Jon Stewart: “Lankford comes up with a solution that both parties sign off…”

“And our government is complicit in that as well. Now, that dysfunction, how do we get back to that, Senator? How do we get back to a functional, like even the immigration system? Lankford comes up with a solution that both parties sign off on. And Donald Trump comes in before the election and says, tank it, because I want to run on the dysfunction of the immigration system. Yeah. And I knew we would get rolled on that. I'm like, there's no chance Trump is going to hand over one of their largest kinds of issues.” (1:11:19–1:11:33)

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