default. that was senate majority leader chuck schumer late last night after his chamber passed the debt ceiling bill. we ll have more on that vote and the continuing fallout in the house over the agreement. meanwhile florida governor ron desantis seizes on a potential weakness in donald trump s third presidential bid while both men campaign in iowa. and also ahead a rough moment for president biden at a graduation ceremony, which will fuel more questions about his age as he seeks a second term. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with an official deal in washington. the senate passed the biden-mccarthy debt ceiling bill last night in a rare bipartisan act in the capitol. the move ensures the united states will not default on its debt after weeks and weeks of uncertainty. the final vote was 63 yeas to 36 nays with more democrats voting for the deal than
pass border is constant, over the last few hours we have seen how group after group of migrants get here, and that doesn t stop at night, either, after the immigrants surrender to u.s. border patrol agents at the border, they are brought here to this holding area behind me, where they have to wait to be processed. just yesterday customs and border protection released the numbers of what they call encounters with immigrants with border patrol agents. for the month of november, there were 191,113 apprehensions along the border, and that number rises to more than 242,000, nearly a quarter of a million people, if we add those who seek asylum at ports of entry. as high as those numbers seem, officials say they re lower as compared to the same period last year. congressman tony gonzalez, a republican who represents two-thirds of the texas border with mexico says, help from the federal government here at the border is desperately needed, especially considering that those in charge o
so when they stay far apart from each other last spring in the name of public health, it was an enormous sacrifice whether or not we understood it at the tim. but because this was a trusting and law-abiding country, we obey that order. we barely grumbled about it. we assumed they knew best. 6 feet from each other. that was social distancing. it was the law and most of us follow the law. but where did that law come from? who the of the scientific research that determine 6 feet is that safest distance apart from other people that you could be? someone should have asked that last spring, but as far as we know, no one did ask. it turns out the research that form the basis of that law came from a german high genesis called carl flew. it was he who decided 6-foot separations were necessary for the spread of pathogens. the cdc went with his judgment. with the cdc did not tell us is that carl had been dead 100 years. his research on social distancing was published in the 19th century
name of public health, it was an enormous sacrifice, whether or not we understood it at the time. but because this was a trusting and law-abiding country, we obey that order. we barely grumbled about it. idwe assumed they knew best. 6 feet from each other. that was social distancing. it was the law and most of us follow the law. but where did that law come from? who did the scientific research that determined 6 feet was the safest distance apart from other people that you could be? someone should have asked that last spring, but as far as we know, no one did ask. it turns out the research that form the basis of that law came from a german high genesis called coral fluke. it n was he who decided 6-foot separations were necessary for the spread of pathogens. the cdc went with his judgment. with the cdc did not tell us is that carl had been dead 100 years. his research on social distancing was published in the 19th century before most americans had electricity or indoor plumbing
upsmanship. if you are a republican governor who wants to be president, running for president now, you are trying to be all in on the border. jonathan, why this matters, this shows how much the republican party has changed in the era of trump, how permanently trump has changed the party. just this week, you had five republican governors announcing they were deploying national guard troops to the texas-mexico border. we see those governors there, and those five were following florida governor ron desantis, who two weeks ago, did that. now, texas governor greg abbott, another republican, had asked for this. they say that in addition to the border, also dealing with fentanyl issues. but, jonathan, we re seeing it out on the trail. i watched president i watched president trump start to go after start to amp up his own border rhetoric this week in