serious. . also this hour, the latest developments from the southern border as homeland security officials report a steady decrease in migrant crossings after days of record setting entries following the elimination of the title 42 policy. it is too early but the numbers we have experienced are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of title 42. and ron desantis takes center stage in iowa over the weekend making the case against another four years of donald trump while the former president postpones his own iowa rally due to severe weather warnings. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. if we focus the election on the past or other side issues, then i think the democrats are going to beat us again. hello and thank you for joining us. i m in for andrea in washington where the white house is juggling major foreign policy challenges to begin a critical week. there is cautious optimism among officials over the sou
talks like a campaign, and this week, florida governor ron desantis could make his 2024 campaign official. after a weekend of trying to steal the spotlight from donald trump, putting the former president as a loser. a night witness alligator boots and all road trips across the state taking advantage of trump being forced to cancel a planned rally due to bad weather. desantis flipped burgers and it did all he could to call out trump s effect on the gop but did not dare call out trump by name. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024, it s going to get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing and that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. i mean, the courage! clearly talking about trump without saying trump s name. here s the thing, desantis might be younger, he might be more into politics and then donald trump, at least on the national stage, but there is little daylight betwe
2020. but if you look at polls among republican voters, it is, this man is who they want, as of now. he s far ahead of everybody else. we have not had a debate yet. i mean, not even a single debate. the field is still yet to be defined, whether it s myself or other candidates. you think the debates really matter that much? oh, my god, yes, absolutely. i think those debates, folks are going to see he is not the same. guy this is not 2016. he doesn t bring the same fire. there s no new ideas. he s just going to try to re-litigate what happened in 2020. but we all know exactly what happened there. he s going to be on the defensive. he s not gonna have the energy. so, i think there s a huge opportunity for the new generation, the new voice the republican party, new ideas to come to fruition. there s still a lot of play here before we even get to the first of the nation primary in new hampshire, which is next january. so, i understand the polls. when someone pulls and says
jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. that s a record. that sounds to most folks like a crisis. well, look, it s way down now. we ve now gotten control. howard: and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of illegal migrants is suddenly drawing far mored media attention, and there are still arguments about basic numbers. when it comes to illegal migration, you ve seen it come down by more than 90%, and that s because of the actions that this president has taken. howard: after the pundits pounced, karine jean-pierre clarified that that she was talking about one parole program. at this point, i don t care what you call the border situation, but it sure looks like a crisis to me. i m howard kur
because of what immigration experts call a perfect storm of catastrophes, the pandemic, the ensuing recession, and the war in ukraine, which choked off grain exports, in other words, food. almost nowhere has been hit harder than latin america, pushing millions to flee in search of not just a better life, but life period. couple that with what smugglers are doing to take advantage, and a fire hose of misinformation on social media, telling people that now is the time to come. and you get what we are seeing right now, a crisis at the border, but not just the border in cities like el paso, interior cities, including new york, say they are at capacity. what exactly does that mean? what exactly is being done, and what exactly is being blocked by lawmakers who arguably benefit from using immigration as a campaign talking point? joining me now is nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley who s in el paso, texas, for us. so julia, you know this story, this subject in and