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Enforcement agents that are here trying to control the border and despite the infrastructure that is in place, december, another record breaking month in terms of illegal border crossings and more than 225,000 illegal crossings and 10,000 a day and at the same time, john, the situation has changed dramatically in the last week and the number of crossings has dwindled and we ve been here several days now and the number of crossings are very low and not anywhere close to what it was the week before christmas where we are seeing thousands of people crossing here into eagle pass and that s kind of the situation that more than 50 republican lawmakers will see here in just a few hours in eagle pass. ed lavandera in texas for us, keep us posted. thank you. let s continue the conversation and i am joined by a democrat from the border state of texas and a member of the house arms services committee. thanks for being here. good morning. i want to get to the congressional delegation at th ....
Ongoing plagiarism scandal. reverend al sharpton announced he and the national action network plan to picket outside of millionaire bill ackman s office tomorrow in protest of what they call the relentless campaign against gay. ackman was a harvard alum and a vocal critic of hers. harvard student and member of harvard hill, charlie, thanks so much for being with us. what do you think the tipping point here was? what do you think it was looking at this that finally caused claudine gay to resign? yeah. thank you for having me on, john. i think that eventually the plagiarism accusations probably, the dam break at some point and it was just too much reputational damage to the institution and for its students for her to stay on, but i think it s also important, as she said in her letter that now that she is gone for the focus to return to the actual university rather than any one individual and hopefully we can go back to what precipitated all of this which is an epidemic of anti-semitism ....
Insurrectionist and they can give the guidelines as to who decides. is it a secretary of state, is it the state supreme court. is it a federal court or is it congress and that s an open question that is being teed up for the supreme court. i want to be clear, john and you as a student of government know this as well as everybody else, this is why you have the supreme court. this is literally why the framers crafted a body of individuals to decide these thorny questions of constitutional law and this is a thorny one and an open one, who decides, how do they decide, when do they decide, someone s got to fix it. the reason i was going to ask you is former attorney general bill barr who stipulates he does not want donald trump to be president says that he does not think there is a 14th amendment argument with the states to get him out and his argument is because trump hasn t been charged with insurrection. right. an argument is made does it need to be a criminal charge? was it impeachm ....
Claudine gay stepping down. the protests now plan and will more college leaders be next? i m rahel solomon alongside john berman today. sara and kate are both off. this is cnn news central. this morning the white house is blasting house speaker mike johnson just hours ahead of his visit to the southern border. the biden administration claims he is holding up border funding and hamstringing security over what the white house calls extreme partisan demands. today speaker johnson will lead a delegation of more than 60 republicans to eagle pass, texas, where he is expected to criticize the surge in migrants and demand policy change. this comes on the heels of his party formally opening impeachment proceedings against alejandro mayorkas earlier this morning. ....
Insurrectionist and you know what? in addition to john berman and elliott williams, bill barr, it s for the united states supreme court to issue some sword of guidance to lower courts, state attorneys general and whoever it might be to make that call. last point and i ll make clear is that the supreme court may go through this whole process and never actually weigh in on who is or isn t an insurrectionist, per se. there are way for them to decide this and make it go away without actually ruling on the key points there. elliott williams, always a pleasure to have you. thanks, john. take care. all right. still ahead for us, brand-you in numbe numbers of nikki haley s war chest behind trump. harvard president claudine gay stepping down weeks after the controversial congressional hearing. coming up, we will speak with a ....