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Megyn Kelly: ‘White House Is Basically Calling Senator Jon Kyl A Liar’

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Earlier we reported that Senator Jon Kyl had publicly claimed during Tea Party Town Hall meeting, that President Obama had privately told the Arizona Senator that the administration was effectively not securing the U.S. border with Mexico so as to gain the necessary political leverage to enact immigration reform. Kyl’s account of this private conversation in the Oval Office has since been harshly rebuked by the White House, claiming “the President didn’t say that and Senator Kyl knows it.” Kyl’s spokesman has already countered the WH rebuke.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer released the following response to the Kyl’s accusation:

“The President didn’t say that and Senator Kyl knows it. There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before, but as the President has made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system.”

Kyl’s spokesperson Ryan Patmintra countered the rebuke with the following release:

“There were two people in that meeting, and Dan Pfeiffer was not one of them. Senator Kyl stands by hes remarks, and the White House spokesman’s pushback that you must have comprehensive immigration reform to secure the border only confirms Senator Kyl’s account”

Well just as we predicted earlier this morning when the video of Kyl’s comment first surfaced, with two individuals sharing a private conversation, this has clearly devolved into a “he said, he said” debate. However, has reported by Fox New’s Trace Gallagher appearing on America Live.

Host Megyn Kelly surmised the back-and-forth thusly “we are expecting sparks from this during the White House briefing room” and also contextualizing the story as “now you have the White House coming back and basically calling Jon Kyl a liar.”

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  • MichelleF

    Colby,
    I love how you keep pointing out that it was a private conversation, like that’s the important part of the story. Most of us think the important part is Obama putting politics above the safety of those he’s sworn an oath to protect. Nice to see where your priorities are.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Biased eyes see only what they want to see Michelle.

  • notsofast

    “now you have the White House coming back and basically calling Jon Kyl a liar.””

    The WH is calling someone a liar? The same WH that wouldn’t come clean on its job offer to Sestak? The same WH that also made an offer to another politician in Colorado?

  • roxsteady

    On May 25th Obama authorized 1,200 more troops to the border. I suspect it’s this fact that paints Kyle as a liar. Dumbasses! Keep watching fox. You’re going to get your asses kicked again in November!

  • notsofast

    roxsteady says:
    June 21, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    On May 25th Obama authorized 1,200 more troops to the border. ”

    Now it is nearly one month later and not one troop has been sent!

  • MichelleF

    Rox, can you tell me how 1,200 people SITTING AT DESKS will solve the immigration problem? Please enlighten us.

    Dumbasses! Keep watching fox. You’re going to get your asses kicked again in November!

    The Liberal Heretic’s: The Top 20 Most Offensive Liberal Women

    http://www.theliberalheretic.com/blog/node/1119

    You are SO close Rox, keep it up and you will be on that list in no time, DEAR!

  • lanquihue

    Obama is a known liar. In addition, the 1200 troops to the border is meaningless, since they’re not allowed to do anything. Obama knows this, but it’s his stupid way of trying to come off as doing something. This worked in south Chicago, where the average IQ could be counted on one hand, but the masses are not urban riff raff who need to be organized by a rabble rouser racist.

  • berevealer

    roxsteady,

    So where are the troops he promised, nowhere to be found. Kyle is one I would believe over obama considering what obama promised when campaigning and what he delivered so far has been full of lies.

    1. Healthcare legislation a Major example telling us the costs would be lower.

    2. Spending had to be based on offsets from other areas with the “Pay as you go”. Money still in the TARP that could be used instead of creating another spending bill to dump on American taxpayers.

    3. His administration waived some regulations for BP to drill and Minerals and Management Servises were more interested in watching porn than doing their job and getting paid to boot!

    Obama’s modus Operandi … never let a serious crisis go to waste.

  • Haimerej

    Patmintra nailed it. “Truly” securing the border? How is a change in policy going to keep people out?

  • Ination

    @ lanquihue – I’d love to visit this magical land you live in where everyone is intelligent. Where is that again?

  • valkyrie101

    Let’s see. The southern border has never been closed in the history of the United States. Not during Reagan’s administration, not during the either of the Bush administrations, etc. And now we are to believe that Obama is a bad man, and a liar, because he refuses to do so? Sure.

  • http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

    Dear President Obama:

    I’m planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We’re planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. Into Mexico, and we’ll need your help to make a few arrangements.

    We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws.

    I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I’m on my way over?

    Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

    1. Free medical care for my entire family.

    2 English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.

    3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English.

    4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.

    5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.

    6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.

    7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch.

    8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.

    9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico , but, I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.

    10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.

    11. I plan to fly the U.S. Flag from my house top, put U S. Flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals

    12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.

    13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.

    14. I want to receive free food stamps.

    15. Naturally, I’ll expect free rent subsidies.

    16. I’ll need Income tax credits so although I don’t pay Mexican Taxes, I’ll receive money from the government.

    17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov’t pays $4,500 to help me buy a new car.

    18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I’ll get a monthly income in retirement.

    I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who walk over to the U..S. From Mexico . I am sure that President Calderon won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

    Thank you so much for your kind help. You da man!!!

  • valkyrie101

    A U.S. Senator lying for political gain? My goodness, impossible.

  • notsofast

    valkyrie101 says:
    June 21, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    A U.S. President lying for political gain? My goodness, impossible.

  • lanquihue

    valkyrie101: “And now we are to believe that Obama is a bad man, and a liar, because he refuses to do so?”

    Yes, we are. Yours is some of the most twisted logic I’ve heard. It’s absolutely juvenile, in fact. You’re a kid saying, “hey, Bobby and Jimmy did it, too!”

    Doesn’t matter what Reagan did, or Bush. Obama is president now, and if he refuses to do what he swore he’d do, he’s nothing more than the punk little scumbag many of us knew he was, and many are finding out.

  • disgusted

    No ONE is “responsible/Liable”!

  • Danimal98367

    How to do an Obama Impression with 5 easy philosophies:

    “Bush spent a ton, so I should get to!”

    “Bush didn’t secure the border so neither will I!”

    “Bush got to have a war in Afghanistan so I should get to!”

    “It’s Bush’s fault.”

    “Bush expanded the government to new bloated and inefficient extremes so I should get to do that too!”

    Bonus:

    “Now let me be clear…”

  • valkyrie101

    lanq,
    What is twisted about the notion of “precedent”. There is no precedent for closing the border, and obviously such an unprecedented action would require action by our full government, not an executive order, or on demand from the State of Arizona. Especially since they have been lying about the purported reason for closing the border, which is that crime has gotten so bad, etc., which is not born out by the crime statistics.

  • lanquihue

    valkyrie101: “There is no precedent for closing the border, and obviously such an unprecedented action would require action by our full government, not an executive order…”

    Really. Then all those times I came back from Tijuana when I was stationed in San Diego, I was only imagining the line? I didn’t really have to show I.D.? We don’t really have border patrol _trying_ to keep illegals from coming in? There’s not sections of fence here and there for the purpose of keeping aliens in Mexico?

    Again, simply because every president up till now has shirked their duty is not an excuse. There are federal laws, stricter than the ones in Arizona that everyone’s freaking out about, which address this issue. No executive order or act of congress in necessary, simply a will to enforce current law.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Lets think about this would the President say he was not going to secure the border for a political advantage? NO I DO NOT THINK SO, has KYL been caught lying before? YES HE HAS and if the President said that to any RETHUGLICAN would they have run to the MICROPHONES that are always waiting to greet anyone on their way out? YES They would, would a rethug wait to tell it to people on the other side of the continent? NOPE. Would they wait at all to reveal this? no they would not.

    Further he claims that the president used the Words …YOU ALL… and as the president has proven himself to be quite articulate I DO NOT BELIEVE HE SAID ANY SUCH THING, its bad English and bad English was the last guy.

  • PureFreedom

    @Bobomatic
    Awesome job!
    If the left and liberals cant read what you wrote without getting angry. We are a doomed country!
    America will be a third world non-productive country in the very near future.

    A nanny state which no one will take responsibility!

  • valkyrie101

    lanq,
    When the Republicans talk about “closing the border” they are not talking about a few border guards in tijuana. They are talking iron curtain stuff.

  • valkyrie101

    lanq,
    Each year a number of Canadians sneak across the frontier border into the U.S. Some of them work here illegally. A few committ crimes. Why should we not put up a large steel fence and deploy several thousands troops to patrol the border?

  • lanquihue

    valkyrie101: “When the Republicans talk about “closing the border” they are not talking about a few border guards in tijuana. They are talking iron curtain stuff.”

    Where to start? There are laws that address immigration. If by “iron curtain stuff”, you mean preventing aliens from crossing illegally from Mexico, I’m all for it. Yes, I know it’s fun to throw that stuff out there, it sounds dark and evil, and you think it helps you make your point, but it simply exemplifies why yours is the minority view on this topic.

    And yes, the northern border needs to be more secure, too. Fortunately, Canada is quite a bit more civilized than Mexico, and because of this, there’s far less problems along that border.

  • valkyrie101

    lanq,

    Here is what should be done:

    1. Pass an immigration reform bill, like the one that Reagan signed, IRCA 1986, which grants amnesty to all illegal aliens who can prove that they have lived here for five (or perhaps three) years or more. Give temporary status, travel permit, and work authorization cards to every qualified person. After five years, for those who do not engage in felonious conduct during that five year period, grant permanent residence. Five years later, grant citizenship.

    2. Increase border security and patrolling, within reason.

    3. Pass stingent laws, or rigorously enforce the current laws, that make it a criminal offense to knowingly hire an illegal alien, and focus enforcement in that area. If there is no where to work legally, illegal aliens will not want to come.

    The key to solving the problem is not number 2, but 1 and 3.

  • TruckBoatTruck

    .
    Megyn Kelly… soooooo hot. Want to touch the hiney.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Ellsworth/1118910957 Jason Ellsworth

    Hey Valkyrie, just curious. What do you have against effectively sealing the border? It’s what the great majority of U.S. citizens want. We want major military infrastructure, tens of thousands of N. Guard and active soldiers, and to seal that border so tight that about ten people make it accross annually. Where’s the problem? Do you not know that thousands of ms 13 gangsters have illegally immigrated into Los Angeles alone? Are you aware Mexico is a failed state that is transitioning into guerilla warfare as we speak?!? Why on earth would you want the spread of Mexican culture to continue unchecked?

  • valkyrie101

    Jason,

    Countries usually do not do that border sealing thing, except in N. Korea and places like that. The problem of Mexican gansters relates to drugs. Exactly what happened when prohibition was put into place (Al Capone, etc.). If we finally adopt the liberatarian position, and legalize drugs (especially weed), the gansters would have no livelihood, and no turf to fight over.

    Mexico is not a failed state, and there is nothing wrong with Mexican culture.

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