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
team here, who have been working out of an operation center today, alongside members of the international committee of the red cross. another key stakeholders in this. and they certainly feel like this mostly went to plan. you are right to point out this is a humanitarian pause, and the implementation of that had a number of key obligations. the pause had to stop at 7:00 local time. the hostilities had to stop on the ground from both parties. that allowed for the potential for the release of these hostages, these 13 in the first instance israeli women and children, who had been held by hamas around about 4:00 this afternoon. what happened was we saw 24 hostages ultimately released. the process took about two and a half hours to get those hostages out of hamas hands, into the hands of the icrc and out of gaza into israel via the rafah crossing, which is down on the the egyptian boarder. the surprise, and i have to say i think it was a surprise as well, possibly to those invol
spokes people,y he was the pentagon guy. he did not find out. ainsley: it might have been an embarrassing procedure or something. steve: he thought, i can be in and out and next thing you know, big trouble. brian: if it was trump administration, they would say typical chaos, no one respects him, don t inform him. joe biden who has had nothing on his schedule, he was free, i m going for a procedure, keep it on the down low. we are supposedly friends. no accountability and secretary of state moving through six or seven different countries in the middle east to try to keep the lid on the war. and secretary of defense invisible. see how he does or if anyone gets fired. nine after the hour. ainsley: alaska airline
agency s spokes people who was retiring. there have been big changes that occurered since all of this has happened. but this latest incident is going to raise new security questions. you bet there is. thank you very much, kristen welker, on the secret service beat at the white house. and making history. we re about an hour away from senate vote expected to confirm judge cutaumpy brown jackson to the u.s. supreme court. what it all means coming up. you re watching a special edition of andrea mitchell reports. we re in brussels today only on msnbc. today only on msnbc. i want the world (production manager) i want the whole world (supervisor) i want to lock it all up in my pocket. (ceo) i want today. i want tomorrow. (warehouse worker) presents and prizes and sweets and surprises. (driver) of all shapes and sizes.
definition of the horrors of late capitalism but that s certainly up there. and it s important for people to understand these choices o ching energy are things operators in political or market system will chase. it s just people make decisions about what they re willing to bearmorally, what their conscience will allow. that quote about it s great for ratings is succinct and probably true. fox news spokes people, if you get on phone with them about a story they re displeased with, they re not shy trying to yell your ear off. when we tried to reach out to people about our reporting about the multiple fox news insiders telling us that oh, they re saying it s great for ratings, this is when you look at numbers