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and what is the president hoping it does politically? >> wealth beginning later this summer, hundreds of thousands of spouses of citizens and undocumented children can start applying for legal legal residents in the us previously, they would have had to do so from outside the us. and in some cases, stay outside the us for up to ten years. but after today's executive action i'd president biden those individuals can stay in the country during that application process as long as those couples have been married for at least ten years and they were married before yesterday. here's what president biden said this afternoon these couples a bit razi families, sending their kids just churches, school, pay taxes contributed our country living in united states all this time it was fear and uncertainty. >> we can fix that and that's what i'm going to do today politically, the white house under pressure from advocacy groups, frustrated with an attempted crackdown at the border and stricter asylum rules as of just a few weeks ago. and the campaign also trying to pit today's move against the policy of former president donald trump, whom biden will be facing on the debate stage in just a week, a statement out today afferent biden, campaign manager, julie chavez rodriguez says families belong together with 550,000 people impacted by today's move. >> it's the most sweeping executive action since dhaka, which in 2012 allowed some 832,000 young people whose immigrant parents brought them here to live and worked freely in the us. but like daga, daga, this is also expected to face legal challenges, but the biden camp believes that because these individuals were eligible for green cards already, that they should be able to prevail. but there's been one question wealth at the white house has faced repeatedly today, amid up months long standoff in congress on this issue and an election just months away is why did the president choose to do this now, and the white house would only say because immigration is broken, wealth that's how she at the white house. thank you very much. i want to go to john to steve contorno right now. he's on the watching on the campaign trail. trump in wisconsin, steve, you're covering this rally in racine. how is trump responding to president biden's new action on immigration? >> well, he just finished up behind me, wolf and he no surprise, he was very critical of this new action from president biden. he referred to it as quote mass amnesty. he said, it's illegal to do this without congress's approval take a listen to what he said when i'm reelected, joe biden's the legal amnesty plan would be ripped up and thrown out on the very first day. >> that we're back in because he's just using that group the tried to use all of these people that are pouring into our country to vote now i should point out that it is illegal in us to vote if you are a non-citizen and there is little evidence that non-citizens are voting. >> imagine that's the united states, but donald trump has made immigration central >> we expect trump to be here quite a bit in the coming months. and of course, we're just less than a month in a away now from the convention in milwaukee, wolff, steve can turn o in racine, wisconsin for a steve. thank you very much. i want to bring in seeing their political commentators, karen finney, and christian soldiers, anderson, carrie to trump is clearly trying to clean up his remarks. he called milwaukee in a closed door meeting with republicans, a horrible city. now he's saying he loves milwaukee. you think this is going to have an impact democrats have launched billboards all over the city, pointing out what he said behind closed doors. absolutely. and as you know of milwaukee is a critical part of the electorate in wisconsin, you have to when that area to win the state. so he knows that was a big mistake. i'm sure folks have told him. we've got weird. i have no chance because remember, when wisconsin was another state that was very close, it was closed in 2016. it was close again in 2020 so yeah, he's trying to clean it up, but the problem the thing he keeps forgetting is that but there's videotape of these things and i think democrats are going to be more than happy to keep reminding him about what he actually said videotape yet, because it was you're right, your s or their baby videotape. but there are bunch of people who were in that room or heard of it? yes. yes. >> and that's significant. kristen truck wrote this on his truths social account about this whole controversy. let me read it to you and our viewers. the democrats are making up stories that i said milwaukee is helens, which obviously that's a good question. who would say such as with wisconsin? the key battleground states, it looks like maybe who would say such a thing? thing is donald trump. look, if i was advising him, i would not have made put that in the proposed talking points at the same time. i think it's completely likely that this will be just item 999 on the pile of almost 1,000 things that donald trump has said that we go, oh, my goodness, isn't this horrible, isn't this going to cost him the election? and it doesn't, right now, he's still doing quite well in polls and competitive battleground states. and frankly by saying, look, i'm going to be the one who's tougher on an issue like crime. of course that was one ofst saying that the crime there was bad. >> it is true that voters don't think that crime is being handled well and they tend to think that donald trump would be better on that issue. it's interesting you know we're hearing that the trump has also now slamming, slamming the biden to do protections for some undocumented immigrants here in the united states, spouses children, the biden campaign says this about the action, and i'm quoting now from the biden campaign families belong together. it's that simple. it's also a powerful, stark reminder of donald trump's unforgivable legacy of ripping crying children away from their parents when he put in place his family separation policy. so what do you think about this move from the democrats? yeah. okay. i think president biden, this is actually what he told us he was going to do. remember when he sounds the actions at the border, he said that there would be some additional announcements coming that would speak to how do we have to have a humane approach? and part of that approach, the president believes is you keep families together. and so this was part, but i also wanted to go to the bigger picture here, right? so this is going to help about 500,000 families. but let's also remember the reason the president is doing it this way is because republicans walked away from bipartisan some of the toughest legislation that we've ever seen. so now the president has to go it alone and the president also introduce legislation on immigration reform. the first day in office so we're in this moment because republicans have refused to come to the table. i think yes, it's an election year, but it's also a problem that needs to be solved. >> kristen, what do you think? >> look, i think the action itself, the idea of saying the spouses of somebody who has been here for a long time, they've been married for this i'm sure that if i put that in houlton today it would test very well, even among republicans. but the problem that joe biden is facing is that when people think about immigration policy, this is not the first thing they're going to be thinking about. they're going to be thinking about record high border crossings at the southern border, or they're going to be thinking about the sorts of images of the disarray that we've seen. and frankly, that's why in all the numbers that i've seen when you ask voters, do you trust joe biden to handle the issue of immigration has numbers have gotten worse and worse throughout his presidency. >> i would just mention wolf to that point. they also mentioned it today in their statements that actually numbers are going down per the president's recent announcements. so i think we're going to see that continue over the coming months because it was only a couple of weeks or so ago when biden and downs asylum restrictions, that's right along the border with mexico added a new cbs yougov poll, 62%, 62% of americans say they support deporting all undocumented immigrants living in the united states. when you look at these polls oh results is president biden out of touch with the american people? >> know, look at a couple of things. number one, we know in polling, when you ask people the other thing they say is, but they wanted to do inhumane immigration at the sandi agriba and california. and to me, this is so ridiculous because let's be honest if we during mass deportation of all immigrants, who's going to cut your lawn, who's going to babysit your children, who's going to work in the kitchens and our restaurants, who's going to pick the grapes for the blind that you drink as our own reporting has shown here at cnn, it would increase costs if this mass deportation idea, immigrants are so important to our country. kristen, you think this is going to be a huge part of the debate next week between trump and biden. >> absolutely. in fact, i think even if it's not directly asked about, i imagined donald trump will want to go there because he likes talking about this issue so much precisely because of poll numbers like the one we just talked about. >> i agree with karen. i don't think but actually six in ten americans really understanding what it would take to actually deport every undocumented immigrant would want to do so. but it is striking how the tone around this issue has shifted so much over the last decade, it used to be the focus was on republicans are so mean on this issue. democrats are the best here. it has really flipped into republicans camp, kristen soldiers, amazon, karen, funny, the both of you thank you very, very much. just ahead. my one-on-one interview with actor and activist jane fonda, her decision to campaign for a presidential candidate for the first time. it how she thinks president biden should reach out to anti-war activist plus the first images of what ukraine is calling a quote, lonely romance him. john moon welcoming vladimir putin to north korea as the two leaders get ready for a new round of military cooperation with the world watching assignments are going on and playing the tornado here i'm thinking, i'm going to die i and i thought that was it. filing earth with liev schreiber sunday at nine on cnn greeting sabbath 70. yeah, that's not good. happened huge things happen happen be there with three learn more at rnc.com. >> it's so easy to get your windshield or place using safe flight, tell the people i haven't done it already. my man, let's start off as a ship and grew to a crack and it just keeps going. so what do we do now? 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>> the elections in november or existential really, who wins in november is going to determine whether we have a livable future. it's as simple as that. and there's a very stark choice it's not that i'm 100% happy with president biden but he's someone that we can work with that american people can work with we can, if we can prove to him there's a problem which is what happened recently when people from texas and louisiana went to washington to tell him that they were getting sick and dying because of the presence of gas terminals and oil refineries, poisoning their communities. he created a pause not sexy, not front-page news, but it's really important. that's the kind of man he is. if you show them the problem, if you touch his heart, he will he will act accordingly. and so because i think that this election is so important, it's existential. i decided that i was going to throw in with the campaign. >> so let me follow up. jane, is your support for president biden more about supporting him or stopping donald trump? >> it's a little of both you know, i i've known joe biden for a long time and i was so happy to meet his wife, jill and work with her and renal relaunched the senior biden harris. and it was so much fun and it was so wonderful. i had never met her before and there's a lot about president biden that i really admire and respect and like i'm primarily a climate activist and i guess the best way that i can describe what will happen if the orange man is elected as we know, because we read in the papers recently, he invited all the ceos of the big oil companies to meet with him at mar-a-lago. and he basically said, if you give me 1 billion, i will cut all the climate regulations that you don't like, clean air, clean water all these kind of things that really pretty protect the american people and that's why i really want to elect joe biden because we're running out of time. i have grandchildren. i i won't be around to see the worst of it, but we have to confront the climate crisis and we have to do it fast. what the future at that event, you were just referring to jane that seniors for biden harris event that you attended, the first lady said her husband, quote isn't one of the most effective presidents of our lives, in spite of his age. but because of it her words, the president's agent fitness is a key issue in this campaign. it keeps coming up why do you think voters should see it as an asset for the president well, i'm older than he is and i'm all for age. >> i can tell you that you do get wiser and you do learn things, you learn from your mistakes. and i have seen him up close and personal and he's fine. he's he's he's perfectly suited to be president of the united states. >> i don't know because of, or in spite of the age, he's just fine. >> and i'm he's someone we can work with and that's what we need. we don't need a demagogue over the years. >> i know a jane you've been an outspoken anti-war activists for many, many years, going back to the vietnam war, a lot of us remember that we've seen demonstrations over israel's war in gaza. we've seen those demonstrate patients at college campuses across the united states. how should president biden trying to reach out to voters, especially young people who were upset over his handling of this conflict. >> i understand the anguish. i feel it myself, the anguish to see the deaths children dying. it's it's it's a terrible thing to watch it's a very complicated situation. i can't pretend that i understand it very well. i haven't i've been israel six times since 19 and i love israel i it was under very different leadership when and went over there. i miss the israel that i fell in love with in the 1980s, frankly it's complicated in terms of international diplomacy and all of that. >> and i think that president biden is trying to protect israel, be loyal to israel, and at the same time, demand a ceasefire demand that the bombing stop, that the children stopped being killed. i think he's he's doing both but i understand the anguish of the protesters i can't say that i know what he should do differently because i don't understan