to tap into an authority that former president donald trump tried to use when he was president at something democrats decried and eventually it was struck down in the courts. but certainly this comes as biden in this trial trying to show he is doing more when it comes to border security at a time when republicans have tried to paint him as weak on the issue. okay. arlette saenz. thank you for the reporting from the white house thank you all for joining us this morning. i m alison camera radha, our next our of newsroom with wolf blitzer starts now you are in the cnn newsroom. i, wolf blitzer in washington. we re following the breaking news up on capitol hill right now, house republicans have been grilling the attorney general of the united states merrick garland. that s about to continue. merrick garland is being asked about supposedly spreading baseless let s conspiracy theories that have been going on. and the justice department is using alleged lawfare. this is what repub
momentum, told them to walk away from the deal and they did. and now they voted against their own bill several times. so left with no other choice. the president has to take action at this point. and i think what s so disappointing about is republicans sort of fury about this issue and outrage about this issue is completely disingenuous. why would they go ahead and vote and pass the bill? they ve instead left jeopardize the safety of the country in these communities all over the nation to suck up, to donald trump is if republicans would have voted for that bipartisan bill, it would have passed, the president would have signed it into law. and a lot of these debates that are going on right now how would not be taking place? i ve spent a lot of my career on capitol hill working very unsuccessfully. i would say on immigration reform. and this bill that was brought up a bipartite producing bill for to conservative, very conservative republican from oklahoma. this is a bill that we wouldn