A segment during the Friday morning edition of “Fox & Friends” got extremely heated after one of the program’s hosts, Lawrence Jones, got into an argument with Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin concerning comments made by Vice President Kamala Harris. The fireworks popped off and it was quite entertaining to watch. I know, I know. I shouldn’t be that way, but I can’t help myself.
Harris recently spoke at the Munich Security Conference where she talked about the importance of providing funds for Ukraine, despite the battle stateside raging on about securing the southern border and stopping the influx of illegal migrants who are coming into the country in record numbers. American tax dollars should go to funding projects to help secure America, right? This is not rocket science. You take care of matters at home first, then, if you have additional funds, you try to help out your neighbors. Common sense is not so common.
During her speech, Harris pointed toward the death of Russian activist Alexei Navalny, blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the man’s death in an Arctic prison.
via The Daily Caller:
Navalny, 47, died at a prison colonyabove the Arctic Circle after he allegedly felt unwell and lost consciousness. Navalny was serving a 19-year prison sentence based on charges of corruption and extremism. He previously survived an assassination attempt in 2020 after a nerve agent was allegedly put into his cup of tea at an airport.
Jones took aim at Harris’ comments, arguing that “the view that she says that some people want to be isolations” is a “mischaracterization” of people who simply want to secure the nation’s own borders before securing another nation’s border.
The group then brought Griffin in, who called Harris’ statement blaming Putin for Nalvany’s death “very strong.”
“It was also notable to me because I’ve covered many Munich conferences, security conferences over the years, and usually the leaders, American leaders are addressing Europeans, addressing allies. This had a domestic message, as Lawrence pointed out, and it was a very strong domestic message. And it talked about how Americans have a choice to make right now about whether to be global leaders, about America’s role in the world. You heard the vice president talk about whether it is in America’s interest to fight for democracy or accept the rise of dictators. That’s the message that she is sending to a domestic audience back here that is debating whether to send aid to Ukraine, whether to stand up to Vladimir Putin or whether to appease Vladimir Putin,” the report continued.
Griffin went on to provide a little historical context concerning the Munich conference as Jones jumped into the conversation.
“The Biden administration and many members, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have been making the case for why aid to Ukraine, military aid, weapons to Ukraine are so important in terms of sending a message to Vladimir Putin that he cannot erase land borders, he cannot erase countries, he cannot gobble up a country like Ukraine. He cannot change the rules-based order or the map —” she started to say.
“But Jennifer —” Jones interjected.
“Lawrence —”
“Respectfully —” he continued.
“Lawrence, just a minute —” Griffin shot back.
“She’s phrasing it as a binary choice. And that’s not what many of the members of Congress are saying. They’re saying, ‘Yes, we will talk about Ukraine. Yes, we’ll talk about Israel. But can we put on the table securing the border first?’” Jones commented.
“Lawrence, there was a Senate bill to secure the border that the House wouldn’t take up. So that is a false comparison in terms of the choice that’s being made,” Griffin fired back.
“No that’s not false, because there are people that have been very critical of the bill —”
“There was a Senate bill, Lawrence —”
“And say that it would not secure the border,” Jones stated.
“There was a Senate bill negotiated by Senator Lankford of Oklahoma and the House would not take it up. Now they’re trying to revisit and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, he has put forward a way to bring the border back into it. It’s very strong language from what I saw this morning, but we can’t say that nobody wants to talk about the border in this Ukraine legislation. And that’s what the Senate sent to the House,” Griffin responded.
Brian Kilmeade, another co-host on the show, got into the fray and stated the current condition of the border is the worst it’s ever been and that foreign funding was being used as leverage for the crisis, just as the segment came to an end.
Again, our nation should come first. That should not even be up for consideration. Take care of our own and then see what we can do to help others. Unfortunately, the left thinks such a view is selfish.