measure some of what you are talking about here, which is where is he taking a stand and how often is he offering rhetoric in a direction. we can have suspicions, but we don t know that yet. but that is what to watch for. that s what we saw was indeed a battle and what we are looking for now is to understand who won that battle, how, and what are we going to imply from it. intriguing, because the selection of the speaker on the 15th vote isn t actually a sign of who on the ballot, it becomes very unclear, so we will have to watch to see how this happens. good to see you again, thank, you as always, joe and freeman is a professor of history of american studies at yale university. author of a field of blood, violence in congress and the road to the civil war which is always a great read, but it became suddenly relevant on saturday morning. still ahead this hour, president biden is going to make his way to the u.s. border, the u.s. mexico border, after
reported it is. with house republicans looking to launch an investigation into donald trump s biden said on thursday said he had no choice but to take unilateral action and urged lawmakers to come up with a comprehensive solution to the border problem. i will sit down with anyone who in good faith wants to fix our broken immigration system. and it is hard, it, is hard on the best of circumstances, and if the most extremely public s continues to demagogue this issue and left solutions i am left with only one choice, to act on my own into as much as i can on my own to try to change the atmosphere. immigration reform used to be a bipartisan issue. there s a lot we want to talk about that, change the atmosphere and integration used to be a bipartisan issue, which is true. biden s revamped immigration policy does have some stuff that is interesting, it expands opportunities for cubans, haitians, nicaraguans, and valenzuela s to come in, while at the same time it cracks down on peopl
part of this program. if you cross the border without knowing about this change, you are barred from seeking asylum. and it is worth pausing on that notion. as we have said we are at a point where the president feels like limiting the number of of much as possible as what is politically necessary. but this represents yet another turning point from the spirit of immigration laws that exist including these post-world war ii protection sisters that says if you set foot on american soil, you get a shot. walking away on that is a big deal. and as you and i have discussed to these are actually agreements that we have, there are laws that we have we have simply criminalized to the idea of this. and as you can see there is marine one moving along now, we are about to see him besides doing grace, and then president biden who will take off from joint base and meet up in el paso texas where he will meet not only el paso daughters but also north american leaders including leaders from mexico t
zoom out a little bit and see this picture a little more holistically. caitlin, good to see you, thank you as always for being with us, caitlin dickerson is a staff writer at the atlantic. and as i was describing to you, what you always see when the president boards a helicopter is that they won t take him anywhere that you see the see a three helicopters. typically three because not to say too much, we don t ever know which one the president is in right, you notice you rarely ever see him getting on and you often see him getting off. but you never see him getting on, you rarely see him getting on, they always boards from the other side of it helicopter, typically cameras on the other side so that as a security measure. we will know only when those helicopters get in the air and one of them continues on its course the other to feel a way. he is on his way to joint base, andrews, and then on his way to el paso texas. el paso is on the american side of the border with sweden
problem is, not everyone s fully living in it. nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn t be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let s go. president biden is scheduled the digital age is waiting.