border crisis, the governor of texas sing the sharp increase in illegal immigration along the southern border states has led to a humanitarian crisis and not surprisingly the republican governor of texas is blaming the new democratic president. kristin fisher at the white house tells us what the biden team is doing about what he still refuses to call a crisis, but we begin with corresponding casey stegall in mission, texas, and governor abbott message. good evening. good evening, governor abbott did announced today that he has beefing up this program dubbed operation lone star, which is going to direct even more additional state resources and staffing here to assist at the border, but he insists that texas cannot shoulder this entire burden. how long will these children be here? what countries have they come from, and what covid variance have they been exposed to? along with the questions raised by governor abbott today, questions he says they don t have answers to.
hiring. they are not stopping there. as if we were not spending enough already, plans are underway for a new deal-style infrastructure plan costing trillions of dollars and then they will try to pass it without a single republican vote. but ultimately, [inaudible] maria: of course, hr one, a sweeping election reform law making mail-in ballots the standard and do away with need an i.d. to vote. this will fundamentally change the way this country votes and solidify power for the democrats. it has already passed in the house, but it is due in the senate unless democrats vote to end the filibuster. progressives want to get rid of that as well. rather than protecting the balanced system, today s filibuster throws the system out of balance giving one half of one branch of government what amounts to veto. it promotes gridlock, not good governance. maria: it is amazing how the definition of good governance changes in just three short years. this was him in 2018. they are
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is it like on the desk there somewhere? no. nope, nope, no. sigh, because i won it during the day and won a grammy that nobody wants to see a performance about so it was like on the earlier part of the day when they do like the smaller grammys kind of yes. you are very nice, lawrence. i was susan and i were on the beer run and driven to a local brewery to pick up some hooch and driving down the massachusetts turnpike when we heard the news streaming on susan s cell phone and it was very surreal. i can imagine. and so, the audience should know that this is not an easy category. you were in the audiobook category. by the way, your director scott also i believe gets a grammy for his role in this, the greatest he deserves them all. he is fantastic, yes. he has directed my audiobooks and of course has gotten so recognition for it because why would he? because they re me. but but, rachel, so here s who else was in the field. you were nominated with. okay? because
interior secretary, making her the first native american secretary. all of this as two men accused of attacking capitol police officer brian sicknick who later died from his injuries with bear spray during the january 6th riot make their first court appearance later this afternoon. joining us, correspondent kara lee, covering the white house, and nbc correspondent garrett haake in el paso, texas. and the co-author of the political play book. great to have you with us. the president saying they re hitting their goals in the pandemic. then there s this. a new poll finds 30% say they will not get the vaccine, 47% of trump supporters say they will not get vaccinated. he was asked about that a short while ago. what does the biden administration plan to do about the hesitancy. look, they have been planning to do a broad national campaign, ayman, and meantime have been doing smaller, more targeted efforts to constituency that show high rate of vaccine hesitancy. when the president