Providing balanced unfiltered coverage of government. Taking you to where the pol andh the support of americas cable cspan 45 years and counting joining us a story is Michael Steele with the hill newspaper. Mychael schnell is begin this Weak Congress and willn start with the senate. Headline hill. Com, schumer hes up around two for bipartisan border bill. Remind viewers what the bill is and what is a plan. Guest good morning. This is the bipartisan border deal that group of Senate Negotiators james lankford, Kyrsten Sinema and chris murphy struck back in february. It essentially would amend some asylum laws. It within the socalled program called catch and release and it would give the President Authority the border if a certain number of individuals across the border if that reached a certain threshold. Come together after months ofly those painstaking negotiations that initially convene republicans have demanded any aid for ukraine be alongside bordvion. That group convene, they came
Ukraine would go along Border Security provisions of that senate group convened and they came to an agreement and unveiled this deal which was essentially a stunning matter. Borderec and immigration is s lawmakers for years. After became clear this bipartisan border deal would not make it over the finish line of republicans casting doubt on the significance of the legislation and the final with President Trump coming out and urging republicans to vote against it. Senate republicans have blocked this legislation from moving rw and Congress Went ahead with conid without Border Security. Now Chuck Schumer is trying to come back to thi and t up another vote on it and he recognized last had a slim chance of passing. This is a political move as we close in on the november election. The border issue continues to be a top issue. This is the way foro do some messaging on the border. It gives an average energy to cast a vote on the record in support of cracking down the situation ern border. We
States, georgia and michigan, to reach out to black voters in those states. This morning, we want to hear from black voters only about your choice for campaign 20 24. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, dial in at 202 7488000. Mountain pacific, 202 7488001. Black voters only can also text this morning at 202 7488003. Or you can post on facebook. Com cspan and also on x. We will spend our first 30 minutes hearing from black voters only, and then we will open up to everybody else and also take your temperature on campaign 2024, your choice in november. That is our conversation in our first hour. Lets begin with some battleground polls from the New York Times. In these six key states, shows the matchup between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. In michigan, where the president was last evening, he trails 49 to 42 . He began the day yesterday in georgia at Morehouse College with the commencement address, and he is also trailing the former president in th
Hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases im joined by Jason Solomons. What have you been watching this week . This week, we find out what happened when Christopher Plummer replaced kevin spacey in Ridley Scotts all the money in the world, a kidnap drama set mainly in 19705 italy but also on a huge estate in england. And saddle up for the return of the wild west. But is it the western revived or revised in hostiles . Christian bale and Rosamund Pike, take to the wide open spaces for the violence of the wild west. And ben stiller checks in for a midlife crisis in brads status, a comedy about middle age and loss and reflecting on your existence while you take your son to colleges. But lets start with all the money in the world. Im reeling from the fact that Christopher Plummer is 88, because he looks astonishing. That is what you can do with all the money in the world, a lot of cgi john paul getty, who kevin spacey was pla
That started injapan ten years ago, and is now taking a firm hold here in the uk. Temperatures in parts of the us are predicted to fall to minus 29, as a record breaking freeze follows heavy snow caused by the so called bomb cyclone. Not quite so cold here. Stav has the details. Thank you, good morning to you. Well, it is turning much colder for all of us this weekend. Not on the plus side we should see some sunshine, particularly tomorrow, but a return to overnight frost as well. I will have all the details for you very shortly. Good morning. First, our main story a lawyer who represented victims of the serial sex offender john worboys says some of her clients whose cases werent taken to trial want to give evidence. The former black cab driver is being freed from jail after ten yea rs. He was convicted of 19 offences, although Police Believe he carried out more than 100 attacks. Lawyers say that a number of women were told that their testimony wasnt required to put worboys behind bars