john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
Going to work. i think it would have been better in this day and age. john: it s a shame, 79, probably had a lot of years left. i had a chance to talk to him a couple times, really nice guy. aishah: yeah, really, really big loss. john: he will be missed. the homeless man accused of attacking san francisco s former fire commissioner in the head with a metal pipe earlier this month is being released from jail. this after the victim did not show up to court to testify due to what his legal team says are injuries from the april 5th attack. claudia is live outside the courthouse in san francisco. let me make sure i have this straight. the guy walked free because hi victim could not show up in court because of his injuries. that stunning turn of events here at court today, john, and comes after the man who was very viciously beaten and of course the central figure in this high profile case was a no-show at