our border since just october 1. almost 8 million since president biden s inaugural. those are all record-breaking numbers. the records have been broken and broken again. so clearly there s a crisis. everyone acknowledges this. congress and the president are not acting to do anything to fix it or to reverse this situation at this point. the huge numbers that we talk about all the time, they are numbers. they re important. they impact american cities. they impact the national security of our country and the bottom line of all of that. no one knows any of this better than border patrol chief jason owens. and while this number may sound a lot smaller, it s one that he wants you to know something about. he says it s a huge concern. he just posted these photos. he says that since october 1 border patrol has caught more than 160 coming in with gang affiliations. ms-13. all of them involved likely with murder, extortion, narcotics, weapons, human trafficking. prostitution. so on all
uk that the unthinkable notion of adding salt is not official united states policy and never will be. thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. tonight, nikki haley s moment to republicans, including the former president, pressuring her to drop out of the race after her defeat last night in new hampshire. president biden s prediction he will be facing donald trump in november and what the new hampshire result sut suggests a the former president s strong and weak points. new reporting that the house ethics committee reached out to the woman matt gaetz alleged lid had sex with when she was a minor. we begin with nikki haley. she s making a case for staying in the race through her home state primary in south carolina a month from now. we will have that shortly. governor haley is speaking in the wake of her second place finish in new hampshire or crushing defeat as the former president put it last night where he is referring to his former u.n. ambassador as nikki bird b
the region. there is a tornado on the ground. what can you do? booth at saelth pride parade encouraged kids to throw toy bricks at pictures of republicans, pictures of trump and ron desantis and other leaders. battle of the billionaires, the question remains, can they fight? mark zuckerberg knows jujitsu. brian: begin with new message that appears to show that hunter biden demanding millions from chinese energy company. ainsley: releasing comment about the bidens are best at making the chinese happy. steve: griff jenkins joins us. we don t know why they are asking for $10 million. it is after joe biden left the vice president job. a lot of dots need to be connected. griff: a lot. show me the money is the demand to this chinese energy company and he bragged nobody is better than his family at deliver ing results by his top bos. $10 million per annum to further the interest of the joint venture. the bidens are best at doing what the chairman wants from this part
welcome back. the former president arrived to the courthouse a little over an hour ago via underground garage. he has already been booked and digitally fingerprinted. he is expected to plead not guilty to a 37-count indictment. mr. trump is accused of mishandling classified documents containing sensitive defense secrets about everything from nuclear programs to potential military vulnerabilities. while he s not expected to stay much many court today, trump has been saying plenty of social media. he s posted nearly a dozen times on the case just in recent hours and that includes multiple attacks on the essential counsel, jack smith, calling him a thug and accusing him of planting evidence all while police are keeping a close eye on the crowds gathered outside the courthouse in miami for the arraignment. but so far, no problems there. seems to be relatively peaceful. let s bring in our panel for how hour. ari is back with us as is andrew weissman, former lead prosecutor in
not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to mar-a-lago. nbc news that the fbi notified tr