Youre watching big developments where President Of The Us and the former president are at the border. Bounceville to the left of the screen there where joe biden is. He will be speaking later this hour. Eagle pass. Thats where President Trump is. He will be speaking shortly himself. At issue, this runaway surge of migrants at the border. Each man has a different prescription for this and each is pointing fingers at the other. What gals many at the border right now is the fact that joe biden is blaming this on inaction on things that should have been done years ago. He said renering to a number of mrsa that republicans dropped the back pushing. Be that as it may, well go to bill melugin in eagle pass and how donald trump is taking all of this in. Bill . Neil, good afternoon to you. The Trump Campaign tells us hes expected to speak in about 15 minutes. Hes at the shelby park boat ramp. Hes meeting with Governor Abbott and texas dps and National Guard. Its been remarkable to watch. We hav
i m martha maccallum. this is the story today. it s a big one. a border showdown is brewing in eagle pass, texas right now. a huge hub for illegal border crossings. there s a standoff that is underway between the federal government, which wants the razor wire that texas put in place there to protect its own state, they say it has to go. republican texas governor greg abbott says he will not. the biden administration has given him a deadline of tomorrow to allow border patrol access to the area. it s called shelby park. essentially setting up a confrontation potentially between federal agents and the texas national guard. when asked to the governor, will you comply with this order, here s what the governor said. watch. texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming in to our state. to make arrests of those criminals. we have national guard as well as texas department of public safety officers that are there to make those arrests and to deny illegal entry. mar
the news continues to the source with katelyn collins starts now. tonight, straight from the source, a snub for nikki haley. tim scott said that she is now expected to endorsed donald trump, giving him the backing in the nation s highest-ranking black republican, just four days out of the make or break new hampshire primary. plus, the district attorney who had died with donald trump in georgia, now facing allegations of her own misconduct involving the man she hired as a lead prosecutor. what new credit card records reveal and what it could all mean in the future of this case. plus, alec baldwin indicted for a second time in that deadly movie shooting. charged again with involuntary meant water, prompting major questions about what changed. i am katelyn collins, and this is the source. any minute now we are expecting another endorsement for donald trump, who has been racking them up constantly since his dominant win in iowa on monday as the republican party falls in l
treatment. earlier this week we learned the president s son struck a deal with prosecutors that lets him avoid jail time. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight. jacqui, good evening. good evening, trace. white house officials say hunter biden, who just accepted a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, was invited to last night s state dinner with the attorney general you because he is the president s son and white house members attend events. officials were very rye sis tant giving answers how the case was handled and the president s role in it. let me say let me save you some breath. if you are going to ask about this, i am not addressing. kirby wouldn t answer james question though. are you going to answer the question? it s not unreasonable question to ask. after a lot of pushback the white house now says this comment still holds true. i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. despite a text message whist
crimes he was arrested for? the lead starts right now. a mere few hours after he was arrested and arraigned, donald trump told donors this i hadn t had a chance to go through all the boxes. it is a long tedious job. takes a long time. which i was prepared to do, but i have a very busy life. can prosecutors use this admission against him? plus, an up close look at front lines of ukraine s counteroffensive. we had to evacuate to the shelter now because apparently the guys fear there could be aviation bombs coming in fairly soon. you can see the situation here is still very kinetic, a lot of shelling is still going on. the items ukrainian troops say are key to defeating the russians. and if inflation is supposedly easing, why does it seem every trip to the grocery store is getting more expensive? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. despite donald trump launching a growing number of baseless attacks on special counsel jack s