Inaction. Sandra the new york city mayor has been saying that for the last year. Nearly 100,000 migrants have arrived here. So many that families are now sleeping on sidewalks and in makeshift tent cities that are popping up. Thats all expected to cost a whopping 12 billion down the line. Gillian perhaps most surprising is the mayors lack of communication with the commander in chief. Have you talked to the president directly . We had a conversation last year, we communicated with the white house several times. We have a body, a contingent from Homeland Security here now. Gillian last year . Chaos up north stems from the chaos unfolding down south. Illegal Border Crossings are surging in the Rio Grande Valley. Bill melugin, what kind of activity is the Border Patrol seeing today . Gillian, good afternoon to you. Cbp source tells me as of this morning, more than 19,000 migrants in federal custody nationwide and that all four of their main Border Patrol sectors are already almost at capac
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whom may be holding the party back. e holding th good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the next hearing into the january 6 attack is this afternoon at 1:00. with a focus on the violent mob. the committee says it will examine how former president trump summoned his supporters to the capitol to threaten the certification of the election when he tweeted, big protest in dc on january 6th. be there, will be wild. the committee says that tweet was the quote siren call for extremist groups such as the proud boys and the oathkeepers whose top members have been charged by the justice department with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the riot. an aide on the committee says it will also present evidence of ties between these groups and trump associates like roger stone and michael flynn. as far as witnesses, a source close to the investigation says we will hear from former oathkeeper spokesman jason
i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doing, but
Nbc news characterizing that race for governor as too early to call with the polls closed. Democrats are bracing themselves for a comforting victory, where, of course, another devastating defeat. Recent polling has shown northam with a slight edge but within the margin of error. Gillespie, an aid to george b. Push, is trying to help his establishment bonifides. If he wins, he can provide fellow republicans how to campaign in theably of trump. Lets get the very latest from the race from our own steve kornacki. Steve what do we know . Well, it was 7 00. The polls closed in new jersey. We were an hour away. As you just showed. We have no actual votes in just yet. What can we show you from the exit polls . Lets look at a few of the key questions, we can tackle there. First of all, see if we can call up the areas. Okay. That should call it up. Here we go, the trump factors,
starting in virginia, the president , his Approval Rating, clocks in at 43 , by comparison, last time they had a gover