those migrants then being bussed to different cities in the u.s. we have fox team coverage with lucas tomlinson outside the white house and cb cotton in new york city. but let s start off the hour with bill melugin live along the border in brownsville, texas, good afternoon, bill. breaking news right now, multiple cbp arrested afghan national in the fbi terror watch list after he crossed illegally. he was arrested in ote mesa inland san diego county, with a group of migrants, once border patrol took them into custody, ran fingerprints and he was a match to the terror watch list. i m told the fbi was then notified. they confirmed the match and they are now leading the investigation. congressman darrell issa s office represent that is area and confirmed with their local cbp contact and they have given me a statement responding to this, says in part, biden s open borders aren t just a gateway to 5 million illegal, drug trafficking and deadliest drug crisis in history, biden s
migrant crossings reach record numbers and debt limit deadline approaches. lucas tomlinson live in the north lawn with n the white house with the latest. lucas: good afternoon, the border and the debt ceiling major issues at the white house. on fox news sunday ro khanna blamed both parties for log-jam at the border. i don t believe it s a democratic or republican issue. it s a both party issue. nothing has done since president reagan signed bipartisan immigration reform in 1986. lucas: when ronald reagan signed 3 million and the number is over 11 million. the debt ceiling battle in the june 1st deadline looming. the gop controlled house passed the bill raising debt ceiling cutting spending and limiting spending increases to 1% in the future. florida congressman byron donald says the president and senate should sign into law and keep the government defaulting on
but you said a consensus to meet the president halfway. is that the temperature on the hill right now, that rank and file republicans want to come to a deal and end the government shutdown somehow before we hit the debt limit? you re right. it does sound surprising. not so much that they re ready to strike a deal with the white house and senate democrats. but as the debt limit deadline approaches, they re very wary of being blamed for default. so they re looking perhaps at a six-week extension of the debt limit. so a six-week extension of the debt limit s. that something that john boehner in your view could bring to the floor without a rebellion among the tea party republicans? it s going to be very difficult because speaker boehner s grip has always been fragile since the beginning of the year. so what he s going to have to do if he can t get spending cuts attached, what does he do, bring it to the floor clean and hope for the best? probably not. he s going to need some kind o