Reason is border is not secure is donald trump and his maga republican friends. You see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. We dont know where they come from. Bill you get the tale of two borders today. President biden and former President Trump will be on the u. S. Mexican border in different locations. Dueling visits could not be more different. Dana has the week off. Im bill hemmer in new york city. Happy leap day to everybody. Welcome back to you in new york. Gillian. Gillian is it tomorrow . I dont know. Bill every four years were here. Gillian this is americas newsroom. Former President Trump is heading to eagle pass in texas. Thats the heart of the current iteration of this Border Crisis. Agents have apprehended over 2,000 migrants in the past five days. Bill p President Biden is going to brownsville. Agents have nabbed a few dozen migrants this week. The city is protected by razor wire. Gillian the problem has spiraled out of control and could be
today on inside politics, exclusive new cnn reporting about an immunity deal for a fake bear of electors. new details that make clear the trump special counsel s january 6th investigation is picking up speed. plus, joe biden hardly ever says it, donald trump wants to steer clear of it. mike pence wants to put every single republican on record about it. one year after dobbs erased roe, abortion is front and center in the 2024 campaign. and damning if true, accusations against the justice department. irs whistleblowers bullet point how they say the do j block ed the hunter biden investigation at every turn. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, jack smith plays hardball. cnn s new exclusive reporting breaking right now. it takes us inside the special counsel s investigation into the insurrection. the big takeaway tromwhat cnn is learning, federal investigators are getting important questions answered about the trump plot to overturn the 2020 elec
Its an effort to undermine our democracy, to diminish Donald Trumps own two impeachments, his first impeachment for trying to illegally bribe a Foreign Government to help him with his campaign, and the second for a deadly insurrection in the halls of this capitol after he asked his followers to tear through the halls of congress which they did with zip ties looking to execute the former Vice President. And we know donald trump has called for this Impeachment Inquiry, because we have the direct evidence from his own social. You can see it right here. He says impeach the bum. And we also know that hes been directly coordinating with members of this committee as reported by the New York Times right here, a member of this committee has been briefing donald trump on this inquiry. We also know that if donald trump doesnt get his way, he wants his loyalists to shut down the government. How do we know that . Because he posted it right here on his social media and his loyalists in this committe
intelligence. i m the a.i. guy. [laughter] hey, i m pleased to announce that these seven companies have agreed to voluntary commitments for responsible innovation. gillian: as the allegations laid out in an now infamous fd 1023 form roiled washington for a second day in a row the white house stayed silent after insisting the trump justice department trump appointed u.s. attorney and trump impeachment trial all covered these issues and found them lacking credibility. but republican lawmakers are ratcheting up the pressure with calls for an impeachment inquiry. i don t think there is any secret where i would vote on impeachment. you can move into impeachment inquiry and that gives congress more teeth to actually get more investigators, more subpoena power. irs whistleblowers this week testified the justice department obstructed their investigation into hunter biden for years. we re here for accountability and that we learn from this. this leading house republicans to requ
did hunter biden get off easy? republicans say a federal plea deal threatped the president s son with treated the president s son, i should say, with kid gloves. now they re amplifying a far more serious claim, that the justice department obstructed its own investigation. they asked for special counsel status, and garland s justice department says no. if the special counsel is not warranted here, when is it? they said that there was not unless in the justice department with a president of the united states needs to respond to these assertions, these allegations. the justice department simply has turned a blind eye to hunter biden. they were told to stand down.