep yourself on your deathbed politically. [6:38] You only have three minutes. [6:39] You only have three minutes left because we had that breaking news. [6:42] So, Emily, what would you like to talk about here? [6:45] Forgiveness or immigration? [6:47] I'll do forgiveness. [6:47] Okay. [6:48] I think as the Sicilian on the panel, I'm probably the resident expert on grudges. [6:52] They're not healthy. [6:53] Everyone should forgive. [6:54] So, look, I think it was such a telling and unsurprising interview, unfortunately, [6:58] because the question was not about forgiveness. [7:00] As always, it was just a setup. [7:02] And the attempt was trying to extract an answer that they can then use against him. [7:06] And the fact that that person masquerading as a journalist framed somehow lawfare, prosecutions, [7:14] two impeachments, a home raid, debanking, deplatforming, the IRS tax returns being released, [7:21] being plucked off the ballot, and multiple assassination attempts as somehow a charmed existence? [7:27] And I'm supposed to sit alongside him in this place of pretend piety as he then interrupts the president [7:33] to say, well, no, no, no, you're on the—you know, God's on his throne of judgment. [7:37] It was rich. [7:38] It was distasteful, frankly. [7:40] This is the same media that has spent all of these years constructing someone that they have deemed [7:46] totally disqualified and outside any kind of standards whatsoever. [7:50] They have elevated every allegation, amplified every investigation. [7:54] They have normalized the extinct—the threats to extinction of language that has led to those [8:02] assassination attempts. [8:04] So, them trying to be the sort of, as always, moral authority and arbiter on the president, [8:09] as always, it just spoke volumes not of his capacity to forgive or, you know, whether you guys see him [8:15] as human, but just, frankly, how the media will always be that righteous, indignant, [8:21] totally devoid of morality, but attempts at moral authority over the president. [8:26] Jessica said that the president's always who he is, and we have to expect that. [8:31] And it made me think, with the Democrats, the ones who are saying that they're moderate, [8:35] like, remember Joe Biden is all true in 2020 because he said he was a moderate, [8:38] but then he governed from the very far left. [8:40] They are amazing politically as Trojan horses, and that's—Trump's not—that's not his game. [8:47] It's what's refreshing about him with the God answer. [8:49] He knew what the approved answer to that God question was. [8:53] It was as clear as a frisbee coming down the desert, and instead of just catching it, [8:58] his brain said, F that, and he slapped it down because he knew that he wasn't going to be cornered [9:04] by sanctimony. [9:06] He knew what the right answer was, and that's why he didn't give it. [9:09] Look, in terms of the illegal immigration issue, a compromise can't work unless the Democrats fess up. [9:15] The left has turned America into Israel and Trump into Netanyahu. [9:20] The same way Hamas buried themselves into the Gaza population, the left blended the violent illegal criminals [9:27] into the unassuming illegal workers by refusing cooperation. [9:32] Sanctuary cities became mini-Gazas for Trump and ICE. [9:36] So there's only one way to get at the bad hombres, and it's by scooping up the entire lot, [9:41] going into the communities, and this creates what? [9:44] The perception of brutality, which is the whole point. [9:46] Federal law requires the removal of detainers, right? [9:49] ICE is notified for a transfer from jail. [9:53] That's supposed to minimize community disruption, and it doesn't waste resources. [9:58] However, sanctuaries refuse this on purpose. [10:03] New York City or New York State declined 16,000 detainers. [10:07] That includes like tens of thousands of criminal charges, 100-plus murderers, hundreds of sexual [10:13] assaults, California released 24,000 criminal aliens, tied to 81,000 crimes, lots of murder, [10:19] lots of rape. [10:21] They function, sanctuary cities function as a human shield, protecting violent criminals [10:26] inside a larger population of non-violent illegals. [10:31] So the practical and political cost of targeted enforcement is huge. [10:39] It is in order to portray it as inhumane, so you can get in more illegals, turn them into [10:45] voters. [10:46] This is a practice that they have learned from Hamas. [10:51] Place military assets under civilian infrastructure so that any attack on a terrorist will produce [10:58] civilian harm. [11:00] How obvious is this? [11:02] That's why it cannot change. [11:04] The other thing is the consequences of not catching the illegal, the criminals [11:09] because of what people are going through with the victims, and we saw another one over the [11:14] weekend in Lakewood, Colorado. [11:15] I mean, you have till January 2027 to do something about this, and there might be a law that has [11:20] something to do with federal law enforcement funds and holding them back. [11:23] You can do that. [11:24] Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows [11:30] streaming now on Fox 1.