professor bright, thank you. congratulations. thank you for having me. appreciate it. great to see you. the fear of too much justice will be released in june. cnn this morning continues right now. we ve seen success. we will achieve success. it will take time and to avoid, to avoid the number of people arriving at our southern border, we need to fix the broken immigration system. and by the way, broken immigration system that was dismantled by the prior administration. it is the top of the hour. a significant friday with a lot of news, particularly on immigration in this country. that was homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas talking to phil on cnn this morning. we are live on both sides of the southern border as title 42 expires overnight. the united states bracing for tens of thousands us of migrants who have been waiting to cross. plus, at any moment in new york city we are expecting marine veteran to turn himself in after a deadly chokehold on
plus, e. jean carroll s attorney says she may sue trump again after comments he made about her at last night s town hall. putin s spokesperson claiming with a straight face that russia is not, quote, waging war. denying that ukrainian towns are being destroyed. is it a sick joke? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re hours away from a major change in u.s. immigration rules. this is what s happening on the ground tonight. hundreds of migrants right now waiting between barbed wire and the border wall. waiting for a chance to cross into the united states. and there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands more behind them. in fact, the united nations today saying as many as 400,000 migrants may attempt that journey to cross that u.s. border. the reason is tonight s deadline. at midnight, title 42 is going to come to an end. we have just a few hours here. title 42 has been used nearly 3 million times to turn migrants away from the united states. and there
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. the news continues. cnn primetime kaitlan collins starts right now. anderson, thank you so much. good evening, thank you for joining. about last night. 70 minutes i spent on stage in new hampshire with one former president donald trump. a major inflection point in the republican party search for its nominee. and potentially the starting line for america s next presidential race. it is important to remember that he is right now, the gop front runner. a race he is running as noted we ll be criminally indicted. found civilly liable. and under investigation for everything from his handling of classified documents, to his business empire. also notable, the republican reaction on capitol hill today. to somebody who could easily once again become their party s nominee. worried that the parting s leading presidential candidate
that allowed the u.s. to expel migrants and two texas counties issued disaster declarations in preparation. today, however, there s no evidencef a rush at least not an immediate one. this video from the u.s.-mexico border is probably the besteds of that. on the left you saw the it was yesterday with migrants camped outside it, on the right the border as it was today. there s a lot of theories where those people went. we ll get to that in a moment. a source tells cnn according to a count by border patrol around 2,300 migrants were in custody this afternoon. that s slightly lower than earlier this week. nevertheless the administration is still preparing for more migrants seeking asylum. i.c.e. is adding 5,000 detention beds. there s also political chaos and the biden administration saying it s trying to sabotage its effort on the border after a federal judge s ruling in florida. reporter: after title 42 ended late thursday night some migrants discovered they didn t make it in
countdown to the lifting of title 42. at 11:59 p.m. eastern, that s 9:59 p.m. here in el paso, the pandemic era border restrictions that allowed the u.s. to expel millions of migrants without allowing them to make asylum claims will go away. i am right here in the central part of el paso, on oregon street, sacred heart church is right beside me. i want to kind of give you perspective using our drone and this extraordinary team we have here on msnbc just where and how close we are to the mexican side. this is the church. this is oregon street. this goes right into downtown el paso and take a look at just maybe a block from where we are. that s the bridge, the international bridge that connects el paso to juarez where for generations thousands and thousands of people have used that bridge to cross through el paso and juarez. it s almost like one city divided by the border. people come and go to school on one side. they do their shopping on the other. they live in the other. it