thanks, jesse. jesse: see ya. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. following two major stories president trump has filed appeal with the colorado supreme court with the decision to keep his name off the primary ballot. we will have that plus analysis with brit hume and shannon bream in just moments. but we begin with the crisis at the southern border. more than 50 house republicans are in eagle pass, texas tonight meeting with border officials. getting a first-hand look at the migrant crisis that is forcing the biden administration to go on the offense. the white house placing blame on the house g.o.p. saying members are obstructing progress, even as president biden faces mounting criticism from democrats. correspondent bill melugin starts us off tonight in eagle pass, texas again. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. today s congressional delegation was the largest one to ever visit the southern border. and these house republicans came here after decembe
measurable consequence? that s what dhs has been able to do. biden s under water approval ratings and voter anxieties about his age reportedly pushing the biden campaign to have the 81-year-old to stop competing with himself where he is losing and start competing with trump as one aide told cnn instead of couching attacks by trump evoked the nazi leader it s about when to go full hitler all the way to a direct comparison. that plan kicks off this weekend when biden will head to valley forge where george washington led the continental army in the fight for american freedom to highlight a contrast with trump. then on monday, a speech in charlottesville about white supremacy. on january 6th, 2021, we witnessed a very different vision of america. one defined by revenge, retribution, and rebuke of our very democracy. the biden campaign hopes that the memory of trump will bring voters back into the fold as polls show biden sliding among constituencies that elected him to office, incl
threat to democracy. so they re both sort of playing a tug-of-war with this same line of attack. bret: guy, january 6th, the president is going to deliver the speeches as i mentioned at valley forge. nbc says the biden campaign cast trump as a threat to democracy ahead of this speech the president will cast the former president as a threat to democracy saturday in his speech set to be delivered on the third anniversary of january 6th. insurrection. the biden campaign said this week. the speech is expected to be a key component of the campaign s efforts to highlight the stakes of the presidential election. what about delivering a speech at valley forge and hearkening back to george washington to tie to january 6th to go after your likely opponent and former president trump. as you alluded to bret earlier in the show. it s similar to some of the messaging we saw from the president and his party in 2022. a lot of republicans were derisive and dismissive of it but it actually worked re
war was about slavery. but i just assumed that that was a given. desantis campaign has called haley s original answer an inexplicable gaffe. haley s campaigning in new hampshire this morning her campaign announced it raised $24 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023. more than double any previous quarter. this morning house majority whip tom emmer endorsed trump. the top five leadership have now all endorsed the former president. also this morning arkansas republican senator tom cotton backed trump s nomination. bret? bret: rich, thank you. let s get analysis now from fox news political analyst brit hume and fox news chief legal correspondent anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream. good evening both of you. first, shannon, trump s legal team filing is pretty long but a part of it says colorado s ruling is not and cannot be correct. this court should grant certiorari to consider this question of paramount importance. summarily reverse the colorado s
courts around the country. rightly or wrongly, chaos follows trump. it always does. former u.n. ambassador, nehemiah, other republicans and even some democrats have criticized decisions in maine and colorado to strike the former president from their primary ballots. trump has appealed to the u.s. supreme court, a decision from colorado support removing him from the state primary ballot. yesterday his attorneys petitioned a maine state court to reverse a similar decision from the democratic secretary of state there. this is yet another trump legal issue hanging over the republican presidential primaries. the contest polling shows trump leads by a wide margin. governor ron desantis is campaigning across iowa criticizing haley. i think she has got an agenda that is really very similar, almost like the republican version of hillary. haley contends her campaign has the momentum and that desantis attacks against her shows he is desperate. the former south carolina governor was also