developing. biden s white house calling the situation at the border a challenge at a big problem but still not calling it a crisis. this is as the administration officials blame the trump team for what is happening there. now biden s homeland security chief s warning we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border when we have in just the last 20 years. john: pretty shocking statement. were going to speak with texas senator john cornyn and arizona s attorney general who is leading efforts to sue the biden administration over its immigration policy. so-called public charge. we begin with casey stegall live at the southern border in alamo, texas. casey, what s the situation? john, sandra, good to see you. the border patrol agent chief for this very sector which is the rio grande valley of south texas, one sector alone covers and encompasses some 277 miles of the entire southern border. over the last couple days, he says his agents have arrested almost
so today she ll be presented with france s highest honour, the legion d honneur. i m just amazed, really. i m not expecting that sort of thing. president macron will give christian her medal here in ver sur mer, so she says she s brushing up on her french. i spent the morning trying to go through my french dictionary to find some really polite things to say in french, because i used to be absolutely bilingual when i was young and i lived in france for a whole year, and now i ve forgotten it all. but as we witnessed at a school here in northern france last month, christian is being far too modest about her linguistic skills. she speaks french. i feel wonderful. thrilled by it all. yesterday she was flown from portsmouth with pat owtram, also a recipient of the medal. i like yours very much. yes. i ve always been ratherjealous of it. ..wishing her bon voyage. have a good trip. thank you very much. very exciting. with the distinctive red ribbon and white cross, the people of fra
Anti immigrant, Anti Eu Party will get more than 20 in the polls and may do better than the social democrats, the coalition partners. It will shake the confidence of the eus current leadership. How much of that do you agree with . There are many parties in germany and italy who are pretty eurosceptic. Yeah. The kind of picture that michael has just painted is correct. Not much is going to happen until the german elections in the autumn so we have in front of us a long period of uncertainty and instability in which populist forces are going to mount an extraordinary challenge to the status quo. Having said that, there is Something Else going on, which is extraordinary story, and terrifying, which could pull together the European Union leaders who are going to be smart enough and convincing enough to explain to the people whats going on in the world. Im referring to the migrant phenomenon which is going to accelerate massively and is going to show, for the first time in european history,
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