new action on immigration escaped with only seconds to spare and remembering the say, hey, kid, look at the impact of the legendary willie mays on and off the field and kim django and welcoming vladimir putin to pr pyongyang and in style, a meeting the west is watching closely 6:00 a.m. here in washington. here s a live look at the lincoln memorial on this juneteenth national holiday good morning, everyone. i m on a rod. you infer kasie hunt is really great to be with you. thanks for joining me. president biden and donald trump attacking each other on immigration, an issue that is dominating the narrative. eight days out from the first president central debate. the president taking executive action on two fronts to deal with the crisis, restricting access to most asylum seekers while protecting hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from deportation when he. was president, he separated families and children at the border and now he s proposing to rip spouses a
Live coverage here on msnbc of tonights president ial debate between President Joe Biden and former president donald trump. We said it would be a debate unlike any other. It certainly was that in this first ever ly was that in thi came out of the s gate with firsa t ever go unexpectedly weak voice. Voice that at times made it hard to discern. The Campaign Said it was the result of a cold. He did seem to falter several times early on in terms of trying to speak in a way that could be heard in in terms of speaking to time as the red lights, Flashing Red Lights came on to stop him as the rules of the debate indicated two minute and one minute segments. This is a live shot weve got right here. President biden and First Lady Jill Biden walking out on stage. This is at a watch party in atlanta. You mightve noticed at the very end of the debate, as soon as the moderators said good night, boom, lost the shop. We did not get to see President Bidens wife, the first lady, or anyone else walking o
Lets bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. Franco ordonez, White House Correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. The New York Times katie benner, pulitzer prizewinning reporter who covers the Justice Department. And yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for news hour on pbs. Thanks to all of you for being with us. Katie, let me start with you. We have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. You cover the Justice Department, the legal end of this. It sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that Executive Order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. How clear is that now . Absolutely. So as you say, this was another selfinflicted wound by the Trump Administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. So we saw a lot of confusion last night.
That i would be very happy. Absolutely. Lets not forget i know we have said it. But this investigation is over. The president never sat down for an interview with Robert Mueller. Thats huge. That was always the big question and something the lawyers never wanted to happen. They were able to prevent that and a subpoena fight. Robb eert mueller never put in request that was rejected. Thats very significant. Stay with me. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. Very Important News here in washington. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to update our viewers here in the United States and around the world on all of the dramatic developments unfolding right now. Pamela brown, tell our viewers what we know right now. Theres really significant historic information coming from the Justice Department. This is a momentum occasion, wolf. This nearly twoyear investigation by Special Counsel
Robert Mueller has now ended. The Attorney General has notified congress that it