added to the list of venues that are now welcoming migrants from the border. some record number of migrants, we might point out. startling numbers today for fiscal year that technically isn t even over yet, but we have broken all records in the process. let s get to it with peter doocy from the white house. hi, peter. neil, this afternoon president biden upending our understanding of his i immigration policy. more than a year he told us the migrants are coming from the northern triangle countries. that would be el salvador, guatemala and honduras. now he says that s not the problem anymore. there are three countries that are never there s fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. this is a different circumstance. what is on my watch now is venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. the ability to send them back is not rationale. just before that in the briefing room, the white house claimed they were willing to engage leaders that were bussing or flying migran
on vacation, this time ate in a very sunny tropical, lush destination. a full report straight ahead. but first, let s begin with joe biden s unyielding commitment co free speech. he loves the to free speech. he loves the first amendment. here is press secretaryre s p karine jean-pierre with more. takree a look at this.rine-j eahour. h support for free speechupport and free press is well documented. just twitter, as you know, is a private company and they will make their own decision. so content moderation. but our support again for free press and free speech has been well documented. and so i ll leave it there.il okay, that that s laughable.s obviously, in reality, the documents tell a dramatically different story and a new batch of internalerna twitter files published by david zweig show that the biden white house frequently attempted to strongen arm social media platform into censoring speech, especially surrounding covid-19. here s a quote, the biden teamte was very
outrage. now, there is virtually no facet of american life immune from politics and partisanship. it s in a tiny example of what i mean. some friends invited my wife and i to the essence festival concert last saturday night at the superdome in new orleans. it should have been a fun time. 50,000 people there to see janet jackson patti labelle. just before the headliners took the stage, this well-known warm-up act wandered out. we are in the middle of a critical time. they are trying to take women s right to choose. they are trying to take voting rights. raymond: the reverend may have gone may have well is gone to a chump rally. nobody wanted to hear that political message. at that point miss jackson hit the stage. no. hello, essence festival, this november we will be electing folks who make critical decisions in our community. decisions about our health care, very personal decisions we make about our bodies. stay on with black approval of the president biden below 50%
no response there from the crown prince. he sat back in his chair. some people say he smirked at the question. the question was eliminated from the broadcast in saudi arabia. that is an opinion column in the wall street journal put it this way. the saudis know that they host a humbled joe biden who spoke one way as a candidate but now is desperate for the king to open the oil spigot that the president has worked towards shutting down. jacqui heinrich traveling with the president? saudi arabia. hi, jacqui. the president of the united states on camera fist bumping with the man that u.s. intelligence believes ordered the death of a u.s. journalist, a grisly murder. u.s. journalists were allowed into the meeting and evidently upset the saudis by asking whether they would apologize for ordering that man s death according to u.s. intelligence. peter alexander that shouted that question said the saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly after he asked. the crown prince appeared to sm
Good morning. Five things to know for this friday, october 6th. The race for House Speaker, he would consider the position himself, donald trump now throwing his support behind congressman jim jordan. Former President Trump revealing Nuclear Submarine secrets to an australian billionaire. And President Biden dealing with the fallout over the crisis at the border as Texas Governor greg abbott continues to send migrants to nonborder cities like new york and chicago. We will talk to denvers mayor and how his city is addressing the 2,400 migrants sent there. A new 2024 poll out this morning. But the former president holds a significant lead when it comes to voters top issues no this morning, hollywood actors still on strike. So are uaw workers. Will it impact the september jobs reports that come out moments from now. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. How are you going to get them in line if you were to become the speaker . I mean, i disagree with what took place. Those guys a