[sneeze] dude you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. also try for fizzy fast cough relief. john: a live look at lower manhattan where closing arguments are underway in former president trump s months long civil fraud lawsuit. one side the supreme court, the other a trump building at 40 wall street where just minutes from now the former president is expected to hold a news conference. we will bring you that live just as soon as it starts. new york attorney general letitia james says the rule of law is on her side but legal experts say the case is without any precedent. jonathan: she s a very political attorney general. none of us could find a single case like this one where james or her office sought these types of damages. john: hello, john roberts in washington. nothing happening this afternoon, sandra, if you want to go out for lunch, now is the time to do it. sandra: nothing t
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
investigation. also this morning, we are on the ground following a growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border. as the secretary of homeland security heads to the border in anticipation of a mass influx of migrants. border towns looking for answers, migrants looking for help. are you desperate? i m very desperate she tells us. i don t have anything to eat. we have people sleeping on our streets. this isn t sustainable. it s not normal. please help us, and enough with the politics of it. and new controversy with justice clarence thomas. first it was reporting about luxury trips and yachts and a real estate deal, and now propublica has new reporting about a billionaire gop donor paying private school tuition for a thomas relative. i ll talk to the reporter behind that story, how that donor is responding and the larger ethical questions it s raising. but we begin with the suspect in a georgia mass shooting in custody this morning as we learn more about the inves
wall street journal assistant editor james freeman is here to weigh in. but first, no end in sight for the migrant crisis overtaking the southern border and no plan in place yet from the white house with the title 42 policy possibly ending any day now. welcome to america reports, i m aishah hasnie in washington. i m rich edson. border patrol agents are taking drastic steps to prepare for the worst. in just a matter of days, built a massive tent in the el paso desert bigger than a football field to handle the expected overflow of migrants if title 42 is lifted. and the new york post puts it welcome mat for illegal immigrants. chad wolf is standing by, but first matt is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. matt. rick, so far today our crews have seen four different migrant groups cross into the united states. standard procedure along the southern border. the surge is not slowing down and did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. sources
right now on andrea mitchell reports, breaking news across capitol hill. a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling the presidents of elite universities on the carpet over their response to a spike in anti-semitism on college campuses. what is it about the way that you hire faculty and approve curriculum that s allowing your campuses to be infected by this intellectual and moral rot? leadership matters. you are leaders. in academia, at your institutions as well. new grave warnings from fbi director chris wray over domestic and foreign threats to the homeland, surging since the start of the israel/hamas war and a push to reauthorize a controversial surveillance tool. as the threats from foreign adversaries to our homeland continue to evolve, the agility and effectiveness of 702 will be essential to the fbi s ability really our mandate from the american people to keep them safe for years to come. also this hour, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel live from