let s get right into this discussion. it s a crisis. we want to drill down on some of the numbers from the humanitarian crisis from the cbd. okay? they say, you can see on your screen now, total apprehensions went up from a low point in april of 2017 to over 144,000 in may of 2019. that s an almost tenfold april of 2017 to over 144,000 in may of 2019. that s an almost tenfold increase in two years. why are we seeing this incredible surge? don, it s a couple things going on here, first of all, we have conditions ripe for mass migration in central america. economic instability, failure of the government to be able to protect their people. high, incredible rates of violence. dire conditions are pushing people north. they re encouraged along the way by smuggling organizations who have lost a lot of business as mexican migration fell off so they started turning their attention to central america. then when they get to the united states what you do have is an asylum system that is just ove
and release. border patrol agents, because their facility is overwhelmed. jon: president obama s border control chief saying we have a real problem? sxwloo he is correct. we talked for months about it. last month we exceeded more arrests than we had in any month under the obama administration. but if you look at what we re facing now, we re facing a different situation than what we did in the height of our arrests back in the mid and early 2000s. we are dealing with people not from mexico. they re coming from guatemala, honduras and el salvador. if you look at the statistics nothing has changed since april of 2017 to march of 2019 in those countries. so when people say well, it s because of gangs, it is because
leave his plush d.c. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a curby private jet like a billionaire master of the universe. that sounds snarky. why now? why not put this all behind them for the good of the party, for the good of putting a cohesive platform together for 2020? well, a lot of clinton people just hold grudges and most americans didn t know that bernie sanders who talks a lot about the environment and fighting climate change and, you know, he s against wealth and equality, that he has been flying on a private jet for a number of different stints in the last couple years. there was a dnc unity tour he went on with tom perez in april of 2017 when he requested the dnc provide him a private jet that he later partially reimbursed so that they could make a number of stops. but this was not during the height of election season.
organization declined to comment. remember what president trump said in april of 2017 about those payments. . all right. well, michael cohen with answer those questions this morning. cohen will also say he witnessed a conversation in july of 2016 where donald trump, the candidate, was told in advance that wikileaks was planning a massive release of e-mails damaging to hillary clinton s campaign. michael cohen, of course, is the president s lawyer and fixer. he is a convicted felon for lying so will that color the view of lawmakers today and while all of this happens at home, president trump is in vietnam for that summit with kim jong-un. he clearly has michael cohen on
it s the end of an era. after more than 60 years of selling discount shoes, payless is going out of business. the retailer known for its buy one get one free had a strong following but not enough. it s closing all stores in the u.s. and puerto rico. more than 2,000 of them. payless is expected to file for bankrupt i lat bankruptcy later this month. after filing for bankruptcy in april of 2017, it operated under the control of its creditors. but it doesn t seem to have been enough to save the company. stores will be closing in march. also shutting down its online business as well. whether it s sears or toys r us, brick and mortar are facing heavy competition from other