Trump campaigned on build that wall. Are you willing to tear that wall down . There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration. Sandra President Biden making it Crystal Clear on the Campaign Trail he would not allow another foot of wall during his presidency but appears out of control Migrant Crossings have caused him to break that pledge. Hello and welcome everyone. Sandra smith in new york. John good to have you back. John roberts in washington. It wont be another foot, a whole lot more than that, and any moment now White House Press secretary Karine Jeanpierre expected to face questions over the president s stunning flipflop over securing the border. Sandra we will look for that reaction as mayorkas is claiming there is an immediate need to fast track construction of 20 miles of new border wall in southern texas. Where daily illegal Migrant Crossings have set new records in recent days. But moments ago reporters were able to ask the president about this decision, listen. Money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to redirect that money. They didnt. They wouldnt. And meantime, theres nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I cant stop that. Do you believe the Border Wall Works . No. John complete coverage now, former Acting Dhs Secretary chad wolf on how significant this reversal by biden is. But first to our jeff paul, he is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas, where continues to be busy and jeff, why the Change Of Heart from the administration . Well, maybe it has to do with the scenes we are seeing here at the border on a daily basis. Thousands crossing into the u. S. With simply no signs of it slowing down. So, the Biden Administration is now going to waive 26 federal laws to restart border construction, something that they had previously stopped. This new stretch of border wall, roughly 20 miles, will be constructed in south texas in the rio grande, valley. The Biden Administration at the time called the massive border wall when they took office in 2021, not a serious policy solution. But when you see videos like this, those who have long pushed for Border Security measures say more wall is needed. These images emerged today and it appears it was shot from the mexican side of the border in juarez. The group was rushing towards the border fence in el paso. A former Border Patrol chief rodney scott is weighing in on what the Biden Administration is doing to address the ongoing crisis. This is a significant threat to our country and we are just we are being silly about it. We had mechanisms in place to secure the border and this administration tore every single one of them down. We just got this Video Showing charter busses leaving el paso, texas last night. The Bus Supervisor says the majority of the folks on board are migrants that were in cbp custody. They are reportedly off to denver and los angeles, another example of how the migrant crisis is impacting larger cities that are farther away from the border. A big part of the reason why new york city eric adams is on a tour of latin america, hoping to discourage migrants and telling them his city is at full capacity. John jeff paul along the border in eagle pass. Thank you. Sandra chad wolf, former Acting Dhs Secretary, thank you for joining us. How significant of a change is this for the administration to now go that route . I mean, Alejandro Mayorkas, he says there is an acute and immediate need to waive dozens of federal laws to build the wall in south texas. He has insisted the border is closed for so long now. He certainly has and has done it before congress and under oath and testified they dont believe in border walls to be effective. I think this is a very stunning development. I think what this tells the American People is that they have politicized this border for the past two and a half years, and they have put a strategy in place that has opened it wide open and we have more people coming across the border than ever before and i think what this says the strategy is no longer working and we have to get back to fundamental blocking and tackling as i would like to say in what is actually effective. And of course, what we know, walls work, they have been proven effective everywhere along the southern border, from san diego all the way, you know, into arizona and into texas. So, they are effective and they do work. Unfortunately, these walls should have been erected in 2021. Rgv was the next area we were going to erect the physical infrastructure in. These should have been put up long, long ago. Let me address what President Biden said there. They are trying to tell the American People and they are lying to the American People by saying our hands are tied, we have to build it because congress appropriated. They didnt have to do is waive 20 some odd laws to build it immediately. They know it works and they need the Wall Up Pronto in the rgv. Sandra such an interesting Point Of View there. Among the 26 laws that dhs has waived, includes the clean air act, Safe Drinking Water act, the endangered species act, all notable environmental laws that limited further construction of the border wall. As we have heard this all along from Biden Administration officials, play it out, listen. I want to be very clear. Our borders are not open. It would be wrong to think that the border is open. It is not open. And i just want to be very, very clear about that. The border is secure. Theres no change in policy. The border remains closed. Let me be clear. Our border is not open, and will not be open. Sandra not only that, mr. Secretary, flashback to october 2021. The woman we are about to hear from at the white house, that Press Briefing from the white house is expected to be underway any moment now, thats a little live picture, bottom right of your screen, we are going to hear the white house reaction to this coming up. This is kjp october 2021. Listen. We have talked about the border wall here in general as a way that its used to close the border and we feel it is a policy that doesnt work and not just us. You know, experts have said that, the border wall is not is not an effective policy. Sandra cites experts, not an effective policy, shes going to have to defend this massive reversal. Well, absolutely. First of all, those statements are a complete lie. If you ask any Border Patrol agent, any Border Patrol chief and folks that actually work along that border, they will tell you time and time again that physical infrastructure in the right places at the right time is very effective and we have all the data that says it is. So when she says certain experts, they are not experts that work along the border. So no one has held her to task of that. Thats a complete fabrication and lie. But look, i think the question for her, what has changed. If it wasnt effective policy solution a year ago or two years with ago, yet the numbers were astronomically high then as they are now, what has changed in the Biden Administration thought process to where you have to waive 26 different laws, which i know them well. I waived them as well. This administration has made it clear that they dont believe in physical infrastructure, they dont believe walls work, and they want to move that money elsewhere, and so if you do that, you dont waive 26 laws so you can build it right away. You slow roll it and you take three years to build it. Sandra that is going to be quite a Press Briefing when it is underway shortly, i can tell our viewers, peter doocy is in the room so we hope he gets some questions in. Well be listening for that. Meanwhile, we know the migrant crisis is not just a border community, border city, border state concern, its all over the country, new york, chicago, everywhere. This is just a sampling of the angry residents in chicago and this migrant crisis. The areas where migrants are being housed, its nasty, its dirty, sloppy, unkept, not healthy for them and certainly not healthy for us. You cannot track them. You aint Tracking Them Good at the police station. You dont know their names but you want to spread them over the city. Its not to kick out the migrants here, but the point we have to say no. Sandra democratic mayor of the city, mayor johnson, pressed repeatedly to give a sense of when he plans to visit the border. He says he will do that, administration will visit the southern border to assess the migrant situation it says as soon as possible. So youve got democrats leading up major u. S. Cities now who at one point you can make the case rolled out the red carpet, declared themselves sanctuary cities, all are welcome. They have had it. And now they are visiting the border . I think what this tells you, its not a republican or democrat issue. Its an american issue. So when you have mayors of blue cities like new york city and chicago taking trips to the border to try to see what he is going on and trying to figure out what is the solution, thats the job of the administration of the president and the Vice President and the secretary of dhs. So maybe now we have multiple secretaries of dhs going to the border and trying to figure this out. I think overall, its again, their strategy is failing the American People and now we have two cities, thousands of miles away from the border, saying no more. They were sanctuary cities, you know, a year ago or even yesterday, but when it actually comes home and it hits them firsthand, what they are hearing from the residents, some of which you just played, they have real concerns, not only about some of the conditions but when they say hey, you cant track them, you dont know where they are going, that goes right to the case of security and safety in their communities, and thats what they are concerned about. Sandra chad wolf, appreciate you joining us on all that. Thank you, mr. Secretary. John, as far as the resources these migrants have been getting, speaking of rolling out the red carpet, this is the National Immigration law center, housing, cash assistance, food, legal support, among some of the resources that they have been given that are clearly drying up. These cities cannot handle it anymore. And now you look at whats happening we have the live Drone Video Footage that continues to come out of the border. I mean this is happening minute after minute after minute, a crisis that is clearly only getting worse and this administration is forced to handle. John back to what the president said, we can only spend the money on this, we had to spend it. But contrast that with what Alejandro Mayorkas said in his Public Statement about requesting the 26 federal laws to be waived, he said there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States. So this wasnt a matter of as chad suggested having to immediately spend the money. There is a clear and urgent need to stop people from coming into the country. Well see how Karine Jeanpierre fields that question. Sandra we will be anticipating that highly. All right, now this. John more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees are on the picket line for a second day. The largest Healthcare Strike in u. S. History. Jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with the latest and jonathan, are they talking yet, the two sides . It appears not, john, in fact we seem to be at something of a standstill right now between the unions and Kaiser Permanente executives. As a result, there are hundreds back here on this picket line outside one of Kaiser Permanentes largest hospitals today and Tens Of Thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers on picket lines right across the country. Its affecting healthcare for 13 million americans. Those on the picket lines here say they have no choice because kaiser has allowed in their view Staffing Levels to fall dangerously low, and they have allowed in their view wages to fall well below the rate of inflation. So, they say the workers we have spoken to, it is time for kaiser to step up. Listen here. Nobody wants to be out here, everybody wants to be in there doing their job, doing those to the best of our abilities. However, you know, we have to have Proper Staffing for that and the only way we can catch the attention of the higherups is to be here today. You are willing to come out again if necessary . Absolutely. Now, Kaiser Permanente says its priority is of course patient care, too. In a statement recently they said Kaiser Permanente, our try and our employees, are now operating in new cultural labor and postpandemic environment that we are all working hard to understand. We are committed to finding workable solutions. But as yet, john, there is no sign of what either side consider a workable solution, at least not one that we can agree on, so how is it impacting patient care . Kaiser says its hospitals and Emergency Rooms are and will remain open for the duration of this strike. But they admit that some nonurgent procedures are and will be postponed. Some medical offices are and will continue to be closed and some pharmacies are and will continue to be closed. This particular strike is scheduled to go three full days. That means it would end around 6 00 a. M. Pacific time on saturday morning. If there is no agreement, though, another strike is planned for next month, john, and the unions tell us that will go even longer. At the moment, as i say, no sign of any deal coming together, john. John we will see if the pressure from the union moves things along. Jonathan hunt for us. Thank you. By the way, we just got the twominute warning to the briefing, there should be some housekeeping at the beginning. But well get to questions in a little while. Sandra. Sandra meanwhile, still on the picket lines, united auto workers, although there has been some progress during negotiations, they still dont see eyetoeye with the Big Three Automakers on battery plants. The strikes uncertainty appears to be Fueling Layoffs as ford is slashing another 400 jobs as the strike is costing the Companies Hundreds of millions of dollars. General motors estimating the strike has cost them 200 million in the Third Quarter alone. John stunning twist in the senator bob menendez corruption investigation. Did a fatal crash involving his wife and alleged coconspirator lead to a bribe. 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