Administration trying to save face . Were on top of stunning developments that has joseph biden doing a 180 from something he said on the campaign from no wall, no way, no how to now saying yeah. Maybe. Maybe we start pursuing just that. Jeff paul in eagle pass, texas with the latest. Jeff . Yeah, neil. When youre out here and you see these big groups like we did yesterday, a group of 300 people cross the rio grande and enter the United States, its overwhelming. You remind yourself, this is just a small snapshot of the thousands that do that same thing on a daily basis. That might be in part the reason why the Biden Administration is now going to waive 26 federal laws in order to essentially build border wall, restart it when they had previously already stopped it. This 20mile stretch of border wall will be going in in the Rio Grande Valley in south texas. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas said theres an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers at this s
Right now. Martha good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a huge 180 from the president. The white house is scrambling to spin this afternoon over the move to do exactly what they said they wouldnt do, build a border wall on the southern border. Dhs says there is an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entry. Completely contradicting. This from the president in the oval office a short time ago. Watch this. Border wall money was a pronated for the border while. I tried to get to redirect the money. They didnt. They wouldnt. Meantime, theres nothing under the law other than that they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I cant stop that. Do you believe the border wall no. Martha no. We have to untangle this. Moments ago, reporters went after Karine Jeanpierre. She said she hadnt seen the memo that was put out. The president is looking at the numbers and realizes something must be done. Watch this. Remember this . How is this cons
what you said, that what happens in a campaign is when it s over, poof, it vanishes. but what happens when you are president is permanent. this is a unique challenge for the trump communications team in this white house because there is an already an antagonistic relationship between the press corps and the incoming president, because the incoming president wants to have this. i think there s always antagonism and particularly with the president there s no president who ever woke up in the morning and called their press secretary and said, you are doing a great job, i love the way i m being covered, everything is fair. even the criticism is helping me grow as a president. never happened. i m shocked. but i think there s a real difference is this time to we re on opposite sides of the parties, but i think our transitions were really similar, because we shared a couple of things. we shared the idea that the press/president relationship was mutually beneficial.
community, general petraeus under oath as governor huckabee said yesterday, you don t lie about it, you re in front of congress, under oath and said yes in fact we said it was al-qaeda, gave this information to the white house and somewhere in between it vanishes? and representative gowdy saying somebody at the administration had to have taken it out. they knew before anyone else it was terrorism. why would the department of defense, cia, lie to the executive, lie to the commander-in-chief. remember the narrative was al-qaeda is on its heels. when the narrative becomes, al-qaeda s at the front door and they re about to kill four of our fellow americans, that doesn t bode well from an electoral standpoint. of course they knew and scrubbed out that information, so susan rice either didn t have it or didn t use it when she went on the television talk shows on sunday.