As a public service, Arizona's Politics is re-posting both the removed video and a transcript of McSally's comments - in which she also states that "uncertainty certainly brings fear to my constituents that are in this limbo."
CNN's KFile investigative unit published their article online*, explaining why it was the office of the Congresswoman-and-now-Senate-candidate who deleted the video. And, while the removal is certainly a newsworthy action - given McSally's drift to a hardline DACA position since Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced that he would not seek re-election - the continued presence of the video from other sources is also important to note.
McSally's comments came during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on President Trump's budget request for the Department of Homeland Security. McSally was questioning then-DHS Secretary (now Trump Chief of Staff) John Kelly.
The Committee still has the video from the hearing posted on its website. (Fortunately, there is no 2-minute gap.) The video below should start from the DACA discussion.
Here is the transcript (from Google, with light editing for clarity by Arizona's Politics) of their interaction about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals:
McSALLY: Thank
you, and I want to
117:56
follow
up on the DACA issue. You know,
117:58
while
I don't agree with kind of how it
118:00
was
done from roles and responsibilities
118:03
of
the branches of government, the
118:04
reality
is that we're dealing
118:05
with
real people. These kids who were
118:07
brought
here into the country at no
118:09
fault
of their own as children as you
118:10
know.
In Arizona there's 57,000 of them,
118:13
and
because of the program they came
118:16
forward
to the government. They gave
118:18
their
personal information - where they
118:20
live,
they their biometric data, their
118:22
fingerprints.
They went through a
118:24
background
check, they've graduated from
118:25
high
school, they've served in the
118:26
military.
And I agree with you that we
118:30
need
to come up with a legislative
118:31
solution
here to address this issue and
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I'd
urge our colleagues to do that. I
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think
Carlos Curbelo’s bill is a good
118:37
place
to start and I really think we
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need
to move that forward. But in the
118:40
Meantime,
uncertainty certainly brings
118:42
fear
to my constituents that are in this
118:45
limbo.
Can you assure my constituents who
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are
in this place - until we solve this
118:51
legislatively
- that they are going to be
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protected
and that they're not having to
118:56
worry
about it.
KELLY:
As I said many, many, many
119:00
times
on this topic we are not targeting
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DACA
recipients. But that said and it's
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I'm
not gonna let you off the hook you
119:09
got
to solve this problem. A different
119:11
man
in this job, a woman, might have a
119:14
different
view of it. I'm not going to
119:16
let
the Congress off the hook. You've got
119:17
to
solve it. A different person in this
119:19
job
might have a different view.
McSALLY:
And, and
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I
agree with you again I want to urge
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our
colleagues on both side of the aisle
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to
deal with reality. Forget about
119:26
ideology
or how we got here, but now
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we're
dealing with reality and we got to
119:30
solve
this problem based on what's
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practical
and what's compassionate and
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also
upholding the rule of law and in
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the
precedent. So I appreciate that, thank you.
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you mr. secretaryMcSally is in a much-publicized three-way primary contest against immigration hardliners Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward. (The current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is Rep. Kyrsten Sinema.)
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