with law enforcement leaders and mayors where he highlighted cities and states that have committed to use $10 billion from the american rescue plan to reduce crime and hire more police officers. president biden is also challenging other communities to tap into the billions of unspent covid relief funds to help pay for more crime prevention. our look at more now from jeremy diamond at the white house. what do we expect to hear from the president today? reporter: yeah, that s right, victor and alisyn. president biden expected here to highlight these $10 billion of funds from the american rescue plan. that s that covid relief bill that was authorized to be used for public safety measures as well. this is $10 billion that has been committed to public safety funding, 6 1/2 billion of which according to the white house has been spent in the last year by states and local communities, and this is part of a broader attempt by the white house to talk about how they have been tryi
congress, where you re seeking to subpoena your boss or your colleagues or people that might be your boss next year, and they might just be trying to play the long game, rather than trying to secure the testimony. and also, most of what they have, most of what they would be seeking from these witnesses, they already have in public statements or documents or interviews from other witnesses anyway. to use alisyn s term from a moment ago rgs , there s no smo gun, because you ve seen most of it. elliot, thank you. no problem, alisyn. in louisiana today, a federal judge heard arguments over the future of that controversial immigration restriction policy known as title 42. we re going to take you live to the courthouse next.
change. you know, it s natural for people to be uneasy when their country and culture is changing around them. not all of it is racist, but trump did manage to bundle all those sentiments you described together and use the wall as the symbol for how he was going to change the country. the problem he faces is that the serious conservatives who want to restrict immigration, legal or otherwise, all understand the wall has nothing to do with real immigration restriction policy. it s just kind of a line you use on the stump to get people whipped up, but it s not a serious policy response. even they don t really care about the wall. so they ve been stuck. they had two years of republican control of congress to prioritize the wall. they didn t do anything about it. now it s really an emergency, like you said, because trump needs to be able to say he did it for his campaign, but not for any real policy goal. jake, he s seeing some fractured support among some