and they re using it to subvert us in our hemisphere. we do not have a hemispheric strategy to prevent poverty which creates immigration pressure. number three, i think we have to look at immigration as a positive. one of the things we have in china that is different from that is the same from our country is we have declining birth rates. the difference is nobody wants to go to china. everybody wants to come to the u.s. we re not having a coherent conversation about legal immigration and what it should be indexed to. it should be indexed to unemployment, it should be indexed to that declining birth rate, and it should be in the best interest of americans. and that could mean significantly increasing legal immigration, which also helps solve the problem. and the hardest problem is the undocumented that we have here. those who are here, we, i think all accept as a country that you can t just teleport them out of our country. and so i think as a hispanic republican president, it gives y
years ago, it s one thing if it s reported, right, and there s a lot of dark money when it comes to activism in the judicial space. but the defense that leonard leo put forth is preposterous, the idea that she was paid for things that had nothing to do with the court. what was the head of an activist group is advocating around legal issues around the court, what was he paying ginni thomas for if it wasn t business related to what s happening on the court. i think these are very specific allegations related to ginni thomas that are a category difference from some of the other stuff that might not smell great related to harlan crow but might not be a direct issue to the legitimacy of the court. jake, while you have some moderate republicans calling into questions the ethics of all of this, you have other hard-liners who are fund-raising off of this. many are likely to go to their constituents to say help protect the supreme court, defend justice thomas here.
more frustration from those migrants and more overcrowding from officials here as they deal with the surge along the southern border. julia ainsley, thank you. i want to bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. so garrett, this is a complex issue. are lawmakers even talking about what they could possibly do, or are you finding it seems difficult to get lawmakers to discuss this let alone find common ground. reporter: there s plenty of conversation on this issue, and frankly, there has been for years. one republican lawmaker involved in these talks described it to me as saying immigration is the issue on which congress has never failed to fail. there s been tons of ideas put forward about how to approach this, and there will be more next week when house republicans are hoping to put their big immigration bill on the floor. the thing that might be most responsive to this particular crisis is a bipartisan bill put forward by senators tillis and sinema, they s
legislative session and many have weighed in that he s essentially creating a blueprint for the nation with the priorities lined up there in the session. what have we seen so far out of florida? it s really been the ron desantis show up here in tallahassee. there s republican super majorities in both chambers. they ve been very compliant and really not wanted to create the are perception they re doing anything to stifle a presidential run. they ve passed bills championed by desantis for permitless gun carry, making it easier to execute criminals, expanding florida s death penalty. there s new rules on democratic leaning or progressive leaning unions. there s legislation banning children from attending adult themed drag shows, and the big one here is governor desantis signing the six-week abortion ban, which i think is going to play out most in 2024. he signed that late at night kind of behind closed doors. they know it s not very popular, and that did spur some public concern from do
malicious, and gossipy people can be, i have always tried to protect the privacy of justice thomas and ginni. the story continues a pattern of negative headlines, these over just the last month alone that critics say threatens the credibility of the court and raises the pressure on chief justice john roberts to act. let s bring in jake sherman, cofounder of punchbowl news and tim miller writer at large for the bulwark and former communications director for jeb bush s 2016 campaign. both are msnbc political contributors. jake, the drip, drip, drip of controversy surrounding clarence thomas suggests this issue isn t going away. can congressional republicans continue to ignore it? what are you hearing on the hill? yes, and they probably will. here s the larger issue from 30,000 feet, the supreme court is its own entity and does not believe that it should have to answer to congress and to public opinion. and that s how in their estimation the country has been designed. now, there is a