welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington along with erin burnett in new york. happening now, we re counting down to cnn s town hall with former president donald trump. new hampshire republicans as well as undeclared primary voters are standing by with questions for the gop frontrunner and it all comes as trump stares down growing legal troubles. multiple criminal investigations. an indictment in new york and a $5 million sex abuse verdict. all of that, wolf, as we are also following another story tonight. congressman george santos speaking out today. he pled not guilty to 13 federal charges. pulling a page out of of the trump playbook calling it a witch hunt. if convicted santos could face up to 20 years in prison for the top counts he faces. the republican from new york is facing calls to resign from many in his own caucus. speaker mccarthy is holding fire, saying santos deserves his day in court. also the sout
when it does, we ll take it live. what happened to these fbi agents caught up in alleged political targeting by fbi leadership. well one agent says he was placed on unpaid suspension on the first day of a brand new assignment. the weaponization subcommittee, says today s testimony is the human evidence of what it calls institutional rot and anti conservative bias at the highest levels of government. politics is driving the agenda in federal agencies. parents attending a school board meeting pro lifers praying at a clinic or catholic, simply attending mass. you could be a target to shut down. differing viewpoints is the end of any analytical or investigative body. it sends a chilling effect across the workforce and does not allow for intellectual freedom, which is vital to any investigative body to members of this committee, current and former fbi employees and indeed all americans to ensure that the weaponization of our own government against the people comes to an end. no ma
begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
william la jeunesse is in tijuana, mexico to assess the conditions there jacqui heinrich at the white house with the latest from the biden administration. but we begin with correspondent bill melugin in brownsville, texas again tonight. good evening, bill. bret, good evening to you. cbp sources tell me in the last three days in a row, border patrol has made at least 10,000 migrant apprehensions. those are the highest daily totals ever recorded. fox is also told in the coming days we can expect to see the largest wave of mass releases the u.s. has ever seen. back to in the mexican border city of reynosa thousands of haitians have gathered ahead of title 42 s expiration at midnight. the change in policy means for the first time in over three years, border patrol will lose the ability to quickly expel migrants back to mexico in an already historic border crisis is expected to get worse. here in brownsville, evidence of that crisis is on full display. images from a fox dron
this morning for the first time in more than three years, the u.s. border officials are processing migrants without title 42, policy that allowed for quick and almost instant expulsion. that expired overnight. so over the last few days, there have been historic numbers at the border, but today, so far, it is important to note that our reporters there tell us that they are seeing long but orderly lines and no real change from last few days, and not the chaos so far that had been feared. but, the challenges remain, and the administration officials say it could get worse. this is brownsville, texas, last hour. you can see all of the buses lined up. they were filled with migrants who had just crossed there. cnn s rosa flores across the state in el paso this morning. rosa, give us a sense of what you are seeing. you know, you are exactly right. we have been monitoring the situation here on the ground, and everything so far looks under control. i talked to the city of el paso s s