more beds, changes the ten-year backlog that in we re many now to weeks before people are deported. the bottom line is, everybody that looks at our bill says it will greatly reduce the flow of the illegals in this country. the american people are done with this. the border has to be secured. the president has the authority right now. he doesn t need another act of congress. he can do it right now. he s unwilling to do it. there s a clear choice for republicans. fix the border or keep chaos at the border because it helps donald trump. it s like they were trying to sell us on gucci. but it s the package in the guy in the alley pulled out of his trunk. that s the equivalent of this border bill. all right. you re looking live at capitol hill where the battle is on and the knives are out. the senate releasing their 118 billion spending bill with aid for ukraine and israel tied to border security. leaders on both sides of the senate say it s the best you re going to get a
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israeli troops disguised themselves as palestinians to kill a suspected terrorist in a west bank hospital. hamas political leaders do not rule out a hostage deal. with me this hour, former bush national security advisor steven hadley on the tensions throughout the region and mike lawler and jared moskowicz to punish iran. house republicans prepare to vote on launching impeachment hearings against homeland security secretary mayorkas, what could be the first impeachment of a sitting cabinet member since 1876. catherine cortez-mastro joins me with the latest on the border and the 2024 campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the president has decided, he says, how and when to strike back against the iran-backed militias who killed three u.s. troops in jordan. he appears to have ruled out striking iran itself. i don t think we need a wider war in the middle east. that s not what i m looking for. local reports say that iranian-sponsored fighters ar
america s foreign policy in the hands of president biden is proving to be deadly. iran s paid for and trained terrorists are hitting our military men and women at will. look at the map. is biden even up to the job of protecting americans in the middle east and even at home? we ll get into that later in the hour. three of our u.s. service members were killed over the weekend. 34 were injured. u.s. officials identifying the terrorists. they are iran-backed, of course, all eyes on our commander-in-chief and his administration. do they know what to do? why was nothing done before it came to this point? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. just a few minutes ago, we saw for the first time since he was in the hospital, the nation s defense secretary lloyd austin at the pentagon. first day back in the office after two weeks in the hospital and recovering. he said he was able to work from home. and his first public appearance since the fatal attack on our troops.
arguments used by donald trump to fend off the cases popping up cross the country challenging his place in the 2024 ballot. it is an existential threat to the one thing that donald trump sees as the way out of all his legal problems, winning the presidency. a brand-new brief to the supreme court alongside other prominent lawyers like george conway, michael luttig calls for the justices to take the 14th amendment very literally. they say, quote, because section 3 emerged from the hallowed ground of the civil war, this court must accord section 3 its fair meaning, not a narrow construction. mr. trump incited and therefore engaged in an armed insurrection against the constitution s express and foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly elected president. in doing so mr. trump disqualified himself under section 3. regarding trump s argument the so-called insurrectionist ban can only be applied after a candidate is elected, luttig and