supreme. bill: well done. dana: critical crisis along our country s unsecured southern border is getting worse month after month after month. today homeland security secretary mayorkas mayorkas will make an appearance in eagle pass, texas, he will look at the record number of migrants flooding into the united states. welcome. i have to go with michigan. bill: i ll go washington. we ll decide tomorrow. dana: are you over or under? i will go with the under obviously? i ll go with the over. $1 bet. secretary mayorkas visiting the border today days before the house homeland security committee holds its first impeachment hearing against him. the border crisis becoming a central campaign issue. watch it throughout the year as democrats wake up to the political consequences at the southern border is having on their chances. and on president biden s campaign. this graph telling the story with the migrant surge repeatedly setting monthly records. more than 300,000 encounters i
at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
tonight about immigrants at the border. the governor of texas is now launching a new tackle force there point fingers and do little else. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the president s slumping approval data and the latest on the expiration of title 42 we begin with correspondent bill melugin along the border in brownsville, texas. good night good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. texas governor greg abbott made a major announcement today saying is he going to be deploying several hundred elite texas soldiers down here to the southern border equipped with riot gear in an effort to block any mass migrant crossings into his state. is as we are now just three days away from the end of title # 2 and, already, we are seeing record high illegal crossings. president biden s open border policies is going to cause a catastrophic disaster. bill: today, texas governor greg abbott announced the formation of a new elite border response force made up of hundr
Federal gun charges. And in just an hour, the judge has already ruled on four motions. Our crew at the courthouse will tell us about the ground rules hes laying for this trial. Plus, donald trump trying to win over black and hispanic voters as he rallies in the deep blue south bronx. His many controversial messages and the response from one of the most diverse crowds at any of his rallies. And take a look at this, a massive tornado caught on Camera Carving A Path Of Destruction through parts of oklahoma. This Terrifying Scene just one of hundreds that have already touched down this year, and now even more danger could be on the horizon. Whats causing tornados to be more threatening and what can be done about it. Lots to get to on this Holiday Weekend, but we begin with the next Big Courtroom Legal Drama thats hanging over the 2024 election. This time with hunter biden at its center. Right now the president s son is in court for a Pretrial Hearing on felony gun charges. That trial set t
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Getting more brits off the benefit and into boot camps the uk governments latest plan to filljob roles previously held by foreign workers. The chaos at the Us Mexico Border is one of the big three issues, is one of the big three issues that will be driving voters to the polls this november. And this week, Senate Democrats are trying to flip the script on who is responsible. They will force a vote on thursday on the bipartisan Border Security package that republicans blocked earlier this year. The bill, negotiated by republican and democratic senators, includes the conservative James Lankford of oklahoma who is hardly a shrinking violet. He designed to reduce the border crossings, raise the bar for migrants to qualify for asylum and to quickly turn away those who fail to meet it. It also empowers the president to shut down the border if certain triggers are met. Biden has endorsed the bill. He knows it is a major vulner