facing new legal and political fallout following his cnn town hall. we ll take a look at the comments that may have stuck out to prosecutors as some republicans also voice concern over a few things he said. and a debt ceiling meeting between president biden and top congressional leaders gets postponed. what that could mean for the looming debt ceiling crisis. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with a new overnight, the pandemic era immigration policy known as title 42 has officially expired. already we re seeing a massive influx of migrants at the southern border. homeland security officials say illegal border crossings topped 10,000 per day this week, the highest levels ever. the biden administration is urging those seeking entry into the united states to use lawful pathways. we are clear-eyed about the challenges we are likely to face in days and weeks ahead, and we
be a number more than 2,500 is putting a strain on the department, and that s not counting people who committed crimes outside or people involved in the fake elector scheme or people who were and former president trump. and the pace of information is not slowing down. it s growing. last night a spokesman for the 1/6 committee said they decided to begin sharing transcript interviews with the justice department. 20 at first but there may be more to come. that s because we re seeing more members of former president trump s cabinet meeting with the committee, including steve mnuchin and mick mulvaney. mick mulvaney talked about the questions the committee wanted answered. why did i communicate, why did i say what i said? i sent some tweets and texts on january 6th. they want to talk about that. i was fairly heavily involved in the trump campaign. they want to know about the discussions i had leading up to the election day and the discussions right after the election day and the
it was a victory that sends a loud, clear message, a message that candidates should run for something and not against someone. democratic governor andy beshear of kentucky wins re-election in an otherwise deep red state. we ll have much more from that race and the other major results from election day straight ahead. also we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says its troops are in the heart of gaza city. it comes as the biden administration is warning the country about reoccupying the gaza strip at the end of its war with hamas. plus, we ll preview ivanka trump s testimony today in the civil fraud trial against her family s business. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, november 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we will begin, of course, with last night s election. after a historically strong showing in the 2022 mid-term elections, democrats continued their winning ways yesterday with major vic
pointing to the latest figures which suggest they are not waiting, they are crossing in record numbers. this morning those reports were put to home secretary james cleverley, during an immigration debate on lbc. so are voters really meant to believe that people living in camps and on sand dunes are looking at the polling of the next general election in the united kingdom? they absolutely do. the people, those people are doing that. mr cleverly. well, unless you re going to accuse the journalists that went over there and spoke to them of lying, which i think would be a bold call. we know that this is a digital, digitally enabled criminal enterprise. the people smugglers and the people that seek to be smuggled pay very, very close attention to a whole range of things. and it is clear from these quotes that there are there s a cohort of people currently in france who are waiting for rwanda to be taken off the table before coming over here. and these quotes in the telegraph make
win, but as you mention we re in mid-may. last week is the last week the senate is supposed to be in session until the end of may. we ll see if they actually take that recess, but now this meeting has been postponed there are several schools of thought. you and i, jonathan, have covered many of these negotiations. we often tend to see staff tend to make real earnest progress than the principles do, which is largely messaging when they re so far apart and this is political. so staff negotiations will continue today. we expect the four leaders to meet some time early next week. you heard mccarthy say this isn t any one leader s fault, this is collective postponement. one individual had to attend a funeral as we re told today. but the bottom line americans are sitting here wondering what s going to happen, because this is still a game of chicken and they re caught in the middle of it and the clock it ticking. the president returns on monday. we ll see when that meeting gets