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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
party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it s worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country, even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate, and in places where it s likely gonna be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall, it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s a pretty f
a lot to get to this morning, including another state removing donald trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis all not big decision from maine secretary of state. plus we will show you nikki haley attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. , also ahead, the latest from gaza. israeli forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure on israel to protect civilians inside gaza. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023, from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former presidents many legal battles as he enters a presidential election. a lot to go through. witness for all of it, nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation the reverend al sharpton, washingto
you still believe them to be true? yeah, of course they ll sue me again when i say that, but yeah i do. they want me to lie. basically they re suing me in order to lie to them. i m sorry, i can t do it. and the most important thing it doesn t have to be absolutely true. it has to be supportable. they have to prove i was deliberately lying, which i wasn t. rudy giuliani continue said to standby his lies about two former election workers from the state of georgia just days after a federal jury decided he must pay the women $148 million. but those women aren t done yet with the former new york city mayor. plus an update on the biden administration s push for a scaled back israeli offensive in gaza. it comes as israeli officials say they are considering what the next phase of the war will look like. and also ahead, we ll explain how trump administration immigration policies are playing a large role in ongoing negotiations over foreign aid. good morning and welcome to w