wall street journal assistant editor james freeman is here to weigh in. but first, no end in sight for the migrant crisis overtaking the southern border and no plan in place yet from the white house with the title 42 policy possibly ending any day now. welcome to america reports, i m aishah hasnie in washington. i m rich edson. border patrol agents are taking drastic steps to prepare for the worst. in just a matter of days, built a massive tent in the el paso desert bigger than a football field to handle the expected overflow of migrants if title 42 is lifted. and the new york post puts it welcome mat for illegal immigrants. chad wolf is standing by, but first matt is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. matt. rick, so far today our crews have seen four different migrant groups cross into the united states. standard procedure along the southern border. the surge is not slowing down and did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. sources
president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. president biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the supreme court has just rejected senator lindsey graham s request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a district attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former president trump to testify. the committee s in discussions with president trump s attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we haven t made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already
are nonsensical, in case you ve forgotten what they are, here is the first explanation they give us. why does this guy have these ultra-classified documents in the basement of mar-a-lago, unsecured where they could be presumably broken in on or stolen or photographed and given to hostile foreign powers or conceivably even terrorists. tucker: are you listening to this? it s not just classified documents, according to the pet historian of the half-wits, these are ultra classified documents, just sitting there helpless in boxes like maidens in bikinis waiting to be photographed by terrorists. just to mention qaeda taking selfies with these documents, one after the other relentlessly, repulsive and terrifying. is it true? at this point, no one has provided proof that it is true, not that august historians like him wait around for evidence before pronouncing judgment, but for the sake of argument on our show, we are going to see that it is, in fact, true, that donald trump did