southern border new york city mayor eric adams is heading to el paso today. our national correspondent griff jenkins joining us live in eagle pass, texas with the latest on this. griff, you and i have spent a whole lot of time in eagle pass, show the del rio sector looking today? griff: well, bill, you re well familiar with and drone high above the bridge connected between eagle pass and piedras negras and viewers can t make this out but we are witnessing and you are familiar with, the title 42 of dozen individuals walking back into mexico, that is that covid era fix that many believe is the last thing standing between us and chaos at this border and it comes as new york city s mayor eric adams is headed to el paso now with a reported 3 stops there. we will see if he sees any migrants firsthand unlike president biden this past week
correspondent ed program is live from capitol hill with more breaking details. ted , how soon can we expect a vote on this bill ? cowe don t think there s going to be a vote tonight. they hope to pass the omnibus bill overnight, but there is a delay. it s over. a gop effort to impose title. forty two for the border a and requested that we add a vot minimum, have an up or down vote , a simple up or downtitle2 vote on preserving title forty two or three , because title forty two or three is patwn us thing standing between us and absolute pandemoniundmndn on the border. now we already haveiuus do it pandemonium. the democrats won t let us do it. wh re afray? t mi because they re afraid itke might pass. senate majority leader chuckpoi schumer wanted an overnighovt vote , but the flashpoint over the border stalled things. we re still we re working s on an agreement to vote on amendments and pass the omnibus. tonight, we aren t there yet.ht we re making progress.e but we do not reach agre
senate to preserve it, but that could be frankly one of the things that upends the long-term spending bill that congress is trying to pass to avoid a government shutdown. i have requested that we in a minimum have an up or down vote, a simple up or down vote on preserving title 42, because title 42 is the only thing standing between us and absolute pandemonium on the border. democrats offered to give senator lee vote on his amendment with the 60-vote threshold, but he tells fox tonight no deal. still there continues to be a fight from republicans to lower that threshold to 51 votes. meanwhile in el paso, texas, concertina wire is actually lining the river where migrants continue to cross. if you have seen the pictures today, yes, it is going up. and frankly they are undeterred by the presence of national guard members telling them to turn back.
correspondent chad pergram is live on cap hall hill. there s a did lea and over gop to impose title 42 for the border. i m requested that we at a minimum have a up or down vote, up or down vote on preserving title 42 and title 42 authority is the only thing standing between us and absolute pandemonium on the border. we already have pandemonium and democrats won t let us do it because they re afraid it might pass chuck schumer wanted an overnight vote but the flash point over the border stalled things. we re still working on an agreement to vote on amendments and pass the omnivus tonight. we re making progress but if we do not reach agreement because of the urgency of getting in
from the perspective of, well, maybe he wants us to happen. nobody is this incompetent. retired acting i.c.e. director ron vitello joins us now. says title 42 is the only thing standing between us and absolute pandemonium on the border and you see these pictures of places like el paso anywhere in the border, but el paso is busting at the seams. this looks like a third world country but now it s going to be cold so they got those issues and not to mention the border patrol in what they have to deal with on a daily basis but where s the leadership in the situation because it doesn t seem like anyone has a grip on anything down there. it s incredible. there is no leadership on this issue for this administration from day one tore down all the tools the border patrol had to fix this problem.