people that they are trafficking into america, how they enslave them in the sex trade and how the treat these people and leave them for dead in the deserts. we need to pick up the pieces of those families who lose loved ones to fentanyl poisoning. dana: mexico s president obrador rejecting claims that mexican drug traffickers are responsible for the fentanyl in the u.s. and saying it is u.s. problem. not mexico s. bill: bill melugin back at his post in brownsville, texas, where he has been most of the week. hello. good morning to you. it is well established fact that fentanyl is mass-produced in mexico by mexican drug cartels in their labs using chemicals imported from china. mexico s president said they have nothing to do with that and it s all the u.s. s problem. he said take a look. here we do not produce fentanyl and we do not have the consumption of fentanyl. why don t they, the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? fentanyl is pouring into the
it is economically ill literate. it raises more taxes, creates the biggest government we ve ever seen in the history of the united states. they want to spend money. they want to raise taxes on you. it is wildly irresponsible. julie: wall street journal board sums it up this way. all the president s tax increases for the wealthy, corporate stock buy backs, certain unearned income on the spendsing side the defense increase doesn t even cover inflation when compared to last year s budget. now the plan calls for thousands of new employees for the epa and i.r.s. the border on the back burner yet again. no boost for the dhs budget. the plan also adding only 350 border agents. that won t make up for a shortfall of 1,000. biden s own dhs secretary is even worried. so what do you propose? how do you propose that we handle 8,000 people each day when we are not resourced for that personnel, facilities, transportation an the like? how should we handle that? by redistributing mo
what i would say is the same team, working with the sam type of professionalism, the same type of team all thei active investigation nbc has news has learned tha he s meeting this weekend to discuss their strategy prosecutors in infected an testify before a grand jur next week but did not issue subpoena at one of trump s lawyer telling them the forme president had no plans to meet with the manhattan distric attorney s office. meantime, nbc also confirm trump s former personal lawyer michael cohen has to testify from the grand jury this monday cohen has says he gave storm daniels $130,000 on trump orders to keep her from coming forwar for the 2016 election. joining me now to discuss msnb legal analyst lisa reuben. lisa, alvin bragg also ver careful very cautious in terms of what he can and cannot say. your sense of what is happenin in an investigation like thi as it appears that things ar coming to a head i think you said it exactl right things are coming to a head michael co
on the advice of counsel meaning, trump is planning t argue, i didn t have an affair with stormy daniels. and, and paying her off i wa only do that michael cohen counseled me to do that is a very risky maneuve on trump s part but it may b one of the only cards he has t play, alicia lisa rubin, my friend, as always thank you for being take the time to be with us now to washington wher the contrast between two major political parties comes into sharp focus this week. well president biden unveile his goals for the upcoming federal budget, republicans on capitol hill double down o investigative chain police a new priority for the house gop, sympathizing with january six defendants congresswoman marjorie taylo greene now leading an effort t investigate the treatment of 1 defendants, being held at jail in washington meantime, house republicans ar pushing forward with their investigation and the so-calle investigation of the federal government a hearing so far, plunging dow our hall of far-
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