Good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. And youre looking at live pictures from selma, alabama, where Vice President Kamala Harris and other dignitaries, including myself, are crossing the bridge to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, with just two days till Super Tuesday, election 2024 is very much on our mind. And joining me now is congressman steven horsford, democrat of nevada, and chair of the congressional black caucus. Congressman, mister chairman, its been nearly 60 years since john lewis and Josi At Williams and some 600 others first marched across that bridge, the Edmund Tennis Bridge you and i just marched across with the Vice President. And yet we still find ourselves contending with conservative forces, seeking to curtail Ballot Access for minority voters, or students. And in the case of alabama, dilute the power of the black vote. What are your thoughts, as the cbc chair, as we walked across that historic bridge, 59 years later, and still fighting for
Its 5 00 in new york city, and this is the five. Its a tale of two border trips. Joe biden and donald trump make dueling visits to the besieged border in texas and seeing two different realities. On the left, President Biden wrapping up remarks in brownsville is after shuffleing his way around the sanitized version of the border. The area hes in once saw 10,000 illegals a day, but thanks to the texas razor wire with he wants to remove, crossings are at an alltime low. Heres the president. Folks, its real simple, its time to act. Its long past time to act. They desperately need more resources, they need more agents, more officers, more judges, more equipment in order to secure our border. Focuses, its time for us to folk ifs, its time for us to move on this. Folks, the bipartisan border or security deal is a win for the American People. Thats a win for the people of texas, and its fair for those who legitimately have a right to come here to begin with. Its a win for the people of browns
tapper. wolf blitzer is over in the situation room. have a great day. happening now, president biden just announced new action aimed at easing student debt after the u.s. supreme court blocked his loan forgiveness program. he s slamming the ruling as wrong and accusing republicans of hypocrisy. we re also following the fallout from the high court s other major decision today putting limits on lgbtq protections. the senators warn the ruling may open the door to discrimination of all sorts of protected minority groups. and growing questions right now about the fate of the russian mutiny leader yevgeny prigozhin. are kremlin spies plotting to kill him as ukraine s intelligence chief claims? i ll ask top white house official john kirby about that and much more. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with today s one-two punch by the u.s. supreme court, decisions limiting lgbtq protect
inflation. prices fell dramatically last month for manufacturers. of course, those costs passed down to consumers eventually. the flip side, there are still banking fears simmering, futures way down ahead of the opening bell, you can see there. what all of this means as we get another big decision coming, that is, the feds, whether it will raise interest rates again. plus this morning escalating tensions after an alarming encounter over the black sea, a russian fighter jet colliding with an unmanned u.s. drone. that $23 million aircraft then crashing into the sea and the race is now on to recover it. extreme life-threatening weather continues to hammer both coasts this morning. record rain, swamping california, heavy snow, 3 feet in some areas, burying the northeast. this morning nearly half a million people without power. we are going to get to all of that, but we do want to begin with the economy this morning, this new data that just dropped, cnn chief business corres