by the fact that he's lying, but when joe biden comes out, well, come on, it's joe. no, no, no. it's not true. >> all democrats are not supporting the bill. senator joe manchin's opposition to the proposed corporate tax hike could be enough to kill the deal. >>> federal reserve chair jerome powell is predicting an economic boom. he told "60 minutes" the u.s. economy is about to start growing much more quickly. but powell warned the pandemic still poses a risk to the economy if we reopen too quickly and fail to keep the spread of the virus under control. >>> there are reports prince harry is already in england for the funeral of his grandfather philip. >> he's said to be quarantining from his trip. >> as the world mourns the loss of queen elizabeth's husband, people are leaving floral memorials at royal residences like here at windsor castle since philip's death was announced friday. >> last name at the bafta awards, philip was remembered as the bafta organization's first president. more now from maggie rulli in london. >> reporter: the uk's in official mourning for t

the president, then former vice president joe biden, we know now he's the president, obviously, but he reached out to that family very early on. he went down to houston on the eve of the funeral, met with the family and left a video message played at that tune r funeral. he's not shied away from it, that he supported this family and this conversation that the loss of their loved one spurred in america. >> reporter: he has said all along, david, that he believes george floyd was murdered and that he died in the hands of brutality. and he said in that phone call today that this verdict was justice. the family is hoping now for some reckoning here in washington. they want to see the george floyd justice in policing ability passed. it has passed in the houts, bse it is stalled in the senate. it would ban chokeholds. but republicans, david, here in washington say that this bill would weaken law enforcement and potentially put officers at risk. for now, the hope for movement is stalled. >> cecilia vega reporting from the white house. that conversation the president had with the family, cecil

and hunter biden. giuliani denies it. >> obviously the assistant u.s. attorneys hate me. and they hate trump, which is probably the whole thing. >> reporter: he also says federal prosecutors are out to get him because they're jealous of his success. >> when i became a u.s. attorney, i thought i had reached the pinnacle of my career, and i did it every single day, i assure you, with dedication and honor and honesty. when i watch the corruption of it now, it truly -- it probably affects me more than anything else and i can't even express it. >> reporter: president biden says he's keeping his distance from the investigation, insisting he was not told in advance about the giuliani raid. >> i give you my word, i was not. i made a pledge i would not interfere in any way, order, or try to stop any investigation the justice department had under way. >> pierre thomas joins us now from washington. pierre, tonight we're learning another close ally of trump's was warned by the fbi he was the target of a russian di

president joe biden spoke to the indian prime minister modi after the u.s. announced it will share millions of doses of the astrazeneca vaccine worldwide. germany is sending oxygen. and medical aid, while the european union and the u.k. are also promising assistance including equipment. well, the 2800 people die from the virus monday and tenfold increase on the figure just four weeks ago. elizabeth reports. >> india may be experiencing the world's worst outbreak of covid-19, but millions of people still turned out to elect regional leaders in west bengal monday. it is one of five states that has held elections in recent weeks, despite the drastically rising number of infections. hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of beds and oxygen. the u.s. and u.k. have responded by sending medical supplies to india. >> we want to provide them all the support, because they are close friends, increasingly important partners, but also we need this international collaboration if we will get through the pandemic. we will not be safe until we are all sa

joe biden is marking 100 days in office as president of the united states. biden celebrated by taking a flower for his wife, jill, as they crossed the white house lawn to catch his official helicopter. they were heading to georgia, where he is about to address a drive-in rally of supporters. earlier, they met the oldest former living president, jimmy carter. on wednesday, biden addressed congress with what he called his "blueprint to build america," promising $1.8 trillion investment in jobs, infrastructure, and education. last year on the campaign trail, joe biden made many promises about what he would deliver in his early days in the white house. there are others which are compromised or even abandoned. alan fisher reports now on bidens broken promises. alan: they are the things people remember of campaigns -- >> i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify. alan: the promises, the pledges, that thinks that make a difference. 100 days in, joe biden has failed to deliver in the few key areas. >> people forget there's not a lot of legislatin

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joe biden has held his first face—to—face meeting with a foreign leader at the white house. the us president and japan's prime minister, yoshihide suga, agreed they would work closely to develop new technologies, including artificial intelligence and sg, within norms "set by democracies not autocracies". those technologies are government by shared democratic norms that we both share. norm said by democracy is not autocracies. —— norms set by. we will work together to provide security five jet networks, to increasing our cooperation and supply chain for critical sectors like semiconductors, to driving research in areas like aia, genomics, quantum computing and much more. —— aia. i'm nowjoined by professor amy catalinac, who's an expert in contemporary japanese politics, in the department of politics at new york university. thank you for coming on the programme. i was a significant moment, the first foreign leader the us decides to visit and meet face—to—face. why do you thinkjapan was chosen? that is a great question. i think often us president select japan among

biden's like him amtrak is something that is pretty close tojoe biden's heart. he travelled on what's called the train _ he travelled on what's called the train that— he travelled on what's called the train that goes up and down the northeast— train that goes up and down the northeast corridor of the united states— northeast corridor of the united states from delaware to washington when he _ states from delaware to washington when he was a senator. he used to call him _ when he was a senator. he used to call him amtrakjoe, in fact. so this is— call him amtrakjoe, in fact. so this is him _ call him amtrakjoe, in fact. so this is him sort of paying tribute to that — this is him sort of paying tribute to that service which he used on a regular— to that service which he used on a regular basis to travel millions of mites _ regular basis to travel millions of mites it — regular basis to travel millions of miles. it you are right, this is a much _ miles. it you are right, this is a much wider— miles. it you are right, this is a much wider campaign he i

joe biden had some stern words for his russian counterpart. yes, after months of concentrating on the domestic arena, covid and the economy, joe biden now flexing his international muscles, calling russia provocative for massing those troops on the ukrainian border and inside occupied crimea. russia in return throwing that accusation straight back at washington for sending two warships to the black sea. joe biden is also suggesting the two men should meet for a summit in the coming months in a third country. that could be an interesting encounter given thatjoe interesting encounter given that joe biden interesting encounter given thatjoe biden is already described vladimir putin in the past as soulless and last month he agreed with the journalist who described him as a killer. so that could be a chilly summit when it does happen. but they do have things to talk about, not least climate change, iran and afghanistan. and on afghanistan there is a lot to talk about as the administration today announced it would withdraw all us military from the c

if you rememberjoe bidenjust recently remember joe biden just recently formed _ remember joe biden just recently formed a — rememberjoe bidenjust recently formed a commission that he promised to create _ formed a commission that he promised to create during the presidential campaign to look into a wider range of reforms — campaign to look into a wider range of reforms in the judiciary. it was essentially— of reforms in the judiciary. it was essentially a way for him to dodge being _ essentially a way for him to dodge being pushed on expanding the supreme court when he was being denied _ supreme court when he was being denied campaigning because this is a bil denied campaigning because this is a big issue _ denied campaigning because this is a big issue for progressives. i think the feeling at least among leadership in congress and joe biden in the _ leadership in congress and joe biden in the white house is that they don't _ in the white house is that they don't want to tackle this issue right— don't want to tackle this issue right now _ don't want to tackle this issue right now

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joe biden may be a bit _ put this delicately? joe biden may be a bit boring but the presidency is not _ be a bit boring but the presidency is not uninteresting. and i think that there — is not uninteresting. and i think that there are some real serious ambition— that there are some real serious ambition here at i think it's a really— ambition here at i think it's a really interesting battle that's gonna — really interesting battle that's gonna take place. an ideological battle _ gonna take place. an ideological battle of— gonna take place. an ideological battle of a big tax, big government, bil battle of a big tax, big government, big welfare spending which is america _ big welfare spending which is america has sought to avoid over the past 40 _ america has sought to avoid over the past 40 years. which republicans who will no _ past 40 years. which republicans who will no doubt say this is government overreach _ will no doubt say this is government overreach. and this isn't so much civil engineering when you're looking

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biden is now shuffling the money because congress has not authorised it but he can take it from different programmes. three different points in this announcement today to get more money to these programmes. exactly. touching on that point briefly, he is not going to congress and if he tried to go through congress, let's face it, other presidents have tried and failed. there it is not an appetite for it. there is a huge appetite, but there is... we are locked in 50—50 congress right now. senate right now. we havejoe mnuchin from west virginia and a couple of other key senators from red states that won't go along. we also have something called a filibuster. we are moving much more in much closer. the house has been passing things but we are not at a point yet. still 50-50 in the senate is not enough. we would need at least one more election to do anything significantly. for a sixth night running there've been clashes between police and protesters in northern ireland. in the past few hours more petrol bombs, fireworks and rocks have been thrown at police, who used water cannons to break up

it will be interesting to see whether the carrot and stick approach of joe biden actually works. the stick, of course, is the sanctions announced yesterday. the carrot is the offer of a summit to vladimir putin, something he is very keen to determine up -- to turn up at, i think. will that carrot be enough? russia doesn't say it has any intention to invade ukraine. it says it haseen moving troops and has the right to build up troops on russian territory. of course, russia's actions have been making europe nervous, american nervous, nato nervous, including russia's decision to restrict access to parts of the black sea for the next few months. >> that expulsion of u.s. diplomats by the kremlin today is being seen in washington is relatively proportionate -- as relatively proportionate. is that the view from moscow? >> i think so. we were expecting that. the kremlin says it acts according to reciprocity. america expels 10 russians, russia expels 10 americans, and eight u.s. officials. the russians have recommended the u.s. ambassador pop home for consultations. it is not an expulsio

joe biden took this on last night, saying that people expect democracy, expect the united states to fail and he came with that great american language that america is an idea, america is unique, america will fight back tomorrow america will prove that democracy is much better at meeting the needs of its people and solving global problems. so it was about ideas, but in detail, it was also about technology, it was about jobs, it was about progress. even though he talked about this competition, he also had that message that america was back and it was back to work with allies to solve global problems which cannot be solved by one country alone, not even the united states. >> president biden is ending america's longest war in afghanistan and plans to pull out the american troops by 9/11, the 20th anniversary. he did say last night that the terror threat has evolved beyond afghanistan. what does that mean to you as someone who has covered afghanistan? >> he also mentioned this when he first made it clear that he wanted all of the remaining united states american troops and nato forces to leav

at the same time, he was digging up dirt on joe biden ahead of last year's election. here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: federal agents showed up unannounced at giuliani's new york city apartment at 6:00 a.m., two people with knowledge of the investigation confirmed that wie invest agents were looking for electronic devices and other items. giuliani has been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york since 2019 about whether he broke lobbying laws in his dealings with ukraine while he was also working as former president trump's personal lawyer, looking for compromising lawyer, looking for information on president biden and his son hunter. >> it becomes much bigger than that when it involves ukrainian oligarchs, potentially using mr. giuliani to influence the former administration of president trump. >> reporter: andrew giuliani is the former new york mayor's son. >> this is disgusting. this is absolutely asurd. if this can happen to the former president's lawyer, this can happen to any american. enough is enough. >> i know crimes. i

president joe biden has pledged to cut u.s. carbon emissions in half by 2035 an announced the goal of the 2 day virtual climate summit at the white house 40 countries are taking part china and russia have also to cooperate on climate protections more indonesian navy ships have joined the search for a missing submarine the last vessel has 53 crewmembers on board and officials say oxygen is due to run out early on saturday search efforts are now focused on a highly magnetic object discovered near bali though it's feared it may be too deep to reach. the pin violence between israelis and palestinians outside jerusalem's old city of the protesters were barred from areas where muslim muslims gather for ramadan israeli police put up barricades and use stun grenades to disperse crowds the far right jewish chances of slogans on both prevented from marching to the end. akhil is facing questions today over one of germany's largest corporate scandals the chancellor is testifying before a parliamentary committee investigating the collapse o

president joe biden who called putin and there are there are you never forgets something like that and finally there is also the upcoming parliamentary elections in russia terry the kremlin apparently needs and you are a gent that distracts from the internal russian problems and seeks an enemy from outside and he once again ukraine fits very well as such an enemy ok so that explains the context very well but russia does have these troops now massed at the ukrainian border has indicated how long it plans to keep them there. well i should have beads again and again that the troops are on russian territory and moscow would be allowed to do everything possible with them that's true also russia can to disregard to don't bust because if it doesn't intervene in this situation to the next issue could be crimea from the russian point of view and to the loss of a donbass could result in further political losses for russia on the other hand terry there is a risk of getting involved in a war with the almost whole west given that russia has no allies or even sympathizers in the in child western wor

that after a recent spate of mass shootings president joe biden announces his 1st gun control measures he moves to tighten some regulations but warns much more is needed. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the number of refugees fleeing the military's violent crackdown in myanmar is rising india should india shares a 600 kilometer border with me on mar with strong ethnic and cultural ties between local communities on both sides so india might seem the natural destination for those forced to leave their homes but can those who end up there feel at home we meet one woman and her daughters who have settled in the indian capital delhi a warning some viewers may find this report to starving. for the last 6 years and her girls have felt safe here in delhi but it didn't come easy to get here they had to leave everything behind in their need of man much when he says her husband was tortured and killed by the military. later they were forced to run for their lives after they were caught sheltering students protesting against the military now the situation in myanmar is bringing bac

create four new seats on the court and let joe biden nominate anyone he wants. i'm not a math guy, but if conservatives have a 6-3 advantage on the court and the democrats add four new justices, that would give the left a 7-6 lead. what a convenient set of circumstances. but don't you dare say they're packing the court. >> some people will say we are packing the court. we are not packing it, we are unpacking it. >> lawrence: thanks for clarifying, jerry. mitch mcconnell sees right through this democrat take over. >> time at again, prominent democrats show they are no longer content to work within the ground rules and norms of our institutions. but prefer to threaten the institutions themselves. we've seen it in presidential elections. when democrats say our democracy is sacrosanct, when they win, but illegitimate and broken if republicans win. >> lawrence: now i know he is a republican. you don't believe him? this is ed markey today demanding we expand the supreme court to 13 justices. and then mrs. ed markey in 2016 saying we only needed nine. if ed markey did

all of this points back to joe biden. it's not just the fact that hunter biden has all that morally questionable behavior. the president of the united states may be compromised by ou greatest adversary. that's the story they tried to write in the previous provident and they found no evidence despite the fact that they looked into it there is actual evidence to look into it now. let's see if there's interest and i think we have to stay on top of the story. >> it is not going away. thank you for joining us. >> next, more breaking news on the fallout over major-league baseball decision to put the all-star game out of georgia. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. the john deere z365r ztrak mower, cuts the hassle out of yardwork. ♪ ♪ run with us, because the best job is the one that's easily done. nothing runs like a deere. search john deere z365r for more. >> today's decision by major-league baseball to move its all-star game in protest of the states new voting law is th latest in a long line of corporate

[applause] >> ben: we will have reaction from president joe biden and kamala harris this evening. but first we go to chief international correspondent mike tobin on the ground in minneapolis with the latest, mike. >> i can tell you the immediate reaction following the verdict being read or as the verdict was being read i should say was similar to a sports team winning. a big cheer out of this crowd. and then take out third street for a time. and all we see now is a spontaneous march formed out of the crowd appear they are marching throughout the city. with that being said, the word celebration may take on different meanings because they there is still dissatisfaction. i talked to people following the verdict how they felt about it and they said it's only a stepping stone. there was a lot of anger because this has happened a number of times black men dying with the police and not only here but in the twin cities area. some of the pictures held up in this crowd are pictures of fernando castille, daunte wright, who as you know was recently killed at the hands of a police officer. a t

. >> ben: i don't know if you saw this today, joe biden participated in a conference call with world leaders, and he was the only one wearing a mask. every other world leader was normal, sitting in front of their zoom call, et cetera, talking to each other. it looks come at a certain point, ridiculous, and it seems like it is pandemic theater as opposed to based on the science. >> well, because it is theater, he forgot this theater was so ridiculous that people call him out on it. here's the thing, if i want to go visit the white house, republicans and democrats who go visit, even if they've all been vaccinated or have the disease, they are being tested with a deep sinus test and they are being told they have to wear the n95 mask to go in the white house. even though they have all been vaccinated. so there is no science behind any of this. it is fearmongering, but also has a deleterious effect in that it is discouraging people from getting the vaccine because they are saying, well, if the vaccine doesn't mean anything, it doesn't seem to have any protective benefit, you would don't g

we are speaking as though joe biden is making these decisions. i would suggest that while he clearly understands what he's doing and that is, i think, a shameful, i don't think these are his positions. would you agree with that because he's been in government for 50 years. we never saw this radical woke man before. and, yet, suddenly there he is. >> well, here's my perspective on that. the short answer is i don't know. but, i'm a methodist. i try to be a good methodist. and we believe in free will and responsibility. and by president biden ache ache acquiescing in these positions and in some cases enthusiastically participating in them, he is responsible. >> tammy: inteed. >> i'm not going to let him off oh cut him some slack this is fast ball. he owns this. >> tammy: you are right. >> he is taking america into a bad place. >> tammy: you are right. he is the one person who could stand up and say enough is enough i am not going to do this anymore and actually answer questions from the press as opposed to leaving and saying it would get him in trou

i don't associate with joe biden. he probably confuses major with a golden retriever he had a 1947 or whatever it is. so, that's, that may be the issue there. thank you very much, kat, and congratulations on the new show. by the way, kat has a lovely dog. i've got a new puppy here. a lovely cute little puppy. if the dog whisperer had been in the studio, i think i would have asked for his -- i'm trying to train my puppy to introduce tucker carlson, but she keeps insisting it's "hannity." whoever it is, i will be back here tomorrow night. see you then. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." today is the three month anniversary of january 6th. for those of you are not good at dates or don't have calendars, this is the day that we pause to remember the white supremacist q insurrection. you saw what happened. it was live on television, every gruesome moment. they made it all the way to washington, d.c. they wandered freely through the capital like it was their

what does then candidate joe biden do? he turned around on that debate stage, in the third presidential debate, he said the lap top was a russian plant and he pointed to the letter from those 50 former intelligence officials who said up front, we have no evidence to support what we are saying. we're just suspicious. >> what's going on here? why would former members of the, quote unquote, intelligence community stampede like a herd of elephants to defend a guy who has committed all kinds of criminal offenses? >> the fact that they would put a letter out like that. this is a high stakes election. touching on that hunter biden lap top was a hot topic. the fact that they would put out a letter like that, they were grocery politicizing the intelligence community. the thing is when formers, whether former intelligence officials or former doj prosecutors say something, they know the department of justice really can't do anything. they can't say anything bad because there's a policy that does not allow them to comment on investiga

i think it reflects joe biden's fall approach to handling some of these questions and i think it's unlikely that you will see under the current composition of congress by huge growth in the court but they will look at other things and we will see what comes of it. chris: meanwhile, carl, some democratic activists are pretty aggressively calling on justice breyer who we just saw who was 82 to retire while the democrats still have a majority in the senate so two questions for you. first of all, what he think of the biden commission? secondly, as someone who worked on this when you are on the bush 43 white house how delicate is it to usher out a retiring supreme court justice into usher in a new one? >> first of all the idea that this is a ballast commission is laughable. there are 36 members and i've only had an invite for conservatives and the rest are democrats. one of the committee signed an inflammatory letter calling for the defeat of justice kavanaugh and the other served twice as the democratic national committee general counsel and general counsel the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012 a

i like joe biden but i'm in the 43%. he's been a disaster on foreign policy and the border is in chaos, the iranians are off the map and he's opening up negotiations with the iranian regime and they not on a damn thing to change. afghanistan will fall apart in russia and china are pushing already pushing him around so i'm very worried and i think he's been a very destabilizing president and economically, he's doing throwing a wet blanket over the recovery wanting to raise taxes in a large amount and regulate america basically out of business. i'm not very impressed with the first hundred days. this is not what i thought i would get from joe biden. chris: i want to pick up one of your last points there. you say that you believe that this president and democrats in congress have been involved in a power grab but i think they would push back by saying look, we passed covid relief without a single republican vote in either the house or the senate and as we talk now about infrastructure and social programs of the president is

today from the front line the attorney general leading the charge against joe biden's radical agenda texas ag ken paxton is here on big tech dominates, the xl pipeline shut down, election reform in the border surge, joe biden sweeping executive orders why a string of states are now following and suing the administration. and then you solid here first senator ted cruz rejecting the bidens

chris: congressional republicans are united in opposition to joe biden's 2 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. joining us now senator roy blunt, a member of the gop senate leadership. senator, welcome back. senator: chris, great to be with you today. chris: so you just heard my conversation with brian deese and here was president biden this week selling his plan. take a look. >> it's not a plan that tinkers around the edges. it's a once in a generation investment in america. unlike anything we have seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago. chris: president trump talked about an infrastructure program for years of his presidency, but, no, he never actually offered one. doesn't the country need a significant infrastructure upgrade? senator: oh, absolutely. you know, locations, geography, one of the great advantages, we need that. the great white whale of the last ten years frankly, neither president obama or president trump could seem to get this moving in the right direction. i think there's an easy win here for the white house if they would

so i think it reflects joe biden's sort of thoughtful approach to handling some of these big questions. i think it is unlikely that you'll see under the current composition of congress a huge growth in the court, but they're going to look at some other things and we will see what comes of it. >> chris: meanwhile, karl, some democratic activists are pretty aggressively calling on justice breyer, who we just saw, who is 82, to retire while the democrats still have a majority in the senate, so two questions for you. first of all, what you think of the bike and commission and secondly, as somebody who worked on this when you were in the bush 43 white house, delicate is it to usher out a retiring supreme court justice and to usher in a new one? >> first of all, the idea that this is a balanced commission is laughable. there are 36 members, i've identified four conservatives or libertarians and the rest are democrats. the cochairman of the committee, one of them signed an inflammatory letter calling for the defeat of justice kavanaugh, the other served twice as the democratic national commit

eric: a bonehead move that was senator joe biden in 1983 giving his advice about expanding u.s. supreme court referring to present rosenfeld to do that, court packing in 1937. well, now president biden creates a commission to do just that. enlarging the nation's highest court, progressive and liberal democrats calling for republicans and they are up in arms. with the president take his former senators self advice editor of the "wall street journal" joins us now. you think we will see an expansion team? >> president biden said during the campaign that he didn't have firm opinion on this and wasn't inclined to join in the rally to expand the court to dilute cash three conservative now so this is the answer, he said commission and he's done that. if you are a lost student right now, you want to be an intern on the commission because it's a robust very interesting group of conservative as well as liberal legal scholars and lawyers, former judges, a range of people, former congress people who are going to debate some of the issues presented by the president. eric: but you know what?

but criticismland lasted for decades including in 1983 when then-delaware senator joe biden fiercely criticized president roosevelt's plan. >> he violated no law, he was legal listically absolutely correct, but it was a bonehead idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. >> reporter: fast forward almost 40 years, now president biden at least considering it. republicans, at least those in congress, are blasting the idea, taking aim at the democratic party, the party that currently rules washington in 2021. >> they also understand that for us to ever undo it, we've got to control both chambers and get the president -- presidency s and who knows when that might occur, and that's what i'm most worried about, is crafting that solution, those ideas once we get the chance again. >> reporter: i mentioned four years after the civil war ended, 1869, that's how long we've had nine justices. before that when the court began, set up by president washington, just six justices. but when you think about it, since 1869 the same number, this commission will report back in october. eric? eric:

in 1983 then-delaware senator joe biden called it a bonehead idea. listen. >> he violated no law, he was legalistically absolutely correct, but it was a bonehead idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. >> reporter: president biden did this through an executive order that he announced just yesterday leaving congress out of the equation. let's compare president biden to the last four presidents. he's signed 39 executive orders at this point, 19 with obama, 11, president bush, and 9 for president clinton. gillian, i just looked online, looking at some of those numbers for the supreme court, how many justices have been on the bench. it's fluctuated. at first there was six when the supreme court was set up at the end of is the 1700s, then it went down further, then back up, and it has been nine justices since 1869. if this does go through -- and, again, it's a bipartisan commission -- but if it does go through, it will have implications for decades to come. gillian: so 160 some years it's been nine justices, that's a print good run are. david s

. >> good afternoon to you, senator joe biden when he was senator of delaware spent many years on the judiciary committee talking about things like the supreme court and in fact he was not a fan of court packing in 1983 he called adding justices to the supreme court known as court packing, a bonehead idea. in 2019 supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg when asked about adding justices on the court said nine seems to be good number. other justices liberal and conservative have said over the years, leave things alone as number nine. republicans of congress are worried if the filibuster in the senate goes away we may see a change to the supreme court. listen. >> we already know where democrats want to go it's all about political power we better hope senator manchin and senator cinema keep their word and don't get the filibuster changed, if we do the stuff will become law. >> that six month supreme court study will be completed by partisan 36 members republican or democrat. more sensitive timeline on the president's agenda, the white house calling urgent infrastructure plan, the plan i

. >> good afternoon, this should not come as a surprise this commission as it was canada joe biden when running for president about six months ago the city wanted to study the issue and is going to be a bipartisan commission, 36 people republican and democrats 180 days of report back in six months. what is interesting specifically, when you look at the history of the court in the early days of the supreme court, there were six justices on the supreme court, three and three, it was hard to break a tie, their benign justices sitting on the high court since 1869 consecutively, that is four years after the civil war ended. in 2019 justice ruth bader ginsburg said nine seems to be a good number when talking to be about the number of justices on the bench. other justices have said in the past week alone nine seems to work, just a stephen breyer you don't really hear from these justices speaking publicly but he spoke to harvard last week and said this about adding justices to the court. listen. >> motored by the perception of political policing, further eroding the trust. >> he is a fan, the w

in 1983 then-senator joe biden, a member of the judiciary committee, had this to say about fdr's court-packing plan. >> it was a bonehead idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. >> reporter: and during the campaign, he opposed it. >> i would not get into court packing. we add three justices, next time we lose control, they add three justices. >> reporter: two of the most liberal justices share that opposition. the late ruth bader ginsburg and stephen breyer, who has been on the bench. since 1994. but now president biden has ordered a 36-person, six month bipartisan commission to study the expansion of the count. and and this week -- of the court. and this week a group of democrats introduced legislation to increase the number of justices from 9 to 13. so how likely could a change be coming to the court? the bar is high in a 50-50 split senate where it will take 60 votes to pass. at the supreme court, griff jenkins, fox news. eric: and, by the way, you heard mike wallace narrating that old newsreel from decades ago about this type of situation. and as that debate continued then and c

the senate rejected it overwhelmingly. 1983, then senator joe biden, member of the judiciary committee had this to say about fdr's court packing plan. >> it was a boneheaded idea, a terrible mistake to make. >> during the campaign, he opposed it. >> i would not get into court packing. we have three justices, next time we lose control, they have three justices, you lose credibility the court has little. >> two of the most liberal justices of the modern court share the opposition. the late ruth bader ginsburg and stephen breyer who's been on the bench 1994 but now president biden ordered a 36 person six months bipartisan commission to the expansion of the court. this week, a group of democrats introduced decision to increase the number of justices from nine to 13. how likely a change come to the court? the bar is high, 5050 split senate, 60 votes to pass. if the supreme court. >> the debate over the size of the supreme court rages on in washington, some call for justice stephen breyer, 82 years old to retire. should step down to make room for the courts first black woman to serve. here's

the senate reject it had overwhelming, in 1983 then senator joe biden, a member of the judiciary committee had this to say about fdr's court packing plan. >> it was a bonehead idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. >> and during the campaign, he opposed it. >> i would not get into court packing. we have three justices next time around we lose control, they have three justices and we begin to lose any credibility. >> two of the most liberal justices of the modern court shared that opposition, the late ruth bader ginsburg and stephen breyer who has been on the bench since 1994. >> those whose initial instincts favor court packing this, bye it long and hard. >> i think it was a bad idea when president franklin delano roosevelt tried to pack the court. >> now, president biden ordered a 36-person, six month bipartisan commission to study the expansion of the court. and this week, a group of democrats introduced legislation to increase the number of justicing from nine to 13. >> the united states supreme court is broken. it is out of balance. and it needs to be fixed. >> some people

joe biden dismantled that and now you have a huge catastrophe at the southern border and of course, that's going to have reverberations across the country. >> there's no question that donald trump left us with a mess, you have been reporting on that and we have been fighting for 4 years. he has destroyed every legal avenue for immigration. >> customs and border protection say they are afriending nearly 500 unaccompanied children a day down here with more than 20,000 in u.s. government custody, most are handled by the department of health and human services, hhs then moves them the long-term shelters or family members across the united states. now, there are calls from republicans, they want the white house, the want the president and vice president come to the border. most of what you're seeing is commitment from the vice president to visit mexico and guatemala some time soon. eric, back to you. eric: plans to unleash multiple billion dollars to help the countries stem the cause there. meanwhile you have the border patrol vehicles behind you. last sunday was amazing. you showed us families

but, look, i think if you're joe biden and you say one of my main jobs here is to continue the economic growth that we've seen after a year of a pandemic, the job of the federal government in many respects is to get out of the way, not to cause additional problems. you look at the $1.9 trillion in spending on covid relief or covid relief plus, you look at the proposed $2.2 trillion in spending on infrastructure or infrastructure plus on top of the $5 .3 trillion in spending that we had before on covid relief, and you're talking about massive amounts of new spending. i think taxpayers would be -- and maybe some republicans -- would be more sympathetic to the kinds of tax proposals that joe biden is offering if this were tackling our debt or taking on existing obligations and paying for those. instead what you're seeing is new spending piled on new spending piled on new spending. i think that's a tougher sell. eric: yeah. let's finally take a look at that. we don't hear very much about reining in some of the spending and the deaf9 sit that's ballooned, obviously -- deficit. let's look at

i'd like to know, is facebook and twitter going to suspend joe biden's account for putting out election misinformation like they did donald trump? if they don't, then we know we're living in a duplicity of rules in this country, and we know that we are. eric do you think this was political pressure? i mean, mlb reports that big names would boycott the game if it was held in atlanta. do you think that's part of the issue? and what do we do about it? >> it's time for people to push back and stand up. i was so glad to see the people in georgia, the governor and some of the legislate to haves, are standing up and pushing back. now, if there's something legitimate they can point to in the law and specifically say, look, this is really bad, well, then do it. but do it in the context of when that law is being debated and discussed, voted on. they wait until afterwards, they were all fine with it until it got signed, and then some people raised some sand about it even though they couldn't tell you what it was they were unhappy with, and suddenly these corporations cave. but these are the same c