we begin with breaking news on the southern border where a new surge of migrants, most of them from haiti, has grown to nearly 15,000. right now dhs is ramping up deportation flights as thousands of migrants are overwhelming del rio, texas, many of them living under a bridge to try to escape the brutal heat. we ll have an update from the scene in just minutes. meanwhile on capitol hill the clock is ticking as democrats work to get a $3.5 trillion spending bill and a bipartisan infrastructure bill to president biden s desk. earlier today i spoke with house budget committee chair john yarmouth who had a message for his colleagues who are at odds over what that final bill should look like. you can posture all you want and say what you want, what you will and won t vote for. in the final analysis, you re going to vote for it because you re not going to vote against childcare and paid family leave and early childhood education and community college and all these top priorities which, by
debt that we have to pay for. well, look, it s not like all the democrats are in sync on this because there is reporting that the president failed to sway senator joe manchin on the $3.5 trillion spending plan. then earlier today, you had senator bernie sanders making clear he s not going to go lower. take a listen to this. all i am telling you is that $3.5 trillion is much too low. a compromise has already been made, an agreement has been made. on one hand, joe manchin says, hey, this is too much. other hand, sanders and progressives saying cannot go lower. so how does this pass to senate and affect the debate in the house where you are? we had some people in the house that are taking the same position. and there s been a lot of posturing going on for the last four, five months. i have said to my job has been herding cats over the last few months and i said you can posture what you want and what you will or won t vote for, but in the final analysis you re
anybody. that s it. all of them. all of them. the current democrats. the current ones, who, i don t know what they are, democrats, look, they need to as i said, bipartisanship for the sake of bipartisanship is empty. our democracy is on the line, right now. and that s what we need to be focused on. not just, well, this is what we are going to do. look, if you don t have a party that won t vote for, you know, a study on the insurrection. what makes you think they are going to stand up and do the right thing? i just don t see it. the space i haven t heard explored is do a one off. harry reid did it and i don t remember manchin going crazy about that. i don t disagree with that. do a one off. or at least just return the rules to what they used to be. that are more akin to the nostalgia that senator manchin has for senator bird who put together some of the parliamentary procedures around the filibuster in mid you know, in mid- 60s, 70s where make it harder to filibuster. talk
fbi agents have turned a field office into a food bank. this is something no politician on either party should want a part of. and to get a wall they never paid for before, that mexico was not paying for, that s trump s decision. the question is will republican lash themselves to that horrible judgment? we know political polling measure a strength in a voter. we have recent polling that indicate 57% of voters say they definitely will not vote for donald trump. and that decision by a voter to definitely not vote for someone tends to be one that holds more strongly than other decisions voters make about who they might vote for not vote for. but when they re saying definitely won t vote for is pretty intense. is that the kind of intensity you were finding in michigan when you were talking to voters? it was. and again these are people who
fbi agents have turned a field office into a food bank. this is something no politician on either party should want a part of. and to get a wall they never paid for before, that mexico was not paying for, that s trump s decision. the question is will republican lash themselves to that horrible judgment? we know political polling measure a strength in a voter. we have recent polling that indicate 57% of voters say they definitely will not vote for donald trump. and that decision by a voter to definitely not vote for someone tends to be one that holds more strongly than other decisions voters make about who they might vote for not vote for. but when they re saying definitely won t vote for is pretty intense. is that the kind of intensity you were finding in michigan when you were talking to voters? it was. and again these are people who voted for donald trump in 2016.