that title 42 is not an immigration policy it was actually implemented as a public health measure to try to stop the spread of communicable disease. the ending of title 42 is appropriate because we are now beyond the pandemic and it has officially ended. the biden administration does have challenges at the border because all that title 42 did was effectively dismantle our asylum process and create a bottleneck at the southern border. the lifting of that, obviously, means that we are going to see greater numbers of people coming to the border. the biden administration is doing everything that they can with the resources that they have to try to address the challenges there but that is fundamentally not going to stop until we do something legislatively, until we pass a legislative solution that overhauls our broken immigration system and it is on congress to do that. this week the republicans introduced their child deportation bill which is in and for not going to fix what
let s get right to the just released report by the special counsel john durham in its conclusions about the trump/russia investigation. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez has been going over the roughly 300-page report. evan, give us the top lines. reporter: well, wolf, this report contains a lot of harsh criticism for the fbi, especially former fbi leadership that oversaw the trump/russia investigation. in the end john durham spent four years in this investigation. this is a 300-page report. he concludes that while the fbi had reason to launch, perhaps, an assessment or a preliminary investigation, much lower-level investigations, he believes that there was a lot of exculpatory evidence that the fbi was ignoring and that they should not have launched, essentially, a full-blown investigation. i ll read you just a part of what he concludes as part of this report. he says that the fbi discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the nar
nation s debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we re tracking the speaker s efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to capitol hill for the latest on the very high stakes showdown over raising the nation s federal debt limit. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is following all this. republicans have been scrambling to hold a vote today on their plan to raise the debt ceiling. where do things stand right now? reporter: wolf, the chamber is just here to m
appeal on wednesday. american football legend has been announced his retirement for the second time, tom brady. welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee. following tyre nichols s death, five officers, all of them black, were charged with second degree murder. several other police officers and emergency staff have also been fired in recent days. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was overlaid with anger as mourners celebrating the life of tyre nichols also railed against the injustice of his death. i can t speak for everybody in memphis, i can t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, i believe that if that man had been white, you would not have beat him like t
american football legend tom brady has announced his retirement for the second time in a year. life of our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man, who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee. following tyre nichols death, five officers, all of them black, were charged with second degree murder. several other police officers and emergency staff have also been fired in recent days. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was overlaid with anger, as mourners celebrating the life of tyre nichols also railed against the injustice of his death. i can t speak for everybody in memphis, i can t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, i believe that if that man h