Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a busy afternoon on the story. We are about to hear from President Trump at the border. Were also waiting for an update on President Bidens travel to brownsville, texas. So weve got a lot of activity, a lot of things popping. These two individuals obviously very serious about this issue with regard to the campaign. They both want to win the 2024 president ial election. Former President Donald Trump would like to be president again. President joe biden wants to keep his job. Theyll have to find their way through this issue in order to do it. Its a big issue on voters minds in this country. Its a crisis as we heard from the former Homeland Security secretary this morning on Fox And Friends. Obviously all of this has a huge impact on cities across the country and small towns as well as migrants have flooded in to all of these areas. For example, athens. Athens, georgia. The tragic death of laken riley at the alleged hands of this man who was he
gold. your strategic advantage. sandra: all new at 2:00, chaotic withdrawal that left our afghan allies behind gets the hollywood treatment. a new movie showing the american troops and their translators and the debt we owe them. you think if i could be shot of this debt i wouldn t be. you think if i could just go through the usual channels i wouldn t. that is not how this debt works. john: the story behind that movie actually goes back even further, all the way back to 2007. inspired by one marine s fight to save his iraqi interpreter when the american government failed to do it. that marine joins us all new at 2:00. sandra: looking forward to that. we could as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith on this friday, john. john fri-yay. and waiting to hear from homeland secretary mayorkas, live on the border and this showing migrants on raft crossing the rio grande was shot last night in the very town where secretary mayorkas will speak. we ll se
letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we
conversation, equipped with antennas, solar panels and all gathering intel and monitoring communications. why did the administration allow it to hover over sensitive military sites? the senate panel got this answer to that question yesterday. one of the things i think that is different from our country than you can look at historical examples is we think before we shoot and in this case we thought before we shot. neither side of the aisle seemed to be satisfied with that. listen. as an alaskan i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i am not going to. this administration owes americans answers not only on what happened this past week but on what steps they will take to insure this never happens again. the truth is, we think we know what they were going to collect. we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we get more information by the hour now about what exactly these spy craft capabilities are. president biden, though, said he is no longer concerned
A gala to celebrate the U.S. Border Patrol’s 100 years of service has been canceled. Close to one thousand current and retired agents were set to attend the eve