bill: total number of children in u.s. custody now more than 20,000 and climbing. good morning, everybody. it s friday. i m bill hemmer live from new york. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. that number was 19,000 at the beginning of this week. now we re at nearly 21,000 by monday you could maybe see that go up by 1,000 a day is what they are estimating. bill: no signs of it ending. dana: not if they don t make a policy change. bill: the price tag is staggering. dana: $60 million a week just for the children. that record high in migrant children is coming after a month of heartbreaking images. the toddlers dropped over the border wall left to fend for themselves. abandoned little boy crying in the desert. a border patrol officer comforting a frightened child. the washington post reports the administration is spending $60 million a week to take care of these things and texas governor abbott laying the blame on the president. it wasn t happenin
this is another morale boost for labour, more woe for the conservatives. chris mason has our top story. natalie elphicke, shoulder to shoulder with the prime minister when rishi sunak invited reporters to dover last summer to talk about stopping the boats. less than a year later, she has stopped being a conservative mp. look at the leader she s appearing with now. i must admit, when i got up this morning i didn t expect to hear this today. natalie elphicke, the labour member of parliament for dover and deal. i think she speaks for very many tory voters in saying that the tory party has changed, it has left the centre ground. but equally the labour party has changed and we are very clearly the party of the national interest. really good day. it has been a great day. cue the mildly awkward first date with the cameras in tow vibes ahead of her criticism of their prime minister. he is not stopping the boats and he is letting the country down. meanwhile, under labour, they are cle
shoulder with the prime minister when rishi sunak invited reporters to dover last summer to talk about stopping the boats. less than a year later, she has stopped being a conservative mp. look at the leader she s appearing with now. i must when admit, i got up this morning i didn t expect to hear this today. natalie elphicke, the labour member of parliament for dover and deal. i think she speaks for many tory voters think she speaks for many tory voters in think she speaks for many tory voters in saying the tory party has changed. voters in saying the tory party has changed. it voters in saying the tory party has changed, it has left the centre ground~ changed, it has left the centre ground. but equally the labour party has changed and we are very clearly the party has changed and we are very clearly the party of has changed and we are very clearly the party of the national interest, of the the party of the national interest, of the country first, party second.
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. electric car sales falter as a deadline for a ban on the sale of new fossil fuel cars is extended. natalie elphicke is the second conservative mp to defect to labour, in as many weeks. her decision to defect was announced around 12pm just in time for sir keir starmer to bring it up at prime minister s questions. if one week a tory mp who is also a doctor says the prime minister cannot be trusted with the nhs and joins labour and the next week, the tory mp for dover on the front line of the small boats crisis says the prime minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins labour, what is the point of this failed government staggering on? in a statement the dover mp said the conservatives under rishi sunak had become a by word for incompetence and division. this from someone who has long been preoccupied with the small boat crossings, many had thought her to be on the right of the conservative party. do
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