here s northern new mexico at a migrant shelter with a look at conditions on the ground. live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening. it s now been a week sings president biden said anything about the border and since then, the situation has grown. his one appearance today was to promote the paycheck protection act when asked about his thoughts on what was happening at the border. he didn t have an answer. the crisis at the border? now the same question for the press secretary. look, i don t think we need to sit here and put new labels on what we ve already conveyed. it s challenging. republicans from border states argue the crisis is clear. i believe this is deliberate. i believe this is what they want. though want open borders, and that s why they are not acknowledging that it s a crisis. the numbers are multiplying. i m not going to confirm numbers from here. but fox has confirmed. the number of migrant children in custody has tripled in t
stops telling us. i think it time for schools to reopen safely, this is a national get our kids back in the classroom safely and soon add possible. it chris important to get our kid box to school. steve: it is so important that we can t keep you in suspend. the first blank. sends. what did he send? a president decree? a new executive order, he has already put out 34. he signed one on his birthday. and ensuring that biological men, can compete in girl sports, but wait. the president can t open schools with an executive order, that shows you on little you understand. these are no ordinary times and joe biden is no ordinary president, he is a wartime leader, he is fdr, he is fdr but woke. but to be fair not always awake. as i always said this a wartime effort. and everything action has been on the table, this a wartime efforts, this a wartime undertaking, not hyperbole. we re setting clear directives. we re going to go on the core issue. with the centralized coordina
just be something big, joe never stops telling us. i think it time for schools to reopen safely, this is a national get our kids back in the classroom safely and soon add possible. it chris important to get our kid box to school. steve: it is so important that we can t keep you in suspend. the first blank. sends. what did he send? a president decree? a new executive order, he has already put out 34. he signed one on his birthday. and ensuring that surely he could do one on opening schools it s quickly important, you might say the president can t open schools with ann executive order, that shows how little you understand the giant of a leader we have at the helm in joe biden is no ordinary president. he is a wartime leader, he is fdr he s better than fdr he s fdr but woke, but to be fair not always awake. as i ved always said this isa wartime effort in every action has been on the table. this is a wartime effort, this is a wartime undertaking. were sending clear di
was so desperately needed, urgently needed. this plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half. i m going to succeed. we re going to succeed moving forward. look, the american people strongly support this. that s the key here. as someone who spent the entire primary campaign criticizing joe biden, this weekend, the president did what i thought he couldn t, or just wouldn t, by getting results on what undeniably is the most pro-worker, anti-poverty accomplishment by an american president since lyndon johnson. don t take my word for it. listen to the senate budget committee chair, a certain bernie sanders, who called it, quote, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. and he s right. i mean, how else to describe a bill that halves child poverty. halves it, thanks to $1400 direct payments, survival checks, a typical family of four gets $5600 in new payments or $7600 in new payments if you th
but i probably haven t been perfect from her perspective either. i think you just work together. you do things. and move the country forward. i think that s what we did last congress. let me ask you this. you and her basically share thes same position on the filibuster. yet she was vilified for it. you have not. why do you think that is? well, i mean, i was for going back to the days of mr. smith goes to washington filibuster where people talked and could hold the floor for weeks on end if they want but in the end it h was a simple majority vote after the people got done with a talking filibuster. i think she had a different view. okay. but i can t remember exactly what that was on that. right. but more similar you are nott for just getting rid of the filibuster completely the way many colleagues are. no. that is absolutely correct.