the el paso border sector. the biden administration still getting hit over a lack of transparency. sandra: to the new york post covered today showing migrants of the border with the headline divide and said help. and a rise in crime. john: but first let s get to griff jenkins, he s on the border in sunland park new mexico. chris, you ve been doing some amazing work. that s what the dhs and biden administration doesn t want you to see, and that s access as to what writer lungs are like. and that s, that s where we were with senator rob portman of ohio. he is the homeland security committee and he s getting a tour from the national border patrol council. that s the union, and we encountered a lot of traffic here. this is the wall area where we were, and i ve been talking to him. and you can see that stretches for miles, that s one of the heaviest traffic areas of the el paso sector, and alexander mallorca s is making it visit and being a tight-lipped about it. details
dana: administration telling facilities caring for unaccompanied children. bill: there is there are numerous angles on this story. we ll talk to the former acting ice director ron vitiello in a moment. we ll begin with kristin fisher to figure out what the strategy is now. good morning. the white house is still calling this a challenge but not a crisis. the fact that president biden sent this team of high-level advisors, top administration officials down to the border shows you they know at the very least it is a big and growing problem for this administration. leading this team was the secretary of homeland security mayorkas and susan rice among others. while they were down there according to a statement put out by the white house just yesterday, the white house says they discussed capacity needs given the number of unaccompanied children and families arriving at the border. the complex challenges with redoing is immigration center and the white house is blaming a lo
Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 8 00 in the evening in washington, where the white house has vowed to fight the news media tooth and nail, over what officials see as unfair attacks on donald trump. The new president has taken issue with estimates of the size of the crowd at his inauguration on friday. His Press Secretary says it was the biggest in history for such an event, but as our North America editorjon sopel reports, the evidence doesnt support the claim. The weightiest issues on the planet were discussed at Donald Trumps inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds for him were not as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible, as these two photos, each taken 45 minutes before the inauguration started, make plain. But last night, journalists were summoned to the most extraordinary White House Briefing to be told they were lying. This was the largest audience to ever
Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 8 00 in the evening in washington, where the white house has vowed to fight the news media tooth and nail, over what officials see as unfair attacks on donald trump. The new president has taken issue with estimates of the size of the crowd at his inauguration on friday. His Press Secretary says it was the biggest in history for such an event, but as our North America editorjon sopel reports, the evidence doesnt support the claim. The weightiest issues on the planet were discussed at Donald Trumps inaugural address, but what the president is in a white rage about are suggestions that the crowds for him were not as big as they were for barack obama eight years ago, even though the evidence is incontrovertible, as these two photos, each taken 45 minutes before the inauguration started, make plain. But last night, journalists were summoned to the most extraordinary White House Briefing to be told they were lying. This was the largest audience to ever
About term time holidays. Its about the state taking the rights of parents away, when it comes to making decisions about their children. Not the welcome he was expecting for the french president ial candidate Francois Fillon well have the latest from the campaign trail. Theres a dramatic start to the masters, with the world Number One Dustinjohnson pulling out. And an inspired work of art, or expensive folly . We have an exclusive on the latest work by damian hirst. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news dustinjohnson walks off the first tee and out of the masters. The world number one wont play at augusta after injuring his back in a fall at home. Good evening. In an apparent major shift in policy, the Trump Administration says syria has no future under bashar al assad, after the deaths of at least 80 people, killed in a suspected Chemical Weapons attack this week. The authorities in damascus have denied any involvement, but tonight, the us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson said there