corruption at the anti-trump lincoln project and those guys break the law, top democrat lawmaker elinor holmes norton calls out her party hypocrisy same democrats demand sensing in washington, d.c. why are they stopping walls and barriers at the border that is elinor holmes norton, i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: i don't know if you heard about the border but is being overrun again is that going to hit florida. >> i think it's going to hit the old country it's reckless and terrible policy and is going to cause problems in our country and is being done for ideological reasons. elizabeth: that was 40 governor ron desantis saint abide in the administration is reckless and wiping up trump's policies that they created a border crisis in a humanitarian crisis he said he could hit the entire nation, let's bring back retired ice director tom homan, is governor desantis right? >> is 100% right in the history of this nation we have the first president i've ever seen who is facilitating illegal immigration and facilitating cross-border crime because his promise and r

representative of elinor holmes norton that it can be that were stopping the fencing of the border and one of the few times i agreed with her on anything right think she's absolutely right the fencing around the capital protect nancy pelosi from the hordes of people coming in across the southern border and they refuse to enforce the laws and it's a terrible human crisis, it's a border crisis. larry: let's listen to congressman holmes norton, let's watch. >> as you may have heard on march the fourth the house left early because of a threat, even though nothing happened on marcs afraid of its shadow, the president and 30 stopping the fencing we're trying to fence in our capital, that can't be. elizabeth: we haven't heard a democrat talk like this pointing out the double standard, your reaction to that. >> i think she's absolutely right and sadly affects wages in this country for middle-class workers and it affects the education system, healthcare system or criminal justice system, what is going on is a great impact on this country and i think americans know it and i think president biden

this is a problem that we have to solve and what elinor holmes norton has put forward is that solutiontatehood for the district of columbia. we just need to get it done. let me turn briefly to a couple of questions here. these are things that i have gleaned from the minority report from last congress, the views of the republican colleagues put forward and suggesting that this proposal is for clearly partisan purposes, to abandon the fundamental notion of the united states by rewriting the very definition of statehood to include a municipal level government and miss shorts, i am not aware a municipal level government is not eligible for this kind of change and does the admissions clause of the constitution describe particularly what types of estates may be admitted into the union to get into that detail? , the text of the constitution is silent on that which means is left to the discretion of current congress. >> the minority views has said that the founders deliberately designed the constitution so that the seat of the federal government would not be made with any state. mr. mendelson,