host: john thune on the floor yesterday. who do you agree with in this debate? the democrats, president biden, or the republicans? in the house the republicans have the same view as their colleagues in the upper chamber. they want to see some immigration changes. as you heard from senator thune, with some real teeth. should these be separate issues? dan in louisville, kentucky. republican. let's hear from you. dan in louisville? dan, i'm sorry. can you call back on a better line. you are very muffled. michelle and he -- in maryland. caller: i wish she would stop calling at the democratic line and republican line. there are no republicans. the republican party is dead. they died during the insurrection. host: stick to the topic please. caller: they are projecting everything that they do on the democrats. that is all they ever do. they run and hide. i will trade every palestinian and every person who comes over the border for every one of the trump trash party. host: bradley and marietta, georgia. democratic caller. caller: good morning. that last caller -- it's h

senator john thune from south dakota.obviously, they have a lot of tentacles all over the middle east right now. one arm is the houthis. they're hitting 101 times in the region. some of that has come from syria as well, hitting back at the united states. the plans that the coalition now has to protect the red sea, which could drive all of the prices up for oil and goods because 10 to 15% of everything goes through the red sea. they're doing this strategically. general jack keane will join us to explain next. >> there's talk about redesignating houthis as a terrorist organization? >> we're conducting a review on whether or not that is the right course forward. no decisions right now. symptoms define me... emerge as you. with tremfya®, most people saw 90% clearer skin at 4 months... ...and the majority stayed clearer, at 5 years. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vacci

this is the blunt take of one top republican john thune. listen to this. >> it seems no deal that an immigration deal can be voted on in the senate this week? tha tha >> that is a fact. yes. there is no way. >> there is no way. so now, joining us is a democratic senator jeff merkley serving on the foreign relations committee. do you agree with john thune on this, no way of a border agreement this week? >> it does take two sides, and if republican side says there is not going to be a dance, there is no dance. >> i am not sure that is what thune was saying, but he is saying that practically speaking, there is not going to be a vote this week. do you agree? >> well, that is fair. you are talk about whilst three major world issues in the middle east, ukraine and the border, and it is not just funding the programs on the border, but it is about more security on the border or more case managers, more folks who are holding the asylum hearings to get rid of this backlog, that is fairly straight forward, but the republicans are getting a lot of the

john thune will be here in a moment. but for the latest, we go to aishah hasnie with the very latest. aishah? >> hey, good afternoon to you, charles. several senate republicans i can tell you right now are looking at the white house and they want the president, president biden, to get involved directly in these border talks. we'll see if his time is meeting will convince him of doing that. we know the white house is involved. big developments in the last hour. i can tell you that house -- that homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and white house aides are meeting with senate negotiators right know and aides for leader mcconnell and schumer. schumer wants to get in deal done before the new year's. listen to this. >> serious means not saying we're going to go home. when there's an emergency, they say it's an emergency, both the border and in ukraine. you don't go home for three weeks. i called speaker johnson last night and urged him to stay. i spoke to leader mcconnell after the zelensky meeting and urged him to

senator republican whip john thune and he's repeatedly stressed the importance of appealing to moderate. >> nikki haley comes in in some of the polls she handedly defeated biden by even a larger margin and doesn't carry a lot of the baggage that trump tarries, and i thought -- carries and i thought ron desantis made a mistake going after very conservative voter when is he should have consolidated the somewhat conservative republican voters and moderate republican voters. there's no liberals, but he didn't do that so he left them wide open and she seems to be doing exactly that. like i said, with the primaries, we never really know till the actual primaries occur. if she comes off incredible in iowa and wins new hampshire, it's a new day. elizabeth: interesting. let's get your take on what was said on abc this weekend and hear from senator lindsey graham and hbo's bill maher. >> i would take joe biden over donald trump every single day of the week no problem. where this country has gone and how far we've gone downhill in the last three years is a place that most republicans aren't willin

>> next, senate judiciary committee ranking member lindsey graham joins john thune and other senate republicans to discuss the biden administration's border policies. they discussed aid for israel and ukraine cannot pass until significant changes are made to the border policy. >> we are on time and under budget. we are about to break. we had an effort yesterday from senator schumer to pass a ukraine, taiwan and israel legislation which i support and the proposal on the border was awful. what is next? here is what is next? the commander in chief joe biden needs to wake up and do something about our broken border. it is his job above all others to secure the nation. here is what we learned this week in the judiciary. excuse me, the director of the fbi when asked about linking light threats -- eyes see blinking lights -- i see blink ing lights wherever i turn people have to understand that what happens to israel affects you also. we have chosen to support israel because we should. hamas would kill all of us if we could and we need to be behind our friends in israel. what does that mean for us? the

. >> next, senate judiciary committee ranking member lindsey graham joins john thune and other senateepublicans to discuss the biden administration's border policies. they discussed aid for israel and ukraine cannot pass until significant changes are made to the border policy. >> we are on time and under budget. we are about to break. we had an effort yesterday from senator schumer to pass a ukraine, taiwan and israel legislation which i support and the proposal on the border was awful. what is next? here is what is next? the commander in chief joe biden needs to wake up and do something about our broken border. it is his job above all others to secure the nation. here is what we learned this week in the judiciary. excuse me, the director of the fbi when asked about linking light threats -- eyes see blinking lights -- i see blink ing lights wherever i turn people have to understand that what happens to israel affects you also. we have chosen to support israel because we should. hamas would kill all of us if we could and we need to be behind our friends in israel. what does that mean f

. >> next, senate judiciary committee ranking member lindsey graham joins senate minority whip john thune and other senate republicans to discuss the biden administration's border policy. they express that aid for ukraine in israel is necessary, but an emergency supplemental package cannot pass until dangers are made on border policy. >> we are on senator graham: all right. we are on time and under budget. we were about to break and we had a package put forth by senator schumer. their proposal on securing a broken border was awful. what's next? here is what is next. the commander-in-chief joe biden needs to wake up and do something about a broken border. it is his job above all others to secure the nation. here is what we learned this week in judiciary. director of the fbi when asked about linking light threats -- eyes see blinking lights -- i see blink ing lights wherever i turn people have to understand that what happens to israel affects you also. we have chosen to support israel because we should. hamas would kill all of us if we could and we need to be behind our friends in israel. w

host: john thune on the floor yesterday. who do you agree with in this debate?he democrats, president biden, or the republicans? in the house the republicans have the same view as their colleagues in the upper chamber. they want to see some immigration changes. as you heard from senator thune, with some real teeth. should these be separate issues? dan in louisville, kentucky. republican. let's hear from you. dan in louisville? dan, i'm sorry. can you call back on a better line. you are very muffled. michelle and he -- in maryland. caller: i wish she would stop calling at the democratic line and republican line. there are no republicans. the republican party is dead. they died during the insurrection. host: stick to the topic please. caller: they are projecting everything that they do on the democrats. that is all they ever do. they run and hide. i will trade every palestinian and every person who comes over the border for every one of the trump trash party. host: bradley and marietta, georgia. democratic caller. caller: good morning. that last caller -- it's har

is senator thune right and what are the specific details being deba debated? >> good morning, john. so we're going to see senators on both sides, you know, argue differently when it comes to the negotiations. democrats have been insistent that there has been progress made in the last few days and they were here over the weekend. republicans meanwhile, a lot more pessimistic and we saw that by the amount of republicans that ended up showing up to last night's unrelated vote that were only 14 members that ended upcoming back to washington. so right now some of the things that are being debated over as parole, deportation policy and a lot of the aspects that would really impact the way that the u.s. is handling migrants handling into the country, you know, with progressives saying that some of these go far, conservative republicans saying these don't go far enough and trying to find the consensus there. >> dufevil is always in the details. but i think the more that gets out about the specific changes the more we might be able to find common ground. i want to talk about ukraine aid. you

amy klobuchar and john thune, senators, have also put together something interesting. there's an interesting bill from ted lieu. a lot of legislation around, but really what we need is for the senate and for the speaker of the senate to come forward with something concrete that actually has substance, and that's up t sh chuck schumer mostly at this point. >> gary marcus, thanks so much. we'l'll be rightht back. >>> billie jean king is an icon, a champion, and a trail blazer. cnn anchor and chief political correspondent dana bash sat down with the tennis legend to learn about her career, the twists and turns of her personal life, and her fight for equality. a fight highlighted by competing against bobby rigs in the so-called battle of the sexes. >> here comes billie jean king. >> a massive television audience. 90 million people worldwide watched as she made a dramatic entrance. >> i didn't see the match until 25 years after the match. i wish i had seen it because it was so clear in 1973 where we're at, howard cosell talked about only my looks. >> very attractive young l

senator john thune just told our manu raju that there's no way this border provision will get a vote this week. some of theic thing points in negotiations include republican desires to connect stricter requirements for individuals coming to this country that want to claim asylum, limits on humanitarian parole, allowing afghans or ukrainians to come into the u.s., and also a new way to expel migrants more quickly. now, at least one democratic strategist said these are similar to trump-era policies. what do you think? do you have a problem with any of the three i just mentioned? >> again, i haven't seen the details. i have had communications with some of the negotiators, and i do support stricter policies, but at the same time not to the extreme where you don't allow the rights of the immigrants to claim asylum. but do i believe in stricter? yes. again, i think we can still have stricter policies without changing the law. it's called title 8. we've got to make sure we're able to do that. unfort unfortunately, they were looking at changes to asylum. keep in mind, jake, the asylum law is

republican senator john thune weighed in also gently saying quote, that's not a view i share. and here's a few more reactions. >> we're talking about language. i could care less what language people use as long as we get it right. >> it's campaign bravado. you get up on stage, you're feeding off the audience and you just let it rip. that's what he does. frankly, that's why a lot of people like him. >> i think it's unlikely donald trump's ever read -- >> cnn is also learning about the former president's defense along with don jr. of a social media influencer who has a long -- andrew kosinski shares the byline on it. what more can you tell us about this influencer that trump is defending? >> that's right. both donald trump and donald trump jr. have been defending, praising a former influencer convicted of interfering in the 2016 election with a history of deeply racist and deeply antisemitic posts. his name is douglas mackie and he posted under the anonymous twitter handle, ricky vaughn. that's where he posted this meme which prosecutors say was meant to trick people into thinki

first time i have seen john thune today talk about the open border i mean, is he really worried aboutrican border. i'm sure he is. but i have never seen him on television really hitting the border until ukraine fund something on the line to me that says it you will a ukraine first, american border, yeah, if we can rope that in. maybe we will throw a few bones to the pro-enforcement crowd. senator, hold tight on this, please. we are relying on you and a few others. >> laura: up next biden breaks the economy and then blames you. we will explain what that all means in mommy's. >> whether you believe it or not or if you feel it or not, the united states economy, macrolevel, under president biden is, according to nearly every metric we use to measure such things in excellent shape. >> laura: really? is that why biden's economic approval is sitting at just 36%? well, try again. bidenomics is not working. it's never going to work. as long as they stick with the same disastrous policies that have delivered us lowering wages and lower standard of living, which sounds like what they plan on doi

first time i have seen john thune today talk about the open border i mean, is he really worried about american border. i'm sure he is. but i have never seen him on television really hitting the border until ukraine fund something on the line to me that says it you will a ukraine first, american border, yeah, if we can rope that in. maybe we will throw a few bones to the pro-enforcement crowd. senator, hold tight on this, please. we are relying on you and a few others. >> laura: up next biden breaks the economy and then blame ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. >> whether you believe it or not or if you feel it or not, the united states economy, macrolevel, under president biden is, according to nearly every metric we use to measure

i talked to john thune, number to senate republican about the prospects of plat rosendale impacting this primary and potentially their chance of picking up the seat? >> do you worry that rosendale could put the seat at risk? >> i think changes the dynamic for sure in montana. but like i said, i think shehee is well positioned to win and he's done a effective number so far moving numbers out there. we'll see what happens. you can't control these things. voters make those decisions. but we feel like we're in a good spot there. >> it seems like rosendale is running in this race. he's made all of the steps that he will. what kind of impact could that have in the fight for the senate? >> so, i think the way to look the at fight for the senate is mo montana is very critical. it is a handful of red states that democrats have to defend. but there are seven that they have to defend with west virginia off the table, that means the senate right now is 50/50. and if donald trump wins the presidency, the senate is already in republican hands. so the math is more than montana. it is that democrats nee

still, this morning two of the top republican negotiators, senator lindsey graham and john thune, saiddoubt a deal will be possible before the end of the year. let's discuss this with democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon. he's a member of the foreign relations committee as well we should note. senator, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. lawmakers are divided right now as to whether a deal is going to get hammered out. i'm wondering what is your sense of things, where they stand right now. are you and your colleagues ready to stay until the holiday? >> here's the vision, which is that the team from both sides was working, along with the administration, until three 8 am this morning. they decided they had made enough progress, that they have a fair chance of hammering out a complete framework over the weekend, to have that ready for monday, not the legislative language but the framework. then simultaneously they will be lurking on the -- working on putting the legislative language. it's a very complicated undertaking. the best we can consider is a 50/50 propo

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thune says democrats unwillingness to back more stringent immigration policies will push negotiations into the new year. democrats have run out the clock but others, including republican senator roger wicker are more optimistic. a deal is in reach. one that restricts who can apply for asylum. i think there's been some movement on the part of of the white members of the congressional hispanic caucus are pleading with the white house not to get into what they describe as inhumane border policies. senate majority leader chuck schumer says negotiators are working through those differences. we agree the border must be fixed but not at the expense of our values. we need to get this right. senator chris murphy is democrat lead negotiator. i'm planning on staying in the negotiating table forever. >> long it takes to get this failure to reach a deal guarantees a tough fight ahead for ukraine. the biden administration says current u.s. military aid to ukraine. >> runs out by the end of the month. there is no magic pot of funding that we have available to drawn. if congress doesn't pass this bil

the minority whip, john thune said this is nowhere near ready for a vote this week. he blamed democrats for stalling on the border proposal that republicans submitted the first week in november, bret. >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, thank you. the investigation into the biden family business is now centering on the president's brother tonight. even "the washington post" conceding today. james biden has, quote: benefited from his proximity to his powerful sibling. correspondent david spunt has details on this tonight. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening. house republicans tonight are feeling optimistic about their chances of physically sitting across from president biden's brother and asking him questions. james biden was subpoenaed to sit before congress earlier this month that deadline has passed. conversations are underway to make it happen. republicans believe the president's brother has plenty of knowledge of hunter biden's business deals and how those deals may be related to the president. republicans are expecting some candor. >> i'm goi

senator john thune at the white house has been involved with the senate. directly to speaker mike johnson. after all, it's going to have to go through him eventually, why not go directly there and then to the senate. wouldn't that be a faster way to negotiate? >> president biden, if you look at how the white house has been handling this with the senate has been maintaining the posture that he has since he became president through all legislation, which is his white house prefers to play a hand, to be involved, but to let the senators be senators. and it's interesting because there's criticism early on. people sort of expected president biden, a former senator, to really get his hands dirty in the legislative muck making, but there seemed to be at the time reporting that biden also as a former senator remembered what it was like to be a senator when the white house came in and tried to jam things down their throats. the white house is playing a role. they are involved, but in some ways for something as intractable and complicated as immigration, they believ

. >> john: john thune, the senator, mentioned this a moment ago, and something jay johnson, obama's secretary of homeland security said back in 2019, regarding the numbers of people coming across the border and the chaos that it creates. listen to what he said back then. >> it was under 1,000 apprehensions a day before, that was a relatively good number. and if it was above 1,000, it was a relatively bad number and i was going to be in a bad mood the whole day. i know 1,000 overwhelms the system. i cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 looks like. we are truly in a crisis. >> john: he said when he was the dhs secretary, over 1,000 a day would be a bad day. can't imagine what 4,000 looks like. we are triple that. and 22000 people are currently in custody and since we turned over the new fiscal year in october 1st, more than 535,000 people have crossed the southern border. by jay johnson's measure we are way beyond a crisis. >> absolutely, john. we are way past that. this is way past any type of crisis. this is catastrophic. what we are seeing now, in terms of numbers. and of course, all those num

thune says democrats unwillingness to back more stringent immigration policies will push negotiations into the new year. democrats have run out the clock but others, including republican senator roger wicker are more optimistic. a deal is in reach. one that restricts who can apply for asylum. i think there's been some movement on the part of of the white members of the congressional hispanic caucus are pleading with the white house not to get into what they describe as inhumane border policies. senate majority leader chuck schumer says negotiators are working through those differences. we agree the border must be fixed but not at the expense of our values. we need to get this right. senator chris murphy is democrat lead negotiator. i'm planning on staying in the negotiating table forever. >> long it takes to get this failure to reach a deal guarantees a tough fight ahead for ukraine. the biden administration says current u.s. military aid to ukraine. >> runs out by the end of the month. there is no magic pot of funding that we have available to drawn. if congress doesn't pass this bil

we will bring you the number two senate republican, john thune of south dakota who was originally here to talk about another problem in the country which is the border and the fight that has been going on over that in capitol hill and we will touch on that for a moment with him and we thank him very much for being here as we cover this breaking news out of las vegas. senator thune, welcome. thank you for being here. your reaction as a person in leadership in this country as you watch yet another what looks to be another shooting on another campus in america. >> right. another senseless tragedy. another deranged sounds like shooter, hopefully we will get more details, more information about it, martha. but the one thing i think that -- has to say thank you to law enforcement for responding quickly. it sounds like taking the shooter down, will -- we will know more information at some point. but i guess what i would simply say is that this is why it is so important that we have the facts of our law enforcement community. we have our job, under circumstances where we have people in this co

we had a blue dog democrat that the represented the state and senator john thune knew that she was coming after him and his next election and thought that if the someone could beat her in her first reelection for the representative job before she would challenge him that that would take care of his problem too. so his folks kept recruiting me for a couple of years to try to run for congress and kept sending people to me frankly from all over the country to say, would you run against her and beat her although she had a 90% approval rating in south dakota. she was one of the last few blue dog democrats, did not vote for obamacare, did not vote for the stimulus package, the only thing that she had done that i really could talk about in the campaign against her was that she voted for nancy pelosi. [laughter] >> so when brian and i finally decided to run we talked about nancy pelosi a lot. [laughter] >> but that was really the decision that we made, listen, maybe we should just run and if we lose then they will leave us a lender and they won't wonder us anymore with this idea of going to washi

on the other side of the aisle, senator john thune, republican of south dakota, member of the public in leadership that chamber had this to say yesterday. >> mr. president, i support aid to israel, taiwan and and i believe it was in our interest to support these allies so or to see us take up this national security supplemental. national security begins at home and we can't pass a bill to advance american interests abroad while ignoring the security crisis of our own border. a quorum call. mr. paul: i ask unanimous consent that we vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. paul: i rise today to invoke the war powers act. the war powers act requires that upon a request from a member of the senate or member of congress that there will be a vote on whether or not troops should be put into harm's way or into a conflict without the approval of this body. our founding fathers felt very clearly on this that we should not go to war without a vote of the legislature. they wanted to make sure that the executive, or the president, was prohibited from going to war wit

in the senate, john thune told us we probably will floanot get of them, but substantive ones to allowt to move >> i hear something that sounded like the republicans taking a page from the democrats playbook that was we're more worried about funding irs agents than we are about helping israel now it seems like you are back to that. that's a domestic, according to democrats, that is something we need domestically. israel, you could say it is the same thing we need to help ukraine without helping ourselves at the border. can we use that without funding the irs? >> this is disgusting, frankly the house voted through $14.6 billion necessary for israel it is what they requested. we did that a month ago, chuck -- sorry, oe good morning >> andrew, did you hear that we're talking about chuck schumer. he called me chuck >> isn't that great? >> you can call me tim >> there you go. >> chuck >> the interesting concept, joe, we paid for it we took the money out of the huge pot of money that democrats gave to the irs. >> andrew, we need that money, don't we >> we do we have to figure out the border

cornyn, john thune, people who are still active in the party, who do still have a platform, the fact, i think some of them want to see iowa. they even want to see new hampshire. mika, here's the challenge, unlike democrats in 2020, after new hampshire could be too late for any kind of intervention. >> right. >> trump could effectively wrap up the nomination if he wins big in iowa and new hampshire. >> jonathan, before i get to my question, the s.e.c. schedules came out yesterday. >> sure. >> vandy and baton rouge next year. i will see you down there. >> the poor commodores. >> let's go! >> poor commodores. >> it'll be fun. let's talk about the candidates you're writing about right now and republicans sort of writ large, about why they don't criticize him. obviously, they believe they need trump's voters if they have a hope of winning. it's a long shot in the primary right now. >> sure. >> when you talk to them privately as we often do ourselves, do you hear from them what paul ryan is now liberated to say out loud? >> sure. >> he's not in the government. do you hear from people who p