to come here but because of this new law they need to come as soon as possible. brian: bring in lacy cooper because the remain in mexico law does go into effect. attorney general. lacy, so policies, the illegals are reacting to our policies no, surprise. no surprise at all, brian. the cartels know exactly what is going on with our laws and our policies and they react to it. they send migrants through the parts of the border that are susceptible and they know that the remain in mexico program was reinstated in el paso. so they are sending migrants to places like yuma sector and seeing floods of migrants coming through huma sector right now. brian: embarrassment seeing split rail fence stopping or not stopping people invading the country. let s look at the encounters year-to-year in 202787 who came across in october.
omicron is here. he tempered those comments by saying it s not time for americans to start panicking. we have not detected it yet, but, when you have a virus that is showing this degree of transmissibility and you re having travel-related cases in israel and belgium and other places, when you have a virus like this it almost is ultimately going to go all over. reporter: the cdc added that they do have the ability and have a good ability to track these strains when they make their way to the united states. as david mckenzie noted people in the health community are skeptical to accept the travel restrictions announced by the white house that go into effect monday affecting eight african countries saying they don t think it s enough to stop the
boosters, that is ultimately the white house s thinking is that the way for people to protect themselves is to be getting these shots. this all comes as the white house is trying to mobilize and show how seriously they are taking this new variant that has popped up oemp the course of the past few days. they are acting with speed to get this out there, the restrictions won t go into effect until monday, but they say they are working as quickly as possible, going through all the protocols to notify airlines and have that go into effect on monday after midnight. but this also comes, the president was also asked about whether he s considering any other mandates. he said some of his vaccine mandates are held up in court, he said not at this point, he also notably was asked about ukraine. the u.s. does continue to support ukraine. we know the national security adviser jake sullivan spoke with a ukrainian official today after the president alleged that a russian group may be trying to
you re anticipating? well, if they rule soon, then what it would mean is that texas challengers, the folks challenging the texas law, would go into federal trial court in texas, and then indeed the court of appeals, and say we want a stay of this law. we want it to not take effect until it is blessed by federal courts. and it s pretty hard to bless this law because it is a straight violation of roe versus wade. it would take a united states supreme court decision to really reinstate the law. and that s probably a year away. so i think the effect of today s decision is likely to be today s oral argument, if it s likely that texas loses, will be to say got to go to the lower courts, the lower courts will probably keep that law stayed so it can t go into effect. abortion services can resume in texas for approximately what would be the next year.
courts in the country, a temporary reprieve in the attack on women s reproductive rights in texas is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. neal katyal is here, former acting u.s. solicitor general, now a georgetown law professor. also joining us, cecile richards, former president of planned parenthood, now the cochair of american bridge and john heilemann is still with us. neal katyal, let me start with you on, first, the significance of what happened last night, the strength of doj s case, and then on what is likely to happen next. take me through both. sure. so, i mean, everything may be bigger in texas, nicole, but yesterday s decision reminds us that no one towers above the law, at least for now. this is only temporary in a manner of speaking. what the court did was say we re going to stop this law. it s unconstitutional. it can t go into effect. but of course texas can t appeal. so, what happened here is that justice department came in and sue