0 wednesday december 21. the story goes on. look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow. thanks for spending your time with us. we look forward to the news conference at the white house in short order. you ll see that as your world continues moments away. see you tomorrow. have a great evening. thanks from our people to your ordinary people, americans. i really appreciate. i think it s very difficult to understand what it means when we say appreciate. but you really have to feel it. thank you so much. look who dropped in the neighborhood. you re looking live at the white house where in about a half an hour or so, president biden and president zelensky will be holding a joint news conference, this is as he prepares to address members of congress with lawmakers poised now to approve another $45 billion in aid to ukraine. a lot of that tucked in to that $1.7 trillion dollar under the spending initiative. we have you covered in every way with everyone with jacqui heinrich at the wh
Watch the way they really fought this tooth and nail. first, the republican secretary of state lost in court and the republican attorney general s office lost their appeal and now the state party with national republicans are doing all that they can imploring the state supreme court to get involved. they argue it unfairly privileges democrats. listen, early voting is underway. counties are figuring this out and they have an optics problem because democrats are arguing. the folks that vote early are largely african american, right? are largely working class folks who maybe can t get to polling locations during the week and you have republicans very forcefully pushing against this. it s also a question of strategy here. they re spending so much time fighting this saturday voting, which is just in a few days, just a few days after thanksgiving. rather than i think working on building an infrastructure or suring up an infrastructure to ensure that their voters participate in this saturday
United states and got arrested. this is extreme national security issue, the administration does not seem to care. the people flown from the border further inland. put up a map here, we ll show you some of the cities we know they are being sent to, places like los angeles, albuquerque, new mexico, houston, dallas, we understand they are flown far and wide across the country. you saw the attorney general of indiana a short time ago saying they are being flown up there. you point to the idea it s an optics problem, and overcrowding along the border looks like a cries. but if you can swiftly get them to places to disappear into the landscape, looks better at the border. what s the net effect across the country? are you not turning every state into a border state? every state is already a border state. fentanyl at record numbers, killing record number of americans, illegal, and ms13 is
Another world war ii or sorry, i guess world war iii. that would be a big problem for them and they re trying to send a signal so they don t have that optics problem if this happens. yeah, at least 7,000 americans registered there as we speak. rachael bade, thank you so much. well, new this morning, president biden will sign an executive order today on how to spend $7 billion in frozen assets from afghanistan s central bank. money will be split between september 11th victims and afghan humanitarian aid. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond joins us now from the north lawn. jeremy, part of this is to address what is becoming clearer and clearer, the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan, people suffering, lack of basic things, food, et cetera, how does the administration hope this addresses that? reporter: well, listen, there is no question that the dire humanitarian situation in afghanistan has been something that this administration, the international community have bee
What the reporter should ask her, can you name one thing this administration has done to enforce the laws on our border and to slow the flow to try to gain control of the unprecedented numbers coming across this border every day? can you name one thing, please? she would be silent. they haven t done a single thing to slow the flow. dana: the progressive left and squad is critical of ice. they ve been quiet so far on this, perhaps they recognize they also have an optics problem and political problem there but also the covid issue. the delta variant is quicker and it is more deadly for some people that aren t vaccinated and when president biden was asked about this yesterday by peter doocy kind of like saying we aren t going to rescind title 42 just yet and moved off of it pretty quickly. he also said we are going to let children in because it s humane. let s understand two things. 70% of what he calls children