White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller tried mightily to bulldoze Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday as the host sharply fact-checked him on President Donald Trump’s reasons for declaring a national emergency so he can build his border wall. Wallace began by challenging Miller with a quote Friday from Trump, who conceded: “I didn’t need to do this. He pointed to statistics highlighted on a screen that illegal border crossings were less than 25 percent of figures from 19 years ago. He also noted that nearly 90 percent of illegal drugs coming across the border enter via ports of entry, where walls don’t — and won’t — exist. “You don’t know what you don’t know,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post February 18, 2019 04:07 UTC