more beds, changes the ten-year backlog that in we re many now to weeks before people are deported. the bottom line is, everybody that looks at our bill says it will greatly reduce the flow of the illegals in this country. the american people are done with this. the border has to be secured. the president has the authority right now. he doesn t need another act of congress. he can do it right now. he s unwilling to do it. there s a clear choice for republicans. fix the border or keep chaos at the border because it helps donald trump. it s like they were trying to sell us on gucci. but it s the package in the guy in the alley pulled out of his trunk. that s the equivalent of this border bill. all right. you re looking live at capitol hill where the battle is on and the knives are out. the senate releasing their 118 billion spending bill with aid for ukraine and israel tied to border security. leaders on both sides of the senate say it s the best you re going to get a
positionm schiff using a position of the intel chairina lying to the american publicmeag again and again. swalwell, you all know, doesu a not have the ar should have the responsibility to serve on the intel committee. i ll put the nationarve on thely ahead of partisan politics any day. integrit the nationay matters ae going to make the intel committee back to what it was tt supposed to be.s suppos well, today, those aforementioned democrats held a press conference on being mocrats hebooted. it was a sad affair alleging ofis was merely an act of political retaliation by mccarthy. in other words political ret, te basically owed these positions will only, i think, breed with distrust within the intelligence community. ligenceas to what it can shares and what it caann feel confident about sharing with thecong congress. our mission noress. our mw is to restore the credibility and integrity of this institution. of which the speaker has so gravely so gravely smasheddestro and
were terrified about what was happening with how much control these big tech companies have over. you know, if you can do thisof e to the sitting president of the united states , this makes you more powerfu states, thl than mostey are governments. they are not just private companies. shey have a lot of privileget pe that are afforded to them. this can this cannot continue.. and if they think that, oh, after two years of this type of expressiou know, allowing a little bit of more free expression will keep people from coming afteonp peopr, i thg they have another thing coming, coming.th they are an existential threat.. to country.el and the party is absolutely right. i mean, the meta ceo says, youio know, but you have t to pay attention to the guardrails. do if we had some false hope with elon musk that maybe gam the the gamee on on social media would be different, or will the overlords pu thet them even hare on the scale, just try to pretend like they re not doing it yet. d liy well,
it wasn t that outstanding. i think probably he was hit harder than he should have been hit. emily and sarah back with us now. i want to start with your reaction to what the president said about biden. do you think he s defending biden because he s hoping he ll run against biden? he indicated that he would want biden as an opponent. kamala harris showed on stage thursday night she would do well in a head-to-head with trump, general election debate, showed off her chops in that manner. the president has weighed in only on one topic of the debates when the ten candidates raised their hands in answer to the question whether they would provide health care for immigrants in the country el legally. he and the republican party seized on something that are eager to put in a campaign ad, i think he said. something he really, really grabbed on to.
middle class, and they will do it quickly and they will be very, very happy indeed. let s talk about this now with maria santana, cnn and espanol anchor and correspondent and nancy santiago in mexico city. maria, just explain to us how a merit-based immigration system might work. hi, good afternoon, brianna. it basically applies another level of scrutiny which determines which immigrants can and cannot come into the country el legally. it gives well educated highly skilled immigrants who can be competitive in the job market. it allows u.s. citizens and others to sponsor family members in the u.s. and does not take into account the finances or education or skill level. that would all change on this plan. in the trump speech he said this