Americas late news. Fox news at night. Breaking tonight, the Biden Administration issued a document saying there is an acute and immediate need for a border wall, we know because we broke the story on this show last night. But now the administration is walking that statement back saying there is no need for a wall. And they are only building it because they have to. Matt finn is live with how the white house is trying to change the narrative. Good evening, trace. Once again President Biden says he does not think border walls work. Just one day after his own Homeland Security secretary deciding the new border wall connecticut trust. The president defended his administrations administration to wave 26 environmental and health laws to build about 20 new miles of border wall in texas. Homeland security Secretary Mayorkas said there is an immediate need to expedite building this section of the wall. Today President Biden claimed he doesnt want to build the new wall, explaining he is forced
down the we attack that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is now calling a tragic error. could this be the final straw and us support for the war in gaza? urgent manhunt underway after multiple inmates escaped from the louisiana jail after sliding towards gap in the jail yard fence i m john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central history in the making today is closing arguments get underway and donald trump s criminal when all try the former president charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payment to stormy daniel s in just over an hour from now, trump s defense let s attorneys will kick things off with their closing argument. there are expected to really focus in on savaging the credit credibility of michael cohen and continuing to power in there. and also ask why other key figures? here s in the telling of these alleged crimes were not called as witnesses prosecutors then go second and hav
infiltrated by russia, and yet the president of the united states does nothing about it. the attorney general does nothing about it. moscow mitch does nothing about it. and instead they re chasing fwo ghosts around the planet trying to undermine those intel community leaders, those very intel community leaders that are warning of the coming russian threat. mike. well, joe some might call it treason. i wouldn t. i would just say it s extraordinarily misguided, and it undercuts america s national security every single day. every single day. and most people go about their business in this country every single day paying less and less attention to all the noise coming from washington, d.c. and yet, you had the attorney general of the united states bill barr in rome looking over the shoulders of john durham who
exist. and that america is one where the rule of law is more important than the whim of any president. as far as building motes and putting alligators and all of that, why is it we are building walls and motes at the border, but we can t put up a wall around our own sovereign elections. i think that s the question that should be asked. well, it really is, and mike barnicle, that s what s so fascinating, this obsession, this continued obsession with building a wall, which the president, of course, hasn t been able to do because republicans when they were in power knew and said it, the wall wouldn t actually stop people from coming over. there are much better means. you can move past second century china, third century, fourth century china and actually move beyond physical barriers to stop people from coming into our country, and yet here you have