greetings everyone, you are watching symone, after the long anticipated chaos, united states southern border is roads to flee calm at this hour. more than 36 hours after title 42 expired. an influx of people seeking entry into the united states has slowed down. but overwhelming challenges remain. we are talking to the mayor of mcallen, texas, for more of what he is seeing on the ground. former president donald trump found liable of sexual abuse and defamation just before getting a free primetime platform to spew more lies and fallacies. we are digging into how exactly he uses the media apparatus to plus, oklahoma s republican governor moved to defund the pbs station there, stripping residents of one of the only free resources of news and educational programming they have. all because of lgbtq inclusive shows. we will hear from one of the state senators who is pushing back. i am symone sanders-townsend, and i have something to say. there has been a lot going on this
tonight, clashes on capitol hill. at the so-called weaponization hearing, republicans spent the day questioning questionable witnesses. democrats called it a clearinghouse for testing conspiracy theories for donald trump. then, disney raising the stakes in the feud with ron desantis, scrapping a billion dollar development in florida. the impact it could have on his upcoming presidential run. a major settlement between deutsche bank and jeffrey epstein s victims. we will break down what it all means and who could be paying, next, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. partisan fireworks erupted on capitol hill earlier today, in a hearing for the so-called weaponization of government committee, which of course is led by ohio republican jim jordan. the witnesses were three self-described fbi whistleblowers who jordan and his fellow republicans said would show that the fbi was biased against the right. and we see re
revelations about the gunman who killed eight people at a texas mall, including three young children. the neo-nazi sympathizer appearing to post hateful rants on a social media site and pictures of the mall where he carried out that attack. the victims include a 3-year-old boy and his parents, leaving his 6-year-old brother, the family s sole survivor. a mall security guard who is emotionally remembered by an eyewitness to the shooting. he always walked by our store and just he would wave to us. if we didn t wave back, he wouldn t go away. we had to wave at him. he was such a loving guy, such a caring guy. and in the other texas tragedy, the driver who slammed his car into a group of migrants now facing eight counts of manslaughter. it is a tense time along the border with the covid era restriction known as title 42 set to end on thursday. and in just the last 72 hours alone, there have been more than 26,000 illegal crossings. we have live reports from texas and mexico.
bravery to nine public safety officers including two who died in the line of duty. the ceremony is underway, let s listen in. we re incredibly proud of all of you, skpi mean that, incredibly proud of all of you, and we re going to have your back as long as we need to, as long as you re engaged. in just the past two weeks, our nation has observed a national fallen firefighters memorial weekend, national police weekend, national peace memorial officers day. and i ve also hosted this event several times as president and vice president and cosponsored a bill that created the medal of freedom when i was a u.s. senator, the medal of valor when i was a u.s. senator. these are the same these are some of the most meaningful things that i do as president because knowing you, meeting your families, looking in your eyes, seeing your courage gives me so much hope for the country. this is not hyperbole, you represent the very best of us, you represent the best of who we are as american
Discovered thursday. This comes after bidens personal lawyer flagged a white house lawyer about discovering a classified document at the home on wednesday. As nbc news reports, quote, this brings the total batches of records found to three, a small number in the Washington Office by the news, another set in the garage of his residence, and finally six pages in a room adjacent to the garage. When it comes to this new batch of documents from the obama administration, the white house says they were intimately handed handed over to the justice department. President biden had this to say about the documents on thursday. As i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. I also said we are cooperating fully and completely with the justice departments review. As part of that process, other places where we viewed, were documents from my time as Vice President were stored, and i finished a review last night. Well, the white house was to coope