hours to turn the clock back 50 years on women s health. let s be clear. this bill has nothing to do with making women safer. and everything to do with banning abortion. the governor s veto now sets up an override vote by the gop super majority legislature there. let s turn now to the nation s capital, where lawmakers and the president have left town, without a deal on the debt ceiling. but they say aides are working this weekend, ahead of more meetings between president biden and the speaker next week. so, let s go to nbc s julie tsirkin at the capitol, julie. everyone left, you re there, understand the president spoke about this short time ago. what did he say? yeah, we re all alone in this building. staff for the president and congressional leaders are meeting all we can to try to hammer out a deal, and get a little bit closer, just before that june 1st deadline. i should note, next week is the last week the house and senate are expected to be in session at the same time before
president biden and former president trump. both sides are saying they re no longer content with the doj s request for patience. we re not asking them. we re asking for the intelligence community to share with us classified information we have access to but can t identify that were improperly stored in the private homes and/or think tank of at least two former government officials. it does not give us any additional guidance of when we can fulfill our obligation. not much different than what i ve been hearing over the ensuing, proceeding weeks. all right. garrett haake is still with us to talk about this case because he is our man on all things capitol hill. also joining us is julie ainslie, our nbc news correspondent who covers the justice department often for us. julia, senators are not seeking information about what is in the
of the final committee meeting with andrea mitchell, katy tur and hallie jackson. right now as we speak, it is 30 degrees fahrenheit, below freezing in el paso, texas, where hundreds of people, including children, are sleeping on the streets after crossing the southern border. the mayor of that city declared a state of disaster this weekend saying asylum seekers are not safe with processing shelters at capacity. in just two days, the biden administration is ordering some using title 42, the policy u.s. has used to turn back 2.5 million asylum seekers since president trump enacted it in 2020. they cleared the way for a change for the 21st. guad va ney gas is reporting from juarez, mexico. and julie ainslie.
together. in el paso, they re being held longer than they would in other sectors of the border. and deciding to get water that isn t in toilets. julie ainslie and gabe gutierrez. coming back again, we have video gabe shot in the facility as he toured yesterday. you can see how crowded it is, people packed in. it s almost a rhetorical question, but i will ask it of you anyway, victoria. the president says we have a crisis. democrats say we have a crisis. people who work inside these facilities say we have a crisis. why the heck can t we fix it? this is a problem that has been with us close to two decades. the last comprehensive immigration reform was 1986. the problem is to understand there are lots of moving parts with immigration. not just about border security, not just about clamping down on
she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. there were times when i walked through these facilities i was enraged and times i walked through this facility and i was brought to my knees in tears. what we saw today was unconscionable. julie covers immigration and we have a reporter outside one of the border facilities. gabe, tell us where you were and tell us more about what they said after finally being allowed inside. reporter: hi there, chris. this border facility has become the center for the immigration debate right now. you just heard members of the congressional hispanic caucus describing what they call appalling conditions at this facility and one other they were allow tod visit yesterday. from pennsylvania, saying she saw women in their 50s and 60s crammed into a concrete cell with no running water, and other