Tuesday saw yet another humiliating moment for President Biden’s incompetent secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas who has helped preside over the worst crisis on the U.S./Mexican border in American history. This came during a Senate Judiciary hearing in which Mayorkas was annihilated by numerous Republican senators throughout the over-three-hour long hearing. Since this was another black eye for the Biden administration, their allies at the three broadcast networks worked to cover it up for them.
All three evening news broadcasts ignored the humiliating grilling of Mayorkas by the Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee. Instead of reporting on the hearing, the three leftwing networks decided to focus on Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed getting his murder conviction reinstated (ABC), a segment on the gender gap of athlete concussion treatments (CBS), and a report blaming “climate change” for longer allergy seasons (NBC).
Only NBC Nightly News went as far as to acknowledge that the hearing even took place. Giving it a paltry fourteen seconds. Even so, NBC omitted any GOP soundbites ripping into the incompetent Biden cabinet secretary. ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News carried on as if the hearing never happened.
Blink and you’ll miss it but this was the fleeting mention of the Senate hearing from NBC Nightly News and correspondent Gabe Gutierrez:
GUTIERREZ: Today on capitol hill, the Homeland Security Secretary was pressed about his border patrol chief's recent acknowledgment that the U.S. did not have operational control of the southern border.
MAYORKAS: We are intensely focused on securing the border.
While NBC could only muster 14 seconds and ABC & CBS zero, Fox News Channel’s Special Report dedicated an entire segment to Mayorkas being held to account.
Guest anchor Trace Gallagher kicked off the segment by revealing that “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced some tough questioning by Senators today on capitol hill about the border crisis.”
Correspondent Griff Jenkins took over for Gallagher and reported how, “For more than three hours, lawmakers grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.”
“Republican senators pulled no punches over a perceived lack of operational control at the border,” Jenkins added before cutting to a clip of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz crushing Mayorkas:
CRUZ: The men and women of the border patrol, they've never had a political leader undermine them. They despise you Mr. Secretary because you’re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders. This is a crisis!
MAYORKAS: What the Senator said was revolting. I'm not going to address it.
After airing other clips of barbed questions from Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Cornyn (R-TX), and others, Jenkins reported that the “grilling comes as the committee chairman, Dick Durbin sent a letter to the administration signed by 18 other Democrats opposing a return to a policy of family detentions seen under the Obama and Trump administrations.”
“And it comes ahead of the anticipated lifting of Title 42. Mayorkas said today no decision has yet been made,” Jenkins added.
This bias by omission from the three networks was made possible by Salonpas on ABC, CarFax on CBS, and Liberty Mutual on NBC.
The transcripts are below. Click “expand” to read:
FNC’s Special Report
3/28/2023
6:06:06 p.m. EasternTRACE GALLAGHER: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced some tough questioning by Senators today on capitol hill about the border crisis. Correspondent Griff Jenkins has that part of the story tonight.
SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R-TX): You should be fired.
GRIFF JENKINS: For more than three hours, lawmakers grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
CORNYN: Mr. Secretary, you understand that you have a credibility problem with the Congress and with the American people, don't you?
SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS: I have unflinching confidence in the integrity of my conduct.
JENKINS: Republican Senators pulled no punches over a perceived lack of operational control at the border.
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): The men and women of the border patrol, they've never had a political leader undermine them. They despise you Mr. Secretary because you’re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders. This is a crisis!
MAYORKAS: What the Senator said was revolting. I'm not going to address it.
JENKINS: And a recent spike in Chinese nationals crossing illegally.
SEN. JOSH HAWLEY (R-MO): I'm asking you, if there are members of the Chinese Communist Party, and you don't know, apparently you won't say.
MAYORKAS: We are very focused on all things with respect to the people's republic.
JENKINS: At times, Democrats came to the Secretary's defense.
SEN. PETER WELCH (D-VT): I would just say to all my colleagues, we can have whoever happens to be the Secretary of Homeland Security, bring him in and beat him up, or we can do our job, and my hope is we can do our job.
JENKINS: But there was bipartisan scrutiny over the influx of Fentanyl coming across the border.
SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ): This problem has risen under Republican Presidents and Democratic Presidents. This is not a partisan issue, this is an American issue. This is an American crisis.
JENKINS: And today’s grilling comes as the committee Chairman Dick Durbin sent a letter to the administration signed by 18 other Democrats opposing a return to a policy of family detentions seen under the Obama and Trump administrations. And it comes ahead of the anticipated lifting of Title 42. Mayorkas said today no decision has yet been made.
NBC Nightly News
3/28/2023
6:43:07 p.m. EasternGABE GUTIERREZ: Today on capitol hill, the Homeland Security Secretary was pressed about his border patrol chief's recent acknowledgment that the U.S. did not have operational control of the southern border.
SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS: We are intensely focused on securing the border.
