they refer to all borders but the vast majority are in the southwest. in any case, that is down 1.3 million from the last major peak which was in 2000. in fact, the numbers have not been this low since 1970. and yes, there are migrants waiting in mexico hoping to day ply for asylum and they are in camps but that s at least in part because the u.s. has made getting asylum much more difficult even if you re fleeing threats on your life or abuse. the number of people able to apply for asylum each day at a legal point of entry, that s been slowed intentionally to a trickle. one intelligence official has had enough of what he or she says as all the misrepresentation telling cnn, no one is saying this is a crisis except them. they re playing the public for suckers. it s exactly what used car dealers do. there s also the president s claim that some former presidents told him privately they support a wall. none have. all the former presidents who are alive have denied doing so. but before we
at the top of the program i read a quote about the border from a current intelligence official who said, i m quoting again here, no one is saying this is a kri crisis except them meaning the administration, they went on to say they re playing the public for suckers. beyond the question of whether it s a con job, is tonight s oval office address a distraction from things like the russia investigation? tonight, there s a major new development from team mueller, a somewhat accidental revelation linking paul manafort during the campaign to a suspected russian intelligence operative. cnn s sara murray joins us now with details. so what exactly went on here? well, first of all, we re learning this information from paul manafort s legal team on accident. they filed this document, they redacted a bunch of sections, but they formatted it incorrectly so a lot of juicy details were public. they forgot to redact some parts. if you copy and pasted the information, you could popcop. pypy a
senator angus king joins us. thanks for being with us. do k you believe there s a national security crisis on the border? no, i think there s a problem, not a crisis. really interesting report. september of 2017 by dhs. president trump. analyzing exactly what the situation is on the border. all the indexes are down. right. recidivisms, arrests, people coming across, all of those the graphs just go like this, and to say that it s a crisis would imply that something special is happening that hadn t happened before. in reality, it s a lot better than it was. all the trending is in the right direction. yeah. but i started by saying there is a problem. and by the way, i ve got to say at the outset, nobody in congress is for open borders. i ve never heard anybody say that. i ve never heard anybody advocate it. everybody on both sides of the aisle is for border security. this question is really all about is the wall, a wall, which we don t even know what it is, we ll talk about th
now, it s not our job to advocate for or against a given policy, it s our job to call out the dishonest pursuit of it. so as we wait for the president to speak about what he calls the crisis on the border, we re starting with the crisis of credibility he s created for himself. if what his vice president said today is any indication, the dishonesty will continue. so consider this a kind of prebuttal or at least a viewer s guide for what may be coming tonight because the white house has continued to fudge the facts as late as today. with regard to terrorists, we ve seen more than 4,000 known or suspected terrorists attempt to come into our country through various means but on the southern border let me stop you on that number. it s a misleading claim that s been fact checked as i believe you re a ware. look. the number is for all ports of entry including airports. that s what i was saying. it is from all ports of entry but on the southern border, last year, alone, 3,000 speci
officials say they encountered roughly a dozen people on the terror watch list. of that number, around half were apprehended crossing the border illegally between ports of entry. it s according to administration official familiar with data from customs and border protection. so six or seven people caught who are on the terror watch list, and even one might even one might even be an actual terrorist, but we don t know that because the administration wouldn t say if. if it were an actual terrorist, it would be one too many, obviously, but would be a far, far cry from 3,000 or 4,000. the president and people who speak for him also like to claim that most americans support the wall, the fact is, they don t. cnn polling shows a majority, 57%, are opposed to it and even if you don t believe the polling or the statistics, the u.s. government actually keeps, there s the larger point that the president is ex. e expected to make tonight this is a crisis because of the sheer numbers coming over