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During their appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Mary Bruce and Cecilia Vega, the network’s Congressional and White House correspondents respectively, built narratives using Democratic talking points and designed to place the blame for a failed immigration deal and possible government shutdown solely on the Republican Party.
“Remember, a bipartisan group of lawmakers went to the White House thinking they had a deal that met the parameters outlined by the President himself earlier in the week,” Bruce explained to the rest of the so-called “powerhouse roundtable,” which was made of mostly liberals except for Rich Lowry of the National Review.
“They get in the room, they're essentially ambushed, we're told, by these hardline anti-immigration Republican members of Congress and it all blows up. Look, they really thought they had something here,” Bruce lamented. She chided Republican leadership for not condemning the President’s criticism of some other countries, which he reportedly described as “sh*tholes.”
Bruce mocked House Speaker Paul Ryan only saying Trump’s comments were “unfortunate and unhelpful.” “I think for a lot of people that’s how they would describe a parking ticket. Not exactly a strong condemnation,” she chided.
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