Mike good evening, Welcome To Washington im mike emanuel in for bret baier. Breaking tonight a pivotal. Eagle pass texas is under a State Of Emergency tonight. The democratic mayor of eagle pass made the declaration as thousands of Illegal Immigrants are crossing into the country in virtually nonstop fashion. We have fox team coverage. Peter doocy at the white house shows us what the president s Press Secretary did when he asked about the crisis. We begin with correspondent bill melugin who has the latest from eagle pass. Hello, bill. Bill mike, illegal crossings here at the Southern Border are back at record high levels. Border patrol agents tell us their morale has never been lower and after two and a half years already, it appears this Border Crisis is show nothing signs of stopping. Illegal crossings into eagle pass, texas surged once again today with fox news cameras catching a nonstop flow of migrants beginning at sunrise and continuing almost nonstop all day long. Neither texas
steady growth in manufacturing jobs? steve: right. really hard for folks to focus on it because it s under the radar. each of these new factories and the expassengers of factories heavily regulated by the obama administration. you know, it walls hard to move a machine from one side of the shop to the other without either negotiating with a union or negotiating with barack obama or barack obama calling up the union and telling them to go in there and negotiate. steve: right. now can you get stuff done reasonably. not recklessly but reasonably. everybody wants a safe workplace. the safe workplace in barack obama s world was no work place. we have opened up the factories again. isn t that great news? steve: it is especially for the americans who need jobs. right now we have more job openings than americans who are looking for work. peter, you mentioned the word reckless a moment ago. i was watching tv earlier in the week a lot of commentators were saying that the president was reckles
almost all agree on that. subsidies repealed and replaced by monthly tax credits. the preexisting conditions would be preserved. young people they will still be allowed to stay on their parent s plan until the age of 26. here is another big sticking point. this bill we restructure the medicaid program to move it away from the expassengers enacted by the affordable care act. some experts say that could result in millions of americans losing access to their health insurance but the republican leaders who put forward this bill, like congressman kevin brady, he says that this is the bill that republicans have been waiting for. it is obamacare gone. we repeal all those taxes, those mandates. those subsidies. there is nothing left there. and, instead, we give them the same tax break that we give workers at big businesses. now for president trump, this is the first major piece of legislation that he is trying to get through congress. it will be fulfilling a major campaign promise and alre
that depict what it was like, for instance, getting ugly. these are regarding the tea party protests 8 years ago. abby: that was back in 2008. pete: that s the contrast. unruly press in 2009. very bad title used. they are racist. they re crazy. they re revolutionaries are these tea party folks whereas today you have got they are being characterized today as grassroots resistance or progressives and having their voices heard when if you look at the tea party. i remember that flashback to 2009. these are citizens saying hey, we don t like the expassengers of our government. we want to have a discussion maybe some are loud. what have you today are people shouting down members of congress. there is no discussion at these town halls it is listen to us yell at you. sit down. we are resisting you. that s not town hall that s harassment. abby: just because they re loud doesn t mean they are powerful. you think about the tea party movement they stood for something. very much against government