going down. national border patrol council, art del cueto on border officials that are fed up and peter doocy on where the president is heading right now. let me just tell you, it s not at the border. welcome, everybody with busy news day. much more on the affidavit situation, the border situation front and center for the time being. there we go to casey stegall in eagle pass with a certain big visit today. casey? yeah, neil. the visit is wrapping up as we speak. secretary mayorkas made at least two stops here in this border patrol sector while he was on the ground. but no events were open to the press. so we did not get the opportunity to ask him any questions. they even wouldn t let the drone fly in the area once he was here. after landing in del rio, he traveled to eagle pass where the secretary visited a border patrol processing facility that opened last month. the 153,000 square foot facility is on 24 acres and has a capacity of 1,000. then mayorkas traveled down here
Administration trying to save face . Were on top of stunning developments that has joseph biden doing a 180 from something he said on the campaign from no wall, no way, no how to now saying yeah. Maybe. Maybe we start pursuing just that. Jeff paul in eagle pass, texas with the latest. Jeff . Yeah, neil. When youre out here and you see these big groups like we did yesterday, a group of 300 people cross the rio grande and enter the United States, its overwhelming. You remind yourself, this is just a small snapshot of the thousands that do that same thing on a daily basis. That might be in part the reason why the Biden Administration is now going to waive 26 federal laws in order to essentially build border wall, restart it when they had previously already stopped it. This 20mile stretch of border wall will be going in in the Rio Grande Valley in south texas. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas said theres an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers at this s
that strategist would have the same thought you have, why would you do this. the question is, does it make him look weak to not do it. pete: do people really rachel: i think devil s advocate, i get it. pete: they try to use the term, make him bait him into doing it. that s not a word people associate with rachel: 100%. also, he does so well. joey: that s the thing. rachel: could he improve his numbers or is there too much risk? joey: if i m ron desantis, i m happy. rachel: come on. pete: depends what donald trump wants to do. do you think there s a strategist looking at donald trump saying you know what, you should do this? he has never listened to strategist or pollster. he s going to make a gut call based on what works for him and who is someone to quibble with someone who won the republican nomination in 2016 and 2020. he s ahead in 2024. they can give him all the advice
then extend it to things like strategy, the scope of the search, what would be involved. so again, the kind of information that people might be waiting on but will not likely get regardless by tomorrow at noon. jonathan turley with us, george washington university law professor. jonathan, what will we get? if you had to make a gut call, what do you suspect we ll get? well, we re going to get a heavily redacted affidavit the if this follows the past practices of the justice department. i ve been in cases where both of those problems have appeared, where judges have agreed that the justice department has overredacted material. the concern i have is that the judge does not appear to have pushed back. he is suggesting that the government got it just right. he doesn t have any area where
west virginia. i think that s how he s going to look at it. neil: i understand that, senator. you know, in the past he has ultimately voted along with his party. now he does succeed in changing the dynamics and changing the size of the package and all of that, so you think he s closer to voting for this? it s a gut call on a colleague and friend. i understand. what do you think? he s a colleague and friend. i don t know the answer to your question. what i do know definitively if he voted for something would be a lot smaller than $6 trillion and $3.5 trillion. they claim this is 1.7 trillion. but by the way, on that issue, whoever is talking about $1.7 trillion because these things are all temporary, these spending programs, doesn t realize that what congress does when there s a program like the child tax credit, we tend to extend it year after year. that s why the real cost of this as the cbo said is closer to $5 trillion, 82 which is just