The Jussie Smollett case. Will he be allowed to walk without facing felony charges for allegedly faking that racist homophobic attack . In washington on the sunday, welcome to americas news hq. I am leland vittert. I am kristin fisher. Former Vice President joe biden is speaking out after former candidate for Lieutenant Governor in nevada accused him of inappropriate touching at a 2014 campaign event. Garrett is here with more. I think thats two statements from the former Vice President in 24 hours. Reporter two statements and like the first, he says he doesnt remember the interaction the same way she does. He says, in many years on the campaign trail and in public life, i have offered as handshakes, hugs and offers of affection and supported not once did i ever believe i acted inappropriately. If it is adjusted i did so, i will listen respectfully, but it was never my intention. Heres video of the alleged incident in 2014 where claims, from behind and placed his hands on her children. Leaned in smelled her hair and placed a kiss on the back of her head. That was before she took the stage. Today, she said while his behavior doesnt rise to the level of Sexual Assault him it was completely inappropriate. And for her, bidens latest statement misses the mark. Im glad hes willing to listen. Im glad hes clarifying his intentions. Frankly, my point was never about his intentions and they shouldnt be about his intentions. It should be about the women on the receiving end of that behavior. This isnt the first time and it wasnt the only incident where he was acting inappropriately with women. If he is saying he never believed that was inappropriate, then, frankly, i think thats a little bit of a disconnect. As for his potential competition, nearly every other candidate has weighed in saying they believe lucy florez and several are suggesting that joe biden will have to answer for this incident as well as many others if he decides to enter the race. Interesting stuff. Thank you. Leland more on that with the political panel. Meanwhile, the white house is doubling down on its threat to close the u. S. mexico border. Kellyanne conway saying this morning the president s threat is not a block. Allison is with the president in palm beach. Reporter the white house is not getting into a whole lot of specifics here. But President Trump says he will shut down the u. S. mexico border or large parts of it next week. Unless mexico does more to stop the flow of illegal immigration. Democrats and some republicans say any sort of shutdown would hurt American Workers and the u. S. Economy. The white house is not backing down. It certainly isnt a bluffs. You can take the president seriously and heres why. We are on track this month for close to 100,000. We have never seen a surge like this. Democrats will not give us additional money. They will give us additional people and they will not change the long acting as this giant magnet for people from south and Central America to come to this country. Faced with those limitations, the president will do everything he can. If closing the ports of entry mean that, thats exactly what he intends to do. Reporter i asked the white house about specific actions they need to take. For now, theyre not getting into that but they say they do not act based on threats. President trump says mexico needs to do more, congress and Central American countries need to do more. On friday, President Trump told reporters he was stopping payments to the socalled northern triangle. El salvador, and honduras. They say they are carrying out the president s direction and ending foreign assistance for the northern triangle. They say the next move is engaging congress. You can bet there will be a big fight there. Democrats are already pushing back saying cutting eight is a bad move. Leland we will talk about that with the couple congressman in a few minutes. Be sure to keep watching the top of the hour. Fox news sunday, a lot more of Chris Wallaces interview with counsel to the president , Kellyanne Conway. In case you were wondering, yes, the issue of her husband did, the one what a shocker. For more on the migrant crisis, lets head to the southern border where claudias life from el paso. Reporter kristin, the surge of immigrants heading to the border continues unabated. Now comes word of a new caravan heading north from el salvador. This is about 90 people in this group so far, including women and children. The relentless wave of migrant families seeking asylum has overwhelmed reports of ports of entry. Especially in el paso. Officials say they are struggling to maintain safe conditions for nearly 500 families arriving every day. Says his city is scrambling to deal with the impact and he blames federal lawmakers. The root cause is in washington thebyproducts are here on the border. Until they act on that, we will continue to have these problems. Reporter the head of u. S. Customs and Border Protection says 40 percent of their officers are so busy taking care of these families, they are having to leave the job they were hired to do like patrolling drug smugglers and other criminals. Border patrol says its having to pull from every department, even the it folks are being called into hell. Saying quote, nearly every sector across the board or has exceeded their capacity. This crisis has forced cbp to seek every solution to house, process and care for those in custody. Border patrol adding and has no choice but to release some migrants by directly into the Community Without referring to immigration officials first. Kristin thank you. Leland with that, we bring in republican congressman mark walker to talk about this. Congressman, nice to see you as always. I appreciate you taking the time. Does this make sense to you . Because theres a bunch of people coming across the border illegally, that we cant stop. Therefore, we should shut down all of the legal ways to come in not only for people but for goods as well . I dont know that we should shut down all of the legal aid. We have to send a strong message. We continue to be the most philanthropic country in the world. I worked with an organization for years that we send mission teams. But weve got to send a message, this has to stop you two weeks ago i asked secretary nielsen in one of our hearings, i asked her, what does jay johnson think about this . It was neat for him to come out and say two days ago that we have reached a crisis. Certainly disagreeing with many of his democratic colleagues. Leland what good does shutting down the legal ports of entry as the president is threatening to do, what good does that do to fix the crisis . I believe you have to have the officials in these countries making sure they are willing to work with us. The mexican interior secretary says and they are planning to come through mexico. The mother of all caravans. Heres a specific number thats important. In 2017, we only had two groups coming across the board of 100 or more. In the fiscal year 2019, weve only already had 700 groups. You made the point earlier that democrats are saying this a crisis. The question is, what good does shutting down legal ports of entry and stopping the flow of goods and the supply chains for american businesses and stopping u. S. Citizens from being able to come back. What good does that do to the problems youre talking about . Leland, the congress and government has been promising for decades they would resolve this issue. Once again, its been a big hoax on the american people. Some of those officials have told us they will work with us. Democrats until five years ago espoused the same concerns at the border as the republicans do. None of that has worked. Its time to take additional steps and measures. We hope it doesnt go that for people to come together and as the secretary said, theres a crisis. Leland im still not figuring out the cause and effect of shutting down the ports of entry. For those of you not watching the final four competition last night, uva and cavaliers are going to the final fourcongratulations walker. It was the clip. Take a listen. [indiscernible] they have a chance to win here [buzzer] leland of all the money spent on march madness, all of the fans in merchandise, the players dont keep a dime of it and you want to change that you tell us why and how . We want these student athletes to have the same access to the free market that you and i have. We dont want the ncaa to pay them for the university. The fact that a student athlete, though sometimes are making millions of dollars for the university, has no access to be able to market themselves. We think thats a huge injustice. We believe republicans are coming forward to step out and speak out on such injustices. We need to put a stop to it. Where does this bill go from here . Do you have enough democratic support to bring it to the floor . If so, you think the ghost of the senate and how do you see the president on this . I believe the president will find this into law. Our goal is to have into law by the end of the year. 99 percent of the student athletes will never receive a single dollar from a professional sports contract. To restrict them at this point from going out and building some of those bridges using their own likeness is an injustice. We feel like its time to send in the other direction. Leland all right. We will keep that in mind. Especially as your team heads to minneapolis as well. Thank you sir, good to be with you. Thank you leland. Kristin my voice is still hoarse from cheering on uva. Joining us now from the democratic side of the aisle, new york congressman and member of the problem solvers caucus, thank you for coming in on a sunday. Thanks for having me on. Kristin lets start with news thats rocking the democratic 2020 president ial race. What is going on with the former Vice President , joe biden. We saw the first true shop fired at this Campaign Among the democratic primary contenders. Senator Elizabeth Warren said she believes bidens accuser. Do you believe bidens accuser . I dont know whos telling the truth. I think the facts will come out over time. I think we need to listen to what women are saying and we need to listen to the Vice President when he says its not true. Lets watch as it goes forward. Kristin sent today she believes his behavior is disqualifying. Do you believe its disqualifying . I dont know what the behavior is ive known the Vice President for many years. Kristin the accusation is that hes making women feel uncomfortable. Im not going to go through hypothetical situations. Lets see what the facts bear out. I have tremendous respect for the Vice President. I think hes a wonderful Public Servant and would be a great candidate for the presidency and miss forest deserves to be heard and maker points made. Kristin lets turn out to whats happening at the border. Theres a debate to be had as to whether whats happening constitutes a national emergency. Do you believe there is at least a crisis taking place at the border . I think the real crisis related to immigration is taking place in washington d. C. Weve had this problem for 30 years. I was the mayor in 1994 dealing with newcomers from central and south america back then when people were fleeing in those days. We are still dealing with it today. I did an oped piece with congressman peter king in last weeks New York Times where i said lets come together. Lets figure out how to find a path to citizenship for dreamers and tps and other undocumented persons and also lets secure the border. The idea of using cluster and statements, we are going to close down the border and cut off date. Thats not going to do anything. Lets Work Together, democrats and republicans. To address this problem once and for all. Kristin even though Border Patrol agents say theyre expecting about 100,000 apprehensions orencounters with migrants in this month. The month of march. You still dont think that constitutes a crisis at the border. Theres no question its a major problem that people are fleeing poverty and rape. Most americans dont realize, people are not fleeing from mexico. They are fleeing from guatemala, honduras and el salvador. But statements like that are not going to solve the problem. The only thing that will solve the problem is if thepresident , democrats, republicans, all Work Together to figure out how to deal with the undocumented persons living in the United States of america now. Put up money to secure our border. Which is not only physical structures but better ports of entry and more Immigration Judges and more custom Border Patrol. Radar, technology. Its Work Together and solve this problem once and for all. Enough with all the bluster. Kristin you talk about problem solving and you are a member of the problemsolving caucus. Democrats are now in control. Are there any legislative fixes at all in the pipeline that yall are working on . Right now, the democrats as a whole are working very hard on trying to deal with the undocumented persons in america. Some of us are trying to work on also saying, lets marry that with Border Security issues. Democrats have talked about better ports of entry. More Immigration Judges. More radar, more technology. I think we need to actually invest more in trying to make people not leave guatemala, honduras and el salvador in the first place. Can you imagine how dreadful their lives must be that there fleeing their countries, walking all this way to come to a country where the president is saying. Com . We have to figure out how to treat people like human beings. How people have to act as legislators point democrats, republicans, listening to experts and working together to secure our borders and at the same time, deal with the undocumented persons in our country currently. Kristin we will see if President Trump makes good on his threat to shut down the border this week. We know hes going to the border friday. We will have to wait and see. Congressman, thank you. Thank you so much. I dont think threats will solve the problem. I think working together will solve the problem. 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