there are eight rose bowls full of illegal immigrants that came across the border just since october 1st, mr. secretary. bret, the numbers are historic. the numbers are extraordinarily large. this is something that is not specific to the united states southern border. bret: but you think it is a crisis now? bret, it is a challenge that we have been addressing vigorously with all the tools and resources we have been provided. bill: a challenge, not a crisis. his hands are tied, don t blame us. those were the answers from secretary mayorkas saying there is nothing more he can do on the border. illegal migrants totally unchecked one after the other. good morning, it s friday. you ve almost made it. 9:00 a.m. in new york. i m bill hemmer. dana: can i say one thing about that interview? peter and i watched it last night. peter is from europe. when mayorkas mayorkas said this is not a problem not unique to america. he is talking about the scope and scale. it is so differe
special edition of the i can gramg gram angle from new york city tonight the second batch of documents tied to jeffrey epstein has just dropped and we are going through it page by page. we will bring you all the details as soon as we can but, first, tomorrow is the big day. biden s first campaign speech of the year. he is heading to valley forge, pennsylvania to do what the associated press describes as deviling into some of the country s darkest moments jacqui, what can we expect from joe biden tomorrow? good evening, judge. president biden s under water approval ratings and voter anxiety about his age have reportedly pushed the campaign to have the 81-year-old president stop competing with himself, where he is losing, and start competing with trump. or as one aide told cnn, quote: it s about when to go full hitler when the leading republican candidate s speeches and actions go so far that the biden team goes all the way to a direct comparison to the nazi leader rather tha
this 70-year-old man was kidnapped in august. in december al qaeda claimed responsibility and laid out a series of demands. now we re seeing in this video today that he s asking, as you said, president obama to make good on those demands. so has there been any official reaction from the united states at this point? well, not yet. i mean, some of those demands, as we ve been talking about, he s asking for the u.s. to release all prisoners from the taliban and al qaeda. also asking for all drone strikes to stop in afghanistan, pakistan, somalia, and yemen. and going as far as to ease the border between gaza and egypt. so it s not just about al qaeda and taliban, but improving the life of all muslims. but the u.s. says we don t negotiate with terrorists. we are aware of the video. very concerned about his well being and safety. fbi working with the pakistanis but no negotiations with terrorism. if you think back to when the journalist from the wall street journal was kidna
proves me wrong. it s unpredictable. you don t want to come out in there. there s the big gust. you don t want to come out in this. we saw people walking around and driving around. it s not a good idea. stay home. stay inside. don t come outside. when you do, when the sun does come up, be careful driving around. there are so many trees down in this area. you never know when there will be a live power line involved with a tree being toppled. indeed. driving around may be severely compromised. there have got to be places where there are trees down. suzanne kennedy, thank you so much for that. you re welcome. indeed, one other place we know about where there s a tree down, this one had much more violent intent, did the two that suns was telling us about, the 3700 block of ingamore street in washington, d.c. a tree went into a house and knocked out power. it s 4:00 now, 4:01. we want to do resetting for you. maybe the most potentially serious situation, frankly it s not all
isn t this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. don t you wish one day we d say there s nothing going on, go home. change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns it s a campaign stop. it s a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. he ll meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. he s been making his pitch for job growth and sounding a familiar theme that republicans are playing politics with the economy. the problem we have is not with our country. the problem is, that our politics is broken. [ applause ] the problem is, is that we ve got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country. that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. well, the president was glad handing after a town hall meeting in iowa, he was c