i think he should get an award for that and loved the lead with jake tapper starts right now james, trump debating whether they should try to push his july 11 sentencing, elite starts right hand the question of the moment for the trump campaign. should they try to move the former president s sentencing date or keep it as it is. the republican convention begins july 15 in milwaukee, sentencing july 11. ahead, what sources are telling you know, about this dilemma plus dr. anthony fauci back on capitol hill facing questions and some attacks about the coronavirus pandemic you, the american people deserve to be abused like that. mr. fauci, because you re not dr. your mr. fauci and my few minutes is this what we have become is this what congress has become? and that flagrant foul on wnba superstar caitlin clark, was it? all just part of the game or intended to be a lot more personal welcome to oled on jake tapper and we start today with our law and justice lead and brand new cn
shut down the us mexico border to asylum seekers. it s a policy that immigration rights advocates and some democrats said was way too harsh when it was proposed under the trump administration. let s get right to cnn s mj lee at the white house md, walk us through this new policy well jake sources who were briefed on this executive order tells cnn that what it would allow the administration to do is effectively shut down the us mexico border to asylum seekers. if the number of daily crossings at the border reaches and star passes certain number. now, we are told that unaccompanied children would be accent from this. but that is actually worrisome to immigration advocates because they say that that actually has the effect of incentivizing seeing an encouraging some desperate families from actually chilled ascending children to the border on their own. now, president biden would be using an authority called the 212f authorities. this was a regulation you might recall that was used by fo
this country those minors are entitled to due process as was quick to point out the u.s. has domestic obligations to asylum seeking children including access to an attorney. the president is being accused of pushing to weaken those protections in a letter asking congress for help the president wrote he needed additional authority to exercise discretion in processing return and removal of unaccompanied minor children from countries where most of the kids are coming from. since the president did not explain what he meant by discretion immigrant aggregates are concerned. earlier i spoke to the domestic policy adviser for the president and point person for immigration reform efforts and i asked her about the criticism coming from immigration rights advocates who say the president is trying to rob the children of due process.
reform efforts and i asked her about the criticism coming from immigration rights advocates who say the president is trying to rob the children of due process. those groups are overstating what we asked for, greater authority to make sure the process is more efficient. nobody is talking about turning people back at the border and nobody is talking about denying the kids of due process rights. we are talking about making sure the process doesn t take years and years and years before people get an answer. part of the reason we have such a great sense of urgency is that people making decision to put their kids in the hands of smugglers because they are telling them it is easy you pay us the money we take your kid across mexico and get to the united states and they will be home free. that is not true. we want to make sure that we protect these kids and their due process rights but we also want