‘Something seemed off’: Reporter reveals truth about Sen. Britt’s disastrous SOTU response

Jonathan Kat is the

reporter

who unraveled Senator Bri's story about Tic Tac because of the way Tik Tock has good things. He joins me now as he has reported extensively on migration and conflict around the world. I suspect that's why he knew

something

was up here. He was the former head of the office. for the Associated Press in Haiti and is the author of two books, The Big Truck That Rolled By, How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Its Disaster Behind It, and the Gangsters of Capitalism, Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Creation and Destruction of the American Empire , so when I was watching your Tik Tok video.

I thought to myself how he realized this so he is still with us. I mean, you've covered immigration for years, that may be a central part of the answer here, but how when you were watching it did

something

. It doesn't seem right to you, something just

seemed

strange to you. I mean, maybe it's because I've been covering this stuff for so many years that these things operate on a more instinctive level, but I think part of it was that she was, she was. giving very specific, very lurid details about some of the story, but leaving the most important parts of the story extremely vague, there is no information about where this happened, what the woman's name was, what country it happened in, when it happened.

I also wondered well. The first thing I asked myself was what happened to the woman after this. If she got asylum, it sounds like a good asylum case, as if she were just someone who now lives in the United States. The point, in some ways, is not that that was exactly her intention. So what is going on here? Yeah, and then I started googling, I think you said this in your video, but you reached out to her, of course, and her or her team, I should say, and how was that back and forth about the details here there was no none, they didn't answer at all no, they didn't answer at all no, it was just me, it was just me and Google and the press releases that they had, that they and the other senators that she had traveled to the border with what had been published, then the information was there, it was just that someone had to go look for it.

I admit, even though it's disappointing, upsetting, all the things she was so deceitful about, it's a little painful to watch her try to get rid of it, yeah, did you see that Fox News interview? She seems to be implying that she wasn't trying to say this had anything to do with President Biden's border policy. I mean, do you believe it? No, I mean, it's just that she makes the sandwich with uh, a filling that I don't think she should say on television, right, it was like she started by saying this is President Biden's border policy and then added the anecdote that takes without permission and apparently to the chagrin. from the woman she took it from and, by the way, this is also something like someone who has reported on many countries in crisis.

I have done many reports on developing countries in the Global South. I am very familiar with the dynamic of people who come from the United States, from richer countries, from the Elite classes, who take someone's story and then use it to understand themselves, that could have been part of what he called my attention, maybe on some level, and then she ends up introducing it. Going back to President Biden's border policy, so yes, I'm referring to it, his spokesperson told other people he didn't respond to me, but he told other people that the story was 100% correct and maybe he meant on the level of individual sentences as if brother broke down each individual clause as if perhaps each individual clause had some nugget of

truth

, but he put them together as a story and then when he said in the conditional we, we would be horrified if these things happened in a third country world using an archaic term. and you know, but this is the United States, I mean, I don't know how to escape her, she's very clear.

Beyond implying that she's just outright saying it's true, I mean, I'm surprised they haven't contacted the woman. I've been involved in a lot of speeches where you talk about a lot of people, we only have one minute left and I really should talk to you about this for 20 minutes, but what have you been covering? getting so politicized, yeah, what's the one thing people say or speculate about this topic that drives you crazy because it's so wrong? I think the most important thing is that the victims of the dysfunction of the delay in closing the ports of entry of forcing people to go through smuggling routes are immigrants they are immigrants those are the people who suffer from HM and you know how The way they talk about it in Washington, the way Republicans talk about it, the way many liberals even talk about it is that the ultimate victims are the American people, they are their children, Mr. and Mrs.

America, to whom these immigrants come, that there is an invasion and it is just a perversion, the people who are suffering are people fleeing the global South. who are fleeing the crisis, who are fleeing global warming, who are trying to improve their lives and the lives of their families and who are being demonized and used as a weapon in our politics here and it hurts them and it hurts them all, such an important point that it really I appreciate you, Jonathan cats, who make Tik Tock. Thanks for his time and all the amazing reports from him.