cnn this morning continues right now. deep uncertainty on capitol hill over kevin mccarthy s plan to lock down the votes to get this passed. when you maxed out your credit cards, it s a pretty good time to evaluate your spending habits. no one in this country can afford the risk of default which is why republicans should take it off the table. e. jean carroll expected to take the stand today. they say donald trump raped carroll in a dressing room. trump s lawyers say she schemed. and two other women will testify who allege that trump forced himself on them can also take the stand. mastermind of the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the white house hasn t said when he was killed or how. the chairman of the house foreign relations committee said, quote, any time a terrorist is taken off of the board is a good day. but this does not diminish the biden administration s call pablt. culpability. incompetence, that s how
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again
the source of the leaks that resulted in highly classified documents being released on the internet. in the last hour, the pentagon says they are looking at the impact those leaks could have on us national security and that a criminal investigation has been opened. the bbc s carl nasman is here with more carl, what exactly is the pentagon saying? well, i mean, clearly these documents, which are making the rounds for a few days, they are starting to concern the us department of defence officials were getting in the most recent statement from the pentagon, i want to summarise a bit of that here. depending on saying we have engaged with allies and partners and have informed relevant congressional committees and the department of defence, we also know that a criminal investigation has now been opened into the source of these documents. us government looking to find who may have leaked this, was country may have been behind it if it originated from the us, potentially from russia
we start here in the us where thejustice department is investigating the leaking of dozens of leaked intelligence documents which surfaced on social media a few days ago. some officials have suggested the topics point to an american source but they re not ruling out the possibility that pro russian activists or agents might be involved. the bbc s carl nasman is here with more. carl, what exactly is the pentagon saying?. these documents have been out there for a few days but us officials are concerned about this, especially when it comes to security, a pentagon statement coming out officials saying they are working to verify these documents but they say they contain classified, highly sensitive material, they say here they are focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on us national security and our allies. a criminal investigation has been opened into this case, it is believed to be one of the biggest and the most serious cases of leaked document
first our top story del rio once again the hot spot in the migrant crisis. customs and border protection says in less than a week agents in del rio have encountered nearly 7,000 migrants from 79 different countries spotted and lost track of more than 3,000 known gotaways. arrested 13 criminal aliens including three felony sex offenders. blocked 74 cases of smuggling. all that in just six days. now people who live there are just at their wit s end. we ve seen and hear about increase of criminal behavior at the border. the issue we run into it has increased so much and see how the local law enforcement officers hands are tied because of the resources being exhausted. so it is like the community is already gave up. dana: welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, good morning. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. investigators in california still trying to piece together who is behind a cold blooded murder. the killing of six members of a family includ