Leid Stories—Border ’Crisis’ Is ’Manufactured’ by Trump, Says Congresswoman; Whoopi Goldberg Rides A High Horse—01.08.19

Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-Calif.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said yesterday, after visiting an area along the U.S.-Mexico border, that the "national security crisis" President Donald Trump says exists there is "manufactured."

Whoopi Goldberg, host of ABC's morning gabfest "The View," took aim at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx) yesterday for criticizing the Democratic Party. Goldberg, saying Ocasio-Cortez's criticisms were out of place, advised the newly seated, history-making congresswoman to "sit still" and "learn the job."

Leid Stories fleshes out both stories.