loive at the southern borde as the u.s. and mexico hold crisis talks of the surge into the united states. we ll get an update of the meetings still underway, and the growing pressure on joe biden to take action. also this hour, the michigan supreme court rejecting a bid to remove donald trump from the primary ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrectionist ban. we ll break down the decision and how it differs from the colorado high court ruling that did bar trump from that state s ballot. plus, cnn investigating the shadowy world of dogfighting. our crew rode along for a federal crackdown on the blood sport that s thriving across the country. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m kaitlan collins, and you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with those urgent border security talks underway in mexico at this hour. secretary of state antony ball blinking are pressing the mexican president to stem the su
our southern border is poised to become more open for trafficking and for drug business. imagine being on the front lines. our border patrol are truly heros out there risking their lives under near impossible circumstances. take a look at the streets of el paso, texas. 150,000 are waiting on the other side of the border to push across. so texas state troopers have done what they can on their own to prepare. they have laid razor wire across areas that are so porous that people can just come right through as they try to protect their state. they re keeping them from crossing the river at those points while we hear this, again, from dhs secretary mayorkas. watch. let me be clear, the lifting of the order does not mean our border is open. in fact, it is the contrary. martha: really? okay. lieutenant christopher olivarez from the texas department of public safety very much on the front lines of this. he s going to join us in just a moment with an update of what s going on wher
conference. one of the issues the president s team has been dealing with this week the determination by his own energy department and the scientists there that the covid pandemic likely began with a leak in a chinese laboratory. last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official so far that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency s findings because there isn t consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven t yet been consequences. the pres
so we start in the us, where, as you ve been hearing, the world s biggest entertainment company, walt disney, is axing 7000 jobs as part of a cost cutting drive. it comes as the company revealed the first fall in subscribers to its streaming service, disney+, since it was launched more than three years ago. veteran ceo bob iger has returned to run the company again after its shares lost almost half their value last year, as michelle fleury reports from new york. this is ceo bob iger s first set of results since returning to the company in november, attempting to revive the storied brand and cement his legacy, he said disney was embarking on a significant transformation, putting creativity at the heart of everything it does, while announcing the elimination of 7000 jobs as it seeks to trim costs by $5.5 billion. his comments point to the future, but results showed the mouse house performed better across a number of areas in the last months, compared to the dismal showing that
little to anything against churches and pro life centers. they will get in a lot. senator ted cruz asking garland during his last appearance before the committee about promise he made to keep politics out of the d.o.j. it went like this. i asked you quote, will you commit to this committee that under your leadership the department of justice will not target the political opponents of this administration? your answer, quote, absolutely. it is totally inappropriate for the department to target any individual because of their politics or their position in a campaign. that was your promise just a few months ago. i m sorry to say you have broken that promise. dana: that was more than a year ago. the committee will have plenty of ground to cover today. jason chaffetz ahead with reaction. david spunt starting us off on capitol hill. attorney general taking a seat behind me ready to answer those questions. he said multiple times he wants to keep politics out of the d.o.j. he wi