our southern border is poised to become more open for trafficking and for drug business. imagine being on the front lines. our border patrol are truly heros out there risking their lives under near impossible circumstances. take a look at the streets of el paso, texas. 150,000 are waiting on the other side of the border to push across. so texas state troopers have done what they can on their own to prepare. they have laid razor wire across areas that are so porous that people can just come right through as they try to protect their state. they re keeping them from crossing the river at those points while we hear this, again, from dhs secretary mayorkas. watch. let me be clear, the lifting of the order does not mean our border is open. in fact, it is the contrary. martha: really? okay. lieutenant christopher olivarez from the texas department of public safety very much on the front lines of this. he s going to join us in just a moment with an update of what s going on wher
the question is whether or not these candidates want joe biden, the president, to try to help them out in these races. watch this. would you want president biden to come to arizona and campaign with you? hey, i ll welcome anybody to come to arizona, travel around the state at any time. as long as i m here. that s not an open invitation to president biden to come and campaign with you. martha: lack of enthusiasm there. the economy remains a top concern for many voters. most americans in this nbc poll say that the country is already in recession. that number is 68. then it combines 71% say that more spending under this new inflation reduction act is likely to make things worse or make no difference in their lives at all. we have insight this hour from karl rove as far as the election goes and how that plays in to the mid-terms. first, let s go to the white house with jared bernstein. happy monday to you. dow down about 700 points last time i checked. a lot of concern th
talking point for his debate so he could say with respect to the hunter biden laptop, nothing to see here, folks. when in fact everyone of those officials knew that the fbi had this laptop and it wasn t russian disinformation, this is the real russia hoax. we lived under that a couple years when i was secretary of state. they now actively sought to deceive the american people through a letter using their history as intelligence officials to try to convince americans for the final two weeks of the campaign not to look at it in a serious way. second, we have these reports that says there was an active duty, someone still working for the u.s. tax payner the central intelligence agency that was furthering in the commission of this deceit. that guy, that gal needs to be called in and we see who they were working for, why they did it. i d say this: if there was one, there s likely others, too. this fellow was working in looks like the department that does declassification to subject my book
you talk about magnets. what is the deterrent to not coming here illegally. vice president harris was supposed to talk to the northern triangle countries martha: how is that coming? offering free incentives like free healthcare paid by the tax payner new york city is an incentive. also on the border when i was there in april, when yo go to derio, the massive signs in bold red lettering that say sign up for obama care. free here. you remember when it was passed, illegals counts sign up for obamacare. that has changed. the final thing that i would like to say is that, you know, we talked a lot the past two years about covid and overwhelming of hospital systems. when you see hundreds, thousands of people lining outside of new york hospitals wanting free medical care, where is the conversation about the long-term impact? the first question that we re hearing is how do you house these people, how do you feed them?
sure we get the needs of the people met. had the governor no requested protectively a waivener the jones act, would you have seen a compelling reason to suggest it? maybe a historical note of relevance, sometimes we ll see the carriers request the waiver. so you ll have foreign-flagged vessels or u.s. vessels carrier companies call us and say please waive it. there s an issue. we didn t get any carrier requests. once the governor calls and says we need it, we should listen and the president agreed. is this overhyped in simple terms? misunderstood. some critics think it was a price issue. i don t know how the markets price these things. it was bought and paid for by the u.s. tax payner a