In an interview with Ross Douthat at 60 Minutes, President Donald Trump appeared genuinely interested in working out some sort of immigration deal with the new incoming Democratic Congress, and willing to blame Republicans' midterm losses—to some degree—on his administration's aggressive immigration blunders.
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"Do you think the crackdown hurt you?" asked Douthat.
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"I think it both helped and hurt," responded the president.
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"I think I got an A+ for closing up the border, because we had 25 million people come in through Biden over a four-year period, and many of those people were— as you know, they were from prisons, they were drug dealers, they were from mental institutions.
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had 11,888 murderers, most of whom, more than half of whom, committed more than one murder.
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They were allowed into our country.
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We've gotten most of 'em out….I
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But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that— that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.
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Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out.
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And there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people working in a landscaping company, or workin' in a hotel, or doing something, right?
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"So you think your deportation policy went too far?
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It was too tough?" responded Douthat.
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"I think it might be too tough, yeah," answered Trump.
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"And a lotta people would say that it's great.
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But a lotta people think it's too tough.
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"When you go into a hotel and you say, 'Let me see your pass,' and you have a woman that's worked there as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress, a lotta good things, great job, and all of a sudden, they're being taken outta the country, it's tough," responded the president.
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Also, 25 million people came in through [the] Biden [administration].
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That's a lotta people to take out.
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But there's a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out.
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"Do any of those people work in your administration?" pressed Douthat.
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"Yes," responded Trump, presumably referring to Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner he had just elevated to chief of staff.
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"Well, there're a lotta those people," continued Trump.
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"Then there's also people that are more modified on that.
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But let the people that are here, and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years, work a deal for them, OK?"
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Later on, Trump expressed interest in working together with the Democrats on an immigration compromise.
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He even told Douthat he could refrain from insulting the opposing party for, say, 6 months, if that's what it required to work with Congress to get a deal passed.
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Of course, this desire—to the extent that it's real, and not just something the president pulled out of his ass—is in tension with Miller's track record, and with pretty much everything he seems to support.
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"In addition to helping oversee the militarized crackdown of the U.S.-Mexico border, he set in motion the suspension of U.S. refugee programs and the deadly deportation crackdowns on American streets," reports The New York Times.
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Miller has demonstrated interest in having the president invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow the federal government to deploy active-duty troops within domestic borders to suppress civil disorder.
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That said, Trump is in charge, not Miller; Miller's job is to serve the president.
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But if Trump's goal is to pass comprehensive immigration reform, elevating Miller in advance of that seems like a strange tactical move.
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Nvidia infiltrated:
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Jensen Huang, CEO of chipmaker Nvidia, is being investigated by his own board of directors after news broke that he was having an affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, referred to as Alice Huang.
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"I was unfaithful to my wife," Huang said in a statement.
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"My actions hurt her and our children.
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There is no excuse for what I did.
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Yes to all of that, but the thing the company (and shareholders, and the U.S. government) is worried about is not the morality of the affair; it's the degree to which the honeypot shared information on U.S. technology firms with Beijing.
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"If the board decides to punish Mr. Huang, there is no obvious successor, or even high-profile internal candidate, to run his giant chip company," reports The New York Times.
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The decisions Huang makes are extremely important, and Nvidia's been ascendant for the last few years: "Nvidia was the first publicly traded company to be valued at $5 trillion.
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…and 22 more, not listed.
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