for bret baier tonight. dramatic testimony in the hunter biden federal gun crimes trial today about the level of drug addiction that ensnared the president s son prior to his recovery. and this, the attorney general has a contentious hearing up on capitol hill over allegations he has weaponize the justice department. tonight, we also talk to the father of an american held hostage for 8 months now by hamas terrorists. but, first, breaking tonight, president biden facing intense pressures now signed an executive order tamping down on the move could partially shut down asylum processing southern border. new policy comes less than five months after the president said he had already done everything he possibly could about the border crisis. tonight, we ll show you another example of just how wide open certain sectors of the southern border remain as hundreds cross into the u.s. overnight without any resistance. we ve got fox team conch. bill melugin is in southern california wit
News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. For dhs s decision to rescind daca, it fails to elaborate meaningfully on the agencies primary rationale for the decision. The judgment that the policy was unlawful and unconstitutional. He goes on to say while the memo offers several additional Policy Grounds for daca rescission, most of these simply repackage legal arguments previously made. And insufficiently independent from the Agencies Evaluation of daca legality to preclude review work to support the agencies decision. An earlier opinion the court did not say dhs lacks the Constitutional Authority to rescind the program and he says it is not with this ruling either but if dhs wants to rescind the program, they have to give a rational explanation for their decision. Saying, the last guy did it wrong is in in adequate. Doing so probably amounted to criminal activity. She admitted she had a sense that manafort lied to her about where money be transferred into his Political Consu
country where young people coming out of college today are struggling to find housing it s insane and highly unpopular and admission that this is potentially going to hurt. question whether this would hold up in court. being raised. certainly legal challenges will be raised with this. and there was a democratic lawmaker today who told reporters that the white house has assured them that they have vetted this, that they believe that they re on solid legal ground and so that seems to be something that has taken up some time here as well for president biden is the white house determining that he did have the legal authority to do what he just did. gillian: guys, we have got to leave there. i m aware we can take all hour to talk about today. thank you for joining us. great to see you guys finally tonight a somber throwback.
criticizing him saying this was an inhumane policy. gillian: josh, biden again today appeared to blame former president trump, at least in part for the border today. he hearkened back again to claims the trump tanked the border negotiations that were underway what he said. we came to a strongest border in decades. then, republicans in congress, not all of them, walked away from it why? because donald trump told them. to say today i m moving past republican obstruction and using executive authorities available to me as president. ha ha ha. i m actually kind of surprised can he do a lot of this with a straight face. just a trip down memory lane in the first three months of hills administration. he ended the remain in mexico policy. he ended restrictions of immigrant visas from places like i don t know, yemen, iran,
california with that exclusive video from overnight but we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good evening, gillian. the u.s. has eclipsed the surge threshold average 2500 illegal crossings per day over the course of a week. this goes into effect at midnight tonight. the u.s. will stop processing asylum claims with exception and deport those who come anyway with a five-year ban on reentering and so far the president is getting little praise. this actually will help us gain control 6 our border, restore order into the process. jacqui: it s a reversal from this in january. i have done all i can do. jacqui: and this in april of last year. it is my testimony that the border is secure. jacqui: five months out from the election president biden has temporarily shut down the u.s. asylum system with executive powers effective at midnight until illegal crossings dip below an average of 1500 per day. those who cross anyway will be deported with