birds. the lead starts right now. the rioter who smashed in that capital window, and another who helped organize the violent attack new quite lengthy prison sentences for the so-called proud boys and we begin to see the u.s. justice system come down on those who played lead leadership roles in trying to over turn the 2020 election. plus two years has gone by and where are we? to be frank, we re knee deep in bullshit. a demand for answers from grieving parents. 13 u.s. service members were killed in that chaotic withdraw from afghanistan. gold star families this week were asking their leaders pointed questions today, where we re going to try to begin to start to get some answers. but first, the judge s decision expected at any moment that could change the trajectory of the fulton county case, including donald trump. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. and we begin with our law and justice lead. at any moment, a u.s. district judge could decide if former trump
southern border after the lifting of title 42. we will have the very latest from the border as the biden administration defends its actions. we have been planning for this moment, for the end of title 42, for more than a year and a half. not only have we ve been planning, we haven t executing those plans. surging resources, personnel, greater facilities capacity, and so much more. a crucial few days ahead of president biden hints that we may be close to a debt ceiling breakthrough that could over a government shutdown. a moment of remembrance this hour. it will be one year since the buffalo super mining shooting. we will have that live. we are watching a crucial election overseas as turkish president arrow on may be on the verge of a historic loss. plus, donald trump may have opened the door for a whole new level of legal trouble. we ll be looking at that a had. we begin with 1000 border with the number of migrants taken into custody by border patrol continues to drop as
this morning a fresh look at the southern border. this was el paso, and you can see it right there. wow. i mean, relatively sparse, really sparse, very calm. this is what the white house had hoped for. especially when there were scenes like this just one week ago. migrants lining up before the expiration of title 42, and the homeland security alejandro mayorkas warns that it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. and that is after wrangling maneuvers of the governor of texas sending a busload of migrants to the vice president of the united states. so we have teams at the border and the white house. we begin at the white house as arlette seanez is there, and what are you hearing from the people in the building behind you, arlette, of what they are seeing? president biden is saying that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he, himself, had predicted a chaotic few days of the lifting of title 42. now, the biden administration has been
surge. fewer and fewer asylum seekers are trying to cross in, but the officials warn that it may not last. what is maybe a telling setback for russia with four military aircraft down over russian territory, and what it is saying about the ukrainian capabilities. a florida teacher is showing a disney movie to her students, and now she is under investigation by the state. these stories and more are coming into cnn news central. the intense surge of migrants at the u.s./mexican border at the end of the covid era title 42 has not happened. the secretary of homeland security warned of the surge, but the surge was in the days before title 42 ended when the crossings were topping 10,000 a day, and now just over 4,000. what has not slowed down is the bitter politics surrounding immigration. the texas governor did it again, sending migrants to be dropped off out of vice president s kamala harris s home. we go to pablo sandoval who is live outside of the vice president presiden
ron desantis has his eyes on the white house. new exclusive reporting from nbc news that the florida governor is set to jump into the 2024 race as early as next month in just a few weeks, but he may have other things on his mind right now as the war of words between him and disney has turned into a legal showdown disney just filing a lawsuit alleging an orchestrated campaign to punish the media giant and desantis firing back overnight. i don t think the suit has merit. i think it s political i think they filed, you know, in tallahassee for a reason because they re trying to generate, you know, some district court decision, but we re very confident on the law plus, in a new in just a few hours, the airman accused of leaking classified documents is due back in court. this as new overnight filing alleges jack teixeira kept an arsenal of weapons in his house and talked about carrying out a mass shooting. and later montana republicans voting to ban the state s first transg