message to the vice president we would love have have you on special report. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the fate of a new senate proposal. that addresses funding for the southern border as well as ukraine and israel. is uncertain tonight. supporters say it ends catch and release. strengthens asylum laws. but critics say it would let in 5,000 migrants per day, an unacceptable figure and other problems that don t solve the border completely. we will talk with one of the authors of the plan, arizona independent senator kyrsten sinema in just a few minutes. and also with texas republican congressman chip roy, one of the major opponents. first, additional details on that legislation. congressional correspondent iron shah has any starts us off live tonight from capitol hill. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. senate republicans are actually just coming out of a closed door meeting tonight where they discussed this border bill. and the reaction
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he wanted to see if congress would negotiate a better deal. they, of course, fell short. bill: she is echoing a bit of what you are suggesting here. what they would argue the president has an obligation to provide safety to the people living in the united states and you think they win on that argument. i think the court is likely to kick it back to us and say under the national emergency act we can vote on it. the president s proposal for the border i thought was reasonable. what he said let s use an evidence-based approach and what the border patrol experts want. this is the border security improvement plan. he wanted to fund the top ten priorities of that plan. congress probably has now funded two or three of those and with some of these other funds he can probably fund half of those. so he can bill: you can access, what, $4 billion before the the forfeiture fund and dod for drug interdiction. that would be my preferred route. i think that would be on safer