States heads to the capitol to address a joint session of congress one of the fights of what to do with the people who come here to live and work in violation of the Immigration Laws. In the face of inaction on the part of cropping, the president has moved on his own in two big ways. First, delayed deportation of people who were brought to the country as children. Next he gave temporary relief to the parents of the socalled dreamers. When the new house of representatives took their seats, one of the first big votes came on immigration telling the president you just cant do that. Now theyre on a collision course. We know that immigration policies are out of date and badly broken. A system that is holding us back instead of strengthening our economy and growing our middle class. Right now we have 11. 5 million undocumented immigrants. 11million men and women who live their lives in the shadows. Many of them have been here for years. The he overwhelming majority of these individuals are n
Unspecified reason. This comes after a man jumped the white house lawn last friday and spent more than 16 minutes on the white house grounds before he was arrested. I want to bring in kelly odonnell. Shes in West Palm Beach florida, not too far from President Trumps home at maralago. What are you hearing . Reporter this, of course is happening back at the white house. We have some nbc personnel who are there, really for just this kind of reason. If theres any sort of an incident affecting the president ial residence, we always have staff there seven days a week. So our colleagues who are there tell us they have been put on whats called lockdown. This is a fairly typical procedure. It basically means that if theres some concern that relates to security, the secret service will sort of keep everyone in their positions and they cannot walk around on the grounds. That kind of thing. So that always raises our attention. Going beyond that, the information we have from colleagues is that they
republicans to stay at the table and to give some. of course, asking his party to do the same. if he can achieve that i think democrats could have a chance at maybe keeping the house and certainly the senate. it would be difficult, but at the very least, i think they could avoid the type of dramatic losses that we have seen both parties incur after having unified government for two years. carlos, in this context i have to ask you about marjorie taylor greene. we have the sound of her comments. i don t want to play it. she compared requests to get vaccinated to nazi germany that s astonishing to everyone familiar with those events. there have been a number of republicans who have called her out, who have said this is horrible. leadership has been largely silent about her. why is that? how can they stay silent in the
and leigh ann caldwell and carlos corbelo. it s good to see you. leigh ann, let me start with you. so much is playing out on capitol hill. there was, for many republicans earlier in the year, something of a sigh of relief, even if they wouldn t say that in public that president trump was leaving the stage. there was anger about what happened on january 6th. there was an interest in getting back on track after a year of the pandemic. in the intervening five months, a lot has changed. i struggle to see how exactly they end up in a place of sweeping bipartisanship or incremental bipartisanship on some of the signature issues. what s your latest reporting on
to be deciding that they are better off obstructing to get bigger gains next fall. democrats are going to have to realize that they re going to have to be better off showing that government can work if they re going to do better in next year s election. carlos, is it about obstructing? mitch mcconnell ran that playbook against obama in 2009, the wide consensus was that it worked. eventually republicans won back the levers of government. it didn t seem to be working for him early on. he made another comment along those lines that he then had to walk back. my question is, is it about that? or is it really about donald trump? is it possible for a republican party that has clearly now time and time again refused to break with him, does that just leave us with a country that s basically ungovernable? joe biden said, we need a functioning republican party for this country to succeed.