this is american voices. thank you so much for being with us. i m alicia menendez. my first guest this hour is congressman joaquin castro. he just led a congressional delegation on a tour of the office of refugee resettlement in texas where migrant children and migrant families are being held as they await their day in court. judge just a moment we ll talk to him about what he witnessed inside that facility and at the border and we ll discuss how we as a country can do right by those seeking refuge and a better life here in the united states. but we can t talk about progress without talking about what has held us back from progress for decades. in fact, this week gave us a full smattering of many of the challenge that s this country is currently up against and how it remains politically impossible to address these issues because one political party s refusal to face hard truths. relying on fear to win and side shows to legislate. case in point. georgia s brand new law targe
thank you so much for being with us. i m alicia menendez. my first guest this hour is congressman joaquin coors who led a delegation on a tour of the refuge resettlement in texas as migrants await their day in court. in just a moment we ll talk to the congressman about what he witnessed inside the facility and at the border. we ll discuss how as a country can do right by those seeking refuge and a better life in the united states. but we can t talk about progress without talking about what s held us back from progress for decades. in fact, this week gave us a full smattering of many of the challenges that this country is currently up against and how it remains politically impossible to address these issues all because one political party s refusal to face hard truths. relying on fear to win and side shows in place of legislating. georgia s brand-new voting rights, calling it jim crow 2.0, restricting voting access and making kindness illegal, banning water and food being hand
his shadow? dana: every groundhog s worst nightmare today running into bill deblasio. he dropped the groundhog in new york. bill: that was hedge hog sam. it wasn t the original punxsutawney. dana: no, he is protected. bill: i love the turtleneck. i forgot mine. dana: i think i might try to wear a turtleneck every day this week. look, you got a lot of compliments. you didn t? i think so. if you wore a turtleneck you might break the internet. we ll see. lots more to get to this morning. bill: not indoors. dana: william la jeunesse is live in san diego with what s going on at the border. katie pavlich and donna brazile. bill: let s begin with david spunt. the president will sign those executive orders later this afternoon in the oval office in addition to the actions he took after coming into office of the presidency which halted construction of president trump s border wall, also stopped that trump travel ban. one order biden will establish a task force that w
the bills and chiefs thriller that became an instant classic that was decided in part by a coin flip. the question many fans are asking this morning, is it time to change the league s overtime rules? it s way too early for this. good morning. and welcome to way too early the show that always calls heads. i mon on this monday, january 24th, we start with the news. as tensions escalate between russia and ukraine, the u.s. state department is ordering all family members and staff of kiev to leave the area now, and citing quote, increased threat of russian military action. the state department says the security commissions, particularly along ukraine s borders are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little notice. it s also urging u.s. citizens and ukraine to leave, and asking not to travel to russia as fears increase as moscow may invade ukraine again. president biden is considering deploying several thousand u.s. troops and war ships to nato allies in the baltics and e
described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he gained eminence as one of the fathers of the soviet nuclear bomb.th he learned bodyguards and direct access to the pinnacle of the soviet system. this is where andre sakharov could have stayed in a very comfortable position, lived life in the upper echelons of the soviet system. but within a few years after he designed that giant hydrogen bomb, he instead started becoming a thorn in the side of the soviet leadership.in he urged the government to avoid a further arms race with the united states, fearing that it would lead to catastrophe. he argued publicly for political reforms and human rights and spoke out in defense of dissidents and even after he was arrested and sent into internal exile for years, he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1975. the soviet leadership, as you ts can imagine, they would not let him attend that ceremony. by the time mikhail gorbachev released him from exile, sakh