first bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas. 11:00 p.m. on a friday night the press office at department of homeland security released numbers, 11 p.m. on a friday night. an unusual time to be releasing a statement. dana, good morning that s exactly right. as blatant of a friday night news drop as you will ever see. keep in mind these september numbers are the last numbers the public would get a chance to see when it comes to the border before the mid-terms. those numbers are historic. let s take a look at them right now. september 2022, fiscal year 2022 they report more than 227,000 migrant encounters, that s the highest september in dhs history. the numbers also show fiscal year 2022 ended with nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters. that s the highest fiscal year ever recorded. perhaps most concerning if we can pull up this graphic. fiscal year 2022 ended with 98 border patrol arrests of people on the f.b.i. terror watch list. under president trump the high
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you you, bret. we are witnessing a late shift in democratic messaging as it were from all in on abortion to counter punching the g.o.p. on the economy. but there s some gray area with the president s claims. president biden wants to undo the thinking that his policies will hurt democrats in the midterms. everybody wants to make it a referendum but it s a choice between two vastly different visions for america. some on the left admit signs of trouble ahead. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democratic. [gavel] others like the house speaker at risk of losing her gavel trying to manifest results by staying optimistic. the fact is that we fully intend to win. was i not clear? we are going to win this election. vote, vote, vote, vote. biden tried to steer the ship at pe
answers, don t you know it, and everything from the crisis at the southern border, to the economy, to those biden family influence-peddling accusations. the white house last week saying not so fast to the oversight requests submitted before the change of power. but it won t be able to hold them off much longer. just until the new majority can decide on speaker. the g.o.p. is primed to hold the biden administration accountable. you already have the white house coming out, playing political games, saying they are going to slow-walk everything. but what we have seen is really just a continuation of what they have done for the last two years. they are going to do everything they possibly can to stop any request from every committee that is an oversight committee, and they are going to do everything they can to turn the spin machine on to misdirect and show the american people that, oh, look over here, there is something going on, when the reality is they are nefarious things
house, but let s start with alexandria hoff who s tracking the races in three key swing states. reporter: hi, mike. let s start in pennsylvania, dre once-sizable lead that john fetterman once held. on tuesday the two are going to hold their first and only debate putting fetterman s health in focus. he spoke earlier today. you know, we had a stroke back in may. and it really [inaudible conversations] and despite all that, i survived to be back. reporter: fetterman will be relying on closed captions during the debate. oz has questioned whether fetterman is well enough to perform job and will likely have to appear not insensitive on stage. another toss-up, georgia s senate race where senator raphael warnock is facing off against republican candidate herschel walker. this week former president obama will rally support for warnock and for stacey abrams. the former president will also head to detroit to campaign for governor gretchen whitmer who leads tudor dixon although b