my mom would be so proud. my posture has never been better. thank you for having me. dr. siegel, i love you. marc: great to be on the couch with you. harris: it is 15 days until the midterm elections, two weeks from tomorrow. there s a lot at stake, particularly for democrats and president biden. right now democrats have very slim majorities in congress. crisis after crisis is making the effort to cling to power all the more difficult. we are getting some stunning new numbers putting the surge of illegal immigrants coming to our country into perspective. are we showing that? on one side is the infrared that you can see from the chopper when you fly with the dps of texas. that s what you see. the last report from customs and border protection ahead of the midterms was released on friday night. very quietly. we collect the classic bad news dump on a friday. after another record breaker in september, fiscal year 2022 made history with the highest number of encounters. nearly
its own laws, it is smugglers, and human traffickers and drugs and weapons and terrorism also people here unlawfully committing seriously, deadly crimes, sovereign nations need secure borders. strong countries enforce their law ands federal government needs to do its job or someone else will. governor abbott and ron desantis are h highlighting these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully? joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf i thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. the border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 got aways this fiscal year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could poin
these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully? joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf i thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. the border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 got aways this fiscal year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could point to a couple other numbers, numbers of known and suspected terrorists they are apprehending at that border is going up each and every month. 12 alone in the month of august alone. the numbers continue to get worse with diej biden administration, they are not doing one fundamental thing that is enforcing the law and bringing deterrents who the
life and legacy of the home run king. terrance moore, thank you very much for being on today. that wraps us up for this hour. jose diaz balart picks up msnbc s live coverage right now. and good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz balart. we have breaking news. we got word president biden will be delivering a speech tonight in washington d.c. nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins me with that. what do we know about this? jose, according to sources familiar with the president s plans tonight, he is going to deliver those remarks at 7:00 p.m. eastern at union station here in the nation s capitol and the focus is going to be democracy. we have heard him say this. he was at a campaign event in florida yesterday where he said democracy is on the ballot. now, in a release from the dnc, they previewed this by saying the president will address the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democ