it s her, the woman who was in charge of security on january 6th. it s nancy belosi. for the 100th time, that is not nancy pelosi. it is nikki haley. are you doing okay, donald? you might need a mental competency test. you know what i did? i took the test, and i aced it, okay? perfect score. they said i m 100% mental. you know, i m competent because i m a man. that s why a woman should never run our economy. women are terrible with money. in fact, a woman i know recently asked me for $83.3 million. and you spent $50 million in your own legal fees. do you need to borrow some money? oh, don t do this, nikki. nikki, don t lose that number. nikki haley. joel osman we call her. sixth sense, remember that one? i see dead people. yeah, that s what voters will say if they see you and joe on the ballot. nikki haley making a surprise appearance on saturday night live. the republican presidential candidate is coming off of her best month for fundraising despite calls f
fast track a vote on banning bump stocks following the supreme court s controversial decision to make them legal again. and we ll have new reporting on just what donald trump is looking for in a possible running mate as we re now less than a month away from the republican national convention. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a lot of news to get to this morning. we ll begin here. president biden will take new executive action today that will remove the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people who are married to united states citizens. the program known as parole in place would apply to about a half a million undocumented immigrants. it would allow them to stay in the country while applying for green card status. the current law requires them to return to their home countries to start such a process, which can take years to complete. to qualify new applicants
thank you so much, nick. i spoke with retired general wesley clark, former supreme allied leader of nato. i asked him about the significance of this incident. when a nato nation shoots down a russian aircraft, it s still an act by turkey, not nato. aircraft are not under nato control, under turkish operational control. they re flying un-turkish air missions and nato is not running an air defense umbrella, it s integrated, to best of my knowledge. bigger picture, this has to do with complexity of the conflict in syria. president obama said, this illustrates ongoing problem with the russian operations. the president suggested, if russia was targeting isis, in areas that isis controlled, this might not have happened. that s exactly right. but this is the larger context. what you have here is no political agreement.
a senior official says in a phone call that the russian defense minister described his country s military buildup in syria as a defensive in nature operation. but u.s. officials say it looks to them like russia has been supplying the assad regime with fighter jets, attack helicopters and battle tanks. that s not defensive. the russian officials agreed that the i should say the russian officials urged the united states to buddy if one assad to fight terrorism but barack obama called on the syrian dictator to step down and has been doing so for years. secretary of state john kerry says he is absolutely certain and that s a quote, that assad used chemical womens chemical weapons against his own people. we have a former supreme nato allied commander. now the don t of the fletcher school at tufts university. nice to see you again. thank you. good to see you, shepard. are you worried about the russian moves or is this something with which we should not concern ourselves?
syrian, according to a syrian foreign minister. we ll talk with a former supreme allied command over nato who says the russian president vladimir putin is trying to undermine the united states at every turn. the army, navy, air force, all set to open up all combat jobs to women. but there s word that the marine corps does not want to budge on certain posts and it s reportedly inflaming tensions between the military branches. the details on that on a friday from fox news channel. when your windshield needs fixed.