have pelosi and schumer lost control of their caucuses? todd: conditions at the tent city into rio, texas being compared to a third world country as dhs admit nation migrants are being released into the with the secretary failed to answer how many. jillian: griff jenkins in washington. even democrats are condemning biden s border policy. reporter: bipartisan condemnation. the administration saying one thing and doing another. secretary mayorkas says migrants are returned when the cross, his own agency confirms they are not being expelled and are being released in the us with orders to appear immigration office in 60 days. all family units and women claiming to be pregnant are freed, mayorkas is growing tired of being asked about actual numbers. you were asked the same question and gave the same answer. you would think you would be better prepared. let me share something with you quite clearly. i work 18 hours a day. when i return from yesterday s hearing focused on miss
following a fresh wave of optimism in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. maybe more optimism than we ve heard in months. listen to this bold claim from a doctor our viewers and listeners will recognize. we have definitely turned a corner. i think the worst is behind us. there are lots of reasons he s feeling so positive. this morning pfizer put in a formal request for emergency news authorization to get its vaccine to children ages 5 to 11. vaccine rates are also up. new white house research showing vaccine requirements have cut the u.s. unvaccinated rate by a full third. in fact, vaccine requirements have been so effective president biden leaving the white house for illinois in a few hours to talk them out. and that comes as the labor department gets ready to rule out a new rule requiring shots for tens of millions more americans on top of all that, cases are down. hospitalizations are down. deaths are down. even in the south where things were so dire just a few
trip to chicago tomorrow in order to spearhead negotiations to save his multi-trillion dollar domestic agenda which is at a make or break point right now with anxiety growing among democrats. biden holding meetings with joe manchin, kyrsten sinema to work out a deal with them. also today the top general testifying that they recommended maintaining 2,500 u.s. troops in afghanistan rather than a complete withdrawal, apparently contradicting statements made by president biden about the advice he received from pentagon leaders. a new development in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn laundrie and his family went camping a week after he returned to florida without his fiance gabby petito. let s bring in cnn s senior political analyst john avlon and white house correspondent john harwood. i have to be careful here because they are both named john. good evening, gentlemen. so, mr. harwood, this is about making a deal. who does president biden have more lever
Should be doing. if that s what you want to do, we re not going to make it any easier, but you are right to point out, and this is very true, that republicans spend as much money as democrats. they just spend it on different things. that s a great way to summarize the positions of both parties. lee ann, the debt ceiling fight taking up a lot of oxygen on the hill with this deal at least for two months, does it make it more likely the democrats will be age to work through their issues and pass the infrastructure and spending bills? well, i don t know about more likely, because they have their own problems in doing it. at least now they can focus on that and not worry about this existential crisis that was upon them. so they can focus the media attention, their press attention on this. they can focus on their negotiations instead of president biden holding meetings with ceos about the debt limit,
Trip to chicago tomorrow in order to spearhead negotiations to save his multi-trillion dollar domestic agenda which is at a make or break point right now with anxiety growing among democrats. biden holding meetings with joe manchin, kyrsten sinema to work out a deal with them. also today the top general testifying that they recommended maintaining 2,500 u.s. troops in afghanistan rather than a complete withdrawal, apparently contradicting statements made by president biden about the advice he received from pentagon leaders. a new development in the search for brian laundrie. an attorney confirming to cnn laundrie and his family went camping a week after he returned to florida without his fiance gabby petito. let s bring in cnn s senior political analyst john avlon and white house correspondent john harwood. i have to be careful here because they are both named john. good evening, gentlemen. so, mr. harwood, this is about making a deal. who does president biden have