Each the national past time in the form of baseball s allstar game becomes a hostage to the politics of the day. We will talk with the house minority leader in just a bit. White house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from philadelphia. Good evening, peter. Good evening, bret. The president argued that wednesday made it easier to vote early or boy mail because there was a global pandemic. That was good, but that when republican lawmakers try to limit certain pandemic era provisions, because they say they are concerned about voter fraud, that is historically bad. This is election subversion. It s the most dangerous throat voting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Peter: the president s problem is with states hoping to tighten election laws and require voter i. D. Including texas. They want to make it so hard and inconvenient that they hope people don t vote at all. That s what this is about. Texas republicans can t do anything though as long a
Laws, implemented after black and brown voters in georgia gave joe biden the presidency and democrats control of the united states senate. A lot of people were hailing lewis on this anniversary including arizona conservative democratic senator kyrsten sinema, who got quite a bit of blow back for calling him her dear friend and personal hero. Since sinema stands in opposition to ending the filibuster. Meanwhile, other democrats were making good trouble in atlanta today. For the first time in 20 years, the senate rules committee held a field hearing, starting with impassion remarks from georgia senator, the reverend raphael warnock. John lewis s pastor at ebenezer baptist church. Sadly, what we re seeing in georgia is an attempt to deny certain people the ability to have their voices heard in our democracy. As i have said time and time again, some people don t want some people to vote. Congress must take action on voting rights. We have no time to spare. There is nothing more important f
Left a mess. President trump made it a priority to restore the nation s borders. That means enforce laws, protect sovereignty, protect the borders. Restrict ohmic restrict asylumum cases, stopped obama s catch and release program. He instituted what was known as the state and mexico policy for new migrants and negotiatedd deals with several american countries to expedite the deportation of illegal immigrants. He successfully built nearly 500 miles of new border walls here this is important because he told migrants around the world, do not come to america illegally. He was very clear. And he will make this dangerous trip. Don t send your children unaccompanied through mexico across the rio grande and the desert into the border. Make no mistake president trump s actions are rhetoric or as effective as they have ever been a purity for example, look at this headline trump immigration policy showing results with illegal border crossings plummeting. Another from axios, illegal border crossin
The attention of the state, of the country, and in some respects the world and rightfully so. This is a team mission. One of the most important in the state s history. Trace: our detectives have been working around the clock to reach every single person who we have been told may be missing. We re exhausting every avenue. It is a very dangerous situation. It is an extraordinary lifesaving emergency effort unlike anything we ve ever seen in the state of florida. This will go on until we pull everybody out of there. Our number one effort. Dana: charles watson is live in surfside with the latest. Good morning. There is still a lot of questions in terms of what caused the partial building collapse. There are competing theories as the focus remains on the building s pool and parking garage below. An engineer speaking to the washington post says there is a possibility the pool collapsed first bringing the huge section of the tower down with it. Scientists and engineers from the national insti