By bike today, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, the highest ranking jewish official in american history. We should note it said that the Prime Minister of israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and his farright government have lost their way. And its time for them to be removed from office as a lifelong quarter of israel is become clear to me the Netanyahu Coalition no longer fits the needs of israel after october 7, the world has changed radically. Since then. And the israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past. The response from republican officials has been outraged Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell called the comments grow task. While House Speaker mike johnson called them inappropriate and wrong. Lets get right to cnns Manu Raju On Capitol Hill and manu, the republican response has been fast and furious. Yeah, no question about it. Remember, Chuck Schumer has been a in with Bibi Netanyahu for many years. In fact, when barack obama tried
we re live with the latest. a deadly strike on a train station. we will have a report on the escalation and fighting as ukraine marks its independence day. we will have more on those stories in just a moment. we begin this hour with more evidence of just how long the national archives pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after he left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. even the white house counsel agreed cnn has confirmed reporting by the washington post on the story. it comes as the department of justice is finalizing its reductions to the highly sensitive affidavit that was used to justify this month starts. those reductions are due today. our reporter has more. present joe biden forcefully declaring he had no knowledge of the search before it happened. i do not have any advance notice. the allies have been insisting that he was somehow behind the unprec
show. all that with palace insiders in just a moment. first, back here at home in america, the numbers at the border are staggering. 100,000 apprehensions in february alone. one border patrol agent telling fox news that we can t catch them and release them fast enough. the new york times now referring to migrant children in custody along the border in jail-like facilities and held longer than legally allowed. border officials fear that march could be more of the same and republicans are now urging the president to call this a national emergency or else the flow will not stop. we have not heard from the president himself on this situation in quite some time. this is his last comment on it six days ago. is there a crisis at the border? martha: now from the press podium, it s clear the pressure is building for an about face on the policy that is driving all of these people here. the messaging, does it need be tweaked all? it s not also about humanity but you might not be
clyburn, the house majority whip on the division within the party of progressive that doesn t think this goes far enough. will they bolt? we ll explore that first with jacqui heinrich and what is going on right now, hi, jacqui. good afternoon. the house is expected to pass the bill tomorrow. democrats are working to guard against defections after several changes were made after republicans lobbied moderate democrats to pair back the items including the federal unemployment, which was whittled down from $400 to $300. when the house passed the bill, two democrats voted against it protesting the huge price tag. prossives are expected to make the most noise frustrated by changes to the minority party fuelling calls to abolish the filibuster which would affect gun control and immigration reform. democrats can lose four votes and still pass the covid relief package without republican support. none is expected over criticism that it s a progressive witch list. democrats say republ
is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. they refuse to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. that s the bottom line. president obama has asked them to come to the white house to tell them how he plans to avoid closing on the debt deadline. he was confident they could reach a deal, but now he said he would be at the white house tomorrow. so, is he backing off? chief white house correspondent jessica yellin joining me now. both sides putting their own spin on things. what happened today? i ll tell you from here at the white house, when the president received the call from speaker spoener saying the deal was off, i am told there was a sense of surprise, frustration, even exasperation that congress can t come to negotiate a real deal. this is now the third time what seemed directionally leading to an actual deal broke down, and this time it seems to be over the question of taxes. in this instance, the