distancing requirements during the pandemic. white house press secretary jen kamala harris said it was a human rights abused committed by the united states government and joe biden said under trump there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages. now it s not under trump, it is under biden. this is not kids being kept in cages. harris: even democratic congresswoman ocasio-cortez tweeted this. this is not okay. never has been okay. never will be okay. no matter the administration or party. kristin fisher is live for us at the white house on this top story. this is the first migrant child facility to be opened under the biden administration but even that name is being criticized because this same facility was open for one month during the trump administration but back then it was called a tent city where kids were kept in cages. harris, you mentioned the criticism from alexandria ocasio-cortez, but this is an issue where there is truly bipa
elena kagan, the supreme court justices. there s bret kavanaugh, also, walking in. we did expect several of the supreme court justices to attend today s festivities. we re also expecting momentarily the arrival of the former presidents barack obama and bill clinton. we did see, also, george w. bush pull up along with his wife laura. we re expecting former vice president dan quayle to be in attendance. mike pence is coming here today. we don t expect him to come in front of the doors where we are, but we do expect him here. of course, the big absence, donald trump not here at the moment, not planning to come, of course. many former top republicans in attendance, lawmakers and former presidents bush and justices nominated by republican presidents all here in this show of support for this peaceful this transition of power we re about to witness. manu raju on capitol hill. dan, i think that was supreme court justice sonia sotomayor that we saw walking into the capitol, the fi
washington state republican congresswoman jaime herrera buetler was revealed in it. she said house minority leader kevin mccarthy told her the former president had sided with the9 mob during a phone call as the capitol riot unfolded. let s go now to our congressional correspondent, chad pergram, who has been on this all day long. what a roller coaster, chad. reporter: absolutely. we thought we were going to have a quick verdict, and then they got caught up in this tangle or whether or not they were going to have witnesses, and by 12:30 they were back on track. the vote, 57-43 with 7 republican senators breaking with the rest of the party, voting to convict. probably the biggest surprise there is richard burr, the republican senator from north carolina. he is retiring next term. and also, you know, bill cassidy who, obviously, went into play earlier this week, the republican from louisiana. cassidy voted early in the week to forge ahead, he voted saying at the trial was, in
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on high my radio show, and platforms, i don t just comment, i don t just observe. i get dirt under my fingernails. i am an activist. i am mission oriented. 8 months ago before release of american marxism, i got on the radio, and here, i made it clear we had to build a movement to confront the various aspects of american marxism. critical race theory and districttion of our classrooms, degrowth movement. under rube rick of climate change and transgender movement. these were destroying our nation. we looked at other issues took open borders and attack on separation of powers on independences of courts and on and on. this is modern day democrat party, the model through which american marxism represents itself. you can see media today, celebrate, defend and promote these various movements, critical race theory first they denied exists, then they say, what are you scared of it? why cancel it. same with degrowth movement. and on and on. so we have people politicians in washin