night sleep i m stephanie elam in los angeles and this is cnn this. is cnn special live coverage, republican national convention in milwaukee, donald trump in the building expected to enter the hall at any moment, i want to go to full mattingly. who s standing by? bill, what are you can you tell us well, all eyes have been on the stage for much of an eye right now. they re turning to the back of the room and the vip section where we have started to see trump family members start to walk in, including john junior, his girlfriend, kimberly guilfoyle. they have joined jd vance, who has already standing there with the speaker, mike johnson, mike johnson s wife, kelly, byron donalds, and other house member as well, tiffany trump has also walked in. eu cb family, friends, close advisers, including dance we know from the trump team and they know haba trump s lawyer is also here as well. there s eric trump sitting with his wife, bore trump, who s now heading these republican that s
passing restrictive voting measures there. i ll talk to an activist that will be at the capital in an hour rallying around these measures. meanwhile, president biden meeting with civil rights groups about voting rights. the supreme course just delivered a major move to the white house and they re running out of options. ly talk to someone who will have the president s ear in just a few hours. we re also going to have an important conversation about gun cull dmur this country. new york state is taking a new approach to tackling it. coming up i will talk to fred gutenberg. and the tragic shift in surfside, florida, from rescue to recovery. we just learned in the last hour that the death toll has now risen to 60. this morning nbc news posted new reporting that this collapsed tower, that tower, could have fallen faster if the law that was repealed still existing. and a vote for voting rights. monica alba is there ahead of the meeting. also with me is damon hewitt. he is the pre
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that is the focus of tonight s angle. vice president harris traveled to texas to check the border box and play a game of make-believe. it is important to be clear. working to build a fair and humane immigration system. i feel very strongly about that. we inherited a tough situation. in five months we have made progress. progress? live and more life. she has biden were not handed a tough situation on the border, they created a disaster on the border, they did, thanks to trump s remain in mexico policy illegal border crossings were driven way down under trump and number 2, by progress she means a total abdication because most americans define progress as reduction in the number of illegal crossings but for biden and harris, progress means an increase in crossings regardless of the harm it causes to the american people. i call this open borders collusion at the highest levels of the government, the biden administration committing an ongoing crime against our basic sovereignt
angle. today, vice president harris traveled to texas to check the border box and play a game of make-believe. it is important to be clear, working to build a fair and functional we feel very strongly about that and i do know we inherited a tough situation and in five months we have made progress but there is still much more work to be done but we ve made progress. laura: progress? lies and more lies. number one, she and biden were not handed a tough situation at the border. they created a disaster at the border, they did. thanks to trump s remain in mexico policy and aggressive interior enforcement, illegal immigration crossings were driven way down under trump and number two, by progress she means total abdication because most americans define progress at the border as a reduction in the number of illegal crossers. but for biden and harris, i guess progress means an increase in crossing regardless of the harm and cost to the american people. i like to call this open b