Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a busy afternoon on the story. We are about to hear from President Trump at the border. Were also waiting for an update on President Bidens travel to brownsville, texas. So weve got a lot of activity, a lot of things popping. These two individuals obviously very serious about this issue with regard to the campaign. They both want to win the 2024 president ial election. Former President Donald Trump would like to be president again. President joe biden wants to keep his job. Theyll have to find their way through this issue in order to do it. Its a big issue on voters minds in this country. Its a crisis as we heard from the former Homeland Security secretary this morning on Fox And Friends. Obviously all of this has a huge impact on cities across the country and small towns as well as migrants have flooded in to all of these areas. For example, athens. Athens, georgia. The tragic death of laken riley at the alleged hands of this man who was he
31 and a half trillion dollars and counting every moment of every day. speaker mccarthy set to meet with the president to discuss the debt limit and other topics on wednesday. lucas tomlinson live at the white house with more on these upcoming critical negotiations, good afternoon, lucas. lucas: mike, the white house confirm that is meeting will take place wednesday. the white house says it cover wide-range of topics, this one first face to face meeting with new house speaker and president biden. we will meet this wednesday. i know the president said he didn t want to have any discussions but i think it s very important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. i want to find a reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling but take control of the run away spending. democrats have a position. raise the debt ceiling and pay the bills. we are not going to negotiate with ourselves. if the republicans want to put something on the table and sa
Its own laws, it is smugglers, and Human Traffickers and drugs and weapons and terrorism also people here unlawfully committing seriously, deadly crimes, sovereign nations need secure borders. Strong countries enforce their law ands federal government needs to do its job or someone else will. Governor abbott and ron desantis are highlighting these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. Someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully . Joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. The border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 Got Aways This Fiscal Year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could point to a couple o
its own laws, it is smugglers, and human traffickers and drugs and weapons and terrorism also people here unlawfully committing seriously, deadly crimes, sovereign nations need secure borders. strong countries enforce their law ands federal government needs to do its job or someone else will. governor abbott and ron desantis are h highlighting these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully? joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf i thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. the border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 got aways this fiscal year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could poin
these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully? joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf i thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. the border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 got aways this fiscal year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could point to a couple other numbers, numbers of known and suspected terrorists they are apprehending at that border is going up each and every month. 12 alone in the month of august alone. the numbers continue to get worse with diej biden administration, they are not doing one fundamental thing that is enforcing the law and bringing deterrents who the