Plus: Fact-Checking 6 Claims at Senate Democrats’ Voting Law Hearing
July 20 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden apparently hopes other news distracts Americans from the crisis at the border. In a video report, our Rachel del Guidice profiles an Arizona rancher facing a surge of illegal immigrants. Senate Democrats travel to Atlanta to attack Georgia’s election reforms, Fred Lucas reports in a fact check. On the podcast, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., shares horror stories from the crackdown in Cuba. Plus: Betsy DeVos on an unfit Biden nominee, and David Ditch on a budget only the far left could love. Forty-five years ago today, on the seventh anniversary of the lunar landing by Apollo 11, the unmanned U.S. probe Viking 1 touches down on the surface of Mars.
John Ladd, whose family has ranched at the U.S.-Mexico border for more than 125 years, says illegal immigrants tell him that President Biden invited them to come.
"Spurred on by the big lie, these same actors are now rolling back voting rights in a way that is unprecedented in size and scope since the Jim Crow era,” says Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Basic pillars of fairness—being presented with evidence against you and having your case heard by an impartial party—shouldn’t be controversial, but are to radicals like Lhamon.
“People are being told, when the [Cuban] military comes to their door, ‘You either come with us, or we’ll kill you right now.’ These are the things that are occurring in Cuba,” says Rep. Byron Donalds.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demand that the infrastructure bill move forward only in conjunction with a big spending bill full of liberal priorities.
