good morning at home. policy allowing for quick migrant expulsion expires tonight. border patrol dealing with a number of daily apprehensions. biden administration warning the crisis could be getting worse admitting that tough times are straight ahead. we are are clear eyed about the challenges we re likely to face in the days and weeks ahead which have the potential to be very difficult. bill: with us now texas governor greg abbott and border czar mike banks. good morning to you and mr. banks, thank you for your time. i know you have been out and about. what have you seen out there and what do you think the american people need to understand from your experience, sir? so there are two things that people need to understand. one i think it was brandon judd that you were having giving you some comments earlier. so brandon judd was spot on in this regard. that is we need the policies that were put in place by the trump administration. remember this, three years ago we had
and in the negotiations of how to get to an answer there, some people up there, leadership-wise are saying maybe wasn t helpful. bill: let s talk about what happened yesterday with james comer 24 hours ago right here on this program. wall street journal writes about the biden family business and they talk about the bidens have a right to make a living but one important question is what hunter did to earn these payments. fair question, i think, right? the media coverage, however, was can we say missing? major networks, right, had a combined 0 minutes of coverage for the new findings on the biden family last night. check out the new york times earlier today. the headline is house republicans do not connect joe biden to the rest of these 20llcs. so listen, we do it all the time. we look through the prism of what happens if this was on the other foot. if this investigation and these nuggets of information and
since 2014, through not only the u.s., but the nato training mission that was there in ukraine. they worked at the individual all the way up to the large unit level. we found that we had excellent leadership in the modern era here. and they were very well prepared for this. they knew that this was coming. they prepared for it quite well. planning-wise, equipment-wise, leadership-wise. steve, a u.s. official today confirming russia is using unclassified communications. why would they not have stronger classified channels available, and how big of an issue is that? well, it s a huge issue, don. obviously they do have better stuff available. but we saw this in 2008 in the georgian war as well, the best laid plans. the russians train and prepare
relieved of that command because he was too outspoken on the threat isis posed and the blindness that he saw from the obama white house. the other view is that leadership-wise, he was not quite as open and a little more strident than perhaps he could have gone or should have been. there is a great deal of concern about how he behaved after he took off the uniform. at the pent gon, thanks for that. turning back to donald trump s choice for attorney general. senators on both sides gearing up to review jeff sessions who trump picked to lead the justice department. here is an interesting part of the sessions story. he was rejected by the senate before. 30 years ago back in 1986, sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship by ronald reagan. what held up the appointment or killed his appointment then were accusations of racism.
we will go over the cliff. with the collapse of the republican plan last thursday and the fact that the president is putting forward the same proposal he has been proposing for weeks if not months there is no consensus and everyone has left town and we only have nine days and four of those days everyone is on vacation. gregg: boehner could not get the support of his own party on his plan b solution. how were of a fiasco was that? i would say up there with the fiascoes politically of our time. it has been a steady series of these. there is a larger fiasco going on and it has to do with the president, the house, everyone, the leadership, the inability in this society to get anything together, leadership-wise, to get a solution to real problems. it is all politics. boehner has blown this up. i want to ask this question,