Bill Kristol

So if there's no funding, there's no funding.

Then they'll draw down some of the funding that's already in there, unfortunately, from last year's five-year appropriation to fund stuff they want.

But at least there'll be less money sloshing around ICE and Border Patrol world.

The key, honestly, is to stay on offense.

And the key is not to sort of say, we're not going to really negotiate in public here.

We're going to have backroom discussions, Chuck Schumer, this, that, you know, and we'll work it all out here quietly.

Negotiations work better, Tim, when they're not all public.

They need to just hammer these people and say, why are you against this?

the warrants?

Why are you for the masks?

And you defend that publicly.

And Katie Britt, you said you were very upset.

Where are you?

They really, I think, need to maximize this opportunity.

Yeah, totally.

Maybe they should make that a condition, incidentally, of ICE funding as well.

Yeah, and I think they mentioned it, one of their 10 points, but it's sort of vague and they could explicitly address the two killings and say we want right now independent groups established with some people selected from outside the administration to investigate the two killings that have happened.

I mean, the Democrats have this slightly playing by the rules attitude.

I've noticed this in conversations with a couple of them.

Well, these are the 10 conditions we developed last week.