good morning at home. policy allowing for quick migrant expulsion expires tonight. border patrol dealing with a number of daily apprehensions. biden administration warning the crisis could be getting worse admitting that tough times are straight ahead. we are are clear eyed about the challenges we re likely to face in the days and weeks ahead which have the potential to be very difficult. bill: with us now texas governor greg abbott and border czar mike banks. good morning to you and mr. banks, thank you for your time. i know you have been out and about. what have you seen out there and what do you think the american people need to understand from your experience, sir? so there are two things that people need to understand. one i think it was brandon judd that you were having giving you some comments earlier. so brandon judd was spot on in this regard. that is we need the policies that were put in place by the trump administration. remember this, three years ago we had
revelations about the gunman who killed eight people at a texas mall, including three young children. the neo-nazi sympathizer appearing to post hateful rants on a social media site and pictures of the mall where he carried out that attack. the victims include a 3-year-old boy and his parents, leaving his 6-year-old brother, the family s sole survivor. a mall security guard who is emotionally remembered by an eyewitness to the shooting. he always walked by our store and just he would wave to us. if we didn t wave back, he wouldn t go away. we had to wave at him. he was such a loving guy, such a caring guy. and in the other texas tragedy, the driver who slammed his car into a group of migrants now facing eight counts of manslaughter. it is a tense time along the border with the covid era restriction known as title 42 set to end on thursday. and in just the last 72 hours alone, there have been more than 26,000 illegal crossings. we have live reports from texas and mexico.
air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus, but no such luck. today said treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that it was june 1st or we ll go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and after the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two days and say oh no commerce congress only has 15 days to get this sorted out. but he would be wrong. because these are the days
week five people alone in the tucson sector found to be on the same list. our team on the ground says they have seen people from around the world trying to cross into the u.s., including at least 30 chinese nationals spotted. the biden administration says border crossings are down since the lifting of title 42. we heard from the president about this briefly. here s what he had to say on tuesday. texas governor greg abbott says the situation is far from nationwide. help the lone start state imforeign relation in a new letter in the federal government s absence we as governors must ban together to combat the president s ongoing border crisis and ensure the safety and security that all americans deserve. joining us in the mission to defend our national sovereignty and territorial integrity and send all available law enforcement personnel and resources to the tex-mex co-border. florida governor ron desantis says is he deploys national guardsman: list of resources more than # hu
investigation. after three years, millions of dollars, special counsel john durham finally releases his report into whether the fbi had a legitimate reason to investigate trump in 2016. so what did he conclude? plus, a congressman s staffer and intern on her first day both attacked today by a man with a metal baseball bat. details we re just getting in from police. the florida culture wars continue. this time a fifth grade teacher says she s being investigated for showing her class a 2022 animated disney movie rated pg-13. the alleged offender is ethan, an animated gay teen character. welcome to the lead. we start with breaking news. the year s long investigation is over. john durham, the special counsel investigating whether there was any misconduct by the fbi in the trump-russia investigation just released his findings. for years donald trump and his supporters pinned their hopes on the investigation by the former u.s. attorney for connecticut. john durham named spe