ability to control its own nuclear weapons, joining us now, republican from taxes, congressman dan crenshaw on the house intelligence committee and is retired navy seal. congressman crenshaw. good to see you. i want to get your reaction. i want to get to the national security threat in a second, but first i know you just came before the camera and you probably haven't had a chance to read the indictment against this fbi informant, but do you have any reaction to the fact that he has been indicted for lying to the fbi? >> not much like i'm not on the oversight committee. i'm not deeply involved and those investigations, this is honestly the first time i've heard of anyone accusing biden of taking $5 million from burisma? that's a very specific accusation. i don't recall hearing that before. we've what we've seen from the oversight committee, what they've revealed is a lot of smoke. i mean, fully admit there's not okay. gun, but there's a lot of smoke of shell companies, money transfers that are unaccounted for things like that. that's the kind of stuff i've heard about. i've never actually e

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forward even as he supports the underlying elements of this deal. >> manu, i want to put that dan crenshawuote on a pillow, talking about being -- the height of stupidity is being very opinionated about something you don't know anything anybody. thank you so much, manu. >>> we are learning fulton county d.a. fani willis has no plans to step down from georgia in the election case against donald trump. sources tell cnn that willis is worried if she leaves, it will effectively end the case. zachary cohen brought us this exclusive reporting and joins us now. so much drama. what are you hearing from the people around fani willis about why she is standing firm? >> reporter: well, look. this is messy. there is no two ways about it, but look. willis is digging in. that's what my sources say. she will not voluntarily take herself out of this case. especially over the next two weeks, we know willis has really directly addressed these allegations that she was in this improper romantic relationship with her top prosecutor. she's been quiet. behind the scenes she's been intimately and directly involved

earlier, dan crenshaw was on our broadcast. he said he wanted to see the white house continue ordering strikes. i'm joined by mj lee at the white house and retired general wesley clark. mj, what is the white house saying about this strike? >> reporter: anderson, the administration is making clear tonight that what we saw tonight is not the end. this is just a part of the retaliation that the u.s. is conducting after the deaths of those three americans. you will recall that immediately after that attack in jordan that took the lives of the three american soldiers, the president was very quickly presented with a range of options. it was early last week that he gave the green light on a series of actions that would be taken in the region. in terms of just the specifics of the strike, we are told that there was a lot of consideration given to the timing and the specific excuse of the strike to make sure that they could avoid the loss of innocent life. they said no casualties that they know of. no civilian casualties that they know

. >> asi es, aranza, y lo hacen con la muchisimo mas estricto aun sin republicano de texas, dan crenshawesta pidiendo a sus colegas que al menos lo lean y le den una oportunidad y no vayan a desperdiciar el acuerdo o el proyecto de ley mas estricto migratorio que este pais ha tenido en los ultimos tiempos. >> el texto aun no se conoce pero tras semanas de negociaciones a puerta cerrada, el lider del senado, chuck schumer, dijo que hay un acuerdo tentativo para reforzar la frontera y restringir los procesos de asilo politico. >> entre los detalles que se sabian, la administracion biden habia aceptado tomar medidas como cerrar la frontera si llegaban mas de 5.000 migrantes al dia o un promedio de 4.000 diarios durante una semana. >> y solicitantes de asilo tendrian que volver a esperar en mexico. >> noticias que habian sembrado de entre los inmigrantes y su defensores lo que esperamos es que el presidente biden no le siga el juego politico y quiera ponerse mas duro con los inmigrantes tambien el gobierno ha estado dispuesto a ceder con tal de que los republicanos l aprueben paquetes de ayu

texas republican congressman dan crenshaw. thank you for being with us, congressman. you heard the senator murkowski saying she is picked off -- angry, are you, to use her words, angry? >> i will be angry every day that we have almost 300 illegal people crossing our border, most of them let loose and the u.s.. i am of the opinion we need a solution on this. i am very frustrated by this process. i think the senate process was destined to feel from the beginning. you put one senator in the room who is in the minority with no leverage over two other senators who are in the majority who have no incentive to make a strong deal because they're not worried about the reelection. i have said from the beginning that this is -- what we should have done as republicans this fall of the playbook we did with you that ceiling, where we put an established set of negotiations as a baseline. that is hr to, that is our border bill. we started there, we say, that is what we want to go, we go straight to the white house, because biden is the one who is actually worried about his reelection

let me just play dan crenshaw and get your reaction.pe. >> the height of stupidity is having a strong opinion about something you know nothing about. i'm extremely disappointed by the strange maneuvering by many on the right to torpedo a potential border reform bill. we have a bill that on net significantly decreases illegal immigration and we sabotage that, that is inconsistent with what we told our voters we would do. people will make up whatever reasons they want to, there's a number of them, i'm sure. but it would be pretty unacceptable dereliction of your duty. david: congresswoman, to me, it's kind of simple. this bill would give the president a lot more authority, power than he already has. so far he's used that power to open the border, not to close it. that's why it seems like this bill is counterproductive if you want to close the border. what do you think? >> look, the president already has the tools that he needs. we saw this under the prior administration. it's very simple. this is not brain surgery here. we've got to stop

there are a lot of people dan crenshaw who believe that we should actually get something. the problem is there is a lot more people in the conference, type of people in the conference who are more likely to threaten mike johnson's job. mike johnson may be protecting donald trump a little bit, by not wanting to put this on the floor. i think he's probably more than anything trying to protect himself within the conference. >> thank you, both, very much. really appreciate it. >>> coming up, the u.s. prepares for retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militias for the drone strike in jordan that killed three american service members. the latest after a break. >>> plus, the latest on the historic trial in michigan, mother of a convicted school shooter back on the stand this morning. we'll play for you what she's saying under cross examination. >>> new details on a small plane crash in florida that left three dead. we're back in 60 seconds. h in fe dead we're back in 60 seconds hey, you should try new robitussin honey medi-soothers for long-lasting cough and sore throat reli

. >> pero hoy empiezan a surgir voces de republicanos como el tejano dan crenshaw, que le esta diciendopor lo menos lean este acuerdo y lo examinen y no vayan a des desperdiciar la oportunidad de un acuerdo migratorio muchisimo mas estricto del que tenemos en este momento o de las leyes este momento, julio. >> bien, cristina, pues seran dias importantes en washington, dc muchas gracias. >> mientras tanto, en nueva york, la gobernadora democrata katie hawkins sugirio la deportacion de los sospechosos de atacar a golpes a dos p policias frente a un albergue de migrantes. >> aqui le reportamos de este caso. >> ahora en las ultimas horas se han sumado dos nuevos detenidos en medio de la controversia por la liberacion de otros arr arrestados sin el pago de f fianzas. >> karla amezola informa. >> con un mensaje contundente reacciono nueva york a la g golpiza que recibieron dos dos policias a manos de varios h hombres identificados por a autoridades como posibles m migrantes. >> bl(habla en ingles). >> sabado por la noche los oficiales trataban de dispersar a un grupo que alteraba el orden pub

be provided housing assistance, food stamps, further financial aid and idiot republicans like dan crenshaw james lankford who allow 5000 illegal immigrants per day. the joke is on all of us, this is ridiculous and i hope americans wake up and realize we're getting screwed. >> emily: through no fault of 150 democrats that voted against a bill to deport those arrested for illegal drunk driving. melissa powell and her sun was killed by a drunk driver illegal immigrant out of chicago. they have died at hands of recidivist drunk drivers here illegally. >> kayleigh: it is inexcusable. you mention these guys fleeing to california. do you realize they are entitled by law to sex change surgery in california, should they get there and decide today i feel i'm a woman. that is insane. that is insane. these guys are entitled to that when they arrive, if they arrive in california. yes, you have liberals who voted 150 against that law. this story is unjust, these guys could have been near schoolchildren or displaced kids from soccer fields. veronica escobar says you sound like republicans, we don't want

. >>> we have a lot to talk about with my next guest, republican congressman dan crenshaw from texas.hank you so much for joining me today. let's talk about what's happening on the other side of the capitol. the senate is slowly moving on a bill, $95 billion, that's how much the package is for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. assuming it gets through the senate, will house speaker johnson even bring it up? should he? >> that's a great question. you'd have to ask him. i don't know that he's made any comments one way or the other. >> what do you think? >> look, here's what i would do. i would take it, slim it down. i've been saying this for a while on all of those pieces of aid. there are certain things that we don't need to be funding, although we do have to fund the exquisite weapons systems to beat russia. there's plenty of other things that we don't need to fund. that's number one. number two, i'm not ready to give up on a deal on the border. what we should do is send it back with hr-2, and they'll send it back with less of hr-2, and that can at least start a negotiation, but the negoti

up of them is a member of his own conference, congressman dan crenshaw. unfortunately, there's a lot of emotion about this border deal and no analysis of the facts by people who should know better. many people who are very fast read verse tweeted completely false statements about the legislation, so you're seeing how a lot of members are frustrated that people within the high upper everyone lofns gop leadership are set to kill this bill without giving it a time to look into it further with the view that a lot of republicans that i spoke to last week said there was no bill text and many said they would got in along with this n.large part both sides donald trump wants this dead so he can campaign on the issue of border chaos, even as same republicans say this bill doesn't go far enough in dealing with the problems at the border. >> if nothing else, it has been confirmed in the less than 2 hours since, it's the impact and influence of donald trump on so many republicans on how they are approaching this bill. manu, always, he'll bring us the updates as he get

i was struck by one of your colleagues, republican congrescon congressman dan crenshaw responding to concerns about a direct strike inside iran, take a listen. >> it's not out of the question to hit inside iran. you hear people clutch their pearling and say you're going to start world war iii. the world war iii doomsdayers were wrong, they were wrong about russia, the cold war, this too. >> the administration has not taken this off the table. u.s. officials i have spoken to, that's not something they're weighing at this point in time. i'm less willing to listen to those who pushed the iraq war or an attack in iraq when it comes to this specific issue. crenshaw is not one of those individuals. what do you say to that comment that he made? >> first of all, no one's saying you're going to start world war iii in the middle east. what we're saying is we're going to get dobogged down in a war i the middle east that would take our eye off the ball, preventing us from dealing with threats from china and russia. that's the concern here. we don't want to lose a lot more u.s. troops to a war in

but we have congressman like republican dan crenshaw slamming republicans for not just jumping on boardith the border bill. watch this. >> will the height of stupidity is having a strong opinion on something you know nothing about. i'm extremely disappointed in the very strange maneuvering by many on the right to torpedo up apotential border reform bill. we have a bill that on net significantly decreases illegal immigration and we sabotage that, inconsistent with what we told other voters we were going to do. people will make up whatever reasons they want to. there is a number of them, i'm sure. it would be pretty unacceptable dereliction of your duty. >> laura: stephen miller, tough words from crenshaw it. a dereliction of duty. very indignant, he is. what does he get wrong here? >> the dereliction of duty is not going to chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell, joe biden, and, by the way, all the democrats up for re-election this year, like jon tester and sherrod brown and saying here is our offer, zero illegal immigrants. why don't you stand up before the american people and say why the numbe

border bill, which you got republicans that are preaching to me, i mean, uh, what's his name. om >> dan crenshaw yeah, he's dan splaining. me. oh, got to read the bill.. you got to read the bill. it's in the details. i'm not goint gointog read the . no, i don't trust the bill. there's already laws, th o on the border. it' who needs another bill? it's already against the law to come into our countryady agan and they're not enforcing that. so i don't need somebody explaining that to m e. , fi and i have looked at the bill. 5000 people a day. that's liknd peoplday.e if you p shoplifting. >> mm. shand then you're like, okay, let's build a shippingd and receiving just ford the shoplifters and they can steal 5000 a day.we're and after that we're going to shut down the shipping and receivingo g, and say, you got to go round the front and you got to steal the old fashioned waned waw,y. you know, that is a great analogy. it i[cheers and applt. th thi hat the problem with this is i'm not even sure what you're saying is correct, because i haven't read it. i'm not sure t su it's 5000 a day,y prob but it's n

. >> that's republican congressman dan crenshaw of texas with more criticism for members of his own party who are trying to tank a bipartisan border deal before it has even been released. we'll have the latest from capitol hill on where that legislation stands. >>> plus, a legal development in donald trump's favor. his federal election interference case is no longer on the court calender here in washington. we'll explain what's behind that delay. >>> and also ahead president biden hits the campaign trail with a stop in a key swing state seeking another high profile endorsement. >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, february 2nd, ground-hog day. one of the greatest movies of all-time, and let's certainly hope we get an early spring. i'm jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we'll begin this morning with what we've learned about what president biden says about donald trump in private. i have exclusive new reporting on this from politico published last night. president biden who is certainly known for his salty language behind closed doors doesn

this is what republican member dan crenshaw had to say about this. >> it's the height of stupidity, havingthing about. i'm very disappointed in the strange maneuvering by many on the right, this torpedo a potential voter reform bill. if we have a bill that decreases illegal immigration, and we sabotage that, that is we don't do what we told our voters we will do, and people will make up whatever reasons they want to, and there's a number of them i'm sure, but it's pretty unacceptable dereliction of duty. >> stuart, he certainly makes it sound pretty simple. >> yeah. but to back away from that, and who he supporting for president? donald trump. justice nikki haley well. that's where, there's something really sad at work here. you have to say things you don't believe because you are afraid of what the repercussions would be. and that's really what is happening with the republican party now. they've created an orwellian world. the republican party was posed to be opposing totalitarianism, standing up to the soviet union. how do you square that with the opposite question? why are you supportin

let's go to dan crenshaw. he said there's more at stake and more to blame for where we are right now. congressman. thank you. your thoughts on this day, a president and former president a lined much saying the border is important. what do you think? >> yeah, you know, republicans have been trying to make this issue important to democrats for years. ever since i got to congress, i've been trying to make democrats care about it. they finally care about it or pretending to. you point to brownsville. brownsville is one of the places where you have the least amount of illegal border crossings. lessons to be learned there. they have walls and some of the most advanced technology. they're fully staffed. so it's interesting he went down there. there's a bunch of things that can be true at once. biden screwed this up from day one. he rescinded a bun of of trump's orders and put in new orders. he created the magnet of massive waves of illegal immigration. for him the lay blame on republicans because too many republicans

texas republican congressman dan crenshaw argues ukraine can falling in the next and the next month. so when you get this right, but house democratic leader hakeem jeffries says the bill has enough republican support to pass if speaker johnson just get out the way and it will pass the house with more than 300 votes, even some republicans like north carolina, congressman patrick mchenry agreed there's a clear majority in both the house and the senate support our allies globally but predicts bumpy road ahead. it's just going to take a while. it's going to very, very difficult. the white house argues time is of the essence, especially for ukraine. the defense department says ukraine is running low on ammunition and u.s. aid to ukraine ran out last month for now in washington. raquel martin, back to you. >> all right, switching gears now to talk about the weather. a live look now at the richmond bridge, which looking quite to help out there. lots of rain on the camera lens kyla. yeah, i know it's going make for tricky rush hour this afternoon. those look, you folks that work from home, y

dan crenshaw was with us yesterday. he was slamming a lot of republicans who are criticizing the security deal. it's really formally going to be released tomorrow sight unseen. that was pretty stupid thing to do. what do you make of that and the tension even within conservative members in a conservative house? >> yeah, look, we have seen this tension for a while. i think the fact that this deal that has to do with border security, the fact that it's tied to ukraine is huge. you know, the u.s. interests in ukraine is very big. we do know that there has been divisions among house republicans and also between house republicans and senate republicans on this issue of ukraine and there are certainly, you know, concerns among some members of linking those to issues together in this deal when they are very, very different issues. so, you know, i think we can expect to see those differences continue on. >> neil: julia, good chatting with you. i want to draw your attention to the mirror opposite of yesterday. the fact of the mat

it's congressman dan crenshaw, republican of texas. good to see you as always. thanks so much. appreciate it. >> from fulton county to capitol hill scandal in politics is everywhere. and this weekend i'm going to dive into the topic in a brand new series. join me sunday night for the premiere of my new cnn original series is called the united states of scandal. we take the time to examine what drives someone to break the rules and what happens when they're caught. again, the cnn original series is called united states of scandal. the premier is sunday night at nine eastern, only here on cnn. our coverage continues now with brianna keilar >> happening >> now, breaking >> news defiant >> testimony, wrapping for the day, just a >> short while ago in a >> high-stakes hearing threatens to derail the georgia election subversion case against donald trump willis angrily pushing back and allegations that she financially benefited from her romantic relationship with the lead prosecutor that she hired. also tonight, former president trump's historic first criminal trial now set to begin o

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dan. >> greg: crenshaw? >> tom: yeah, he's dan explaining me.ead the bill it's in the details. i'm not going to read the bill i don't trust the bill, there's already laws on the border. who needs another bill it's already against the law to come into the country and they're not enforcing that. so i don't need somebody explaining to me and i have looked at the bill, five thousand people a day. that's like if you want to stop shoplifting and then you're like, okay, let's build a shipping and receiving doc just for the shoplifters and they can steal 5,000 a day and after that we're going to shut down the shipping and receiving and say you have to go around the front and you have to steal the old fashioned way. >> greg: you know, that is a great analogy [cheers and applause] >> greg: it is. but the problem with this bill is, i'm no even sure what you're saying is correct because i haven't read it. i'm not sure it's 5,000 a day but it's not my problem not to know that, right? i didn't read the bill mollie, i don't know how anyone could, and yet these

. >> by the way, dan crenshaw, that's the guy who when he goes home, he can say, hey, i don't care ifdo this, and i'm going to do it. that's the right thing to do. that's what gets people at the reagan-lincoln dinner standing on their feet going, "hell yeah, he's fighting for us." that's the stupidity. the ongoing stupidity of the house republicans on every front. you can add ukraine to the list. they are literally willing to let putin take over ukraine. they just don't care. they've dug in. they've decided, they're not going to support ukraine. they're not going to support a safer border. >> if it's bad for donald trump, they're against it. that's their guiding principle. it's true. >> how crazy. elise, what's good for america is bad for donald trump. think about this. >> yeah. >> republicans have come to the conclusion, and donald trump has come to the conclusion and saying, i want the stock market to crash. i want there to be a great depression. i want joe biden to be herbert hoover. i want the border to remain open. i want fentanyl to be flooding across the border for the next eig