police and inside that police station as we speak. good morning. it s friday. i m bill hemmer. dana: a lot of news on friday. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. moments ago danny penny surrendered to police in manhattan expected to appear in court in a few hours. prosecutors will charge him with second degree manslaughter and it could put him in jail for up to 15 years. bill: penny is the marine who put jordan neely in a choke hold on a new york subway on the first of may. witnesses say neely was acting aggressively toward passengers repeatedly. his death was ruled a homicide. penny says he was trying to protect the passengers and did not mean to kill him. dana: the case putting tremendous pressure on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg opting to charge penny without convening a grand jury. the decision is all about politics critics say. this marine was trying to save those individuals on that subway. i guarantee you every one of those individuals w
be open. they are lying. to people who are thinking of making the journey to our southern border. bill: this comes as a federal judge has blocked the mass release of migrants already in custody. new york post with a front page on the biden border policy it says surrender. dana: matt finn live in el paso with the latest. what is it like there today, matt? within the past couple minutes we walked right up to the edge of this border gate or wall and saw a group of a few dozen migrants, as we have seen so often, they are lined up systematically, placed on a bus for processing. the group of migrants we saw this morning appear to be all single adult men. there were no family units or women or children in that group. cbp tells me in the el paso sector it is seeing 2,000 migrants per day crossing into the united states. so far from where we re standing this morning we aren t seeing any major rush or uptick which might make sense as perhaps migrants try to make it into the u.s
ocasio-cortez says defunding the police is defunding safety. safety comes with police officers. i ve come here to announce cannedacy. rescind / r.f.k. jr. has support of aaron rodgers. steve: giving back in a big way, $70,000 for blue collar workers. i give people a chance to shine. brian: this is footage from the pinta, went across the world thinking the world was flat. later the world would curve and it would save them. ainsley: later it would curve? steve: no idea it was in color. brian: they colorized it, ted turner did that. ainsley: the world turned round and we did that. brian: columbus was like, it has to change. ainsley: you have water, sun coming up. steve: where was that? ainsley: sarasota, florida? brian: i should have given that. steve: northern portion, unlike south portion, i heard from my doctor in miami yesterday, he needed to go some place, not a single gas station had gas because of the big storm in the fort lauderdale-mam
a homeless man known for his michael jackson impersonations. nypd says neely had 42 prior arrests some involving attacks on subway riders. paul mauro, former nypd inspector was with us and listen to what he said. the system in the city caved to political pressure. alvin bragg is the face of this point. he did not act alone. he turned himself into the five precinct, did mr. penny. the police department is making the arrest. we didn t go to grand jury. it was a rush to action for lack of a better term. the police department doesn t take this action unilaterally. absolutely no way. dana: there is more to come on that. there was pressure, perhaps, that alvin bragg the d.a. you see right there and the mayor of new york, eric adams, who were perhaps feeling pressure from the protests which were scant and had died down. they decided to take this action before convening a grand jury.
it in lower manhattan. bill: inspector paul mauro has been on the story from the beginning. what s the expectation? they waited 11 days. he faces charges. what changeded? i think your prior reporter got it accurate. alvin bragg and the system in the city caved to political pressure. alvin bragg is the face of this thing at this point. he did not act alone. he turned himself into the fifth precinct did mr. penny. the police department is making this arrest. we didn t go to grand jury. this was a rush to action for lack of a better term and the police department doesn t take this action unilaterally. it came from the mayor s office. the system playing out in a judicious way would have been investigate the facts, gather video, there is more video out there. take the time to do a whole investigation and go to a grand jury. what you do in a case like this.