We can protect vulnerable populations, secure our border which is our sovereign responsibility we can protect communities while facilitating legal trade and travel. Harris Casey Stegall has more of the crisis of the border. Hes joining us from dallas, texas. Casey . Harris, head of a testimony on capitol hill, top brass as you know with u. S. Customs and Border Protection along with u. S. Border patrol released the apprehension numbers so far for fiscal year 2019, which began back in october. That data shows the highest numbers since 2007. An increase in the number of family units taken into custody versus the same period of time last year. Unaccompanied minors and families, incidentally, not accounting for 60 of all apprehensions. Border patrol agents say they are arresting about 2,000 people every single day across the entire southwest border. That works out to more than 268,000 arrests agents have already made in the last five months, which is a 97 jump. Officials say this continues
Federal resources to aid in the investigation. Lets check in now with cnns brian todd. You were earlier at the press conference and the city manager was there and the police chief. They are heartebroken. This is so personal because the Public Servants were their colleagues, family and friends. Reporter if you look at this tide water area of virginia its essentially four cities and together the four cities being Virginia Beach, norfolk, chesapeake and williamsburg if put that in there. Each individual town is small enough so Something Like this hits home in that way. They all know nobody. We spoke to the mayor of Virginia Beach a short time ago and he talked about losing his personal friend herbert snelling, nicknamed bert, who was the contractor who just happened to be here getting renewing that license and renewing that permit when he was killed. Take a listen to what the mayor had to say about losing his friend. A personal friend. He was he did a lot of carpentry work in my house. He
Maybe that is why you like it so much. Before the 14 hour flight, the president took another shot at House Speaker nancy pelosi. Look, you think nantz cityyo sheegs not. And he announced the plan to move 1500 troops to the middle east. We want to have protection, the middle east well be sending a relatively small number of troops mostly protective. Irans foreign minister calls that move extremely dangerous. It is saturday, may 25th, the beginning of a holiday weekend. We just learned that trump plans to formally launch his Reelection Campaign on june 16th, fathers day. Evidently he thinks hes americas father which explains why he only loves a third of us. Up with me, professor at the department of social and cultural an d an analysis at ny. And also fellow at new america and regular contributor to the New York Times opinion section. And President Trump as i mentioned is in tokyo. He landed there just a few hours ago after a combative week to say the least in washington, d. C. Where a c
White house and other immigration officials acknowledge, yes, chronic overcrowding but deny reports Young Children are routinely denied showers and other things. And a billionaire indicted for operating a sex trafficking ring allegedly involving dozens of underage girls. Jeffrey epstein faced similar allegations a decade ago but avoided prosecution in a controversial deal with a federal prosecutor who is now in President Trumps cabinet. Alleged behavior shocks the conscience. And while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims, now young women. They deserve their day in court, and we are proud to be standing up for them by bringing this indictment. We begin the hour with that very breaking news. Sordid charges leveled last hour against a politically connected billionaire. Federal prosecutors unceiling an indictment against Jeffrey Epstein alleging the finance tycoon operated a sex trafficking ring largely so he could
Or omissions in the applications. The chief judge of the fisa court writing today, the frequency representations turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case calls into question whether information contained in other fbi applications is reliable. Todays rare response comes after james comey acknowledged wrongdoing in seeking the fisa warrant to survey carter page. Hes right. I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. Its incredibly hard to get a fisa. I was overconfident in those. Reporter its not been real hard to get a fisa warrant. The government made 1,081 requests. The court rejected only one of them. That is an approval rate of 99 . A concern raised that the court has been a rubber stamp for the fbi. Many of us have been looking at this secret fisa court for years. This isnt the first and