the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established the basis to remain in the united states, and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. we have to go, we are out of time. what is the rough cost to american taxpayers since the roughly 4 million people have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, as they enter the school system, get other government help. do you have a taxpayer cost? let me turn that questionp around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me. and the question that the international partner asked of me is what is the economic cost of your broken immigration system? since there are businesses around this country that are desperate for work
contact my office, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i ll give you president biden heckled during the state of the union and he seemed to enjoy it. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. president biden delivering his second state of the union address, the first before a newly divided congress. the president of the united states. the president called for unity telling republicans he wants to work together instead of fighting for the sake of fighting. still he was heckled more than once by some unruly house republicans. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not sayings it is the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office and i ll give you a copy, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i m glad to see i tell you, i enjoy conversion. you know, it means if congress doesn t keep the programs the way they are, they will go away. i m not saying it is a majority of you, i m not even saying it
battlefield. now after a year of war, their powerful tributes announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank you for joining us tonight alex murdaugh s sometimes failing memory, glaring contradictions and courtroom admission that he had lied to police were all fertile ground for prosecutors today as the accused double murderer spent another day testifying in his own defense. at moments displaying flashes of anger murdaugh on trial for the murders of his wife and 22-year-old son facing more cross-examination today. the prosecution digging into the heart of its case against him. the time line of his actions around the time of the murders. confronting the former attorney with cell phone records, his own words from his initial interview with police, even the number of steps recorded by his smartphone leaving murdaugh at times struggling to provide full explanations. catie beck is covering the trial for us in walterboro, south carolina. when
what the heck is that? those are the bad guys. are they friendly? the 10g network, only from xfinity. one giant leap for mankind. the top of the hour this monday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. this morning the white house is refuting china s claims that they had illegally flown balloons in china airspace ten teams. the white house is calling that allegation flat out false. it is coming on the heels of the u.s. shooting down three unidentified objects over the last week. and it is not known if they have connections to the three others after the shot down surveillance balloon. there is pressure mounting on president biden to explain all of this as one democratic congressman says that people are quote freaked out. the pentagon says that there was no military threat, and despite that military officials across north america are on alert for more of these. we go to natasha bertrand with more on this. and natasha, what are we learning about at the latest objects shot down, an
and a warm welcome it our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead for us here on cnn newsroom, the race to find survivors in turkey and syria. experts warn time is running out as cold weather heightens the danger. another object shot down off the coast of the united states. details still murky, but u.s. president biden is calling the operation a success. and brazilian president da silva meets with the u.s. president. we ll have part two of christiane amanpour exclusive interview with brazil s leader. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. more than 24,000 people are now confirmed dead in turkey and syria five days after a powerful earthquake absolutely devastated those countries. in turkey, emergency crews continue digging through the rubble with their bare hands if they have to, hoping to find yet another survivor. on friday, they rescued a mother and daughter who had been tr