Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) defended herself on Sunday after she used a story of sexual violence two decades ago in Mexico as an attack on President Biden in her State of the Union response.
Britt shared the story of a young woman she met who experienced harrowing human trafficking between 2004-2008 in Mexico but used the woman's experience to attack Biden, drawing mass criticism.
The senator brushed off the criticism, claiming the story is emblematic of the president's border policy. |
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The White House on Sunday chastised Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) after multiple news organizations fact-checked a portion of her rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union in which she told the story of a migrant who was sexually abused. |
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"Republicans care about kitchen table issues," Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said in a "Fox News Sunday" interview with Shannon Bream. "We care about faith, family, we care about freedom. We are the ones talking about the economy and the real effects of that." |
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) lauded President Biden on Sunday after the president's State of the Union speech and hit former President Trump for spending his election campaign concerned about himself and his legal dilemma. |
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Co-host Jake Tapper played a video of Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) mouthing, "That's true," when Biden said the failed bipartisan Senate deal on the border would have hired more border patrol agents and immigration judges to help speed up the asylum process. Lankford said that while what Biden said was true, he was leaving out some of the executive actions he could take on the border. |
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A panel of pundits on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday argued over President Biden's use of "illegal" in his address to Congress last week. |
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"I can tell you as a pastor who has done hundreds of eulogies, and presided over all kinds of funerals, there is no grief worse than when nature is tragically reversed and rather than the children burying the parents, the parents have to bury the children. And so it's unfortunate that in this moment of grief, there are those who are trying to score cheap political points," Warnock said on CNN's "State of the Union." |
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) said Sunday he would welcome President Biden campaigning for him in the swing state. |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) denied Sunday that former President Trump is calling the shots in the Senate after a bipartisan deal on the border collapsed because the former president didn't support it. |
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that the Intelligence Community should "dumb down" briefings for former President Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee receives classified information once he becomes the nominee, over concerns about whether Trump could share the information. |
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said Americans are "frustrated" at the situation on the border after two National Guardsmen and a Border Patrol agent died in a helicopter crash flying over the southern border of Texas. |
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