numbers show migrant encounters at the southern border nearly doubled last month from january 2021. agents there say they are underfunded and overwhelmed. now arizona s attorney general is leading coalition of 13-state ag s to defend the public charge rule. arizona ag mark will argue the case before the supreme court on wednesday and he joins us now. so ag, let me set it up. the public charge rule ensure that noncitizens are able to financially support themselves in order to become u.s. citizens or to get a green card, what s your pitch to the supreme court? well, thank you, arthel, for having me on again today and basically it comes down to this. the public charge rule, the statute has been around for nearly a century in this country and basically says if you re a noncitizen, you to be able to support yourself. the trump administration promulgated a rule that basically said that you cannot be on welfare benefits for more than one year of your first 3 years here.
been especially tough. even before covid, schools there had been closed for months after tens of thousands of troops were sent into the region and a curfew was imposed. the bbc s aamir peerzada has been looking at the daily challenges for these students and sent this report. 18 year old rouf is on his way to an online lesson. every day, he walks along this mountain bridge for more than an hour, all so he can connect to this small patch of internet. and he is not alone. translation: in the village, we can t even make a single i phone call, so ag, 5g, even 2g internet is out of the question. nestled in a remote part of the himalayas, all these students are from limber village in indian administered kashmir.
epidemic of opioid addiction. they got $572 million from johnson & johnson, from a judge. it wasn t a jury trial, it was a bench trial, it was a judge. and it makes history in oklahoma. and in fact, in this country. it could have major implications all over america for other drug makers. think about it. if other people get addicted, it s on you if you sell it the wrong way. this is the first case of its kind, we ve never had anything like it before. there are 2,000 similar cases pending nationwide. so let s bring in the men at the center of this, okay? we have the oklahoma attorney general, mike hunter, and the lead counsel who successfully argued the case for the state, brad beckworth. gentlemen, thank you for being with us on prime-time. good to be with you, chris. thank you. so ag, let s talk policy and then counsel beckworth, we ll get into what changed. because identify g ve got to tes a lawyer, the nuisance law kind of threw me. but when we look at this from a
this is the first case of its kind, we ve never had anything like it before. there are 2,000 similar cases pending nationwide. so let s bring in the men at the center of this, okay? we have the oklahoma attorney general, mike hunter, and the lead counsel who successfully argued the case for the state, brad beckworth. gentlemen, thank you for being with us on prime-time. good to be with you, chris. thank you. so ag, let s talk policy and then counsel beckworth, we ll get into what changed. because i ve got to tell you, as a lawyer, the nuisance law kind of threw me. but when we look at this from a policy perspective, ag, why did this case matter and what is the statement it makes to america? the statement it makes to america is, if you can put a team together that s talented, that s committed, that s courageous, that s willing to spend two years plowing through the records of this monstrous company, i think their market cap is over $300 billion, and