john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse.
has not responded well to large losses of this type. part of what we were seeing this weekend as we hear more publicly from what they choose to release of putin are words for his own people. he is dealing with a lot of pushback. thousands of people in jail now for speaking out against this war. their economy is crumbling reportedly. the ruble is worth almost nothing. russian forces are meeting fierce resistance in ukraine and there are rising concerns that putin could employ the use of atomic weapons. take it up a notch. those haven t been used since world war ii. the biggest question is how rational the russian leadership is right now and senator marco rubio with this. i think the likelyest thing you ll see from putin is trying to use chemical or biological weapons for that matter but doing it in way that makes it look like someone else did it.
succumbing to that temptation, and then suddenly being faced with the opposite perspective or the opposite possibility of being humiliated and unmanned, if you will, by kim jong-un. so, we re not really dealing with an analysis of the situation. we re dealing with a question at a policy level. what is the outcome likelyest to flatter trump s vanity at any particular moment in time. i guess what we re seeing now, heather, is this conflation of self with state. i mean, where is the united states interest in any of these conversations? you don t hear it from any of his surrogates. we hear about donald trump s interests. what was telegraphed by the president, what leaked out almost immediately was this idea he saw this as an opportunity to win a nobel peace prize, that he was telling friends and allies that republicans could run on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and hold the house and the senate on that victory. he made the stakes so abundantly clear to kim jong-un t