To that and how they will defend him. Weve got a lot to get to. Lets go to our colleague lauren fox on capitol hill. Good morning to you, lauren. So at least the optics were of progress in the oval office yesterday. Susan collins leading that meeting with the president. But was there substantive progress . Well, sure. I think republicans felt it was a good meeting, a Good Opportunity to speak directly with the president about what their hopes are for their own covid relief package. But, look, democrats are charging forward with their plan to use that budgetary tactic to go ahead and pass that 1. 9 trillion bill with just democratic votes. They are arguing essentially that republicans are willing, if they are willing, they are allowed to come forward and vote for this process. They are welcome to be a part of it, but they are saying they need to be bold, they need to go bold and you saw that yesterday reflected in the statement from the White House Press secretary after that meeting had
hi, bret, how are you doing? bret: good. i appreciate it. good evening, welcome to washington. breaking tonight, actually moments ago, president biden telling democratic donors in boston, quote: if trump wasn t running, i m not sure i would be running. insisting democrats cannot let the former president win. we ll talk more about the president s messaging later in the show. meantime today on capitol hill, jewish students at some of the top colleges and universities in the country said they are in fear for their lives on campus. those students and some top administrators appeared on capitol hill today. the educators were grilled about their school s failure to provide protection in the midst of anti-semitic incidents. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill tonight with the latest. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. tonight, the presidents of those universities are defending their actions, even as jewish students who aren t on thei
borders with were closed to not white, nonchristians. a razor wire fence was installed along the serbian border. criminal code was strengthened to call for harsher jail sentences for unauthorized border crossings. in 2016 they established a puckback law which made it legal for law enforcement to push gnts back over the border and they did so with remarkable force and violence. then in 2018 they passed the stop soros bill based on a right-wing lie about the american george soros, it created a new category of crime promoting and supporting illegal migration, making it illegal to provide any kind of assistance what so ever so undocumented immigrants. that is hungary. but things have changed. or have they. there is a stark difference between victor orban hospitality toward refugees and past
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this kind of pushback. there was a vote in the house, a lot of republicans supported it. over in the senate, senator lindsey graham along with chris holland, a democrat from mayor maryland, are creating a bill that would impose heavier sanctions on turkey and erdogan than the white house imposed. i think lindsey graham says he might be able to get 80 votes for this. what it adds up to is finally the trump foreign policy approach and agenda is getting puckback from official washington. i think that s a good sign for the president at this point. you watch it to what we ve seen about ukraine. it s piling up and you feel people are pulling back a little bit from the president s foreign policy. paul: tremendous dysfunction, i can t remember in my time covering washington that there was this kind of lack of even political decorum of even the most basic kind between a president and a house speaker. well, look, can we be