Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your concern there . Well, good afternoon, jim. It was as predicted. I mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. He
Public safety and Crime Reduction is a top priority for my administration and for me and has been for a long time back when i was chairman of judiciary committee. You know, since day one my administration has been working with Law Enforcement, mayors and Community Leaders to do what we know works to keep people and communities safe. As was referenced during the pandemic, states and cities saw Violent Crime rising and their budgets were strained as they faced deep cuts in Law Enforcement and Public Safety. But we stepped up. Thanks to my American Rescue plan which i might note not a Single Person on the other team voted for, we provided 350 billion, 350 billion that was available to deal with these issues. You know, and the fact is that we find ourselves could use this money to keep Law Enforcement on the beat, communities safe from violence. Invested 15 billion, 15 billion to make their communities safer and we added billions more in grants to help. Justice department invested in Law E
A warm woelcome to our viewers. Ahead, an american nurse and her child kidnapped near haitis capital. What we know and the latest plan to help end Gang Violence there. Plus, more than 65 Million People waking up to heat alerts right across the United States. Well tell you weather relief is on the way. And as you know, biden has ordered his top political opponent to be arrested ive got to be arrested they want to arrest me at his latest campaign rally, Donald Trump Blames President Biden for his latest legal problems in the classified documents case. There is growing concern this morning for an american nurse and her child who were kidnapped in haiti. Alix dorsainvil worked for a christian Aid Organization called el roi haiti. Her and her child were reportedly kidnapped thursday morning near the haitian capital, portauprince. According to the groups website, dorsainvil is originally from new hampshire. She moved to haiti after her husband asked her to care for students at a haitian scho
John a live look at the Southern Border where both President Biden and former President Trump will appear this hour. President Will Tour Brownsville Texas where illegal crossings have slowed to just 46 in the past week. Months ago the number was in the thousands. Jacqui Alejandra Mayorkas was asked about that moments ago and gave the Mexican Government credit. Brownsville, texas, provides a very good glimpse of how dynamic and challenging the Migration Phenomenon is. Last year in april and may of 2023 approximately 30 of all encounters across the Southern Border were realized in the Rio Grande Valley sector of Which Brownsville is a part. Now those numbers have been reduced significantly, primarily because of the enhanced Law Enforcement efforts south of our border. John a lot to talk about in the next 60 minutes. John roberts in washington. Great to spend thursday with you. Jacqui Jacqui Heinrich in for sandra smith. This is america reports. Brownsville has just seen 46 migrant encoun
voted no. now, let s go live to capitol hill where fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has all the details. now, chad, we heard yelling. then we heard cheers from the floor. what can you tell us? well, democrats were yelling at the republicans to close the vote. because they were prevailing in this, obviously democrats did not want to impeach alejandro mayorkas, so they were winning, they kept yelling regular order. shut off the vote. and so here s what happened at the end. as you say there were four republicans who voted no. but i want to point out that that s with a caveat. here are the four who voted no and i will explain why this is very important. mike gallagher republican of wisconsin. ttom mcclintock. ken buck republican of colorado. the vice chair of the republican conference blakemore. now, at the end of the vote he switched his vote so this lost. 216 to 214. it was 215 to 215. by rule, a tie vote loses in the house of representatives. so why d