Discussion on Stephen Miller's Role in Trump's Administration (Part 4)
From Meet the Press
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Deportation numbers. And even as deputy chief of staff, this position that he's held in this administration, he's continued to have daily calls with the leaders of dhs, ICE and Border Patrol to tell them to do more, get numbers higher. People I talked to at DHS say basically he's impossible to please because he wants numbers that are so high they're just not realistic. And they say that if they do have a problem with it or if there's something they want to get to the president, they always know Stephen Miller is the closest to the president's year. I know that's something that you've tracked as you've gotten to know, as you covered President Trump. But Miller, love him or hate him, people might disagree with him, but he is so close to this president, and the president has listened to him much longer than he's listened to many of his other advisers. It's such an important point. Scott Wong, he's been with the president since the very beginning. And this all is developing as Democrats are just starting to map out how they plan to govern. I want to play a little bit of what we heard from now, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and get your reaction on the other side. Take a look. We still have a big job to do. Yes, we have found the right issues, cost, chaos and corruption. But I will tell you this, if we don't deliver for the American people and they think we're just like what Trump has done, we're gone. Our enemy is not each other. Our enemy is Donald Trump and the Republican senators who just go along with all the sh. I'm not allowed to say it on your show that he does. That's the focus. The focus is unity. It's, it's all of us talking out of the same, you know, hymn book, so to speak, and beating Trump, not fighting each other. Scott how does the appointment of Stephen Miller fit into Democrats broader goal of trying to actually get results right? Democrats say they want to hold Trump accountable, but also work with Trump on the issues that they think this entire midterm election was about, which was affordability, lowering the cost of living. I think this bodes very poorly for Democrats being able to work with the White House on bipartisan issues like affordability. Stephen Miller's appointment is really a signaling of doubling down on the existing Trump policies, like, you know, immigration, mass deportation. This is sort of in the opposite of direction of what we saw after the 1994, you know, Republican revolution. Bill Clinton reaching across the aisle to New.