we re seeing from donald trump. she s calling him a liar and slamming him for avoiding the debate. as a two-person race with the former president. plus down by the border, mike johnson and dozens of house republicans are taking their immigration fight directly to the spot where thousands of migrants vab arriving every day. they are blaming president biden for the surge. now they are also opening impeachment proceedings against his homeland security secretary. and hitting the trail. president biden will use the insurrection anniversary this weekend to kick off his 2024 campaign push. leaning in on his argument that the former president is a danger to democracy. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up, the 2024 race. you are looking at live pictures of kingston, new hampshire, where nikki haley is about to speak. just 12 day ss to go before the votes are cast in iowa and gop candidates are in earlien contest states pushing for every last
administration. if you look at his approval on several issues, immigration, barely a quarter of people responding said they approve of him on immigration. it s consistently at the bottom of his issues. it has been since the beginning of the administration. i totally agree about abbott. it s one of the pure politics here are going to move the humanity to the side for a moment. but one of the most politically savvy things in quite some time to apply new keends of political pressure to a democratic president having these mayors and cities be part of that pressure effort. that s a new dynamic in the equation. and you say the biden administration hapt been able to dig out of this. part of that is because the democratic party is really split on this issue in many ways. so you have sort of an activist base inside the party that is
the lawyers are important. they have spoken with rudy giuliani, who was a driving force behind this effort. as far as we know, they have not spoken with sidney powell and john eastman. that may worry me, because typically you don t speak with somebody who is a target. they spoke with these three lawyers, pat sim u cipollone, pat philbin, eric herschmann. all whom testified to the january 6th committee. search states, the fake electors, walk us through. this was a coordinated nationwide strategy. they went for joe biden but they were close. as part of that pressure effort, they reached out to various state and local officials, most infamous low brad raffensperger, that s the audio recorded phone call, donald trump asking him find me some votes and in georgia, arizona, we learned that the former governor, doug ducey spoke with doj, former
ukraine. pressured the ukraine, i will not give you money unless you sack the prosecutor. biden has been open about this pressure effort. he s tauted it as his own anti-corruption work. listen to what he said at an event to 2018. i m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. i went over the 12th, 13th time to kiev, and i was supposed to announce there was another billion dollar loan guarantee, i had gotten a commitment from them that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didn t. we re walking out of the press conference, i said we re not giving you the billion dollars. they said, you have no authority
or some sort of at least faux olive branch from that country? chinese companies and chinese banks with fatal tate iing nort korean sanctions of asia. this is a diplomat policy failure here in the united states unfortunately on north korea. this administration deserves credit for being the first to really go after chinese companies and a small chinese bank. what they need to do is continue that maximum pressure effort. i agree, tell the south korean president meet with the north koreans, see what they have to say. but if we are going to believe them they are having an overture to south korea we have to believe them when they say they are not ready to kmit to denuclearization. that s really the only condition. if north korea is not ready to do that then you are not really going to have negotiations with them over their nuclear program. michael crowley, anthony rogerio, and catherine rampel.