oh, that s cool. i mean, we don t have that. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. neil: all right. well, if the federal government isn t going to do it, the governor of texas today indicating he will, and it will start today. griff jenkins at the border of rio grande city, texas. the governor not too far away from making that big move, that big announcement that s already got many in washington raising their eyebrows. why now, governor? griff, what s going on? reporter: well, good morning, neil. the governor is doing something no one s ever done which is to take the border security issue in his own hands. remember, that border security responsibility falls to the federal government, but governor abbott feels the biden administration is skirting its responsibility. that s why he s building this wall that he s unveiling for the first time you re seeing behind
nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. good morning, everyone, this is early start. i m laura jarrett. it s 30 minutes past the hour here in new york. a key vote on the commission to investigate the u.s. capitol riot delayed for a reason that will floor you. after more than 14 hours of debate republican senators delayed passing a huge pill to increase u.s. competitiveness with china. now, remember, this china bill is bipartisan, no request he it will pass. so why the delay? senator ron johnson hinted he wants a border security issue addressed and says he s prepared to delay the process as long as possible. then republicans threw in the towel just before 3:00 a.m. the delay means a key vote on creating this panel to
our high watermark which was two months ago in the month of may. there is actual progress that s being made. i wish there was progress from our legislators instead of the requisite pressure being put on mexico to do their job. if we had our legislators stepping up and doing what they need to do, this border security issue would go away. instead we are trying to rely on another country and to be honest with you, that country is doing a good job. whether they continue to do a good job into the future, that remains to be seen. right now as we speak, the numbers are going down and we are getting a better hold of the border security issue. neil: thank you very, very much. we should stress that these facilities were built during the obama administration. not to cast aspersions but that was then what it look like they had an awful room for the facilities that where they are. obviously now just the opposite. something you might remember
julian castro was on the stage. he called for decriminalizing border crossings. the second night, it looked like the field was behind that. where are you on that? as long as we have provisions that say, if you re coming here to sell drugs, to commit crime, those are criminal acts and they should be treated as criminal acts, i think that s a separate issue. the reality of it is, we have to make sure the immigration issue is not an issue like it is today that trump thinks he can win on the separation issue. trump thinks he can win on the border security issue. we have to be firm that we are not for drugs coming into the country we have to be firm on the border, we have to be firm on comprehensive immigration reform, so we can have a
border security. we can take a sigh of relief. say that again. because that has been the question i have asked. is this the right way to do it? go on, sorry. these are two separate issues. let s deal with the trade issue on one lane and border security in another. they should not be in the same pot. but tonight we can take comfort in realizing that at least for now the tariff issue is on the back burner. and that s good sign. mexico, until now, has been looking at this, the border security issue as a speck taurt. they re not caught in the middle off this. they re on the front lines. despite the way the president dealt with this issue, he has brought mexico into the conversation and that is the way to deal with this. we need to work with mexico. this is a first step in many steps. tlrs reason people are coming from central america because they re fleeing violence, gangs,