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James Lankford: “Donald Trump is not the one who said that he would work to…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

Lankford Joins NewsNation About VP Harris Flip-Flopping on Border Bill

Published August 28, 2024 | Video Starts at 02:15

If we win, then we'll make changes. Yeah. Let me clarify a couple of things. Donald Trump is not the one who said that he would work to destroy me on that. That was some conservative commentators that would call me behind the scenes and say they were outspoken on that dumb Trump never made a call to me to be able to say one way or the other on it. (02:15–02:19)

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Asserts that Donald Trump did not threaten to destroy James Lankford over the bipartisan border bill.

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“Kamala Harris...was never a part of any of the negotiations.”
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“We worked with the White House team and they brought in who they chose to be a part of the negotiating team.”
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“We negotiated with Chris Murphy and with Kirsten Sinema in October and November.”
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“The White House then joined us in late November.”
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“We never had anyone from the vice president's staff that was ever tapped to be able to be in it, nor the vice president ever in that at the…”
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“Some conservative commentators...would call me behind the scenes and say they were outspoken on that.”
Lankford Joins NewsNation About VP Harris Flip-Flopping on Border Bill | Uploaded August 28, 2024 | 02:18-02:24
“For three years, [the White House] had chosen to do nothing but open the border up.”
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“There's $650 million in border funding that's still left unallocated from the time period when President Trump was president.”
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“The Biden administration has used much of that money to the tune of billions of dollars on it.”
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“That money...will spend on everything else but wall.”
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“They've used that dollars to do environmental remediation along the border rather than border wall construction.”
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