taken in on custody by the morality police triggers outrage. florida governor ron desantis had dozens of venezuelan migrants flown to martha s vineyard apparently without notifying officials there. similar to the move started by tooebs g texas governor abbott. they say they are protesting the immigration policies that fail to secure the border and they are vowing to step up the plan. the president has criticized republican officials for, quote, playing politics with human beings and the white house press sent is comparing them to human smugglers. here she is. these were children. they were moms. they were fleeing comcommunism. and they were used as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now, there will be a lot more that is happening. i got 12 million for us to use and so we are going to use it and you are going to see more and more. migrants septemb
welcome to your new day . i m whitney wild. i m boris johnson. why officials are telling people to stop coming to the site. the white house is slamming the bussing of migrants to the democratic-led states as a cruel, political stunt. how they re planning to fight back even as gop governors vowed to continue sending migrants elsewhere. plus updated covid booster shots are rolling out across the country even as the world health organization says the end of the pandemic is in sight. we will be joined by a doctor with all you need to know heading into autumn. sad news for theater fans. broadway s longest-running show announcing the final curtain. it is a brisk autumn morning. saturday, september 17th. we are grateful to have you starting your weekend with us. welcome, whitney. thank you for having me, boris. plenty to get to this morning and no shortage of news. we begin with the battle over immigration and the migrants caught in the middle. florida governor ro
he s my guest. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. ron desantis is vowing that his two flights of undocumented immigrants to martha s vineyard are just the beginning. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now. there s going to be a lot more than happening. we are going to use it, and you re going to see more and more. now, ironically that $12 million that he refers to is coming from interest earned on coronavirus aid funds, aid funds that came from president biden. well, you see how desantis is using it in his threat tonight. republicans and democrats are at an all-out war of words. they use them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. if they will not go to the border, we re taking the border to them so they can see the challenges they are posing to the entire united states. what desantis is doing a disgrace. these communities are so hypocritical because they are n
so we ll lose people, we ll lose weapons, and we ll lose our ability to defend. and that fact that the russian army is suffering these setbacks and that is fuelling anger, isn t it? not just amongst liberal but amongst hardliners as well. they re furious? yeah. actually war activities, they are now really feeling betrayed and that there is a point where both liberal group of people and the pro-war group of people can have the same goal. reporter: unlike the early anti-war protester ms. moscow back in february. hardliners complain of russia being too soft on ukraine and sending woefully underprepared troops into battle. but it is the heavy price russia is paying where there may be common cause. hi. my name is reporter: and while another russian counselor has filed a second petition calling for putin to resign, the kremlin strong man is depriving russians of a future. our russians, we can they are not welcome anywhere and there is less facilities, supplies. russ
and supplies. and i don t know what future can be for the country which is isolated. you can talk to me about what impact that lack of a future is having on people that you speak to? oh, well, it is quite depressive now, very depressive atmosphere in russia and the frustration feeling fear, anger, shame. reporter: the kremlin insists the mood of the people is still with the russian president. the growing criticism at home and abroad may at least threaten to take the swagger out of putin s step. matthew chance, cnn, london. president biden has met with the families of two high profile americans detained in russia. according to the white house biden said he is working hard to secure the release both of back star brittney griner and former u.s. marine paul whalen. but the u.s. still hasn t had a