very interesting way. bill: during the trump years this was quite common. make a phone call, take you down there, see what you wanted to see. a very different story in the first two months of this administration. dana: as the feds restrict media access rob portman let fox news tour the border with him. griff jenkins joined him last night and has been delivering incredible reporting from the border for weeks. let s take a look. the residents here in at least the rio grande valley sector of texas where we are say they ve never seen anything like it. the rio grande river is where we re seeing an unbelievable number of migrants coming across this sector here in el paso is on fire as well. hasn t heard the u.s. president now is not the time to come. i listen to the news that they were letting people in. does it frustrate you that the new administration does not call this a crisis? yes, sir, it does. when you see a father with a 4-month-old baby riding on his chest, a
there is now a full-court press to abolish the legislative filibuster in the united states senate. they want to blow through the norms of his country and they want to bypass what the founders envisioned. brian: straight to a fox news alert. but first this, a man arrested after eight people killed in a string of shootings in atlanta spas. police say the shootings happened last night at three different massage parlors and all in the span of one hour. ainsley: police tracked down the suspect, he s 21 years old and his name is robert long. they tracked them down through surveillance footage capturing his car near each of these crime scenes, lawrence. lawrence: police say he was arrested after taking office on a car chase that ended in a crash. police are investigating the motive for the shooting and we will continue to follow this story with new developments throughout the morning. brian: meanwhile, good morning everyone. happy st. patrick s day. ainsley: lawrence, look at lawr
preferring to call it a challenge and officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including an influx of young children we do have fox live team coverage on this. david spunt is in wilmington, delaware covering the biden administration s response to the border crisis. but let s begin with griff jenkins on the ground in mission texas so griff, tell what you say you re seeing there. good afternoon arthel we re just seeing what it looks like as this sort of epicenter of the entire border surge because right here in mission texas part of the rio grand valley they re seeing more traffic than they ve seen in a long, long time and let me sort of take you to our drone team in the air and you can get a sense really for this situation. where we re standing along a border fence a mielg two miles off the rio grand river that s where so many of the migrants are coming and walking ultimately to peacefully surrender to border patrol to claim asylum some families so
jillian: chaos in portland. protestors smash windows and light fires. the house pass two control bill that is will ultimately make it harder for americans to buy and sell firearms. they don t do anything to prevent gun violence. they rob law abiding citizens of their constitution amendments. good friday morning to you. i hope that you re having a good morning so far. we are grateful that you re joining us on friday morning. hope you have a good weekend ahead. hopefully fun plans but i was asking friends here this morning, what are you doing this weekend, nothing, nothing. we are all hunkered down. we lose an hour sleep on sunday. spring forward. i will keep to myself. i feel guilty but we know plans today, looks like vice president will be selling $1.9 trillion plan which they will officially sign today so they do have plans but immediately joe biden will go right to delaware where he will hang out for a while. he will sell the covid rescue plan to the country alt
we had already signed up 70,000 vaccine sites. let me remind you on january 20th, 1.5 million shots were in arms on that day. that had nothing to do with the biden administration. i think the biden administration are doing some good things in underserved communities and carrying the bat onwell. i think the roll-out was really about as well as it could be. miraculous given the short time. i think we ll look back on that and history will prove that to be correct. bill: thank you for your time and the job you ve done. dana: when you hear that fourth of july messaging small gathers maybe outside. even people as careful as you can be have been following their own monitor, i think, on what makes sense. you could be in the backyard, you can have a lot of space around you. i just keep feeling like the message that comes out is giving us the hold, hold, hold. brave heart, hold on. don t get excited or freak out yet. i understand you want to be cautious but it feels li