president is going to take office. it is not hard, at least from my perspective, to understand how vulnerable, unsophisticated, politically speaking, people who have been fed this diet of bs would behave in accordance with their presidents wishes. that was his lawyer with chris hayes earlier tonight. he testified in his own defense today saying quote, i thought the election was rigged to put biden in office. thompson now says that he realizes he was misled. thompson told the jury, quote, if the president is giving you almost an order to do something, i felt obligated to do that. like, i had to do something to gain his respect, or like, approval. dustin thompson told the jury that he believed he quote, was following presidential orders to go to the capitol, that he is now, quote, deeply ashamed. that was the phrase he used. deeply ashamed.
highest levels of government. donald trump encouraged people like dustin thompson to storm the capital. when you have the president of the united states grooming you to believe that the election was stolen, or democracy is at stake, fight like hell, we are never going to concede, it is either you get down to the capitol and i will be right there with you, or else an illegitimate president is going to take office. it is not hard, at least from my perspective, to understand how vulnerable, unsophisticated, politically speaking, people who have been fed this diet of bs would behave in accordance with their presidents wishes. that was his lawyer with chris hayes earlier tonight. he testified in his own defense today saying quote, i thought the election was rigged to put biden in office. thompson now says that he realizes he was misled. thompson told the jury,
. mexican authorities say they found the body of a venezuelan migrant girl in the water of the rio grande yesterday along the border of mexico and texas. children continue to die on the u.s./mexico border. this comes as we approach one year of president biden in office. and take a look back at his record on border policy as well as on immigration. take a listen to this exchange we had on telemundo when he was a candidate for president in september of 2020. look, i can only imagine what it s like to see someone in your family deported. i can only imagine what that s like. and to me, it s all about family. beginning, middle, and end. it s about family. that s not going to happen in my administration. the idea that you can t even seek asylum on american soil. you can t even seek asylum on american soil. when did that happen? trump. it s wrong.
president biden in office. we seen overwhelmingly some voters vote democrat. how do you assess president biden s success with the latino community. what remains a challenge for him? because that are the essential workers, much like the black community of the country, covid really hit us hard. we had some of the highest mortality rates and we were the first to get fired and the last to get hired, the first to lose our savings and many of us seen we are close to losing homes and apartments. so the relief act was a huge, huge help when it comes to every day lives of working latinos. in that regard, it s good. the failure in passing the bbb is a big hit. we,ment, you know, lost so much in the 2008 recession and lost even more because of covid that we really need this to jump start our personal family incomes, to be able to restart our businesses, invest in our
ed: as the migrant surge continues at the southern border the white house reportedly going to rei state former president trump s remain in mexico policy. fox news senior correspondent casey s teigel with the story. not long after president biden assumed the office, hours in fact, he reversed president trump s policies for end of past summer and administration officially ended it they thought for good that is until a court was asked to step in and the judge ruled the program be reinstated. this as the record surge of migrant crossing the southern border illegally into the u.s. continues. the data showing no significant signs of letting up. all the while space to house and progress those seeking asylum has been hard to come by and the system has been overwhelmed. the official announcement is expected from the white house