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george santos. at what point would at the gop be forced to purge him from the party? after receiving asylum seekers for months, new york citys mayor is down in texas to see the humanitarian crisis there firsthand. this is american voices. ♪ ♪ ♪ we begin this hour with a new reaction from inside the white house over the investigation into president bidens handling of classified documents. sources tell nbc news the president is frustrated with the ongoing backlash. hes irritated wi...

political armageddon for joe biden. 69% say the economy is bad. 65% say biden is slow to react when issues arise and over half say the man is simply incompetent. biden also getting slammed over the baby formula shortage. the president trying to do a victory lap after flying in supplies from europe. but the formula reportedly will not be going to store shelves. it will instead go to hospitals, doctors and other facilities. president biden is facing all kinds of problems, but as usual, t...

at the border, power outages said to be coming. and of course the russian invasion of ukraine which just added $40 billion to americas tab. we could debate whether any one of these items is truly the fault of the president. but the reality is they are all unfolding on his watch. and here come the midterms. typically the party in the white house sees the loss of two dozen of its congressional seats. this year democrats seem headed for much worse. there just arent enough ultra maga doug ...

lends credibility to a policy that you might not agree with. all i can say is, yes, that is a risk, but there were occasions where we overtly, at the podium, disagreed on the evidence that was underlying, or at least explain to the evidence that underlay a decision. so, for example, in the move of the two metre rule to a lower figure, example, in the move of the two metre rule to a lowerfigure, i was clear on the podium that two metres is safer than one metre, full stop. it does not me...

johnson seemed to be bamboozled by the data and by graphs and didnt have a great grasp on the science and it was difficult to explain scientific concepts to. that it is interesting, given how much was made interesting, given how much was made in the run—up to lockdown, where the government explained that decisions were being made based on the science. a lot of questions today have been based on how did that happen in practice. if you dont necessarily understand the science, how sound...

Screen as we we will keep them coming on the screen as we progress. In whats starting to feel like a routine as we have done for the last week at this time lets go live to the State Department in washington. We are going to talk about something that a group of colleagues have put together, it is a draft dissent memo. We will come back to that phrase. It is an opposition to president Donald Trumps Executive Order on refugees. This is a draft online. It points out among other things that despite t...

Screen as we we will keep them coming on the screen as we progress. In whats starting to feel like a routine as we have done for the last week at this time lets go live to the State Department in washington. We are going to talk about something that a group of colleagues have put together, it is a draft dissent memo. We will come back to that phrase. It is an opposition to president Donald Trumps Executive Order on refugees. This is a draft online. It points out among other things that despite t...

These rulings that we are discussing, could have a similar impact on 2024? >> these rulings are all part of a pattern of taking away peoples rights, showing that this court is not only out of touch with the american public, but they are not acting as a court, where you are supposed to decide cases on controversies. there is a reaching out and deciding policy. so, for example, again, this website designer case is so significant because there is no actual case. it was a thick plaintive with a fake...

The people who are on those extremes arent the people who are setting policy. there is a tremendous amount of bipartisan support for this war for all the reasons that senator ernst said. she talked about the courageous ukrainians. last fall, i had a group of ukrainian women in the military in my office and one of the things that one of the members, one of those women said to me and i said to her, you know, im going to use this every opportunity that i have because i think it says so clearly why ...

Not giving us clear answers. will you be pursuing a line of questioning to see if hunter biden still has a stake in the partners? >> from what weve seen thus far, weve never seen evidence he has divested that stake. that is one many things that we are looking into, the important thing there is something there there we are getting started, we are having great success in getting whistleblowers to come in and getting people to comply with our subpoenas and give us actual bank records. >> well, than...