judge jeanine pirro, kevin walling, dana perino, and pensive greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. donald trump making a triumphant return to washington to unite the republican party. and it was, as the former president would say, a total love fest. trump getting a rock star reception from congressional republicans. at one point house g.o.p. members started singing happy birthday to him. why don t we all? happy [laughs] and senate republicans gave him a cake. trump turned 78 tomorrow, the former president come on a mission to get everybody on board to win big this november and save america from the biden catastrophe. sources telling fox news went went down in the closed door dop meeting, trump ripping the biden doj as dirty, no good bastards over his lawfare campaign against them and also called joe biden. later on, trump touting the republican unity. we have great unity. we have great common sense. a lot of very smart people in this room
house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can t say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren t doing that. when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all along the
governor greg abbott say the situation that now needs disaster relief apparently, is president biden s fault but democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi blame former president trump while joining biden in refusing to label it a crisis. the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration inherited is a broken system at the border and they re working to correct that in the children s interest. it is entirely you cannot notice the administration changes and there is a surge. the 11-year high for crossings without documentation at the border was in the middle of trump s presidency. is idea it is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is belied by the actual facts. harris: more now. kevin mccarthy is leading a delegation of one dozen republicans to the southern border today. casey stiegel is live along th
meanwhile, the biden administration is still denying there is a border crisis preferring to call it a, quote, challenge. with officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including a new influx of young children. we have live team coverage for you on all of this. david spunt is in wilmington the, delaware, covering the administration s response, but first we start with griff jenkins who s down on the border in mission, texas. griff? reporter: hey, eric, good afternoon. we are here in the rio grande valley sector, mission, texas, part of that. and let me just show you the proximity to which we are to the border. you can see as we come around the wall, a hole in the wall, the levee in the distance about a mile two two miles is the rio grande river. that is ground zero where we see migrant after migrant, as well as some single adults. they are just coming in an overwhelming number that the border patrol agents here can t deal with. and it s not just the of
this morning millions of americans are waking up waiting and wondering where is the help they need? where is that covid relief bill? the short answer, still making its way to the house with the senate expected to send it over as soon as today. when we expect the final vote and when you can expect a check to hit your bank account. i don t know how i would have survived without the extra amount. it s a godsend. president biden promising to sign it as soon as he gets it and getting ready to make his first prime time address as president. marking one full year since the country shut down. and we are live in minneapolis inside this courtroom, day two of the murder trial of former police officer derek chauvin, with jury selection set to start for real this time any minute. the drama over whether to add to third degree murder charge and the controversial defense that led george floyd s sister to walk out. that is where we start live in minneapolis where jury selection is set t