secretary of dhs and his experience and background and his knowledge and then look at the decisions that he s making to maintain and to really create an open border and come up with any other conclusion that it s intentional. i will let the viewers decides for themselves, just lack at the evidence and the facts and not the words. griff: chief, i want to address this part of the story that s tragic and that s the toll it is taking on the morale. now you have uniformed agents standing up to leadership. yesterday on our air your successor ortiz was asked about the morale. here is what he had to say, take a listen. the morale is certainly going to be a challenge for us not just because we are dealing with this humanitarian push that s coming at us from 140 different countries, but also because we are dealing with it in a covid environment. on any given day i may have 4, 500 officers in quarantine status. griff: chief, your thoughts? so again i will try to stay out of the politics but i
imagine a good half hour as we review the events of the world. carley: there is a lot to review. turning to headlines now. the suspect in the deadly waukesha parade massacre pleads not guilty. darrell brooks jr. entering the plea for all of his 77 charges. he is facing multiple counts of first degree intentional homicide, hit and run resulting in death and more. he is accused of driving his suv leaving six dead and over 60 people injured. u.s. border patrol chief raúl ortiz joining your world to shed some light on the covid-related challenges facing his agency. listen to this. the morale is certainly going to be a challenge for us. not just because we are dealing with, you know, this humanitarian push that s coming at us from 140 different countries, but also because we are dealing with it in a covid environment. on any given day, i may have for 400 or 500 officers in a quarantine status.
numbers down. now as we re starting to get into a less restricted covid environment across the country, this is lifting. and it really got into the public eye with ukrainians, as you know, hallie. some ukrainians were at first turned back at the border because of title 42. then more were allowed in. but then of course that begs the other conversation. should ukrainians be allowed in? can you really make the argument they wouldn t carry covid more so than someone from south america? no, you can t. that started to fall apart when it says it was just for the purpose of puck health. that is why the cord orders are causing this now to all be reviewed and now we know should be lifted by late may. julia ainsley, thank you very much. we re actually going to have a deeper dive an exactly this he shall as it per tairnz to ukrainians. coming up on my streaming channel on nbc news now. back on the show we are staying close to capitol hill. you know with our team here it is staking out those clas
and i think that s both out of respect for the local japanese community, as well as managing some of the uncertainty about what we could do on site. things like accessing athletes is a bit trickier at this olympics, you know, getting access and moving around venues is a bit trickier. and there s practical examples like the mix zone where the athletes, after they ve won their medal or lost their heat, or whatever it might be, have to walk through the mix zone where all the broadcasters of the world can have a chance to interview them. but just social distancing now means that mix zone is really long, and the practicalities of being able to manage that in a covid environment mean it s more challenging. so there s lots of practical challenges around what you need to do, and we ve had to adapt to those and leaving some people at home unfortunately has been part of that. minal, has the pandemic reduced the value of live sport for broadcasters? so, we have seen a downward
to as a leader who is trying to, you know, drag the country out of here some of the footage from yesterday. out of this covid environment. you walk into a school without a mask all of the kids are masked. remember ron desantis all the criticism he got when he walked up to the podium hey guys if you want to take off this mask can you it s political theater. it s not a thought for her. the thought is i m the vice president i can do this. if you are watching this in florida or tennessee or any of the other states in this country. there are still kids in masks in washington, d.c. and new york city and it s mind-blowing and they don t care because that s the world they live. in. ainsley: so sad. steve: larger dynamic why are all these stories coming out from the west wing about her? i mean, there are stories about, you know, the new york times and the washington post are now doing the hunter biden story. either because hunter is about to get indicted or they want to squeeze joe bi