now. steve good morning, everybody. it is monday, january 8th, 2024. we start this monday morning with a focus on joe biden s border crisis. you have heard all about it. well, today, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is going to head to eagle pass, texas to get a firsthand look at the chaos that border agents are dealing with day in, day out. thanks to this administration. ainsley: well, his trip comes as the new dhs report reveals more than 2.3 million migrants have been released into our country under the biden administration. brian: co-host lawrence jones is live in eagle pass this morning. is he getting a look at the border by air, land and sea. lawrence? hey, good morning, family. yeah. we are live out here. yesterday we went into the air to really see exactly what s happening on the ground, on the day-to-day basis. today we re going to go from land and take a boat out as well to see what border agents are having to deal with also the texas depar
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Don jr. And it goes on to say this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. It is done frequently in politics when everyone involved is an american citizen. It is much more treacherous if there are any foreign nationals who are part of a meeting like that because there are violations of the law if foreign nationals contribute anything of value to a campaign. Money, information, anything of value. So thats where it gets a bit tricky. Now, one of the issues, we know, is that donald trump jr. , through his testimony and the emails that he released, did acknowledge that it was a meeting to get information, dirt as it was described on Hillary Clinton. We also know that another attendee of that meeting, jared kushner, who is the president s soninlaw and senior
while he was gone didn t know he was gone. ainsley: did he apologize. he said he handled it incorrectly. there is an article saying this is definitely making eyes roll, heads spin, and is someone going to get fired because they didn t handle this properly? steve: right. ainsley: we do wish him the best. i hate this is going on. and he was in severe pain and went back to icu. brian: is he a military guy. the whole next man up. understand dispatched into battle. you are hurt. put the next american in there. this is something they teach you fundamentally from basic training. be responsible and accountable. total deception. ainsley: might be a procedure he didn t want anyone to know about. brian: the minute you go to icu, there should be a machine in place. ainsley: i agree. brian: fan everybody out to know i m incapacitated. ainsley: goes into the hospital on monday. icu. nobody even finds out until tuesday. what if something had happened monday night in our country. b
john: while americans are keeping a nervous eye on their cash, congress is facing questions over giving staffers free peloton memberships. the details live on capitol hill, what s this all about? news of these free peloton memberships for house staff and capitol police is even making some house lawmakers heads spin. i don t have one of those, you know, i go, do walks or do exercise, i don t think, i m not for giving free peloton memberships. you know, it s unnecessary. that s the first i ve heard of it. yeah, i ve got the same kind of shocked look that maybe you do. we have learned the new benefit kicks in starting may 18. the idea, though, has been in the works for months. house of representatives center for well-being told house about
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