republican congressman george santos who admitted to lying about parts of his background arrested. he is in federal custody this morning. we have the 13 count indictment and we ll break down the very serious charges he s facing. moments from now, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is set to give live remarks on operations at the southern border, one day before the health restrictions known as title 42 were set to be lifted. we re live on both sides of the border as the amount of people seeking asylum trying to seek asylum continues to build. and e. jean carroll speaking out one day after a federal jury found donald trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. we ll play for you what she had to say. in washington, a standoff between president biden and top republicans with just weeks to go before what could be a catastrophic default on the nation s debt. and we are following breaking news at this hour. right now, new york republican congressman george
number. as i understand it, it could be in the thousands and it could grow larger as they have to deal with that overcrowding and border patrol. that s the name of the game here. alleviating overcrowding. it could become a dire public health issue, jose. tom, you re on the other side of the border. are the folks, the men and women and children that made these unbelievably difficult and dangerous journeys to try and reach the united states and ask for asylum, are they looking at the clock, looking at title 42? what are they looking at? reporter: yeah, jose, well, listen, a lot of them have been walking for months, right? and they re incredibly desperate at this point. some of them are aware of the change in the policy. i spoke with a family from venezuela yesterday, and they were very aware. but at this point they had gotten to this point, just behind me here at juarez, where that border wall separating them from the united states, what is happening here, though, jose, i was hearing
it is strange, because what we re witnessing here on the border, you can see a green vine that is cascading over the barbed wire and people are just sort of coming and going, right here, a hole on the border and there are agents all over here. and these people are coming in, they re trickling in, there is a crew from telemundo, our colleagues that are documenting this and we have as well, but these numbers keep growing, so they trickle in and then they walk over here and they re in front of the border wall. they re on the u.s. side. nobody stopped them from crossing the barbed wire and this crowd here continues to grow. we re talking about hundreds to a thousand people. and we have seen them be allowed inside and we assume they re now being processed. when we were in el paso, just yesterday, we saw some of these folks going into get processed and spoke to them afterwards and they were processed and released. so, there is something happening here. what appears is that the biden administ
donald trump is a builder. throughout his career he has been in charge of projects in which people said you can t do this, and then he proceeds to do it and get it accomplished. the relationship with mexico is important, but hetches, we ve all had neighbors. if your neighbor put an ad in the paper and said everybody come to carol s house, here is the address. by the way, she ll pay for your health care and your food, i think you d be upset. you should be. this is not a good neighbor. i think it was robert frost or someone, good fences make good neighbors. this is a problem here for this country and we ve got to put a stop to it. so maria, let s say the wall is built. mr. trump is also suggesting he s going to add 5,000 border patrol agents. presumably they would patrol the wall to make sure no one bought that 21-foot ladder.
the wall has been estimated to cost about $6 million a mile. and if you built the whole thing, you re talking about billions of dollars of taxpayer money that president trump says mexico will eventually pay back. there s not much chance that mexico could afford that, let alone that they would be willing to do it. it could be a really expensive proposition for the united states if you built the whole thing. if the point is just to build a little bit so you can say i built my wall, he can probably do that. jeffrey, what would supporters of the wall be satisfied with? well, the wall would have to be as good as it could be and would have to work. that s the point. this is a very practical person. she a builder by profession. that s what he does. i m talking about his supporters though, the supporters that want him to build that, what would they be satisfied with? would they be satisfied with a