Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen Likely Committed Perjury During House Testimony

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley has asked the FBI to investigate whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen lied during her Senate testimony a few months ago when she said that DHS did NOT have a policy to separate families at the border. Newly released documents show that DHS did, in fact, put this policy in writing, proving that Nielsen wasn’t being completely honest. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses what could happen if the FBI investigates.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, like so many other people in the United States, says that he is sick and tired of the lies, the nonstop lies coming from the Trump administration, and that is why Jeff Merkley last week decided to ask the FBI to investigate whether or not homeland security chief, Kirsten Nielsen lied under oath during her testimony to the House of Representatives when she said that they had no policy, not now, not ever of separating migrant families at the border. Now, here is why Jeff Merkley ended up requesting the FBI look into whether or not she has lied under oath and that's because new information has emerged showing that the Trump administration was actively drafting a policy as early as December 2017, two separate migrant families at the border, which goes against what the Trump administration's been telling us along with Kirsten Nielsen in that they had no policy of doing this. This wasn't the policy, this wasn't the protocol.

This wasn't standard operating procedure. It's just a thing that happened. It wasn't something we sat down and thought out and drafted and put into place. It just kind of started doing it because why not I? That is essentially the answer we've gotten from this administration. That is what Kirsten Nielsen told Congress. She told that to the Senate last October and she told it to the House of Representatives roughly a month ago, but now we find out that that's not true at all and if it's not true, but she told Congress that they didn't have a policy even though they did, then yeah, Merkley's 100 percent, right? That would be perjury that would be probably more than enough, uh, needed to get cursed in Nielsen, removed from office. And more importantly, to show this administration that eventually, sometimes it may take a while, but eventually there are consequences for the nonstop lying.

There are consequences for the horrid policies that you have put in place and we're going to find them. We're gonna Nitpick everything. We're going to comb through it and we're going to find out what you're lying about and then we're going to hold you accountable for it. That is exactly what has happened with this situation with Kirsten Nielsen, but make no mistake actually, there's more children separated from their families than initially thought. According to recent reports, they have lost plenty of children, hundreds. They've lost hundreds of parents because they deported them back and didn't keep records of which kid went with which parents, so they just don't know what to do anymore. Parents who've come back trying to get their kids find out that their kids who already sent the orphanages and adopted out, but they didn't keep records well enough so they don't know which orphanage that kid ended up with or where the hell they are today.