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Justice declined to comment. griff. griff: david spunt covering all things president biden from wilmington, delaware. david. thank you. aleet na. anita: someone who helped draft bidens build back better act. illinois congressman chneider in the ways and means and thank you for joining us. >> thank you. anita: good to have you. the social spending bill has passed the house, nearly $2 trillion. critics say no matter what is in the bill this is not the time for the country to spend the money when i...

Background is the incomplete border wall, once they cross the rio grande they walk right by that, it was built as soon as you see, but as soon as president biden took office in january construction halted and its a useless piece of steel in the middle of anything because its not convicted to anything and people walk around it. 150 to 200 migrants that crossed this morning many from south america, almost all of them those family units that we particularly see in la joya. they turn themselves, the...

Slandered before he got to the courthouse. >> fantastic coverage all week long, griff. griff: anita, president biden is weighing in on the rittenhouse verdict and andeda huff with more reaction. >> yeah, the presidents opinion on this isnt totally in line with another top member of his administration. important returning from walter reed yesterday he said this. >> i stand by what the jury has concluded, the jury system works. but according to the vice-president, it doesnt work, she tweeted this,...

Courtroom for the names of the 12 jurors. he took so long and people thought it would wrap up quicker but the defense and prosecutors putting out statements and talking to fox news saying theyre happy deliberations took so long because they took a close hard look at the evidence, so many videos and pictures out there to the moments leading up to the shooting, a lot to look at. the oblations wrapping up, hes on his way out of state and security concerns about what he would do next but he just rea...

White conservativists to kill. no, it was one 18-year-old man. many pundits on the right wanted the message of a right to self-defense. a trial is about one thing, its about the facts and the evidence and the law and a particular case with a particular defendant, not about some social justice movement. griff: howie, it was fascinating when i was there this week, there was more media than protesters outside of that courthouse. let me ask you though, as were seeing it spilling over from the media ...

That border and allow the catch and release that we heard bill talk about in the segment and thats why the migrant caravans are coming to the border, overwhelming number of folks at the border because they want to remain in the united states while awaiting court proceedings. as long as the biden administration encourages that and has policies to accommodate that youre going to continue to see historic numbers across this border. griff: i want to talk about a specific pull factor as were told fro...

Presidents 79th birthday. david spunt with more. >> hey, griff, happy birthday to president biden. were not sure what hes doing today. we assume hes with family and friends here in his home in wilmington for decades. this comes after the passage of the build back better bill in the house. there are still some hurdles. this is a legislative victory for the president and his team. they were hoping this would happen and now it heads onto the senate. 220-213, thats the vote that happened in the hous...

Concerned, myself in included. its not the first time he weighed in on the case and rittenhouses attorney weighed in on candidate bidens comments from last year. >> allegedly out of a militia out of illinois. have you ever heard this president say one thing negative about white supremacists. >> i think president biden said things that are untrue, hes not a white supremist. im glad he at least rejects the jury verdict. >> and there were resources to help keep the peace in wisconsin. and said that...

House and how politicians are responding to the news out of kenosha. >> president biden said yesterday he did not want the trial, he does have an opinion, heres what he told reporters yesterday. >> i stand by what the jury said in the conclusion. the jury system works. reporter: the jury system does not necessarily work. todays verdict weeks for itself. ive spent a majority of my career working to make the justice system more equitable. its clear theres a lot more work to do. following up on the...

>> well, the trial of kyle rittenhouse and how that story was told raised difficult questions about evidence and gun ownership and race and griff was in the middle of it all in kenosha, wisconsin reporting from outside the courthouse. what did you-- what were your impressions about what was happening out there. griff: first, anita, it was cold. anita: yeah. griff: and i found there was, at times, only 30 or 40 protesters and 100 or so media. a lot more media than protesters outside there, but we...