brian: we begin the third and final hour with a focus on president biden s border crisis. homeland security secretary mayorkas heads to eagle pass, texas today to get a first-hand look at the caogs and he can feel the hes. more than 2.3 million migrants have been released in the united states on joe biden s watch. ainsley: our co-host lawrence jones is live in eagle pass this morning. good morning, lawrence. lawrence: the secretary will be down here and see what is happening at the border. my home town of texas is epicenter of this crisis and last line of defense. if you look behind me, there is a migrant jumping the fence right now. i talked to him. he paid the cartel 20 to 30,000 dollars to cross the border. steve: lawrence, that is razor wire. lawrence: that is right. he came from honduras and he was waiting for the national guard to cross. he took his clothes off and jumped across the razor wire. he will be processed and meet his wife in california. just a liv
his campaign is saying we need everybody on caucus night. supposed to be cold in the negatives, all candidates are going to have to turn out their base of support to have people show up and caucus for them. regardless of the poll it is easier to vote for somebody you are passionate about rather than vote against somebody. steve: the caucuses are quirky. what they do, okay, everybody for ron desantis stand in that corner, everybody for nikki haley over there and trump over there. people start making speeches and i know ron desantis has had the best ground game, we ll find out by next tuesday. p precinct captains have so much, they will try to generate enthusiasm with their neighbors. nikki haley people, come here, donald trump will do this and
stay in the race regardless what happens in iowa. here is what one desantis supporter said. number two is a success, massive win for ron desantis. if he s number two. bill: earlier today, trump super pac targeting nikki haley for her attack on the border saying illegal immigrants should not be considered criminaling, she was called too weak. her poll numbers are surging in state of new hampshire, after iowa. brian: what is interesting, she went from not making anything but positive news to the civil war comment and this. do you think the media is making
too much of it? i think voters have taken notice of it. she s had a series of gaffes, trump campaign and desantis campaign have been jumping on her for comments with desantis saying she is disrespectful to voters. we ll find out night of the 15th. ainsley: donald trump was saying pretend you are one point down and get out and vote. that made me realize, he is probably a little nervous people will say he s so far ahead, i don t need to be part of the caucus. exercise your right to vote, every vote does count. you are spot on there. you might get complacencies from voters.
you should show up, we can get the job done for this country. that report is false. bill: here is snapshot of polling in hawkeye state. donald trump with enormous lead at 51%. desantis 19% and haley above 16%. trump with huge lead. iowaans telling us they don t care about the polls, they don t trust the poll and don t apply here. this is the caucus system. it is a bunch of neighbors getting together to talk to each other and find out who they support. this video of nikki haley and governor desantis in iowa. iowans feel if either have a strong second place finish it is considered a success or strong night for them. they don t have to come in first place and voters want them to