Joining us backtoback special episodes of the whole story begin now welcome to the whole story. I m anderson cooper. We have just two months to go before election day. The polls show a tight race between vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump with many voters still undecided. We re going to take the next two hours to examine five key issues for both campaigns. The economy, reproductive rights, immigration, foreign affairs and the state of democracy. First, cnn s audie cornish takes a look at harris s record on these policies during her time as a prosecutor, a senator, and as vice president she begins with the number one issue for most american voters, the economy one day after president joe biden announced his decision to drop out of the race and endorsed his vice president kamala harris, addressed a campaign. Staff at the wilmington, delaware headquarters building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency in her first interview as candidate,
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2023) - The Center for Immigration Studies releases a case study on the impact of illegal immigration on America’s schools. The study
more used to, unfortunately, seeing them. i think the steps they are taking are important most importantly probably is getting people into shelters, getting them out from underneath the bridge, 15,000 people living in those conditions under a bridge is not what we want to see. and then, quite frankly we have to go through the adjudication process, i would presume, tens of thousands of people are seeking some level of asylum. so, look, there s a whole practical policy that needs to be put back together, the asylum process came to a screeching halt under the trump administration. immigration courts are overloaded, it takes months if not longer to get a case up. there are a lot of practical things that this administration has to get moving through in order to deal with this as well as stemming more people from coming. this is confounding, just border issues in general, immigration s, the immigration,
you get background checks through the senate and dies in the house just like it d be possible you could get a bragra bargain in the senate. i think it s possible you get an immigration deal and it dies in the house. i don t think any of these are a fo forgone conclusion. to make significant movement on these issues. i d say immigration s in a different category. i do think the politics, that rnc report last night, rand paul speech last night are moving in a direction where republicans probably have to compromise. i don t know that necessarily means they do compromise. that said, though, if you have a universal background check that excludes individual purchases and something like that gets 70, 75, 80 votes in the united states senate, which it could, that changes things in the house and, you know what, there is a possibility that if you have that type of bill, you could actually have a bill that the nra doesn t score. if it excludes the individual, the individual checks, maybe the