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brian: we begin the third and final hour with a focus on president biden s border crisis. homeland security secretary mayorkas heads to eagle pass, texas today to get a first-hand look at the caogs and he can feel the hes. more than 2.3 million migrants have been released in the united states on joe biden s watch. ainsley: our co-host lawrence jones is live in eagle pass this morning. good morning, lawrence. lawrence: the secretary will be down here and see what is happening at the border. my home town of texas is epicenter of this crisis and last line of defense. if you look behind me, there is a migrant jumping the fence right now. i talked to him. he paid the cartel 20 to 30,000 dollars to cross the border. steve: lawrence, that is razor wire. lawrence: that is right. he came from honduras and he was waiting for the national guard to cross. he took his clothes off and jumped across the razor wire. he will be processed and meet his wife in california. just a liv
and i thank you. good to be back with you on this second hour of msnbc reports with jose diaz-balart. it is 1:00 eastern, 10:00 a.m. pacific. i m in today for chris jansing. what happens today in a d.c. courthouse could be one of the most important days yet for the former president. donald trump s lawyer facing off against jack smith s special counsel team about the durability of trump s presidential immunity argument. it is now in the hands of three judges, but could this case as trump s lawyer put it open pandora s box? a president has to have immunity. and the other thing is i did nothing wrong. and the two top figures in this case, special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan have now both been victims of swatting. what does that mean for the safety of public officials as we head into a busy 2024? plus, the pentagon s investigation into secretary of to hide his hospitalization from even the white house as more lawmakers on capitol hill call for his resignation.
so good to be back with you on this second special hour of msnbc reports with josé diaz-balart. it is 1:00 p.m. eastern, 10:00 a.m. pacific. it looks like former president donald trump will not be allowed to have the last word at his civil fraud hearing in new york. what the judge is now saying and what it could mean for the former president s legal case. plus, the surprise standoff on capitol hill, hunter biden visits congress sitting feet away from house republicans trying to hold him in contempt of congress. the witness being afraid to come in front of the committee, that s interesting. he s here. he doesn t seem to be too afraid. inside that faceoff and the political impact next. and the major impeachment push playing out on capitol hill right now as republicans hold their first critical hearing tied to removing secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas from office over the crisis at the border. we ll talk to the ranking member of the house border
yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis