did when president trump did. and that really throws the, the, the issue back to congress. the asylum is a very important part of america s history. but now the system is being abused. i think it was the right thing to do. all right. joining me, i ll congressional reporter for the hill, michael schnell. michael. good morning to you. thanks so much for being here this morning so what are we hearing in terms of reaction to this, you saw democrats there who tend to be in more swing areas, shall we say, on board with what the president s doing at the at the already heard of this, it s a reflection of just how difficult this problem is politically for the president, right? so first two, for starters, right out the gate, we saw republicans slamming this effort by the biden administration, essentially saying it s a, it s too little too late and accusing the president of making a purely political move. of course, because we ve seen in all the polls that immigration is the top issue that
right. and this isn t even happening in a vacuum. the washington post is a really good rundown today of some of the things that are going in the states missouri, a bill block to widen access to contraception and louisiana, a bill block two enshrine contraception rights in an idaho trying to ban iuds and plan b, there s a movement to do that. so these things are already happening in states. these seeds are being planted. so there is reason to be concerned, there is reason for this legislation, politics aside really kind. of striking set of realities here. object. you want to move to a piece out in the wall street journal and if we can put the headline up on the screen, there s a couple of things that we want to make sure that we re very careful to note about this this new reporting. the headline is behind closed doors. biden shows signs of slipping. participants in meeting, say the 81-year-old president performed poorly at times, the white house said biden is sharp and his critics are
hung in no small part on quote from kevin mccarthy, the former speaker of the house, who we should note, said to reporters that biden was strong hong and after some of this, but this is what mccarthy said, quote, i used to meet with him when he was vice president. i go to his house. he s not the same person. and then this is what the white house said back, literally the only on record critic and the stories kevin mccarthy, who contradicts his own previous statements and then the receipts they say are quote, very professional, very smart, very tough at the same time, mccarthy told reporters at the capitol of his talks with biden. now broadly, the white house also says congressional republicans, foreign liters nonpartisan national security experts have made clear in their own words, if you can put this up, that president biden is a savvy and effective leader who has a deep record of legislative accomplishment. now in 2024, house republicans are making false claims as a political tact
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collinson here at cnn, who tries to frame this, these big picture trends for us. he writes, quote, biden would never say it bluntly in public. but as gamble with progressives carries an implicit question. where else are they going to go? because at the end of the day, they re not going to donald trump, right? so i mean, i like look at michigan for example, because in that problem hi mary, we saw somewhere between ten and 20% of voters go the uncommitted route. so president trump, president biden was of course, going to win the primary in that state. the uncommitted was not any threat to him, but it was a protest vote and it was good to take the temperature. so they voted uncommitted there. but our democrats going to stay home or progressive? this is going to stay home because the president made this executive order on the border probably not because while progressives and liberals may hate this executive order, there s one thing that they hate even more, and it s foreign president tr