instead they will be bogged down in paperwork and taking agents away from doing their job at the border. immigration courts are pectize up already and the caseload is getting worse by the day. a texas lawmaker says the biden administration should be sending more judges to border towns instead of u.s. troops. the way it stops is instead of the president sending 1500 u.s. troops to the border, he should send 1500 immigration judges. dana: david spunt is live at the justice department as it gets underway. 2.1 million cases, that s the backlog as of this morning. think about that for a moment. that number only expected to grow when title 42 is lifted. that number will only swell over the coming weeks and coming months. right now the backlog is about 4 to 6 years. some experts say it could go 8 to 10 years to get into court to hear your case because of title 42. one of the reasons only about 600 immigration judges right now that are active in the united states. obviously the
fentanyl. one of the cases is a case from washington, d.c. a woman named diamond lynch. forever 20 years old, purchased what she thought was a percocet pill and died almost immediately. it was not percocet, it was fentanyl. we tracked our washington field division with our local police department and partners. they tracked that back to the drug dealers who had sold her that pill. we then tracked that back to the source of supply. the suppliers in los angeles who were using instagram to communicate and do their business. and then we tracked it from los angeles back to the sinaloa cartel in mexico. diamond lynch never lived. she was planning her 1-year-old birthday party when that happened. dana: america is fortunate to have you at the helm at dea. thank you for sharing the information and congratulations on those arrests and hope it keeps going. thank you so much. aishah: newly released body cam footage shows bryan
kohberger got caught running a red light. during his exchange with the officer he is compliant and cure yes about the law. a little confusion with speeding. because someone had stopped. i wasn t sure what they were doing and then they put on their light to turn. so i thought that maybe they were letting me go through. did you see that? no. right before i made the turn there was someone who made a right. they didn t have their signal on so i wasn t sure if they were just kohberger is facing four counts of first degree murder. preliminary hearing scheduled june 26th expected to last a week. the video was released along with the body cam footage of the video recorded after 7:00 in the morning december 30th just hours after kohberger was arrested at his parents home in pennsylvania. police department, search
warrant, come to the door. police department, search warrant, come to the door. we could learn more about what was found during that search at the preliminary hearing. but before that the judge and lawyers on the case will be in court later this month on a motion to strike the gag order issued by judge to ensure kohberger gets a fair trial. aishah: and what bethany funk says. the lawyers want to hear from her. thank you, dan. it looks like the russians created this event. so-called false flag operation. the russians came out relatively quickly to say that this was an assassination attempt on putin. aishah: jack keane doing a reality check on the foiled drone attack against the kremlin. did russia stage it so it could then blame us? the latest next.