outfront tonight border surge. president biden is answering questions. migrants are coming in because you promised to make things better. it seems to get worse by the day. first of all, there was a surge the last two years and 19 and 20 had a surge as well. the idea that joe biden says come, i heard the other day is they re coming because i am a nice guy. here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come. yes, in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. all right, this coming as the secretary of homeland security warns we are on pace to encounter more individuals than we have the last 20 years, we are encountering children six or se seven-year-old without adults. cnn told some children are in jail. as of tonight there are 4,200 children in custody which dw dwarves the number at the peak of the crisis. they were not ready for this. president biden himself has not yet visited the border and has no plans
vote counts. the departments found those claims were not credible. not credible, as in, there was no foreign interference. the kind trump allies, rudy giuliani, sidney powell and others repeatedly touted on the campaign trail as evidence to fuel their dangerous lie on the legitimacy of the november result. of course, that was just a small part of the disinformation apparatus that trump and his supporters deployed in the weeks and months surrounding the election. there was also the lie that china not so much russia was involved in a massive election manipulation campaign. here s donald trump breaking with his own fbi director christopher wray on that point. we ve certainly seen very active, very active efforts by the russians to influence our election in 2020 through maligned foreign influence side of things. social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, et cetera. an effort to both sow divisiveness and discord and i think the intelligence community has ass
The municipal election is still three weeks away but Windsor voters got their first chance to cast a ballot Wednesday at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Complex.
their efforts, ultimately, failed and republicans banned drive-thru voting and overnight early voting. let s make this final. reporter: even in montana, where trump won by 16 points in 2020, republicans passed laws imposing stricter voter i.d. requirements, and ending the state s long-running practice of allowing voter registration on election day. it s just not necessarily feasible for all of us to take time out of our workday or take time away from our families between the hours of 8:00 to 4:00 monday through friday and go and fix our registration. samantha harrington, one of the parties who sued over the change, says it is a blow to working montanans. it shouldn t be a partisan issue. you just should just be able vote. sara murray, cnn, washington. with that on the table, i want to turn next to a member of the house democratic leadership who helped his chamber pass the two voting bills now before the senate. i spoke with south carolina congressman and house majority
reporter: in florida i am actually going to sign it right here. reporter: republicans passed a law limiting drop boxes, adding new i.d. requirements for voting by mail, and restricting who can return a mail-in ballot. we are not going to let political operatives go and get satchels of votes, and dump them in some drop box. reporter: in texas, house democrats fled the state trying to kill a bill reducing access to the ballot box. their efforts, ultimately, failed and republicans banned drive-thru voting and overnight early voting. let s make this final. reporter: even in montana, where trump won by 16 points in 2020, republicans passed laws imposing stricter voter i.d. requirements, and ending the state s long-running practice of allowing voter registration on election day. it s just not necessarily feasible for awful us to take time out of our workday or take time away from our families, between the hours of 8:00 to 4:00 monday through friday so go and fix a registr