illegal immigrants, drug cartels, sex trafficking, all the horrible things coming across our border and now abbott must fight even more fiercely against democrats. get this, lawmakers on the left want president biden to take over the texas national guard. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. governor abbott will not budge. he says our nation is being invaded. texas put up razor wire, as you know, to keep the criminals who are breaking america s laws of entry out. the u.s. supreme court recently sided with the biden administration saying it could actually take down that razor wire. here is governor abbott. because the biden administration has really truly abdicated its responsibility to secure the border and enforce the laws, texas very simply is securing the border. texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming into our state. joe biden s option is to enforce the laws of the united states and stop this illegal entry. what texas is doing is w
it s good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, nikki haley says she s staying in, but will her donors stay with her? what s next for her as trump touts a powerful south carolina fire wall. tragedy overseas, a shocking video of the moment a russian plane crashes, killing dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. why the kremlin is now blaming kyiv. plus, new evidence of how the war in gaza is impacting president biden s reelection bid. jill and i had a chance to sit down. how many kids [ chanting four more years ] and senator bob menendez says the fbi knocked down his doors and ransacked his home. his new fight to suppress evidence in the federal bribery case. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in south carolina, where the next competitive gop contest takes place. nbc s ali vitali is there. how confident is haley that the donors will stick with her that she can afford to stay in?
we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h
days before the first in the nation primary. i am shannon bream gop candidates are making their last pitches to voters. which is not going to make it she has no chance the quickest he things i have no chance or hope why is he writing millions of ads against me? shannon: after the showing in iowa caucuses from campaign targets nikki haley rolls out a big endorsement from her home state. we need donald trump. shannon: rhonda said to shift its focus away from his poor polling in new hampshire. or just a lot of real estate between now and the south carolina primary in terms of political time to cook to have the boat will begin keep surrogates from all three campaigns. south carolina congressman ralph norman for nikki haley. kentucky congressman tong was massive for ron desantis ohio et csenator jd vance of her donald trump. there is no better place to see retail politics. to realize where they come from why they re here. shannon: then the house and senate find a financial b
kind of friend they are and better friends than just text friends i don t to tell you what kind of friend rachel says she is. but i get you. i get you over the border pete i would get you over the border. rachel: it is open you walk across the it. what are you talking about? will: some circumstances in pete s life where he needed to go the other way. pete: the other direction and he would help me flee if necessary. will: it depends pete: he would be a better friend by textings his friends and wondering whether that s the depth of the equipment that s there. rachel: like what you value test and i value loyalty more than anything else. pete: shocker will: a test to forget that one out? rachel: i hammed to tack a test and it came back as thing that i value the most will: where was this test? rachel: loyalty at a retreat my husband had for a staff conference. and i was part of it and my value was loyalty. so i m a good friend. good wife too. pete: if i had called you an