more charges, including possibly hate crimes. we are watching that we are also watching on the hill senators getting their chance to question dr. fauci and other top health officials who are warning of another potential spike in covid cases. it really is going to be a race between the vaccine and the potential new reporting from the white house, president bind could meet his goal of 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days as soon as today. plus, we are live on the border with details about a dispute with mexico, when it comes to dealing with the surge there, we will hear from house speaker nancy pelosi as well as latino lawmakers in about 30 minutes or so ahead of some key votes today on immigration reform. we will have an exclusive interview right here, my virtual sitdown with top women on the white house, with news on the relief law, how to make sure moms aren t left behind and what to do about the senate filibuster. kate, be clear, how far is the president willin
governor, thank you and the state legislature for your leadership. you have made it very clear to us to the national guard that texas doesn t need anybody s permission to protect texas. as a result, you insisted we be pro-active in terms of assisting our border patrol agents, in terms of securing this area which is certainly a public safety threat, but also a homeland security threat. there s nothing more threatening to public safety in texas and homeland security we ve experienced influxes before in texas. certainly 2014, 2015. going back to 1986 was the highest number of illegal immigrants back in 1986. that was 746,000. today we reached an all time high in texas. that s 1.1 million apprehended. not including what you see here.
put some soft sided facility. they ignored everything. this chaos all falls on this administration s lack of willingness to see that there was a problem and trying to fix the situation. sandra: we talk to landowners there, property owners. they are allowing the state to put up fencing to try to protect their land. ranchers who are having a hard time with the surge of migrants coming over the border. this isn t just an issue for border. this is a problem moving deeper into texas and many other states that are being immediately affected by this surge. definitely. i ll tell you what. they re moving agents from one area to another. so now they re creating more gaps which is giving more free reign for the cartels to bring their products across, for the sex traffickers to bring people across. they re moving agents from arizona to texas. i m even getting reports that where they re going to be housing the men and women protecting our nation s borders,
as well as the director of the texas department of public safety steve mcgraw, who will also be making comments, as well as the general in charge of the texas national guard is here. importantly, we have members of the texas house of representatives with us including the speaker of the house. the reason why members of the house, as well as the senate, as well as the entire legislature are so important is a core component of the strategy for texas to be able to respond to this disaster on the border is funding that was appropriated by the texas legislature that i signed into law last week. altogether, the state has provided $3 billion for the state to be able to address this challenge. let me start by making a point about the challenge that we re dealing with. we need to understand that if you go back a year ago,
conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the president s own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. we ll go to the border in just a moment. john: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let s listen. borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie.