it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. right now, president biden fights back. how dare he raise that? it wasn t any of their damn business. the president forcefully responding to the accusations of memory loss in the special counsel report that found no criminal charges were warranted for his handling of classified documents. new reporting today on why the memory details were included in the report. at the supreme court, the justices gear up to potentially hear another case involving former president donald trump. on capitol hill tonight, the senate is due to consider the stripped down bill providing aid to israel and ukraine, but its future is still uncertain, even without the bipartisan border provisions. overseas, israel steps up its assault on the city of rafah in southern gaza. president biden says the response in gaza has been, quote, over the top. we begin this morning with president biden s response to a report on his handling of c
Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this . No, i have tried. Well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. The impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. For almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working without pay. Here is part
do a 21st century marshal plan with countries so we can get to the root of this challenge so people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of having to come to the united states. that s how we can be smarter, more effective and more humane when it comes to immigration policy. senator bennet, what s your response? i disagree that we should decriminalize our border. this is personal for my. my mom is an immigrant and she was separated from her parents during the holocaust in poland. for those reasons, i was part of the gang of eight that wrote i wrote the immigration bill in 2013 with john mccain that passed the senate with 68 votes that gave a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people who are here. that would pass the most progressive dream act that had ever been conceived and had
other senators, that bill had a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people in this country. it had the most progressive dream act that had ever passed, the agricultural provisions that i worked on with marco rubio and others were an immigration bill endorsed by the growers and farm workers union and it had $46 billion in border security. we doubled the number of border security agents. we built 350 miles of fence. we were able to see every single inch of the border, using 21st century technology developed in iraq and afghanistan, not the president s ineffective and medieval law. and we had internal security. you know, joe, today, as we stand here, we still don t know because 40% of people that are here that are undocumented came here and overstayed their visas. we still don t know who they
decriminalize our border. this is personal for me. my mom s an immigrant, and she was separated from her parents during the holocaust in poland. and for those reasons i was part of the gang of eight that i wrote the immigration bill in 2013 with john mccain that passed the senate with 68 votes, that gave a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people that are here, that would pass the most progressive dream act that had ever been conceived, much less passed on the floor of the senate and had $46 billion in border security. every single democrat voted for that bill, and a lot of republicans. that should be our position. thank you, senator. that is our position. senator harris you have indicated that you don t think should it be a criminal offense by jail to cross this border illegally. how do you respond to senator bennet? again, all due respect, after the last debate, for example, i