John Cornyn: “at the appropriate time, I would ask the Senator to yield for a brief question. But I don't want to interrupt him in his…”

My constituents believe that the 1,000-foot riverbank cliffs and remote Big Bend terrain offers its own sources of deterrence for any illegal migrants crossing into the United States.

I don’t know whether they think they can wait us out or … we’ll cave. But I assure you, we won’t.

Liberating is how he described his negotiating power.

We didn’t have the authority to sort that out.