looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof vests and
migrants pour. in border patrol slamming vice president kamala harris for her handling of the crisis and tweeting you should be fired and replaced. it s pretty extraordinary. climate hypocrite john kerry in davos. expecting a thousand private jets. saving the planet that s so extraterrestrial bring me a higher love it s the higher love thinking of steve: good morning, louisville, kentucky. looking live there courtesy of wdrv our affiliate there right now you have got 38 degrees. partly cloudy. the high later on today is going to been 60 degrees. and right now it s as chilly as it is going to get all day long in louisville, kentucky. as you look live here on the big screen here in the big studio on this wednesday, january 18th. come on, in folks. ainsley: hello, everyone. good morning. great news today. it s the middle of the week. so happy to be waking up with you this morning. get ready, brian, the wheels are coming off today. brian: wheels coming off alrea
in a 5-4 vote the supreme court blocked the biden administration from repealing the trump-era policy letting border agents turn away migrants over health concerns. the high court will hear oral arguments in february. rich: president biden has no plan to secure the border. images of large groups of migrants crossing into the country illegally every single day. leaders there are getting frustrated with the lack of action from washington. we re asking the biden administration to come down here, visit our border, talk to our border patrol agents, and to the cities around here. we re talking 10, 12,000 people crossing our borders at one time. they have not put any policy nor any plan in place. rich: big numbers. three days border patrol encountered nearly 15,000 migrants, plus 500 pounds of marijuana, one gang member, one murder suspect and the list goes on. julie: we re covering the crisis from every angle. council president brandon judd joins us in a moment but first mat
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a