Plan . Who has the will and who is winning . The criminal cartels. Bill in a moment well go to a House Border Hearing tackling the mess. Bill melugin is in texas with a brandnew hour. Good morning. Weve seen migrants tried to rush bridges like this several times before. This latest incident happened just after midnight yesterday in brownsville. Well get right to the images. This was the scene early yesterday morning at the Gateway International bridge in brownsville. A mass of several hundred migrants showed up hoping to get into the United States after rumors were spreading that the border would be opened up. Cbp responded and deployed razor wire and personnel in the middle of the bridge to block it. Were told nobody ended up getting through. Texas dps points out that when the federal government deploys razor wire to repel crossings there is no outrage. When texas does it there is accusations of cruelty and ba barberism. This video this morning out of the Rio Grande Valley. La jolla a
taking direct aim at president biden s open border policies. in a new video desantis is promising to secure the border, stop the cartels, build the wall, and stop the invasion. right now governor desantis is getting ready to meet with potential voters in eagle pass, texas as you look live there. we will he will deliver remarks and take questions there, we re told. here is some of what he had to say yesterday about president biden s immigration policies. the parolee is doing is unconstitutional. we sued him on things like catch and release. he is abusing the law to change the law to allow people to have an open border. we ll deputize state and local officials to also enforce immigration laws. dana: bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. what did you find out? good morning to you. this is governor desantis first trip to the texas border as a presidential candidate. as you can see behind me in a matter of moments he will be meeting with potential voters here in eagle
to the effect of, you know, if i can show you this if you undermine these arguments. but making clear that he doesn t believe he can show it to them. and i think that is a key part of the story. it s very much is. the other part is that this really gives us one of the first indications of what else might be here. it is not just letters from kim jong-un, what do we know based on your reporting about the military significance of the documents that we are talking about. right, that has kind of been the dispute over was a classified, was not classified. this is a plan that we are told was essentially about potentially striking a run. obviously the u.s. is a lot of plans for the pentagon, backup pans, in case of emergency. and that is what we are told this was. that he was referencing. trying to say, essentially, but it was something that general milley had prepared for him. obviously milley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we are told actually that this was not a
lies. donald trump lays out a platform for his re-election run, but can he get voters to focus on 2024 if he s still clinging to his lies about 2020? and the u.s. military going to war with a republican senator whose actions they say is putting u.s. national security at risk. we ll explain that coming up. but we start a little more than ten hours away from the 11:59 p.m. deadline, that s when title 42 expires and with it the ability for dhs to swiftly expel migrants at the border under that covid era health policy. we are keeping a close eye on the white house because any minute now secretary mayorkas will take that podium and outline the administration plans for the road ahead. already, though, hundreds of active duty u.s. troops are monitoring the situation at the border with more expected to come later this month. this policy shift exposing the broken immigration system and the deepened political divisions that continue to block reform on capitol hill. this influx of m
america this weekend. kasie hunt picks up our coverage right now. good afternoon. i m kasie hunt here in washington. we re going to begin with the scramble for answers after a u.s. fighter jet were scrambled three days in a row this weekend, shooting down three separate aerial objects that were flying over north america. in just moments, the white house is going to take questions on this deepening national security mystery, as president biden faces increasing pressure to address the nation to explain what exactly is going on and who is behind these incursions. we re going to bring you that white house briefing as soon as it gets under way. but we want to get started right now with cnn s kylie atwood and phil mattingly, who are tracking all of this. kylie, let me start with you at the state department. so much of this is going to depend on what the government recovers from what is shot down. what is the status of this? if they haven t determined the origins of these objects,