block everything because they re 0 hard right wing people want chaos like donald trump. it s the old way of thinking that you only put things on the floor when you have the votes. sometimes you have to smoke out the no votes. may be that our gop colleagues get off the impeachment train and refocus on matters of policy where we can get something done. it s like this every year. so somehow america is still the greatest play to be on earth. it s a sunny day. a little optimism. neil: everyone could use that. the grand old party suffering grand misses. now a grand old reassessment going on. alejandro mayorkas is still standing after republicans felt sure they had the votes to take him down. they did. the border bill is collapsing with no fix in sight. all of that and that stand alone israeli aid bill going down in defeat. that is giving mike johnson another black eye when he doesn t need it. why chairman mark green says don t count republicans out and democratic senator mi
reinforced it. white house correspondent peter doocy has our lead story tonight. good evening, peter. shannon, good evening. officials here are telling us the mistakes we have seen president biden make this week on camera are normal, and they have nothing to do with the special counsel s findings of a president with a poor memory. no one in this building would say that what we saw in this report about his memory. peter: just days after mistaking him with a now dead predecessor, president biden met with the german chancellor olaf sholls swing and miss leaving it up to the vice president to clean up a special counsel report that challenges president biden s mental acuity. the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. white house officials believe the special counsel was pressured to be tough. republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren t doing what republicans want politically. democrat
hemmer. welcome to the program today. dana: this is america s newsroom, i m dana perino. a liberal commentator who said what a year this day has been. it felt like it. it started yesterday. special counsel robert hur released his report on the president s mishandling of documents. charges weren t warranted but the defense of that decision ignited a firestorm. bill: here is part of what set it off. it reads we have also considered that a trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. dana: that prompted the president to give rare, last-minute remarks last night where he defended his fitness for office. something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because in his description you are a well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. president biden: i m well meaning, an elderly man and i know what the hell i
message to the vice president we would love have have you on special report. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the fate of a new senate proposal. that addresses funding for the southern border as well as ukraine and israel. is uncertain tonight. supporters say it ends catch and release. strengthens asylum laws. but critics say it would let in 5,000 migrants per day, an unacceptable figure and other problems that don t solve the border completely. we will talk with one of the authors of the plan, arizona independent senator kyrsten sinema in just a few minutes. and also with texas republican congressman chip roy, one of the major opponents. first, additional details on that legislation. congressional correspondent iron shah has any starts us off live tonight from capitol hill. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. senate republicans are actually just coming out of a closed door meeting tonight where they discussed this border bill. and the reaction
the beating of two police officers in new york expected back before a judge any time today. this as the d.a. presents evidence to a grand jury. all of this now adding pressure to that impeachment vote in the house. this is malfeasance. active neglect on the part of the secretary and since he won t do the honorable thing and resign, the house needs to hold him accountable by impeachment. the only choice we have. dana: over in the senate the border security bill all but breaks down facing bipartisan backlash. what will congress do now? aishah hosni live on capitol hill with more. good morning to you. the past 24 hours have been nothing short of stunning here. we knew the border deal was dead on arrival in the house. not likely to make it out of the senate. republicans are poised to tank a procedural vote tomorrow. the author of this big bipartisan deal, the republican author, is likely to vote no on it as well as well as the senate majority leader minority leader. senat