religion. griff: and, father, the true meaning, the easter meaning. today of course is holy saturday and we go into tomorrow. what do you think for those that are among the folks that don t believe religion is important, what should touch their heart tomorrow? what should touch all of our hearts is that violence, when it is met with forgiveness, can take a negative situation and turn it into something positive and creative. that s what we see in the witness of jesus himself. griff: and just before we run out of time, word on fire, you specifically and bishop barron played a significant role in my life. six years ago i converted to catholocism and never regretted it for a moment. talk in second, what does word on fire do to reach those on social media and word and daily messages like bishop barrons
gave the world and each one of us, a second chance. and that s a lesson for us that we can face the kind of life in a world which is full of cruelty and indifference and pain with this understanding that we make that world better when we forgive one another, when we love one another and open to a second, third, and even fourth chance. griff: such an important, important message, father. i want to show you a poll done last front by the wall street journal, struck me. it compared how many americans believed that religion was important to them personally. 25 years ago 62%, today, just 39%. how do we reverse that? i think that we reverse that by living out the religious values that manifest to people, that love and forgiveness are the centerpiece of our
bracing for a possible surge of migrants attempting to cross into the u.s. let s head to eagle pass, texas where we find matt finn live with the latest on the crisis. hey, matt. hi, griff. over the past week in eagle pass, we have not seen the consistent larger groups crossing into the united states. believe it or not, we re told that perhaps holy week is being honored. cross the southern border, agents are catching the got-aways of smaller groups, including in arizona, in the yuma sector. they say that they re covering with tan sheets in an effort to blend into the desert after illegally crossing the desert this week and fort brown, texas, agents seized 140 pounds of marijuana in the rio grande valley which border patrol says has seen the largest seizure of marijuana, more than 11,000 recovered and texas dps seizing more than 1.3 million doses of
fentanyl in a single bus. a traffic stop. and the one pill kills campaign, informing texans and also the doses of narcan to every county in texas. last year 2,012 texans lost their lives because of fentanyl. when you think about it, that is on average more than five people in texas losing their life every day because of fentanyl. and the foreign the governor reiterated a single packet of sugar, could kill 500 people. griff: matt fin, thank you very much. molly. molly: two boys ages 12 and 16 are under arrest in connection with the murders of three
coming in of china launching military drills across the taiwan strait. go ahead and take a look at this, a stunning 71 chinese army jets and nine navy ships have entered the taiwan straight as china s people s liberation army launches three days of military drills, about 45 of these jets, griff, are crossing the median line and going into taiwan s self-declared air defense identification zone. it s happening, presumably in response to a meeting with the president and house speaker mccarthy and the delegation visiting taipei. and house speaker reacting to it all before he left. these intimidation tactics and saber rattling, in my judgment, only firm up our resolve