expires. our border is not open. but with washington deadlocked on how to fix it, what s the long-term solution? i ll speak with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and house gop homeland security chairman mark green, next. and deal or no deal, as the u.s. barrels closer to a debt ceiling deadline, president biden says the two sides are making progress. can they strike a deal in time? deputy treasury secretary wally joins me ahead. plus, primary problems. the president frames his re-election pitch around donald trump. sinister forces may believe they ll determine america s future. weil ron desantis makes his case for change. if we focus the election on the past, the democrats are going to beat us again. will voters agree? hello, i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wishing all of the moms out there a very happy mother s day. president biden is making his general election pitch to voters, painting 2024 as another battle fo
tell joe biden to keep working for more jobs and less pollution. welcome to the next level. this is the lexus nx with intuitive tech safety radar detector: watch for traffic. and our most advanced safety system ever. there are challenges at the border, something the president has taken seriously since day one. the president would like to do more. he s using the tools in front of him. congress refuses to act. many want to make a political case out of this. john: the white house reacting moments ago to the crisis at the border and fears that it is about to get a lot worse when title 42 ends less than two days now. the pentagon set to address reporters minutes from now, this may come up. sandra: and we will be monitoring to see if the pentagon weighs in on the migrant emergency now that troops have been deployed to assist in the expected surge of migrants once title 42 is lifted. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. it s a busy one so far, sandr
the final hours of title 42 and the border crisis could get even worse. desperate migrants lining streets. thousands have already crossed the border. tens of thousands ready to try to follow them. end of an era as the covid public health emergency wraps today, more than three years after life drastically changed for all of us. what does it mean for you, your family and your job? we ll dig into the new reality for post-pandemic america. plus, a long-awaited extradition. joran van der sloot, one of the last people to see natalee holloway alive will soon be on u.s. soil as her family is still hoping for answers nearly 18 years after she disappeared. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. any minute now we will hear from america s top homeland security official on the critical change that will take effect in less than 11 hours. the lapse of title 42. that policy that allowed the u.s. to expel migrants based
the numbers are up. 70 to 80% of agents are not on patrol. making food, transporting them to different places, 70 to 80% off the line and that s when the trafficking of children happen and known expected terrorists come across the border. when these numbers go up at the end of title 42. that just means they will put more agents off the line because this administration is all about processing quicker, release quicker because of overcrowding. when you get 90% off the lines, more fentanyl will kill americans, more americans die, more migrants die, more gang members get in. it s not just immigration issue anymore, it s a national security issue that s about to get a whole lot more. rich: we are going to bring griff jenkins. griff: of course a breaking situation just to set the stage about 8:30 a.m. local here in brownsville we are 4, 5 miles from the border but what happened a vehicle drove up on the sidewalk. struck a group of individuals standing next to a bus stop and result
lies. donald trump lays out a platform for his re-election run, but can he get voters to focus on 2024 if he s still clinging to his lies about 2020? and the u.s. military going to war with a republican senator whose actions they say is putting u.s. national security at risk. we ll explain that coming up. but we start a little more than ten hours away from the 11:59 p.m. deadline, that s when title 42 expires and with it the ability for dhs to swiftly expel migrants at the border under that covid era health policy. we are keeping a close eye on the white house because any minute now secretary mayorkas will take that podium and outline the administration plans for the road ahead. already, though, hundreds of active duty u.s. troops are monitoring the situation at the border with more expected to come later this month. this policy shift exposing the broken immigration system and the deepened political divisions that continue to block reform on capitol hill. this influx of m