shelby park and blocking access to federal agents. right now it s unclear who will blink first in this showdown at the rio grande between the state of texas and the biden administration. texas digging in its heels after the supreme court ruled the federal government had the right to take the state s fencing down, but governor greg abbott insists he is acting within his rights to protect his state for what he calls an invasion. hello, everyone, and welcome to the a brand new hour of fox news live, i m eric shane. hey, or arthel. arthel: hi, eric. hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. so the constitutional battle over border enforcement comes as we get staggering new numbers on border encounters. customs and and border protection reporting 302,000 migrants tried to illegally enter the u.s. last month. this is beating the previous record high by more than 32,000. we are covering the border crisis from all angles. florida attorney general ashley moody standing by, she is one of
overseas, as israel launches strikes against palestinian militants in the west bank. what the white house is saying about the stepped up violence there. and later, new reporting on the race for president. why the first gop debate is at risk of losing its draw. the latest on donald trump s double digit lead against his republican rivals is straight ahead. welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this tuesday, july 4th. we start with breaking news overnight. five people are dead and two children injured after a gunman wearing body armor opened fire in a philadelphia neighborhood. police first responded to the attack just before 8:30 p.m. after reports of gunfire in multiple locations. officers arrived on the scene and began chasing the suspected gunman who continued firing and didn t stop until he was cornered in an alley. that is where he surrendered. about 50 spent shell casings were found in the area which covers a two by four block stretch. the people were all adult men. the
readout on the florida governor s standing in the 2024 race and the uphill fight to catch donald trump. new reporting this hour on why he said what he said. plus, mike pence is doing it today, tim scott is doing it, so is ron desantis and francis suarez, but donald trump is not. most are walking in parades, but not the former president. he s giving more evidence he s running a very different kind of campaign. no labels says they want to give voters a third-party alternative, but some critics wonder if what they really want is to deny joe biden the presidency. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with that old saying, honesty is the best policy. at first blush, that might seem like what an operative for the ron desantis super pac is doing, stating the obvious, that things in the desantis campaign are not going so well. listen to steve cortes and his assessment of how his candidate is doing. look, right now in national polling
doddered out, you know, whatever that step thing he does to the south lawn with an unusual mark on his face. look really closely because apparently he just removed what s called a cpap machine from earlier because he was sleeping. he needs to be friends with mark levin. you get a call at 7 a.m., did you read this bs adam schiff? no. biden goes to work early wakes up late, his few lewis idz hours unproductive with few events, still there are bigger problems at 1600 pennsylvania avenue than biden s decline. his house of cards mark my words is crumbling before the nation s eyes, the media have been ignoring it, they won t be able to much longer himts beloved attorney general merrick garland expose evidence promised over and over the u.s. attorney looking into hunter biden david weiss had broad complete independent authority to prosecute hunter biden nationwide. we know according to multiple as many as six whistleblowers that is simply not true which may mean your attorney genera
here. jesse: welcome to a special edition of jesse watters primetime. i m will in for jesse. you re looking now at a live shot of a trump rally in concord, new hampshire, where we expect senator tim scott to endorse the former president and we ll bring you those comments live when they happen but in the meantime, there is nothing a politician loves more than a photo op. whether it s michael dukakis or john kerry in a spacesuit. they will go out of their way to cover up their failures in policies, that is, until they have a mess that s undeniable on their hands. we re 10 months away from an election and joe biden has a messy border crisis with his fingerprints all over it. after trump s big win in iowa the cnn s and msnbc s can t ignore this problem of immigration. this may come as a surprise to democrats but voters don t like hundreds of thousands of unchecked illegals just walking into our country. biden is trying to smack the cameras away and say everything is fine. and