and average per day up from 313 per day from laszlo, 4200 children in custody, 2943 held beyond the 72 hour limit placed on border patrol. homeland security says the us could soon reach the highest number of people apprehended at the border in 28 years. immigration lawyers say the migrants are sending their children over the border alone so they won t be sent back. democrats are blaming donald trump for the overwhelming surge of the border, hit his successor, president joe biden are speaking out tonight, the biden administration still refuses to call what is happening a crisis. people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands, young children are coming in and they believe they think it is going to be so wonderful and our country can t handle it. it is a crisis like we have rarely had and certainly we ve never had on the border but is going to get much worse. shannon: welcome to fox news at night. white house correspondent kevin cork is tracking what donald trump and pres
joining. this is big tonight. they have long argued this institution is broken, that right wingers broke it and that you can t even pretend to tackle america s tough problems if you won t clean up the system. today newly elected georgia senator raphael warnock used his first floor speech to invoke the pitched battle over americans right to vote arguing senators right to vote should not be vetoed by republican minority abuse of the filibuster tactic. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crowe era. it is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society. colleagues, those senate rules should overrule the integrity of our democracy. this is jim crowe in new clothes. this was a powerful way to begin his senate career. warnock looking like the rookie and the vet willing to offer new ideas with the experience of a
i will not relent until we beat this virus, but i need you. biden s primetime call to action. get vaccinated and help others beat covid-19. then several countries suspend the use of the astrazeneca vaccine as they examine a possible link to blood clots. later, prince will william says the royals aren t racist. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden used his first televised primetime speech to lay out a hopeful vision for lifting america out of the year long pandemic. at the heart of his optimism, an enormous package of economic relief that totals almost $2 trillion. the president signed it into action on thursday. he circled may 1st on the calendar, a day he hopes will signal the beginning of the end of the pandemic for most americans. all adult americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than may 1. that s much earlier than expected. let me be clear, that doesn t mean everyone is going to have that shot immediately, but it means
by may 1st, less than two months from now, he s directing all states and territories to make all adults eligible for the vaccine. you ll also want to mark july 4th on your calendar. biden is expected to announce americans should be able to gather in small groups by then. two dates to look forward to as today marks one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic. it s a sobering milestone with more than half a million american lives lost between that declaration and tonight. even with biden s hopeful announcement, tonight is one of those occasions when it is important to step back and remember how we got here. starting one year ago today, march 11th, o 2020, when the world stood still. just moments ago on capitol hill government health officials testified on the government s response to coronavirus and this statement from one of the nation s top medical experts was not reassuring. we will see more cases and things will get
Give you last word. Antiwar candidate he criticized iraq and afghanistan war. He was reluctant to get into another war. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for all of his efforts. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for watching. Hard ball starts right now, chris matthews. The coming of trump. Lets play hard ball. Back in washington the start of a busy month. In 18 days donald trump will be
sworn in like it or not as the 45th president of the United States. Today President Obama returned from vacation in hawaii with the goal of trying to protect his legacy which is an Endangered Political Spe sees. Address last week interest chicago. President elect trump returned from his vacation. He tweeted. 2,762 this past year. He criticized what he called Media Outlets for suggesting he himself thought he was going to lose the election. Well talk to newly appointed kellyanne conway. What is donald trump know that we dont what does donald trump know that President Obama and
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