In some candid statements during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, where she claimed to be speaking for average Americans, Washington Post national correspondent Mary Jordan suggested that not only did they want the government shutdown to end, they wanted to ditch the border wall idea and just let the migrants cross into America.

“Do you think the President understands the impact of this partial government shutdown? I mean, we’re hearing from people it really does affect,” fill-in host and chief foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz exclaimed, teeing Jordan up.

Jordan thought, “no”, President Trump didn’t understand how the shutdown was Affecting people. “What people are saying are ‘stop it, just stop the political game’. This is all about politics. It's really not about the wall,” she claimed with no evidence.

She suggested it was “silly to blame the Democrats about this” and argued it was just a massive distraction campaign to draw attention away from the Russia investigation and other bad news items like the economy:

So, it's really not about the wall. And it's silly to blame the Democrats about this. It's really a deflection. A lot of bad news for Donald Trump lately. The economy is erratic. The Mueller probe is coming down. It's not going to be good news for him. And again, he wants the boogie man. He wants the Democrats.

Sorry to break it to you Jordan, but just because the stock market has been experiencing some corrections doesn’t mean the economy is “erratic”. For a while now, folks in the liberal media have been talking about (and essentially praying) for a recession because they argued it’s the only way for Trump to lose in 2020. Claiming the economy was “erratic” was arguably an extension of that twisted hope.

It’s hard to determine where Jordan’s comments went from her pretending to speak for other people to her just spouting off she own liberal beliefs, but she insisted people wanted the migrants to just come across the border:

Regular people are like, “come on, stop it. Do the hard thing. Fix immigration.” For one thing, we want a lot of these people to come across the border. We need them in the nursing homes. We need these jobs. Do the hard thing. Figure out how to get visas for people who can come over and work. Toughen the border where we need it and stop talking about $5 billion on a concrete wall that makes no sense.

While Jordan may whine that the wall “makes no sense” and “kind of like investing in landline technology in the era of cellphones”, Raddatz brought on Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan earlier in the program and he made the case for it.

According to McAleenan, CBP was not asking for just a “dumb barrier”. “We're talking about the sensors, cameras, lighting, access roads for our agents, a system that helps up secure the area of the border. That’s what we were asking Congress,” he explained.

Jordan and Raddatz made the strawman arguments that offenders would just dig under a wall or fly a drone over it (respectively). McAleenan noted that the wall they were asking for would “push the traffic into the areas we can control more effectively. It’s a multi-faceted approach. We need counter-drone technology too. We appreciate Congress giving [Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen] the authority to start exploring that. We need to attack all of the different vectors that could threaten us.”

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: