incident to police. that does it for us this hour. our coverage continues with katy tur reports, right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. what is president biden hoping to get out of today s executive order allowing him to seal the southern border? he made the announcement just a few minutes ago saying the influx of migrants is unsustainable. quote, for those who say the steps i ve taken are too strict, i say to you be patient. the goodwill of the american public is wearing thin right now. doing nothing is not an option. we have to act. he also said that without immigration reform, specifically the immigration bill which was crafted by a bipartisan team of senators and leaned conservative, by the way, signing an executive order was his only remaining option. that order is definitely going to go to the courts. the aclu has already said it plans on suing. and a number of progressive lawmakers including the congressional hispanic caucus are crying foul, saying this isn
worse. no difference is 20%. so when they re doing the calculations about where the american public stands it seems like they re skewing toward the middle here, the moderate voter. why do they believe the moderate voter is the better target for them than the progressive voter? yeah, katy, with five months before the general presidential election it does become about the moderate or persuadable voters. those are the ones that are up for grabs whether the other voters have already made up their minds in a rematch facing president biden and donald trump. you actually did mention that yes, this does divide the democratic party. and this is a dilemma. do you end up trying to take action and do something like they did today that is going to displease the left but maybe win over the middle of the electorate and they decided to bank on that it s more to focus right now on the middle. i also go back to what i was saying earlier, that trying to basically take a very public
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progressives are sort of stuck complaining about it. what s sort of the message for them coming out of this period? well, look, the message is that politics matters. votes matter. elections matter. particularly as we re looking at the senate, of course, where supreme court justices are confirmed as well as to a young progressive voter, we got you the white house and you have the senate, what gives. things are still terrible for me. people are pissed off. that usually means people will vote more not less. politics and voting is not a hyperintellectual affair. people are not going to necessarily go out and vote because of this one ruling, but they are going to go out and vote with incredible passion because of the overarching narrative of the supreme court s war on people s rights and our democracy. errol, do you think this message resonates? it will have to. in fact, it s not so much the message. i think people are going to feel