taken by trump. i'm disappointed that the president has sort of gone into the same frame as donald trump at a very time when we need to make a distinction between donald trump and joe biden. >> other democrats, including arizona senator mark kelly, struck a more optimistic tone now, with my republican colleagues not wanting to take action on this, we're at this point we're the white house is taking some steps that i truly believe is going to make a big difference. the measure will take effect at midnight and the american civil liberties union already announced that it plans to challenge the move in court just as they did for the trump era, asylum restrictions, we said that that was a illegal when he tried an asylum band we think is very similar to the one that president biden is doing. we think it remains illegal. and so we will challenge that in court. >> officials maintain the move is necessary to stem the flow of migration and say congress needs to act. but republicans argue the action is too little,