Sources: Biden considering new executive action to restrict asylum at the border

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Sources tell CNN that the White House is considering executive action that would restrict migrants' ability to seek asylum if they crossed illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border. Border crossings have reached record levels and have resulted in thousands of migrants arriving at the border. CNN White House Reporter Priscilla Alverez tells Anderson Cooper what Biden administration officials are telling her about this possible executive action. Plus, the parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie have reached a settlement after mediation in the emotional distress lawsuit. Petito's parents allege the Laundries knew their son killed their daughter but intentionally withheld information during the investigation. CNN National Correspondent Randi Kaye joins AC360 with the details about the settlement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360 what House Republicans are saying now that they've learned
0:04.8	their star witness in the Biden impeachment inquiry who's already been
0:07.8	charged with making up allegations says he got the dirt he was peddling from
0:11.8	Russian intelligence.
0:13.0	We're keeping him honest.
0:14.3	Also tonight, what we're learning about the Russian American dual national now being held
0:18.1	in Russia and how a $50 charitable donation may have factored in charges that could send her to
0:24.0	prison there for 20 years. And breaking news in the lawsuit brought by the parents
0:28.7	of Gabby Petito against the parents of Brian Laundry, the fiancee who admitted he killed her.
0:34.0	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
0:36.0	We begin tonight with breaking news.
0:38.0	Just a short time ago, the president's brother, James Biden, finished up more than eight hours of testimony before the House Oversight Committee,
0:45.2	investigating what some Republicans on the committee have alleged is criminal misconduct by the
0:50.0	Biden family. And though that meant committee chairman, James Comer was tied up for much of that time,
0:55.0	the chairman has spent the remainder of the day dodging reporters' questions about the news, which broke last night, about their star witness in their case.
1:03.8	His name is Alexander Smyrnauff.
1:06.2	He was charged last week with lying to the FBI
1:08.9	when he claimed to have knowledge of corruption
1:10.8	by President Biden and his son Hunter involving Ukraine.
1:14.0	Then last night court documents reveal that he said he got the bogus smear material
1:19.0	from Russian intelligence.
1:21.0	Now we should say at the outset that he is only an alleged liar, not a proven
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