(Sidenote: What on earth does "sheeted" mean?)
As I recall, the feds eventually cracked the phone's encryption without Apple's help. Which I think goes to prove what security experts have said all along: once the attacker has physical access to the device, cracking is only a matter of time.
Bozos like this only see one half of the picture. It's not hard to describe ways in which the present system is - unsatisfactory. What is hard is to propose an alternative that isn't worse. What makes politicians (in general) dangerous is that they always gloss over this second point - that's how we got Brexit.