number of migrant kids remained in custody but the biden teams are still not calling the situation, sandra, a crisis. john: griff jenkins is live near the border in el paso for us where we do expect to hear from a group of lawmakers a short time from now. the microphone is set up. i had a fat, you are on the ground they are. what have those lawmakers been seeing? hey, sandra and john, how are you? the leaders which by the way includes congressman tony gonzalez and el paso as part of his district. what you can see behind me, the press conference is waiting to begin after the tour and the visit, the briefing to lawmakers are getting. they started at the el paso central processing center resources told me they are at or near hitting their capacity levels right around us today or tomorrow, certainly this week. then come up they are going to go up to what is called monument three and get an overview briefing, a briefing and an overview of the high points. you can see here as w
opening act of a sweeping progressive agenda on the horizon for the country. will it backfire for democrats come 2022? karl rove is here for white board wisdom. first, as embattled new york governor andrew cuomo faces calls from more than 160 lawmakers to resign or be impeached, new allegations that his covid-19 testing czar made inappropriate calls to state officials to gauge their loyalty to cuomo with one official claiming that they feareded their counting vaccine supplies could suffer if loyalty was not offered. new york city mayor bill de blasio wants those claims looked into it. deserves an investigation immediately. because the idea that this is how we save lives and it must be handled not with politics, not for political gain, but to actually help people and to do it fairly, that is what is at stake here. and i am very worried about the corruption we re hearing about here. cuomo facing duel scandals over nursing home deaths and allegations of sexual harassment.
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous. biden s words
plus, how two people are helping turn arizona into a former covid hot spot and we get closer to the end of the episode. this is american voices. long awaited relief is officially trickling into bank accounts across america right now. that s not the only benefit from the massive american rescue plan. while the $1,400 checks are huge, there s also a $300 unemployment boost in the bill and it expands the child tax credit. there s also billions of dollars to pay for vaccines that help schools fund the changes required to ensure student safety. it provides rental assistance and sends funding to local governments. if we stay on track, president biden believes we can return to a sense of normal by the fourth of july. and now with light at the end of the tunnel, the big question turns to what life will look like after the pandemic. will we still wear masks? will we baseball get together with family, soccer games and friday night football and monday night football? these are questio
massive $1.9 trillion bill. amanda, catch us up to speed on the latest border crisis. reporter: the department of homeland security has instructed fema to begin to get involved with the unaccompanied migrant children coming over the southern border and trying to mitigate and shelter and move them into other facilities to help the influx we re seeing. to note the data points we have so far, about 3200 unaccompanied children being held at cvb facilities it comes as a 28% increase. this is all coming both with the biden administration trying to tackle the immigration issue but it s taking notice here among lawmakers within capitol hill. keep in mind, the influx we re seeing of this of the migrant children coming through across the border is due in part to a couple of factors including devastation from hurricanes in the last year as well as the covid pandemic impacting where the communities are as well as looking forward to anticipating more relaxed border protection and en