this morning a fresh look at the southern border. this was el paso, and you can see it right there. wow. i mean, relatively sparse, really sparse, very calm. this is what the white house had hoped for. especially when there were scenes like this just one week ago. migrants lining up before the expiration of title 42, and the homeland security alejandro mayorkas warns that it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. and that is after wrangling maneuvers of the governor of texas sending a busload of migrants to the vice president of the united states. so we have teams at the border and the white house. we begin at the white house as arlette seanez is there, and what are you hearing from the people in the building behind you, arlette, of what they are seeing? president biden is saying that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he, himself, had predicted a chaotic few days of the lifting of title 42. now, the biden administration has been
weekend trip to tuesday perhaps or maybe work remotely on tuesday and come back wednesday, play around with your schedule to avoid those big delays because some metro areas could be seeing double traffic times than what they normally see. if your commute is normally two hours, you could be looking at a four-hour trip. reporter: one of the big drivers of the increase of traffic here kate is air travel. that s contributing to the big aaa number. up 11% compared to last year. a lot of people more comfortable traveling by air now. really we re going to see things like normal or maybe even bigger, kate. okay, thanks, pete. with the unworkable solution of just take more time off. good luck with that. what are you guys saying, like the tuesday after memorial day. you see it on news central on kate s place, we ll have a big video wall that looks a lot like a swimming pool. if one has a swimming pool
proceedings of the asylum, and that is the situation on the ground of why we have seen the people sleeping on the sidewalk, which is a relatively smaum number compared to last week, because they don t fit into the shelters. the shelters are belonging to the men and ching. the key metric here is the rate of release. so the number of migrants released from dhs official, and if it is a controlled flow, it is going to allow the nonprofits on the ground to manage the assistance they need to continue with the travels, because that is the number to increase, and that is asylum seekers settling throughout the communities in the country and whether it is denver or as we have talked about at length new york city. polo sandoval for us in el paso. thank you for being there. sara? last hour, president biden said that he had no update on the debt ceiling talks, and deadline for the potential default is
it is reality, and then the first of its kind or at least a rare lawsuit, and many people are going to be looking to see how this unfolds, and saying that this is a factor in the shooter that may have affected my community. so there are a number of people watching this, and the president has said that unfortunately, we see so much of this now, that any decision here could have a wide ranging impact. omar jimenez, thank you. great to see you. kate? it is something of a political face-off, former president donald trump and florida governor ron desantis to have events in iowa over the weekend. due to weather, trump had to cancel, and in an unscheduled stop, desantis was in des moines where trump was supposed to be. and are there ever coincidences in politics. dana bash is joining me to talk about this, and due to the interesting travel itineraries between trump and desantis, it is fascinating how desantis
positive alternative for the future of the country, republicans will win across the board. if we do not do that, if we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or other side issues, then i think that the democrats are going to beat us again. what i am also hearing, dana, is that we need to hear new ideas, and chris sununu from new hampshire is also one that comes to mind, but how do other iowa republicans hear this? well, it is interesting, because yes, there are so many ways that he is intentionally vague, that there are a number of ways to read it in addition to the questions about the former president refusing to admit that he lost the 2020 election. another is generational which is what you are getting at