Bret alive look at the u. S. Capitol a beautiful evening in washington as we are Just Moments Away from President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address, good evening from washington i am bret baier. Martha i am Martha Maccallum in moments we will be on the house floor from the familiar call of the sergeant at arms will make his way down the aisle greeted by lawmakers along the way. Bret you can see mitt romney talking to joe mansion it seems like they are pretty engaged in some conversation that can happen on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakers waiting a long time in the chamber, a lot of folks expressing themselves, different ways, republican some of them wearing buttons about the border, others dressed in white on the democratic side in solidarity, we set the stage now with White House Correspondent with a preview of the president s speech good evening. Good evening officials at the white house think that most people who will watch it tonight have not been very polit
in a 5-4 vote the supreme court blocked the biden administration from repealing the trump-era policy letting border agents turn away migrants over health concerns. the high court will hear oral arguments in february. rich: president biden has no plan to secure the border. images of large groups of migrants crossing into the country illegally every single day. leaders there are getting frustrated with the lack of action from washington. we re asking the biden administration to come down here, visit our border, talk to our border patrol agents, and to the cities around here. we re talking 10, 12,000 people crossing our borders at one time. they have not put any policy nor any plan in place. rich: big numbers. three days border patrol encountered nearly 15,000 migrants, plus 500 pounds of marijuana, one gang member, one murder suspect and the list goes on. julie: we re covering the crisis from every angle. council president brandon judd joins us in a moment but first mat
representing 42% of the southern border the communities along the border, we got a win tonight and we re grateful even if it s a band-aid. we ll take it at this point. here at the border the human smuggling and illegal migration continues. texas dps reports it has found 18 illegal immigrants inside an 18-wheeler on u.s. route 77 in texas. that driver was arrested for human smuggling. also yet another life-threatening high-speed chase. a driver from houston was smuggling four illegal immigrants who ran out of the car, jumped a ranch fence. that driver was arrested. the life-threatening chases, high-speed pursuits are something we see almost daily at the southern border. julie and rich. julie: thank you. rich: let s bring in brandon judd the president of the national council of border patrol. thank you for joining us this morning.
numbers show 165,000 migrant encounters were reported for the month of february when you compare that to nearly 37,000 for the same month in 2020. border patrol says it continues to expel migrants under title 42 and 8. the agency adds it runs criminal background checks on the people in order for them to be considered to be eligible to stay here in america. dana. dana: this continues every day. thank you, casey. trace: day-by-day. more on this with brandon judd the president of the national border patrol council. great to see you. these are the approval numbers for the president on the border. the approval is 37%. disapproval is 58%. hugely under water. one of the problems with that is the fact that this parole
. maria: welcome back breaking news brand-new apprehension numbers for the month of june from our source brandon judd the president of the national border patrol council, here are the unofficial numbers that will probably go higher because this is up until today, june border encounters nationwide 174,000 in the month of june, 39000 plus cutaways in other words those people were seen on surveillance, they got away we have no idea what their intentions are there now in america according to brandon, these people are going everywhere little rock, charlotte, des moines in new york city and miami, major hotspots forgot a ways, tucson, arizona also a real hotspot forgot a ways, congressman lee zeldin the house foreign affairs committee and running as governor as new york, good morning to you your reaction to the new numbers as we expect some of them to go to new york, which can he tell them.