luke russert is joining me on the phone now. reporter: things are moving forward, thomas. the importance of this, above all else is politics. the immigration reform bill they want to get to 70 votes. they want overwhelming supportive measure coming out of the senate for the house gop to punt the bill. one of the big issues the house gop has about this border security issue, they said it was not secure enough. john boehner called some of the provisions laughable earlier this week. this group of senators came up with this idea, all right, why don t we do this. why don t we double the size of the u.s. border patrol, have 700 miles of border fernsing and make the e verify program stronger and whatnot. it s been dub ad border surge plan. it s something that schumer, mccain pushed back on last week saying no we can t go that
outlook. stew dips show children who enter school without breakfast, children who enter school and don t have a great lunch tend not to flourish and grow economically as they move into their adult lives and so if you can just make those small impacts on a child s life then you re looking to improve childhood public health, you re look toimg prove the way they perform in school you re looking the way they perform out in the world. i think this is really, really a bad grd our gop. we ll leave it on that note. the senate did pass its version last week that includes a $400 million annual cut. one fifth of the house s cut. we ll see where it goes from here. goldie taylor thank you. officials reverse a subway and a bus fare hike but will it stop the massive anti-government protests that s being witnessed in brazil. new allegations of sexual assault in the military. three midshipman at the naval
[ female announcer ] let s talk about ways to help you establish and build your credit history. when people talk, great things happen. the hunger games comes to the u.s. house of representatives. it s thursday, june 20th. this is now. as the house of representatives debates the farm bill this week, america is learning a lot about what the two parties think about poverty. the house republican bill under debate cuts $20 billion in the next decade from the supplemental nutrition
after all, what s the point of talking if you don t have something important to say? . ing market alert to pass along. take a look at this. stocks on wall street, red arrows. the dow jones down by 236 points on top of the 200 points that were lost in the last session. the selloff was triggered by comments from ben bernanke that the fed bank could wind down its bond-buying program. the dow we re watching it, it s down 231 points. want to take you back to the developing news. in the senate word of a border surge deal from the gang of eight breathing a lot of new life into the immigration talks and this deal could come within hours. if we take a look at this politico headline it says house
as we know house speaker john boehner is delivering a speech on the economy today yet house to want to cut money for hungry kids, disabled adults, struggling seniors, 200,000 kids would be kicked off the school launch program. prebs won t talk about a gun strij but want one for food stamps. this is a big dichotomy going on. it s remarkable that they want to invade the privacy because i happen to be poor in this country that want somehow i open up my life, my private life to the federal government. i think, at the end of the day we haven t had a meaningful farm bill since 2008, since this president was elected and there are some reasons for that. obstruction is one. disconnection with this nation s poor. one in five children in this country lives in poverty which means, you know, there is no guarantee that there s going dinner tonight, breakfast in the morning or lunch in the afternoon and that s something you and i thomas can counts on every day. under the house bill we see that