out and plays the blame game. we have fox team coverage tonight. peter doocy at the white house with the executive level finger pointing over the border badge. aishah hasnie at the capitol as republicans, even some democrats put stop sign on the measure. we begin with senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on the hill where the house could begin voting at any moment on blb to impeach homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas. good evening, bret. no impeach cabinet secretary changes tonight. the house votes to impeach alejandro mayorkas. of the allegations lying to congress and failing to enforce the law. it s about the math. at least two republicans plan to vote no ken buck and tom mcclintock. mcclintock called impeachment a stunt. but we know that s not grounds for impeachment. this border crisis can t be fixed by replacing one left wing official with another. if the house impeaches, marjorie taylor greene will serve as one of the 11 prosecutors in a senate trial.
i m martha maccallum. this is the story today. it s a big one. a border showdown is brewing in eagle pass, texas right now. a huge hub for illegal border crossings. there s a standoff that is underway between the federal government, which wants the razor wire that texas put in place there to protect its own state, they say it has to go. republican texas governor greg abbott says he will not. the biden administration has given him a deadline of tomorrow to allow border patrol access to the area. it s called shelby park. essentially setting up a confrontation potentially between federal agents and the texas national guard. when asked to the governor, will you comply with this order, here s what the governor said. watch. texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming in to our state. to make arrests of those criminals. we have national guard as well as texas department of public safety officers that are there to make those arrests and to deny illegal entry. mar
u.s. history. we are also live in texas now officially 100% open, during this covid crisis the state s mask mandate gone. the move being celebrated by some, slammed by others. and in minneapolis day two of jury selection in derek chauvin s murder trial now getting started. what we know about the three jurors already seated and what it might mean for the trial s outcome. i m hallie jackson in washington with you this morning, and we are live from both ends of pennsylvania avenue with nbc s leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and carol lee at the white house. we ve been talking about this bill for months, it is set to pass within a matter of hours but may be a few hours longer. at this point we had expected debate to have begin, that is not the case at least as of 10:01 eastern time this morning. that s right, hallie. house speaker nancy pelosi and democratic leadership are so convinced that this bill is going to pass that they held a press conference yesterday touting the
in serious diplomacy. the talks in belarus, the second round didn t there was no fruit from those. there was nothing from the meeting between the foreign ministers yesterday in turkey. do you see any evidence of positive advances? no evidence so far of positive advances on the russian side. i will say that the ukrainians have been very serious. they were serious obviously when foreign minister caleba was there in turkey and he was ready to talk and it was clear foreign minister lavrov was not. and on the ukrainian border discussion, they ve had three sessions now. nothing has come out of those. and again ukrainians have been serious, they sent a defense minister and a senior person in zelenskyy s politically political party and they sent a foreign minister of culture, so it is not obvious that they re serious. however, the door is open. the ukrainians are ready to
which is interesting. you mentioned his base. is that all about his supporters? the president just afraid they will leave him if he doesn t construct this wall? or is this really about winning? it s also about fighting congress. he has looked to congress for funds for months. but now that it is a divided congress, with the democrats controlling the house and the republicans controlling the senate, very little is expected to get done other than maybe the usmca deal. but a border discussion seems to be far away when you talk to most top people on capitol hill on both parties. you see this administration scrambling. you say he is scrambling also with congress. but there is another piece i want to focus on, one that says administration officials have stopped trying to talk him out of demands and the u.s. army core of engineers is instructed