act. we have two congressmen back from that journey. ro khanna and texas robert mueller tony gonzalez. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. obviously this was a bipartisan effort and to you, congressman gonzalez first. why make the trip knowing that the reaction would be just as you discovered from china that it was provocative? almost as bad as when nancy pelosi went, they said. yeah, here in the house, we don t pay attention to what the communist china propaganda puts out. it s important that the house lead. 2 often we point to the white hughes for not doing x, y or z. the house representatives is an equal branch of government, this is an area that is a bipartisan effort too go all across the globe and stand with our allies. when i was in the navy, we used to fly on a p-3 surveillance flight against china and china would come out and they would harass our airplanes. the exact same thing is
latest numbers. agents encountered more than 207,000 migrants. total number of encounters so far this fiscal year topping last year s total with 3 months still to go. matt finn in the border in eagle pass, texas. it s 11:15 and our crew has seen two groups of migrants cross into the united states, men, women and children. we all know the drill by now. some of them may be deported under title 42, others may be given notice to appear. some may appear and some we may never see again and also custom and border patrol also announcing to seizure of nearly $700,000 of cocaine in a single bust this week in laredo, texas. agents say a drug-sniffing dog discovered the cocaine that was hidden in a tractor trailer with shipment of air-conditioning parts from mexico. and the u.s. government just released numbers saying cocaine busts were up 25% in june compared to may. also texas governor greg abbott
is continuing to send some of the migrants on a 36-hour bus ride to the nation s capitol, washington, d.c. to send a message to the biden administration that it is responsible for the border crisis. there are some nonprofits helping facilitate the migrants. and what we try to do take folks to a place where they can have respite and food because a lot of people just turn up here with their clothes on their back, one thing of food that they are given for 36-hour bus drive and not culturally appropriate food and some of them turn up without shoes. also u.s. customs and border patrol has opened massive new facility here in eagle pass, texas primarily to quickly process migrants and u.s. border patrol custody. the facility has capacity of 1,000 people. it has washers and dryers, showers, larged air-conditioned spaces and the new facility replaces a smaller one that
opened here last year, arthel. arthel: matt finn, thank you in eagle pass, texas. eric. eric: house committee in texas is expected to release preliminary report later today about the police response to last month s horrible school massacre in uvalde. the video we are about to show you was obtained by the austin american statesman in kuvtv and edited for shorter clip but the video shows police and some of them talking on their cell phones, standing in the hallways in the trying to stop the shooter. officials say the report will present a clear timeline of what happened when the officers finally entered the school and why they waited inside the hall, you can see for nearly an hour despite many 911 calls from students who were trapped with the gunman in their classroom, reports of them crying and screaming from their wounds. 19 students, two teachers were
energy independence is working. but americans are not celebrating. they are struggling. alex: well, so is the electrical grid in texas. just a day after pete buttigieg s comments, received on-screen alert asking them to avoid charging vehicles during peak hours due to plaguing heat wave. state s power grid operators to reduce consumption and raised the question on twitter, imagine texas grid problems if they went 100% electric vehicles. .while that is not a huge share it is a steep rise from last year and it is a new record high. eric. eric: alexandria, you have to plug the car in, doesn t that mean that you use more electricity, doesn t that mean that they have to make more