the democrat trap is a trap for republicans. >> a bipartisan border deal on the verge of going bust. >> the house set to vote today. >> it's donald trump. he's changed the politics inside the gop. >> it's irresponse to believe say something is dead on arrival if you don't know what it's in it. >> officials are scared of more rain. >> it is already in the top three wettest storm systems since they started tracking such things. >> stay safe and off the roads. only leave your house if it is absolutely necessary. >> buckingham palace announcing king charles has been diagnosed with cancer. >> i think it came as a surprise to everyone around the king. >> prince harry is returning to the united kingdom to be with his father. >> you hear the word cancer, you want family by your side. good morning, everyone. it's the top of the hour.

i'm poppy harlow with phil madden in new york. just hours from now, house republicans will try to impeach alejandro mayorkas. overnight, the white house called the move unconstitutional and baseless. and the only bipartisan bill to address the surge of migrants at the southern border is on the brink of total collapse. republican senators rapidly turning against their own colleagues who negotiated the deal as donald trump employs the full scope of his intraparty power to kill it. >> we have team coverage this morning. arlette saenz and kristen holmes in washington. arlette, talk about the biden administration view this morning on all of this. i mean, it's just so interesting that you have this move the impeach the secretary at the same time there is this push in the senate to pass a border deal that is dead on arrival in the house. >> reporter: poppy, the white house has offered its most forceful defense of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and is pressing their strong opposition to the

impeachment resolution the house is set to vote on today. in a statement ahead of the vote, the white house said, "impeaching secretary mayorkas would be an unprecedented and unconstitutional act of political retribution that would do nothing to solve the challenges our nation faces in securing the border." the resolution's grounds for impeachment have no basis in law or fact. the white house also argued pursuing the impeachment would trivialize the impeachment power that lies in the constitution and lead to further partisan abuse of it down the road. the white house is also using this moment to urge lawmakers to get on board with that bipartisan border deal. the white house says the way to change the crisis at the u.s. southern border is through policy, not through impeaching mayorkas. but it's this political reality that the v so many republicans have expressed opposition to the bill. >> a low-key fascinating game of

legislative gamesmanship, i guess, playing out right now in terms of republicans saying straight up this bill will not get a vote, let alone fail. it won't get a vote. and the white house issuing a veto threat against the stand-alone israel aid bill. they're try to close off avenues and force one another's hands. the move on the veto threat on israel was interesting to me. what are they saying? >> reporter: the white house is calling this move by house speaker mike johnson a, quote, cynical political maneuver, and they are vowing president biden would veto that measure if it were to come to his desk. the white house has insisted that the path forward for aid for israel, aid for ukraine, is in that bipartisan border deal, which many republicans have insisted that any changes or aid for ukraine and israel be tied to those border policy changes. what this debate highlights is the fact that the white house and democrats are quite eager to go on offense when it comes to the issue of immigration. they are saying, hey, we've

presented and made concessions to have these border policy changes, but so far republicans have been blocking it increasingly at the urging of former president donald trump. the big question is how this will play out on the campaign trail heading into november as so many voters have expressed concerns about immigration, concerns about president biden's handling of it. these steps the white house has been taking is trying to show that biden is trying to act, but at the time, republicans are the ones obstructing. >> kristen, one of the top issue if not trump's top issue is and has been for a long time immigration and the southern border and building the wall, et cetera, et cetera. talk about the strategy here. what's your reporting on his moves to try to tank this deal? >> reporter: poppy, they continue to say this isn't political, he wants the best deal for the country. but part of this is is political

and self-preservation. donald trump believes this is a top issue for americans going into 2024, into november. and they believe and have seen poll numbers that show that americans and many voters believe donald trump does better on the issue of immigration. he wants to take this to joe biden and the ballot box. donald trump's power in washington is growing. we have seen these republicans really fall in line behind the former president in a way we hadn't seen in quite some time. part of that is a calculated response to threats the former president is issuing to these republicans who might support this deal. take a listen to what he said yesterday. >> this is a democrat trap. it's a trap for republicans that would be so stupid, so foolish to sign a bill like this. this bill can't be signed. it's not only that. it's massive amounts of money going out of town, as we say.

>> reporter: senate republicans have to make a decision. where do they want to be if donald trump is the nominee? what side of donald trump do they want to be on? >> something everybody is weighing. let's talk about this with josh barro and former trump white house communications director alissa. start with the power the president still wields over republicans, even republicans who have criticized his stance on immigration before. congressman roy was on last night. what's the backup plan? is it to wait 350 days and hope trump is inaugurated as president? and you've been critical of him on this, the stronghold he has on this. >> it's nothing like i've seen in my political lifetime. lawmakers are scared of him. this bill would have never gotten to the floor in a john boehner house. this is a very conservative bill

negotiated by james lankford, one of the most conservative members of the senate. this is a win for people who want border security. i'm surprised democrats are willing to go as far as they are, but donald trump cannot give a win to joe biden, so he is pressuring house republicans and senators to pose this. it will likely pass the senate with a lot of republican "noes and" dead on arrival in the house. it's crazen. the challenges, are the biden folks going to be able to communicate in the next ten months i tried to secure the border but donald trump convinced republicans to block it? that's the hard part. >> the democratic leader, hakeem jeffries, do you think you can avert the political advantage because of a blockade on capitol hill? particularly one by all appearances was ordered by the likely republican nominee. i'm not convinced people are that discerning of congressional legislative action. >> no. it helps donald trump took an unsubtle role in this because it

makes it easier to explain to the public and make it more interesting. that's a more viable pact than if the house speaker was bottled up in a more normal way. the problem obviously is joe biden is president. we've seen what the biden administration does when it doesn't have all the legal authorities it would like to have. it makes a big show of all the efforts to look under the couch cushions and find new authorities and new intentions. with student debt, you saw this over and over again, first the aggressive effort that got struck down by the courts. but every time they find a way to relieve another piece of student debt, they're wrapping that up into a big message about how hard the president is pushing back against his limited legal authorities here. you would think they would message in a similar way on immigration, especially since they finally seem to have decided it really is a political necessity for them to get this under control and show they're getting it under control. >> they do need new legal authority, which is why republicans have their own bill that they've been talking about for most of the session. if you didn't need the legal

authorities, why do they have a flagship piece of legislation? still, biden will have to do what he can with what he does. >> one of our capitol hill correspondents have been asking, if he has all the authority, why are you pushing hr-2? the answers aren't great. >> by the way, can i mention kind of lost in this conversation is i'm not sure that we properly appreciate how j jeopardy ukraine aid is. this is the most bipartisan congress i've seen in my lifetime. this could have a true impact on the war. i don't know that joe biden's got a card to play. >> and this has $60 billion. "wall street journal" editorial board, not some faction of liberal ideas, says, the headline, border security, lay out the reasons why.

if republicans reject this bill, they will hand democrats the argument the republicans want border chaos and can exploit the campaign issue. but how effectively can they do that? how effectively can the biden white house do it when the fact also is that he is facing record numbers that are more than double what trump ever faced of migrant crossings in any year of his presidency? >> therein lies the challenge. we follow this daily, so we know how crazen house republicans are. does that break through to the american public going about their daily lives, and all they see is this is happening under joe biden? they need an aggressive strategy to explain internal congressional ram bling, and that's very hard. i think he'll have to take some further executive action. >> what can biden do now that he's not doing? >> i mean, you want to take this one first? >> in some part, it's an open question with the courts.

for several years, we were using this pandemic authority under title xlii to basically say because of a public health emergency we're prohibiting certain forms of asylum and such. >> yeah. >> and the courts were sort of losing patience with that, and the biden administration had a prior ideological commitment to move away from that. i think if they tried to restart doing certain things that the trump administration was doing and the biden administration was doing in the early parts of the administration, it's fairly likely the courts would interfere with that. but i don't think we have a full set of answers. >> they've made moves to pull down trump's executive orders, made a big show of shifting things, title xlii stayed and they had to have it because it was actually effective. the courts tied that up, and that's gone. so many of these trump priorities done through executive action were never fully litigated. most were pulled off on appeal or had been struck down. so, there are limits to what they can do. it's true they can do some,

but -- >> the executive action. >> also need mexico to help on a lot of these things. >> last night senator mike lee tweeted what to do about border security and he links it to his campaign fund. this is about re-election. giving to the campaign won't help. >> is he going to build the wall? king charles diagnosed with cancer less than a year after his coronation and less than two years since the death of the queen, queen elizabeth. we'll talk about what it means for the royal family. and country singer toe by keith has died after a battle with stomach cancer. he is survived by his wife, three children, and four grandchildren. he was 62 years old.

britain's king charles is stepping a way from public duties after being diagnosed with cancer. he underwent treatment for an enlarged prostate last month. >> but he does not have prostate cancer. prince william will return to public duties this week after taking time to support his wife after her own surgery. and prince harry will travel to the uk to see his father. max foster is at buckingham palace for us. what more do we know about the actual diagnosis here? >> reporter: well, we're not given the precise details, but i had an interesting conversation last night where i was told the

king might decide to reveal exactly what form of cancer and, indeed, what sort of treatment he's receiving at some point in order to raise awareness about cancer. so, he's been involved with cancer charities for many years. also, he had quite a degree of success when he went into hospital with an enlarged prostate, and there was a huge inquiry from the national health service after that. i think we may find out exactly what cancer this is, which would go aagainst the tradition in the royal family to reveal any medical details whatsoever. we haven't heard about the princess of wales, how queen elizabeth died. i'm told he's in good form, a bit frustrated, able to carry out the formal constitutional duties, will carry on with his meetings with the prime minister. i'm told that we're not of a level where he has to appoint

other members of the royal family to stand in for him if he's incapacitated in some way. and we will be told if that happens. in terms of updates, it will have to be quite significant if we hear an update. that's probably the biggest one, appointing the counselors of state. >> max, we hope it doesn't get to that, but if he were to fall ill, what's the plan? >> reporter: well, you know, it is something they need to think about if he's receiving medical treatment. i think the plan will be, you know, solidified. so, there are five members of the royal family who he can appoint to carry out his official duties for him, his constitutional duties. he has to appoint two of them. the reason there's five is because one is prince harry, and, you know, he's not a working royal, so he wouldn't be appointed. there's edward. but the obvious choices would be william and the queen because the princess of wales is, you know, recovering from her

operation as well. they basically will sign laws, you know, keep the constitution going. you have to remember the king isn't just the person who appoints the prime minister. he's held of judiciary, head of the armed services, head of the church of england. you know, the whole system grinds to a halt if he can't sign off on the paperwork, so you have to have a system in place, so that would be it, the queen and prince william. >> max foster with the latest from buckingham palace. thank you. a woman is dragged by men on a moped in new york, and the nypd says it's part of a robbery ring involving immigrants. and more on the rain, and if you can believe it, even more on the way in california this morning after that atmospheric river unleashed a vicious storm and record rainfall impacting travel and power. at least two people were killed by trees that toppled during the storm. you have flashflooding and landslides that sent buildings and vehicles down rivers of mud.

about 35 million people remain under flood threat this morning.

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catch criminals, and increase prosecutions. prop e is a smart step our city can take right now to keep san francisco moving in the right direction. please join me in voting yes on prop e. this morning the nypd says it has busted a robbery ring that officers believed had involved migrants. the nypd released this video. take a look. what you're seeing is a woman robbed and then dragged by two people on a moped. they are believed to be part of a group that police say was responsible for 62 robberies across the city. at least seven people so far have been b arrested. new york city mayor eric adams joined the nypd as they arrested the suspect. >> this comes days after police say a group of migrants attacked

two officers in times square. adams is part of a group of democratic mayors pressuring the biden administration to help with money for migrants drop off in their cities. he says most migrants are not criminals. >> over 175,000 migrants and asylum seekers that arrived here, this is 12 people. and so, any new yorker that looks at those who are trying to fulfill their next step on the american dream as being criminals, that is wrong. that is not what we're seeing. >> joining us now to talk about this, cnn cheech law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. to start with, what do we know about this robbery ring? how do they know the perpetrators are migrants? >> well, in the nypd, and this is something that happened when i was there, they changed the rule and they changed the law, which is police officers in the arrest process are prohibited from asking anybody's

immigration status or so on. >> right. >> but they are interviewing people who are arrested and are finding they're living in migrant shelters, they're talking about where they came from. so, it's more than anecdotal, but what you have here is city-wide pattern 156. this is a pattern that burst onto the scene because it was different from most patterns. usually, you have someone who's operating in a section of manhattan or a section of queens. this hit four out of the five boroughs with people operating on mopeds and scooters. look at that video with the woman -- where the phone is being snasmed from her and she's being dragged by the scooter around the corner. the guy on the front of the scooter, he's the getaway driver, essentially. he gets a hundred bucks for day. the guy on the back who jumps off, does the snatch, or in some cases does the snatch without jumping off, gets $600. they were all working for kind of a modern-day fagin, a guy

named victor para in the bronx. you bring me the electronics, i have a tech guy. we have two phases. we crack the phone, we get the personal identifying information, get into their bank accounts, their other financials, and start to exploit that to make money. two, after we've gotten everything we can out of that phone, we ship the device to colombia or another country and we sell it as hardware. so, this was very lucrative for parra, who is still on the run, and his tech guy, and the cash going to these small crews on scooters was significant. >> we showed that image of mayor adams in the vest with all the detectives. what's the significance of that? >> that is a real statement. >> yeah. >> i've been around a long time, and i can't remember a mayor of the city of new york -- granted, he's an ex-police captain -- putting on a bulletproof vest and going out on a raid of

suspected armed criminals, you know, in a bronx housing project. did he have an official function there as part of the raid team? no. what he's saying is i care about this. i am involved in this. and i am sending a message that this is a priority. and why? because the district attorney's office and the courts, it doesn't seem like the mayor feels that message is getting through based on what happened last week. >> and he just lost two crucial moves in terms of efforts to curb crime in the city to the city council last week. thank you. notable, that photo. it's been one year since a devastating earthquake rocked syria and turkey and killed tens of thousands. but buildings are still in ruins, basic services like sanitation, public health, collapsing. according to unit receive, more than 700 million children still need humanitarian assistance. >> scott, thanks for being with us. it's important to show those images, because as soon as the headlines fade and the news

cameras are gone, people forget about the devastation. what are you hearing? what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: i've covered every kind of natural disaster you can think of, and this is what it usually looks like on the day after, not a year later. you'll be hard pressed to find any buildings in this city that haven't been affected by this. obviously, there's a huge cleanup left to go. this is one of the few buildings we could find in this area that's been restored already. over here, you can see how much work there still is left to go. the government has promised to build some 320,000 homes and apartments within the first year, but they have delivered the keys to less than 20,000 of them. it is a huge, huge uphill battle. and there is also plenty of outrage. this is the old city of antakya, but there were also buildings that were only a few years old that also fell. there is outrage directed at builders. there's been more than 250

convictions. and there is outrage against politicians who turned a blind eye when the building violations were being ignored and didn't enforce them. so you have a situation where almost 700,000 people are living in these sprawling container cities across the region. there are hundreds of them. it is a very basic way to live. these are essentially small rvs, trust me, not nearly as luxurious. you have about -- you can almost touch both walls with your arms. you have water, power, but not much else. they're meant to be temporary, but because private insurance here is not so common, you have many people who owned their homes waiting for government help. you are people who were renting who are waiting for supplies to catch up with demand so they can afford them. another thing is this region in particular was home to almost half of turkey's 3.5 million or so syrian refugees. many of them have been displaced to other parts of the country, and they cannot register their

kids in school because of a law that requires them to remain in the area where they were originally registered. the government doesn't keep official data on this, but we talked to a nonprofit helping 120 kids but have hundreds on their waiting list trying to teach them turkish. they figure the problem across the country has tot gob in the tens of thousands. so, if nothing is done about this, you may have a lost generation of syrian kids with little education at the end of this. >> wow. i'm so glad you've raised that, the damage so far beyond physical damage and destruction. scott mclean in antakya, thank you. in japan, a pold of killer whales is trapped in sea ice. look at this video shot from a drone. the pod of at least ten orcas is seen crowding in a small gap between the ice. >> this is happening off of one of japan's northern islands. officials from a nearby coastal town say they have no way of

rescuing the whales and have no choice but to wait for the ice to break up or the whales to escape on their own. it is presidential primary day in nevada, and a new cnn poll reveals what voters want resolved before the november election. we are digging into the numbers with our data guru. and a new faa administrator is heading to capitol hill this morning. what he pledges to do after a boeing 737 max 9 plane's door plu off midflight.

two leading candidates for senate. two very different visions for california. steve garvey, the leading republican, is too conservative for california. he voted for trump twice and supported republicans for years, including far right conservatives. adam schiff, the leading democrat, defended democracy against trump and the insurrectionists. he helped build affordable housing, lower drug costs, and bring good jobs back home. the choice is clear. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. this ad? typical. politicians... "he's bad. i'm good." blah, blah. let's shake things up. with katie porter. porter refuses corporate pac money. and leads the fight to ban congressional stock trading. katie porter. taking on big banks to make housing more affordable. and drug company ceos to stop their price gouging.

most politicians just fight each other. while katie porter fights for you. for senate - democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. i think it's very unfair when an opponent, a political opponent, is prosecuted by the doj, by biden's doj. they're doing it for election interference, and in a way, i guess you consider it part of the campaign because if you really look at it, they are doing this, it's never been done like this in this country. >> donald trump playing the victim again as he rails against a slew of federal charges brought against him by the justice department. it comes as voters in nevada go to the polls in the state's primary, although they won't find the former president on the ballot. that's because nevada's gop will hold caucuses on thursday to divvy up the delegates. a new cnn poll shows what voters

want resolved before the november election. harry enton is going to tell us what voters want resolved. in the polling, when do voters want these cases decided? >> looking at our poll, essential that the federal trial on trump's election trials be resolved before the 2024 election. this is among all voters. what a surprise, an even split here, 50% say it is essential. now, there is an additional 16% who would like it, but don't say it is essential to be resolved before the 2024 election. of course, not a big surprise there's a partisan breakdown, 72% of democrats think it's essential the case be decided before the 2024 election, while republicans, 20% say it is essential. no big surprise there because of course, this the case goes against donald trump, it wouldn't necessarily be good for him in the 2024 election. broadening this out, think that trump acted illegally to remain president after the 2020 election, look at this --

despite all of the news, phil, despite everything that has come out, despite all of these cases, despite all of the press, look at this, 45% think he acted illegally. that is the same -- this number, folks, hasn't moved since july of 2022. i was looking at the cross tabs, by party, they've remained the same. people are locked in on how they feel about donald trump. this is a 50/50 nation. >> everything tied to him is the most static number i've ever seen in politics. >> yeah. >> remarkable. do voters think donald trump will concede if he loses in 2024? >> yeah. so, you know, we're talking about the 2020 election and its potential effects on 2024. let's zone in on the 2024 election. losing in the 2024 presidential election, the loser should concede. the vast majority of americans believe that the loser should concede, 86%. >> what do the other 14% think? like -- not even asking who. we're saying concession. >> you can get 14% of americans

to believe anything. 12% think we faked the moon landing. a very different number here. one last nugget i want to go through here. if elected, trump pardons for himself, if he's convicted, he would try, 78%. 77% believe he would try to pardon those convicted in the january 6th attacks. should he do those things? 26% say he should try and pardon himself. so, there's try and should. very different. yet despite the difference, donald trump does lead most of the polling. >> fascinating dynamic. harry enten, thank you. a couple things i want to talk about in our polling, but respond to the question about self-pardon. >> the first thing people ask is can he self-pardon? we don't know. it's never been done. i think the better argument is no. but if donald trump wins the 2024 election, he will do one or

both of two things. one, he'll almost certainly order his doj to dismiss the two federal cases against him. not much you can do to stop that. and as a safeguard, he might try to pardon himself. but who will challenge it? only doj will challenge a pardon. it would be trump's doj. >> attorney general. couple things here. when you look at our polling, the cnn polling, one of the questions that was asked is when should a verdict come. why was that number so striking to you? 48% said it is essential pre-election. i want to be clear here. this is a verdict in one of the federal elections case. >> that's an important detail because i think, while the federal election subversion case, jack smith's d.c. case, does probably have the power to swing some votes, we've seen other polling showing it could swing 7%, 8%, i wonder what the percentage would be when it comes to the manhattan d.a.'s hush money case. the way the challenger is coming into focus now, jack smith's case is pushed off, no longer scheduled for march 4th, sort of

suspended indefinitely. ill still may or may not get in before the election, but it's looking increasingly like the first one to go will be the one in manhattan, the hush-money case. i wonder, some pollster needs to ask, will that change your mind at all, the outcome in that case. >> i know you're away from your friends. can you short hand kind of the path forward on the calendar as we know it now? >> i'm trying to visualize this. for a long time, we had a collision happening. jack smith's trial and the manhattan d.a.'s trial. and the manhattan d.a. was signaling and then some publicly if both are in march,ly step back and the felds can do their case. the fed case is now off. so, unless something unexpected happens -- and there is a hearing next week on the manhattan case on february 15th, but that looks like it's a go for march 25th of this year, you know, two months from now, then the question is when will jack smith's case be able to get back on track? with respect to the other two, fani willis' case was the only

one without a date, now they have these problems and scandals brewing. that's not getting tried before the 2024 election. the documents case, that's scheduled for late may. as of the moment, it's solid, but there are indications that could get pushed back too. we're looking at a scenario where i think we're almost certainly going to get the manhattan case and jack smith's january 6th's case is maybe 50/50 over the summer. >> before you go, the other poll in question that was so interesting is trump's efforts to remain president in 2020, did he act illegally. 45% say he did act illegally. 32% said unethical, not illegal. 23% said did nothing wrong. why does that give you pause? >> that terrifies me from a prosecutor's point of view. 45% think one of the major parties did something illegal, politically, normal humans, you go, that's a lot. prosecutors, i'm thinking you need 12 jurors unanimous, beyond

a reasonable doubt. run the math on that. if you have a 50/50-ish split in how many people think he did something illegal and you need all 12 of them, that said, the jury pools in manhattan and d.c. being anti-trump, trump got 5% of the vote in d.c. and 12% of the vote in manhattan, so it may not be the same sample. but that number would alarm me as a prosecutor. >> interesting point. i was told there would be no math. which is why i got into journalism. >> we try to keep it schimple, like one and two digits. >> thanks, buddy. dartmouth brings back standardized testing for admissions, and another ruling could up end college athletics. the president of dartmouth college joins us live.

so, this morning, dartmouth college is at the center of what

could be two significant changes in higher education. the national labor relations board says the men's basketball team can move forward to create a union. hours before that, dartmouth said it would require new applicants to submit their test scores from the s.a.t. or a.c.t. starting the fall of 2025. dartmouth had dropped that during the pandemic, but the president says students might benefit from sharing test scores. the president joins us now. thank you very much. so many people are watching this and what you do and how it plays out with such interest. what were you seeing that told you this was the right move for everyone, particularly that point i just read about lower-income students? >> yeah. well, dartmouth is a place that looks at data, looks at research, and makes decisions off of that. and this summer we asked our

economics and sociology faculty to look at our data. what we found is that, first, test scores are a good predictor of how well students will do at dartmouth, and other research has shown that's true beyond college, as well. and we showed that was true for high-income students as well as low-income students. the second thing we found was that, in the test-optional environment, students weren't always submitting their theest scores. interestingly and maybe counterintuitively, we found that hurt low-income students. we look at the whole application. when lower-income students weren't submitting scores, we couldn't see how they were thriving in their environment. >> so, this wasn't about -- or was it all about -- were you finding that admitted students over the last couple years, when they weren't required to submit their scores, were less prepared or performing less well, or it's not about that? >> it's really not about that. i mean, we know that students

went through the covid pandemic, and our students are thriving here at dartd mouth. but our goal is to identify academic excellence so essentially educate the broadest swath of leaders. and we want all the information at our disposal to do that. and we know that when we are in a test-optional environment, we are actually missing students who are excelling in their schools and in their environments who would be great at dartmouth. >> what about studies like the peer review journal of education research that found that a high school student's gpa was five times more predictive of their success in college graduation than their a.c.t. score? five times is a lot. >> we're looking at both. we are a highly selective institution, and the analysis of others and ours has shown in highly selective environments

where we have tens of thousands of applications for not so many spots, the s.a.t.s are a much better predictor of outcome at dartmouth and beyond than grades, but they are one part of a holistic mission, one part of what we look at. and our goal is to have all the information. >> are you at all concerned about the impact this could have on low-income students, a more diverse student body? i hear the argument you're making. the data you found is really interesting. when you look at a study in 2019 by the policy analysts for policy california education funded in part by the department of education, they found what they saw resulted in a more socioeconomically and racially and ethnically diverse applicant pool when you focus on gpa over standardized tests. we know how expensive the test prep programs are, et cetera. i wonder if you worry about that at all. >> look, we're always trying to

admit and enroll the broadest swath and the best students, but the bottom line is we think the data are very clear that we think this should help us expand our ability to attract and enroll the best students across the economic sector. and we think our research, our data, the data of others has shown that this is one way to actually find those students who don't have all of the resources around letters of rec, around activities, around college counselors. and we follow the research. >> for people who don't know, roz chetty has done groundbreaking work on lifting people from poverty. got to talk sports here. the men's basketball team could soon unionize. a regional office has decided that basketball players are employees of the school, clearing them for a way to vote

to unionize that would allow them to negotiate pay and how long they practice. i thought it was interesting a spokesperson for dartmouth came out in opposition of this, wanting a peer review. i kwwonder why. why does dartmouth oppose this? >> we support our students on campus. our goal is to train them as the next generation of leaders. we have productive working. >> referee:s with so many unions, but we don't give athletic scholarships. we are student-athletes here, and we believe our students should be thought of in that way. but it's early days, and we're very supportive of all our students. >> and if they vote to unionize, you're behind them? >> as we've said, we are looking at all of the information, and, again, we believe our student-athletes are students. >> please come back. really appreciate it. president bellock. thanks. well, a daring rescue during

l.a.'s dangerous flashflooding. a man goes to death-defying lengths to save his best friend trapped in the water.

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max 9 was forced to make an emergency landing after a drew plug flew off. pete muntean joins us now. do we have any sense of what the testimony is going to sound like today? >> reporter: this could be a grilling for the head of the faa. the agency is now supervising ramped-up overnight of boeing since that blowout. and top lawmakers in the house want to know if that is enough. this is the faa administrator, mike whitaker's, first time testifying to congress since that incident. also, it's his first time testifying on klim since taking the job about 100 days ago. in his prepared testimony, he'll say, quote, going forward, we will have more boots on the ground closely scrutinizing and monitoring production and manufacturing activities at boeing. the faa has already launched an audit of boeing's production line in renton, washington. sunday boeing disclosed it found a new problem -- poorly drilled holes found in part of the

windows on about 50 737 maxes still in the factory. boeing contractors fear the fuselage is owning the problem, but that means boeing is slowing the production of some planes and delaying deliveries. just yesterday the faa told reporters it's reimagining a new oversight plan of boeing, and the faa says it has about a dozen inspectors at boeing doing nose-to-tail and wing tip-to-wing tip inspections. one more quote from the faa head, he says we will take appropriate and necessary action. the safety of the flying public will continue to inform our decisionmaking. here's the rub, though. the faa has cleared the max 9 to fly again, and all but a handful of those planes have been inspected by airlines and are carrying passengers, but that is happening as the ntsb is still doing its investigation of the alaska door plug incident. preliminary report could come out today, but a final report could take a year or more.

>> all right. pete muntean, thank you. a fire hose of rain to california, triggering power outages and travel chaos across the state. fire officials spent much of monday rescuing residents trapped in surging floodwaters. this man jumped into the l.a. river to save his dog. >> a helicopter carullo kated both the dog, who swam to the edge to escape the rapids, and his owner, who was hoisted onto an aircraft, taken to a hospital. officials say both are doing okay after suffering minor injuries. cute pup there. >> very good boy. >> thanks for being with us. see you tomorrow morning. "cnn news central" is now. ♪ close to collapse. a bipartisan border bill may be dead just days after it was unveiled. some conservatives are refusing tort