Speak with ukrainian president zelensky last hour as tensions along the border persist. A source has told cnn zelensky is expected to tell President Biden hes concerned about the rhetoric from the u. S. And other allies about the situation in his country. The United States reportedly made no concessions to russia in its written responses to the kremlins security demands, and the Russian Foreign minister said there is, quote, no positive reaction, end quote, because it fails to address his governments main concern. Sam kiley is in kyiv for us. Do we know any more about this call from the ukrainians . Reporter well, no, we dont know any detail yet. We havent had a readout from that call. There are indications of what the substance of it it would be, as victor was saying about some of the rhetoric. Now we unpick how president zelensky has been reacting to some of the statements made by the United States and others, particularly the United Kingdom over the last couple of weeks. Obviously h
Closer to getting what they and the president want. As progressives held the line, keeping the bipartisan bill known as the bif tied to the larger Reconciliation Bill and policies that are worth spending money on like Child Tax Credits and Free Community college and action on Climate Change. The white house made it clear whose side they are on and it turns out its team progressives. President biden himself made the trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to make the hard sell. Following the meeting, he made clear that the timeline for a vote was irrelevant. Im telling you, were going to get this done. It doesnt matter when. It doesnt matter whether its in six minutes, six days or six weeks. Were going to get it done. There is no vote expected on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill tonight but todays events are a death blow to the false narrative it was progressives blowing up the biden agenda. Progressive caucus chair jie ya paul said the build back better plan might be scaled become but theyre a
Mcconnell made clear he took exception to those remarks. How concerned about you about former President Offering Pardons to people who attacked the capitol On January 6th . What we saw here On January 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another which had never happened before in our country. My view is, i would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes. Reporter the Senate Republican leader er chooses h words carefully. He did vote to acquit trump for inciting the january 6th insurrection during the Impeachment Trial but he did say he was practically and morally responsible for the events of day. Thats caused donald trump for more than a year to attack Mitch Mcconnell repeatedly over and over again trying to push him out of the Republican Leadership position. Mcconnell wanted nothing to do with trump. Says very little about it publicly High Pressure pe says this is about the f
house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can t say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren t doing that. when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all along the
this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. a live look at the rose garden yesterday, we heard three word, help is here. and you will hear that more as these $1400 stimulus payments start to hit bank accounts. yeah, soon president biden will hit the road to tout his nearly $2 trillion rescue plan. andviewed the pr push yesterday. and the other message, normalcy is near. the president saying that may 1st is the deadline if all documents to be eligible for a vaccine. and he has his eye on independents s from the virus b the fourth of july. and health experts are worried about americans traveling for sbrpring break an more states ease restrictions. and we start in wilmington, delaware with jasmine wright. we know the president is spending his weekend there, economic aid starting to roll out. what do we know about what comes next? well, the president turned his focus noimplementing his cod relief bill. he said it yesterday, the devil is in the deta