good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the humanitarian crisis on the border. it is the challenge that americans say they want solved more than any other problem. and now president biden is making his most dramatic move yet to deal with illegal immigration. will today s executive action come too late to reverse the political damage that has been years in the making? plus details about the president s son, including claims he was smoking crack every 15 minutes emerging on day one of the federal trial. the defense is using the opening statement to argue that hunter biden was in deep denial and may not have considered himself a drug addict. outside the courtroom, a dramatic altercation between hunter biden s wife and a former trump white house aide. a group of senate republicans refusing to do their jobs and using baseless conspiracy theories around donald trump s conviction as an excuse. how could that impact what has been one of the least pr
that the election was illegitimate and stolen. that seemed to be and state after state in key states where they wanted to pick up seats like arizona and michigan and nevada and other states, they nominated candidate across who checked that box of the election was stolen and then ended up losing a general election. i don t quite understand it, because this appeals, that message they have appeals to around 30 or 35% of the country, the republican base and in those given states, 30 or 35% the republican base and it appeals to them, they believe it. the problem is, democrats react negatively to it and independents don t like it, so how do you win a general election only appealing to a third of the electorate. matthew dowd, sahil kapur, thank you. all right, so there is new information on the pay gap between folks in the cubicles and those in the c swee suites.