Reporter: Trump yesterday said that he was encouraging all states to send their National Guard troops to the border to help Texas and to move migrants back across the border. Do you have any response to this effort to have states take on federal immigration policies?

KJP: So, look, I’ve been pretty clear about … You hear me saying this over and over again — not just me. It is the truth; it is a fact. And so, in order to deal with this, we need policy changes. We need funding and resources. So, that’s what we would tell them. We would tell these governor — Republican governors to talk to their representative, call on them to take action — call on them to take action.

Reporter: Can you speak to President Biden’s relationship with Governor Abbott? I know there has been a lot of back-and-forth — there are court cases. How is that relationship, and what can you say about it?

KJP: Well, you know, they’ve — they’ve had opportunities to meet a couple of times. The President has been in Texas. You’ve seen it for themselves — for yourselves how they have engaged with one another.

And, you know, we’ve been very — we will not shy away from calling out what we see as political games from the governor

Reporter: … when does enough become enough?

KJP: … I’m going to reiterate — I’m going to reiterate: If these Republican governors actually cared about doing something to — to deal with the challenges at the border, about doing something — real, meaningful actions — right? — to deal with the immigration system that’s been broken for decades … They should talk to them, and say, “Hey, we need you, Congressman X. We need you, Senator X, in my state, to work with Congress to work — maybe with the senators who are — the Republican and Democrat senators who are doing this process, going through the negotiations. We need you to work with them so that we can fix, so that we can deal with the challenges at the border.” That’s an — that’s an easy ask. That is not difficult. That is something actually easy to do. It does not take much work from them —

Reporter: I understand you’re talking about the political process.

KJP: It’s not a political process. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a second. It’s not a political process for a governor in their state to talk to their congressional members about taking legislative actions. That’s not politics. That’s just the right thing to do on behalf of their constituents.

Reporter: I understand the point you’re trying to make
KJP: That is not politics.

Reporter: that this appears to be a concerted effort, led by the governor of Texas and joined by Republican governors, encouraged by the Republican likely nominee for president — who I know you cannot talk about up there — to flaunt — to flout federal authority, to undermine federal authority. And you — you don’t seem to be willing to say the President will uphold the authority of the federal government.

KJP: So, I’ve already answered this question multiple times. And I’m happy to repeat myself to you, Andrew.

Number one, the President has taken this incredibly seriously — incredibly seriously. When you have a president — for their first legislative action is to deal with immigration and put forth a comprehensive plan to Congress, because that’s the way you’re going to actually deal with this issue, three years ago — three years ago, Andrew — and no action has been taken by Congress.

When you have a president that has been working with negotiators — via, obviously, his team here — with Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to have a real conversation to talk about — in good faith to talk about comprehensive ways to deal with policy, comprehensive ways to deal with funding, to deal with the immigration system — that’s a president that’s taking it very seriously.

The President had Republicans and Democratic leaders here — and ranking members of those committees — and that conversation was — had to deal with Ukraine, but that came up as well. And the President said it is important for Congress to act. We have been saying this.

If you have a Republican governor that is playing political stunts and continues to do that, and put, actually, the Border Patrol agents in harm’s way and preventing them to do their job, that’s a political stunt. We’re going to call that out too.

DHS has taken action. DOJ has taken action. That’s a president that’s taking it really seriously. I can’t speak to DOJ actions, obviously. But the — those things are being taken very seriously, because Border Patrol agents need to get to the area to do their jobs to enforce the law.

So, if you think about it, you’re asking about our legal authority. The governor is literally getting in the way of Border Patrol agents to do their jobs, enforcing the law.

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