many congressional republicans are resisting. president biden announced the u.s. will support ukraine for as long as it can, instead of as long as it takes. also tonight, harrowing testimony from the georgia election worker about what the lies rudy giuliani told about her and her mom did to their lives. that and a warning a judge gave him about continuing to spread misinformation. and later, the newest example of how cnn s exclusive reporting on sexual misconduct in the coast guard is getting results, this time on capitol hill. can good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with ukraine s war to drive russian forces out at a stalemate, and efforts in washing fund that were apparently at a standstill. tonight, no sign yet that president volodymyr zelenskyy meetings today with biden top lawmakers have done anything to break that logjam. house republicans are still demanding a large-scale concessions on migration from mexico, and before agreeing to any new aid for ukr
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
gets back up to 2500 encounters a day. not surprisingly, the response from republicans has been very fast. the trump campaign said this morning, this is about, quote, amnesty for migrants, not border security. i also want to play what we heard from some republican senators. this is the most one of the most cynical things that i have ever seen a politician attempt to do five months before an election. why did you wait until now if you were serious about doing it? the simple answer is he s not serious about securing the border. joe biden, this is too little, this is too late and the american public knows it is too late. this stunt is not going to save your political life. so where do you see this fight going, and does this change the equation much at all, matt? well, i first would like to remind your listeners and your
if that is also powerfully true, donald trump has some thunderstorms on the horizon. interesting, and of course the republican party experiencing chaos in turmoil in the midst of its midterm losses in the senate, and that has triggered a leadership challenge from rick scott, to mitch mcconnell. how likely is it that we ll see the end of his long leadership in the senate? or do you think he will hold firm? , don t underestimate mitch mcconnell s staying power. he is a master politician. and has a tremendous amount of school and maneuvering parliament and procedure. he s in great shape. the challenge is a part of fund-raise, a statement, and mccarthy s in the house. they both seem to have the votes right now, there are not sporting for a fight and i think even the right-wing house wants to get a fight going. leaving them both pretty safe.
if they keep this fight going, bobby? well, hopefully not, because that number can t go much higher than, you know, than 75%. that s in a dangerously high percentage, i think. and i think that as the president beats that drumbeat, that s to his political and legal advantage. you know, at the expense of at least the republicans faith in the fbi, i think that s i don t worry long-term about that, because that s a very specific, targeted issue during a specific time. i think that once this is over, once the mueller investigation is over, you know, the fbi has, you know, will go back to enjoying that support from the american people and from the republican party. i think it s just in this particular situation, in this particular case, the president has been successful in convincing a lot of people of that. tom, from what we can tell. and obviously, we don t know everything that s going on with robert mueller, but from what we can tell, and certainly for the central players, robert m