Welcome to our special new york versus donald trump. Im ari melber and we are going to get into this criminal trial. Were covering that tonight in the course of this hour. Well have new reporting on the damning testimony, experts from law to the sorted world of new york tabloids. We have experts on that, too, believe it or not. We also tonight have a Beat Special Report on a new separate indictment on a trump lawyer, Boris Epstein, who first admitted his role on the beat. To hear all of that tonight. This weekends with a remarkable contrast from d. C. To new york. Let me tell you what i mean. In Washington A Trump Friendly Court asked trump friendly questions about all of the problems with prosecuting a president. If you read about it, it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. While right up the east coast an actual trial of an actual former president was Going Forward and the republic did not crumble. It is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and th
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process, we should streamline it, but this is too far by actually banning asylum for people. and i think the american people want a balanced approach. they don t want to send families back. we re in serious danger because of their religious views or political views, but they want a more streamlined process in fisk goes too far in the other direction. we heard from rosa flores, our correspondent down in texas, who s covered the border for many, many years and she was telling us how many people there on both sides of the aisle say, please do something. the federal government is doing nothing, and we are overwhelmed down here congress won t act so what do you think is an appropriate action that can be done by the executive in this case by president biden, that in your words, can help streamline this yeah. well, let me see initially, i think president biden s write that ultimately there needs to be comprehensive immigration reform. what, what i would say are two things that need to hap
today because he has a debate coming up in a few weeks because trump is going to push him on this over the next several months because americans care about it than it is a political act. do you think that s fair? i mean let s be honest. politics always plays a role in these decisions are not prepared to say today is that politics of the upcoming debate didn t play a role in this decision. the practical reality is this though, the president has faced with a crisis at the border, there s no denying that anymore. now we have hundreds of thousands of people coming in monthly. we have completely overwhelmed our immigration courts. the president did go to congress and say, we need resources to fund those immigration courts. so we can process the claims. we need resources for the border patrol agents who really are breaking under the strain of this as it s been going on. as i said, for eight to ten years congress refused to act i m not saying that that bill was the greatest bill. i m not sa
biden administration had that in mind, but remains to be seen what happens in the court s clearly there will be serious legal challenges to this and using your expertise, your experience, how much of an impact ken something like this have? will this particular executive order have immediately let me could have a dramatic impact, right. i mean, this will allow the administration to close the border when you hit a pretty low threshold of 2,500 in a day and then there ll be closed for a set period of time. right now, we re doing about it. you even. with the reduced flows, we see right now, we re doing over 100,000 asylum claims a month, right? so this will make a significant impact, but long term, as i think some of the folks have already said, this is not going to get solved really until we have congressional action. i know this is a cliche in washington on the democrats always say, hey, we need congress to act. but the reality is we have a backlog of millions of kids this isn t immigr