On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that the border is “a threat” because terrorists can cross it and the composition of border crossers has changed and “It’s also a threat just because so many of our cities and communities are being overwhelmed by migrants that we cannot support.” And “we need the Republicans to come to the table in an honest way” to get needed border reforms.
Host Erin Burnett said, “I spoke the other day with the former DNI for President Obama, James Clapper. And I asked him whether he was worried about the border, the southern border, in particular for whether — you’ve got a quarter-million people in December crossing over illegally, whether that really is a risk of people who wish to do America harm, whether it be from Russia or from Yemen or…
