the lies continue. this time george santos caught making up a story about his mother being in the south tower on 9/11, this as republicans reward him in congress. emergency measures are in place today as the nation is hitting its debt limit. why congress may be playing with fire. a warning to vladimir putin. ukraine s president said his country will take by crimea. will alec baldwin be charged the killing of a shooting onset? we ll discuss. cnn this morning starts now. we begin with yet another apparent lie from george santos, a republican congressman from new york who fabricated just about everything on his resume. he s been caught lying about his late mother. santos long claimed his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 and later died from cancer. new immigration records confirm santos mother was in brazil and never in the u.s. and now a navy veteran from new jersey is accusing santos of stealing $3,000 from a gofundme account. santos de
nothing but a photo op or as i call it a layover. the presidents meeting in mexico city comes in with more than 100 migrants being processed in the group out of texas but when the president stopped for 4 hours yesterday to see border crisis first hand he didn t see the usual things of migrant encampments we have been showing you for years. that s because they were cleared ahead of his visit. look at the photo right now. what you are about to see is el paso on wednesday versus el paso on thursday. we can pull that up maybe a little bit later. upon his arrival texas governor greg abbott handed the president a your visit to our southern border with mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late moreover your visit avoids the sites were mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of texas property owners who are angry and americans whose lives have been destroyed by her border policies. this chaos is the direct result of your failure to enforce th
and a shopping centre. the met office warns of a 50 50 chance that the world will cross a key global warming threshold of average temperatures rising more than 1.5 degrees celsius over the next five years. the wagatha christie trial gets under way in the high court rebekah vardy is suing coleen rooney for libel. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. prince charles will officially open the new session of parliament today and for the first time will read the queen s speech on her behalf. it s after the queen had to pull out because of mobility problems. the last time the queen missed a state opening of parliament in a statement, buckingham palace said, the queen continues to experience episodic mobility problems, and in consultation with her doctors has reluctantly decided that she will not attend the state opening of parliament. the queen s speech isn t written by the queen but by the government. it s a list of the new laws the government
Could afford to ease up a little bit, right . And they might have done that if the fundraiser were just for them but theyre not just running clinton for president and kaine for Vice President. They dont want to just win the white house. They want democrats to win governorships and control of congress or to get as close as they can. They obviously want democrats to get control of the senate. For the Clinton Kaine campaign, it is pedal to the metal from now till the end. 41 fundraisers from now until november 3rd. He had five today alone. He squeezed me in between them. Thats on the democratic side. On the republican side, its nothing like that at all. Mateo gold at the Washington Post reports tonight that the comparable fundraiser effort on the republican side is already over. In fact, it ended last wednesday. The Washington Post reports
tonight that donald trump did his last big dollar joint fundraiser for his campaign in the Republican National Committee Last wednesday and hes not goi
Benefiting the most are not High Frequency voters. Thats huge. Their benefit is needed, i think. Thanks for joining us tonight. Thats all in for this evening. Make sure to stick around because its veep night on msnbc. Rachel maddow has an exclusive interview with tim kaine and mike pence will join brian williams. That is true. Almost a little weird, but thank you for the preview. It is, in fact, Vice President day here on msnbc. Vice president or would be Vice President day. Chris matthews this afternoon had an interview with our current Vice President of the united states, joe biden. Joe biden is now into a third day of explaining what he meant when he said he wishes he was in high school and he could take donald trump out behind the gym because he wants to get in a fight with him, basically. Donald trump today responded that he, too, would kind of like to go get in a fight with joe
in terms of Clinton Kaine, theyve already outraised trump 21, the New York Times projection as to who i