CNN's Dana Bash Tries to Cover for Biden's Border Failures, Kristi Noem Delivers Her an Education

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday with host Dana Bash, and while Bash seemed to play press secretary for the Biden administration, Noem wasn’t having it. Bash snidely asked, “What happened to the art of the deal?” – as if Trump were at fault for the continuing disaster at our southern border despite the fact that Joe Biden has been at the helm for three years – but Noem clapped back.

Despite all the negotiations in Congress about a new immigration bill, Biden could act right now if only he had the will, Noem argued.

The senators are really good at spinning a story to make themselves look good. What I would say is that I always look for someone who’s willing to take action and President Biden has all the authority he needs to take action today. (emphasis mine)

Why doesn’t President Biden take action to secure the border TODAY? pic.twitter.com/kWoS2EJHVX
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) January 28, 2024

Bash unsurprisingly tried to cover for the failed president, saying the border crisis was not all his fault – despite the fact that in his first week in office, he dismantled former President Donald Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy, stopped construction of the wall, and basically invited illegal immigrants to head for the border.

Bash then pushed back on Noem, asking her why the federal government should not work towards better asylum process and detention processes, adding that it is “a mess.”
“I think that he would have the ability to fix that broken immigration policy if the President could show that he was acting in good faith. Make an announcement that you’re changing your policies, you’re reallocating resources and going to start protecting the United States of America,” Noem responded.
“And you’d have Republicans coming down to the White House asking that to be partners on fixing our immigration policies. Instead, what we’ve got is this partisan bickering back and forth and no solutions while people invade our country?” the governor continued.

Noem is no fan of the border deal currently under consideration in Congress – a bill which Trump has also come out in opposition to. It’s a poison pill, according to the governor. She said:

To look at Congress and expect them to pass a bill when they failed for decades to do this. And then to say we have to accept this poison pill of a bill that — it essentially codifies illegal immigration, what it would do is put into statute that people can now come here illegally, and it’s just a terrible bill that I think President Trump is exactly right.

Noem also strongly supported Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in their efforts to solve the problem, even as the Biden administration keeps throwing roadblocks in their way.

Texas should stand their ground. They should enforce their state law and go back to the constitutional rights that they have been granted to protect their state sovereignty.

And that's what so many of us as governors are offended by, is that Democrats were threatening to encourage the president to activate our Guards in order to get them to stand down and not protect our states. So it is a dangerous situation. It is a war zone at our southern border.

I'm so proud of what Texas has done, proud to stand with them. I have deployed my National Guard down there three separate times already. And we will do what we can to help them support and defend their people. It is -- the inhumanity of the policies that are happening right now is pretty striking, Dana.

I mean, you just -- you see women suffering, the drug trafficking, the human trafficking that is happening because of these open border policies. It's inhumane, and it needs to stop.

The disaster at the southern border is a creation of Joe Biden and his incompetent administration. For Bash and her progressive mainstream media friends to pretend otherwise is a farce. Good for Noem for pushing back and telling it like it is.

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