Always wide open. Sometimes theyre choked with ice. Mr. President , hopefully you and i are goerg toe have an opportunity to go up and see some ice. And understand what is going on inhe understand what is going on in the bearing straits, understand what is in the baring straits, and to appreciate the ft an arctic nation, we have one polar security cutter that io s in th water. You know what . She doesnt even go to the arctic. She plows out mcmurd every year, and she is so old and shes so tired, she has to go back into dry dock, and she sits therentdone. Then she goes back and she plows out mcmurdo. So were probably never going to see her in the shame. What a shame. Because russias got more than their share of ice breakers up there. By some counts, over 50, 54. China has their ice breakers that theyre working on. We have they have six we know of, probably me by now. Were not engaging as an arrangementsic nation as an arctic nation, when others can move i the arctic and we cant. We cant.
fire. 100 meters. we re trying to make our way out of here. plus, see the intense fight in the forest, showing what ukraine is up against. leading this hour, the latest dysfunction on capitol hill, this time over immigration beginning with a look at how we got here. you ll recall when president biden was sworn in on january 20, 2021, the new administration started ending trump administration immigrations policy arguing they were harsh and inhumane, for instance a policy that forced would be asylum seekers to stay south of the border. last may along party lines house republicans passed hr -2, a bil that would bring back trump policies. president biden vetoed the bill. last october republicans demanded any additional aid for ukraine and israel would need to include legislation to deal with the border crisis. james langford of oklahoma along with kyrsten sinema and chris murphy decided to negotiation for a compromise. in mid december hoping to win passage for the aid for u
incident to police. that does it for us this hour. our coverage continues with katy tur reports, right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. what is president biden hoping to get out of today s executive order allowing him to seal the southern border? he made the announcement just a few minutes ago saying the influx of migrants is unsustainable. quote, for those who say the steps i ve taken are too strict, i say to you be patient. the goodwill of the american public is wearing thin right now. doing nothing is not an option. we have to act. he also said that without immigration reform, specifically the immigration bill which was crafted by a bipartisan team of senators and leaned conservative, by the way, signing an executive order was his only remaining option. that order is definitely going to go to the courts. the aclu has already said it plans on suing. and a number of progressive lawmakers including the congressional hispanic caucus are crying foul, saying this isn
they are doing in terms of shutting down the border saying they re taking dramatic action et cetera and what it looks like it will actually how it will actually play out on the ground. i m pretty skeptical at this point that this is going to have any kind of immediate measurable dramatic result in terms of the number of people crossing. and there s a very specific reason for that. a lot of us on this beat expected that this border shutdown authority would be premised on the idea that the biden that the biden administration would have the authority to summarily expel migrants, asylum seekers, immediately to mexico, immediately after they crossed, which is what was happening under title 42, which did in fact have a pretty dramatic effect on the number of people crossing the border. that is apparently not the case. i ve spoken to two next kavn immigration officials today who have said they have gotten no indication there s a plan to receive more migrants. mexico has to cooperate with