president biden may have taken a bribe while serving as vice president. what s the white house s response to the serious corruption allegation? i have to refer you to the justice department on that. i have nothing on that for you. do you know what country that pertains too. i m getting hooked, see you. sandra: stocks are falling on wall street. what exactly is the selloff signalling after the fed issued the latest rate hike, 10th in a row, and growing concerns more and more banks could be on the brink of collapse. john: and then the looming migrant surge at the border which dhs secretary mayorkas is getting a firsthand look at right now. reiterating all is well, even as the pentagon is forced to deploy 1500 troops to the border. sandra: the union is firing back at the white house spin and telling americans not to believe a word they are saying. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. happy friday eve to
todd: caroline schiffley is live on the ground this morning. caroline. post-title 42, here at gate 42, couple miles from where we were yesterday, buses are coming and migrants are being taken to processing center. in the last hour, we shot new video to show you of migrants coming through and being checked and loading up on the buses. numbers from the el paso sector on the border patrol. in april, el paso sector saw 1400 encounters are if the whole month. the last two days, they had 1500 per day. they pushed to get to the border and they wouldn t be allowed in if they waited. mayorkas released a statement saying, starting now, if you arrive here, we will assume you are not eligible for asylum and they have 24000 border patrol and asylum officers and judges. we are ready to meet them. we expected to see large numbers of encounters initially, we are seeing high numbers in certain sectors. the texas national guard is along the border in brownsville. tactical team members
prosecutors will be pouring over videos and interviewing witnesses this weekend trying to decide whether to charge the 24-year-old former marine who held jordan neely in a fatal choke hold on the subway. tonight we have the first statement from that 24-year-old. plus, donald trump has until 5:00 p.m. on sunday to tell a judge whether he wants to take a stand in the e. jean carroll rape and defamation case, but the jury has already heard from him in a newly released video deposition. he claimed carroll was not his type but then mistook her photo for his second wife marla maples. i don t even know who the woman let s see, i don t know who it s marla. you re saying marla s in this photo? that s marla, yeah. it s my wife. which one are you pointing to? here. the person you just pointed to was e. jean carroll. and the great macaroni mystery. who dumped hundreds of pounds of pasta in the woods in a new jersey town? we re going to ask the mayor tonight. okay, but
strained relationship between china and the united states. and on capitol hill, kyrsten sinema is in the spotlight. the arizona senator is staying sigh leapt on whether she will support a major bill for her own party. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we re going to begin with that major victory for abortion rights. voters in kansas have rejected an effort to remove the right to the procedure from the state s constitution. this marks the first time abortion rights was put to a vote since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade back in june. with the november midterms coming up, the kansas vote signals that abortion could be an energizing issue. according to an associated press estimate, turnout for yesterday s primary far exceeded other recent contests with about 900,000 kansas voters casting a ballot. president biden celebrated the win, writing in part, this vote makes clear what