the numbers are up. 70 to 80% of agents are not on patrol. making food, transporting them to different places, 70 to 80% off the line and that s when the trafficking of children happen and known expected terrorists come across the border. when these numbers go up at the end of title 42. that just means they will put more agents off the line because this administration is all about processing quicker, release quicker because of overcrowding. when you get 90% off the lines, more fentanyl will kill americans, more americans die, more migrants die, more gang members get in. it s not just immigration issue anymore, it s a national security issue that s about to get a whole lot more. rich: we are going to bring griff jenkins. griff: of course a breaking situation just to set the stage about 8:30 a.m. local here in brownsville we are 4, 5 miles from the border but what happened a vehicle drove up on the sidewalk. struck a group of individuals standing next to a bus stop and result
he reportedly started yelling and threatening passengers. a man identified as a former marine tackled him and put him in a chokehold. he was pronounced dead and investigators ruled it a homicide. there is an ongoing investigation and they are gathering facts. but some people have made up their minds and angry protesters took to the streets demanding justice for us. what do we want? justice. when do we want it? now. if we don t get it. burn it down. if we don t get it. burn it down. if we don t get it. burn it down. if we don t get it. burn it down. justice or they will burn it down. at least they have rhythm. meantime, progressive congresswoman presley called it a lynching and alexandria ocasio-cortez called it an execution. other prominent voices labeled it vigilantism. to let this go forward in anyway is sanctioned vigilantism in this city. they must investigate and prosecute to the full extent of the law or we are back to burn. this is a fusion
fergtsorget bracing for a s it s already here. we re live on the border with thousands of migrants where they are gathering, desperate to cross into the u.s. three years later, the covid public health emergency officially ends today. what this means for testing, treatments, and crucially, are we better prepared for the next one? plus, did former president trump just open himself up to even more legal jeopardy? why his comments at a cnn town hall are raising new questions. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we start at the border where the dhs secretary just said, it is about to get a whole lot worse. they re just hours now until the end of title 42. that is the public health rule that the u.s. used nearly 3 million times to immediately expel undocumented people to help control covid. ahead of this policy change, resources at the border communities have been strained, trying to respond to the arr
begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
our current situation is the outcome of congress leaving a broken, outdated immigration system in place for over two decades. the white house has two years to plan for the end of title 42. we we all knew the deadline. but the white house produced no plan, missed the deadline and bum with bled into another crisis telephone bumbled into another crisis. paul: let s bring in wall street journal ist columnists journal column itselfs dan dan henninger kim strassel and jace isen riley. jason riley. this has really come to a head. how serious just from a practical point of view is surge? oh, i think it s very serious, paul. the democrats have pretended for years that the only people who care about this issue are fox news viewers. they ve demonized these border governors when they re republicans for complaining, for being hard-hearted, and i think all of that is changing right now. they re discovering the border for the first time, and i think it s going to cause them all k