right of self-defense because the president of the united states is not fulfilling his duty to enforce the laws. bill: that from greg abbott on our program yesterday not giving an inch on the border matter. the white house gave texas until today to reopen a stretch of 2 1/2 miles. texas saying it won t touch that. it will do no such thing. that s where we start. good morning on a friday. bill hemmer. dana: not like a little constitutional crisis on a friday. i m dana perino, america s newsroom. a pretty big deal in texas. they re going to defy the federal deadline despite the supreme court ruling against the state in a dispute over razor wire. the court bill: earlier in the week the court said the feds can t remove the wire. abbott says texas has the right to defend itself. dana: jonathan turley is on deck but let s begin with matt finn with the latest from eagle pass. as it stands right now the state of texas has not given up control along the property along th
administration s immigration policy. before we begin bussing up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. in the last two weeks texas has sent roughly 1,000 migrants to new york and since april they ve sent 7,000 migrants to washington, d.c., where the mayor has asked for help from the national guard. joining me now is the former acting secretary of homeland security under president trump chad wolfe. thank you for being with us. what do you think of this policy? do you agree with what the governor of texas is doing, loading them on buses and just dropping them off in new york and washington without much of a plan in terms of dealing with those municipalities? they re just handing them over. this is what dhs has been doing for 17 months. they re sending them into communities all over the country whether it s in new york, it s
and then crashed. the driver dead on the scene. that driver was darya dugina, a commentator and supporter of russia s invasion of ukraine who was sanctioned by the united states and by the uk. she was also the daughter of prominent right-wing ideolog alexander dugin. an explosive device detonated saturday night setting the vehicle on fire. russia has opened a criminal investigation the investigative committee says they believe dugina was murdered. taking into account the data obtained the investigation believes the crime was preplanned and of an ordered nature, a statement said. while forensic work continued the foreign ministry implied ukraine may be behind the attack. if the ukrainian trace is confirmed, foreign ministry spokeswoman wrote on telegram. the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state which the russian federation is and even more so we are not a terrorist state.
about 2.3 million people went through checkpoints across the country yesterday. that s about 300,000 short of easter monday before the pandemic. almost catching up to those pre-pandemic numbers. a lot of the people, bill, that i ve talked to this morning at o hare have told me they are more comfortable flying now. things feel like they re getting back to normal. as we head into the summer months experts are expecting already expecting a busy travel season. could be more so now that the mask rules have been lifted. bill: nice to see in chicago. it s a new day. thanks. dana: developing situation in the middle east. israeli forces exchanging fire with palestinian militants. the country heading toward a conflict. bill: heart stopping video of a woman falling beneath a moving train. how she survived in a moment. dana: a deepening mystery in new york city. the body of a murdered woman
those seeking to provide services. what they would hope for to challenge the lawsuit is for somebody to challenge the law is a lawsuit that would be using the law in the first place, and until that happens it s hard for the justice department or any prosecutors from the federal government to go to court and challenge the law and say that the person who was suing the abortion clinic or anybody connected to the abortion has standing. that s what they need here. until then there s the face act. of course, there s what could happen in congress, as we know president biden asked nancy pelosi to look at those options. julia, thank you. we re keeping a close eye on a deepening mystery in south carolina. we have learned prominent south carolina attorney, alex murdoch,