good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the humanitarian crisis on the border. it is the challenge that americans say they want solved more than any other problem. and now president biden is making his most dramatic move yet to deal with illegal immigration. will today s executive action come too late to reverse the political damage that has been years in the making? plus details about the president s son, including claims he was smoking crack every 15 minutes emerging on day one of the federal trial. the defense is using the opening statement to argue that hunter biden was in deep denial and may not have considered himself a drug addict. outside the courtroom, a dramatic altercation between hunter biden s wife and a former trump white house aide. a group of senate republicans refusing to do their jobs and using baseless conspiracy theories around donald trump s conviction as an excuse. how could that impact what has been one of the least pr
murphy, the first lady of new jersey, for bob menendez s senate seat. tammy murphy then dropped out. andy kim has minimal opposition. that means he is probably cruising to the democratic nomination. this sets up a potential three-way race, featuring andy kim, if he ends up winning tonight, against senator bob menendez running as an independent. and a handful of republicans who are running for their party s nomination. that s going to be interesting. but then, the race i am most focused on is the new jersey eight congressional race. that is congressman rob menendez. bob menendez s son, running against the mayor of hoboken, bhalla. tv ads, and super pac supporting bhalla, invoked the corruption trial into senator menendez and tried to tie that to his son.