Texas, he is at the border. A hearing that is about to be underway. We begin with bill and those new pictures. Speetwo good afternoon. Border patrol sources tell us that this happens a lot more than people realize, but nonetheless, the images are startling. We will pull them up. Law enforcement sources telling us that this happened Saturday Night in the rio grande valley, as a drawbridge camera shows a group of three suspected Cartel Gunmen crossing illegally into texas, a very heavy cartel area. As they are moving through the brush on the u. S. Side of the border, they are armed with ar15 style rifles. Some of them are wearing body armor. I am told that elite Border Patrol agents responded to the area, look for these guys, but came up empty. This happened just days after an armed smuggler was seen here in eagle pass. Look at these Images Released by texas dps. Drones over this Human Smuggler who had a rifle on him as he was guiding a group of Illegal Immigrants across the river across
Political enemies. Facing new charges and the potential for more, donald trump flexes his power over his party. The republicans are very high class. Theyve got to be a little bit lower class. Re whats next . And up close and personal. Republican candidates take their message to key early states. Any am the republican nominee, joe biden doesnt stand a chance. We the people can handle the truth but can they overtake the frontrunner without taking him on . Ill ask gop president ial candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy. And then fellow candidate Chris Christie joins me to respond. Plus, just a number . Renewed concerns about aging political leaders, as candidates on both sides say its time for a fresh start. We need to start getting d. C. In order. Do americans believe age is just a number . Democratic senator chris murphy is coming up. Hello. Up. Im kasie hunt in washington, where the state of our union is thinking, ive seen this film before. The political world begins a new week as we have so many
i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
and you look at miami, and you see we ve only had 17 this year. 34% decrease from our 1964 per capita low last year. then, you look at how we have transformed our economy to have the lowest on employment in america, the highest wage growth, highest technology job growth. that positions you well to make a compelling case to the american people that i should be there nominee for president of the united states. i can t wait to get on the debate stage august 23rd. everything we are doing between now and then is calculated to get us there. sandra: and that is a fair point to make, because while you ve met the fund-raising threshold you ve not made the polling threshold which we have on the screen a moment ago. as far as the polling preference, the g.o.p. presidential candidates, you are pulling 1%. how do you expect to pull the number up? well, we are going to obviously spend money over the next couple weeks to get it there. for me, this is very different than for other candidates.
look, he s not even clearing that bar. i want voters to listen to this. it is most likely that by the time we get on the debate stage august 23rd, the front-runner will be out on bail in four different jurisdictions. florida, washington, georgia, and new york. out on bail, kasie. i mean, that doesn t even clear the low-class bar that donald trump is advocating for. look, i m running for president because i want to do the big things. i want to make sure that we fix our entitlement programs. i want to make sure that we give parents educational freedom to decide where their kids go to school across this country. there are big things we need to do to lower inflation and create jobs that are good paying and help people to save money. and he s sitting there at a