the free internet. of course, china s internet heavily censored in. will ripley, thanks. the newest continues right here on cnn outfront. next, attorney general merrick garland and republicans go head-to-head, flashing over trump s conspiracy theories, including the former president s baseless claim that the fbi was i m trying to assassinate him. plus breaking news. we are now just hours away from the us mexico border closing after biden issued strict new border rules. but why? now we re live at the border and hunter biden s laptop. and his own words taking center stage in court today. let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight i will not be intimidated. those are the exact words of attorney general merrick garland, who came under withering fire from republicans today. these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded. i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will
been a cost to waiting to close the border from then. there have been at least 406,000 crossings at the us border since that bill failed, stretching resources and cities across this nation. and it is why this has become a major concern among voters. now there are just five months to go until the election. so biden is now taking action despite previously saying that his hands were tied, that he he couldn t do anything via executive order and that he needed congress to do it all. the power that day i got it off well, tonight biden says he has the power and he s giving himself the power to shut the border. let s begin our coverage with rosa flores. she is outfront tonight at the southern border president joe biden announcing his toughest immigration policy, an executive order barring asylum when daily migrant apprehensions at the us southern border hit a seven-day average of 2,500 a move that could result in the deportation of some migrants in a matter of days, even hours. they choose
how can this party stay in power? tonight biden traveled across to union station, built by teddy roosevelt more than a hundred years ago, one of the most beautiful buildings in this country. under joe biden it s become a homeless encampment, too filthy and too dangerous for starbucks. standing at this monument to his own failures, biden proceeded to do what he now so commonly does, bark at the rest of us for our moral failures, the guy who showered with his daughter is telling you you re a bad person. tonight s topic, democracy. here s a taste of it. maga element of the republican party, a minority of that party, its driving force, is trying to succeed where they failed in 2020. to suppress the right of voters
granted a temporary injunction to a group of navy seals seeking a religious exemption from the vaccine. but you see the pattern here? every single step of the way, biden and his experts, they have lied and been dead wrong about pretty much everything. wrong about vaccines,, shifting goalposts on masks and mandates and social distancing and lockdowns and monoclonal antibodies which they ignore and other therapeutics, the number of days a person needs to be quarantined, even the origins of the virus. we were lied to about that. the same people that think they know what s best for your kids. by the way, tonight biden is t looking for ways to get all kidk vaccinated. in fact, the fda just approved boosters for kids as young as 12. keep in mind, according to the american academy of pediatrics, the death rate for child covid-19 cases ranges from 0.00%, two years and, to 0.02%. in other words, covid-19 does not pose a serious risk tohe children and the fact that you can get omicron vaccinated
these cultural issues on the right. because those people come out and vote on them. but i hear you, brother. hey, virtual hug because i didn t get to see you. love you, d. lemon. i got to do you like this. what is that? is that a fat joke? i got to get to news. this is don lemon tonight. as we ve been saying, it is all on the line tonight. this is the agenda that joe biden ran on the agenda that got him to the white house. and it is hanging in the balance tonight. okay? the president says victory is what s at stake, and the white house is working feverishly to win that victory, negotiating the price tag for his spending bill. tonight biden s former boss weighing in, arguing that the wealthiest americans can t afford to pick up the tab for the $3.5 trillion spending bill. most importantly, it s paid for by asking the wealthiest of americans who have benefitted