fresh off his caribbean vacation, president biden and top officials are planning a blitz of appearances to tout bills biden already signed. beginning in kentucky wednesday. talking infrastructure dollars alongside senate minority leader membership mcconnell. a long time anybody says that [inaudible] about our relationship. [inaudible] biden appear nod closer to announcing a 2024 run despite reports he had talked it over with family in saint croix. there s an election coming up? yes. i didn t know that. those in the president s circle believe there is a strong and growing likelihood that he will run again. possibly as soon as mid february. around the expected date of the state of the union. in what some may sees a groundwork, top officials are also trying to frame biden s past challenges as progress made. saying america ends 2022 better-positioned than other major economies with solid
but we don t see an end to it. it s comprehensive immigration reform scares the heck out of a lot of conservatives. is there a smaller package that can be done? it s a euphemism for amnesty. already laws on the books that say the border needs to be secured. as a result people are pouring across. the question is, how much does biden s base become aware of the border crisis? right now they re ignorant of it. harvard harris did a survey recently, assessing that 13% of the public is aware that more than 2 million people crossed the border in the last year. the rest say 150,000 to 200,000 people. they re nowhere close. just 3% of democrats consider the border to be an issue. just 3%. by and large there s been a blackout on the border crisis. we may be aware of it. there s so many americans who are not. as long as that continues to be the case, then joe biden can get
of work or a roof over their head. texas dps will tell you some children arrive without their parents prompting concerns of child trafficking. arizona republican congresswoman debbie lesko has introduced six immigration bills calling for the biden administration to fix root causes of the border crisis. it s an absolute mess. it s a humanitarian mess for the illegal immigrants that are coming here. girls are getting raped. girls are being sold into sex slavery. it s up to the inspector general dhs they said they are not properly vetting where these kids are going. despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the president has never visited the southern border. the president has done-has done the work to deal with what we re seeing at the border, since day one. and the white house also says republicans have voted against its proposal to better secure the border.
just no political momentum internally between the israelis or palestinians towards any major moves towards peace. there is political chaos and uncertainty between the israelis and palestinians. there is a recognition by the americans there is not going to be any major moves towards that and that s why during this visit, during this press conference what we re hearing most about is saudi arabia and iran. that s the focus of this visit. the palestinian-israeli peace process is being put to the side, put on hold. president biden in his remarks acknowledging it s not going to happen in the near future. what the u.s. keeps saying and what others keep saying is that if israel does, in fact, continue to develop these positive relations with other arab countries and now they ve done so with the united arab emirates, bahrain and more rock keys, but if the assault and batteriees emerge that might help restart israeli-palestinian peace talks as well. guys, everybody stand by. i want to go back
course, one of the biggest questions surrounding this trip has been whether or not he is going to bring up the brutal murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi when he does make his trip to saudi arabia tomorrow after he wraps up his first stop here in israel during this four-day swing you through the middle east. the president was asked about that and he said that his views on the killing of khashoggi had been clear. obviously, wolf, those are references to comments he made on the campaign trail when he said he did believe it was a flat-out murder. he vowed to make saudi arabia is pariah for that. and said that the current government has no social redeeming value. he said his views are clear that if people in saudi arabia or where else for that matter are not aware of what his views on khashoggi are they haven t been around very long. that was the quote he used. when he was blpressed on whethe or not he will bring up khashoggi in in meeting with the