fewer than five hours out from the cnn republican presidential debate and nikki haley and ron desantis facing off five days before iowa voters set the race, is this a fight for second place? else on capitol hill when hunter biden shows up unexpectedly crashing a hearing holding him in contempt of congress. you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee and spitting in her face. we can hear from hunter biden. you should have the courtesy and don t act like nimrods. hunter biden abruptly walked out. a judge says not so fast on donald trump taking the stand. welcome to the lead, i am pamela brown, jake tapper is out, he will moderate the republican presidential debate with dana bash between ron desantis and nikki haley, the two candidates searching for a breakthrough that could position them to become the one and only viable challenger to donald trump who is the favorite to win his search straight republican nomination. nikki haley trails d
the wayside and jimmy carter was that year s nominee. that was then and this could be different. let s go to alexandra hoff and look at this. you have to look at fund raising and the campaign season over, caucuses, new hampshire primaries eight months away. that s where the candidates are circling. governor ron desantis will kick off des moines, iowa on the 30th. and president trump arrives the day after. and he thinks that the top g.o.p. contender is moving to the left. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016 and i think the direction that he s going with his campaign is the wrong direction. desantis long awaited candidacy announcement was hit with glitches, but record breaking 8.2 million dollars in donations in the hours after. former president donald trump has since offered this. the question, is rob just young experienced and naive or more troubling, is he a fool who has no idea what the
sabotaged that operation, put those agents in danger potentially. that operation was set to begin and the feds pub politicly announced it. why would they do that? border states are now taking matters into their own hands. texas governor greg abbott deploying a tactical border force of more than 500 troops. abbott getting right to the point saying texas is responding to the chaos caused by biden ending title 42. he sent 1500 men and women from the military to the border to do paperwork. i deployed elite trained soldiers to defend texas. he posted this video showing barbed wire installed across gaps in the border wall where a massive group of illegals tried to cross just a few days ago. what did he tweet? wired shut. this hour yesterday we broke the news on the monster-size surge happening even before title 42 expires. more than 26,000 people, nearly 7,500 of them gotaways, which means they are making their way in and we have no idea who at least 7500 people were thereabouts. t
uncover the origins of the trump-russia collusion probe on may 13th, 2019. here we are two years and four days later his final report is released. it s 30 # pages. bret, he calls some of the findings in his report sobering. let s take everyone back right now to 2016, 2017, when donald trump was running for then elected president. the investigation theme in the report durham says the fbi rushed an investigation code named crossfire hurricane without the proper legal basis he says quote at the direction of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, deputy assistant director for counterintelligence peter strzok opened crossfire hurricane immediately. strzok at a minimum had pronounced hostile feelings toward trump. he continued the fbi s failure to critically analyze information that ran counter to the narrative of a trump-russia collusive relationship exhibited throughout crossfire hurricane is extremely troublesome. durham s narrative expected. believing the 2016 democrat nominee s ca
simply saying we have no more shelters, spaces or resources. and new york city mayor eric adams blaming both sides in washington for the crisis. it is the irresponsibility of the republican party in washington for refusing to do the real immigration reform, and it s the irresponsibility of the white house for not addressing this problem. paul: let s bring in our panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, what kind of a surge do we expect? is it going to be a big one? yeah, it will be a big one. and it s been big. might be who s been watching the people just streaming nonstop across the border, it s going to simply become larger. you know, basically the southern border has become a place where anybody who wants to get into the united states can walk across whether venezuelans or ukrainians for that matter. chinese nationals have been coming over paul: in big numbers. and the biden administration s policy so to th