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results of a booster shot just as health experts warn how bad things could get this fall and winter and not only because of the unvaccinated. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with the crisis on the border that just keeps getting worse. these are live pictures of del rio, texas, a town that borders mexico where almost 9,000 migrants are currently camping out, mostly refugees fleeing the devastation of haiti. up to 30,000 more could be joining them coming to the united states through south and central america. of course all eyes are on the biden administration as border patrol agents are aggressively threatening migrants. all of this as the border town bursts at the scenes, hundreds of migrants being sent 430 miles west to el paso, just to be flown back to haiti. senator chuck schumer is pleading with biden to immediately halt the deportations. cnn s rosa flores is in del rio. president biden said today we re getting it under control. where you are, does t ....
russia s president to respond to written responses to putin s demand. we make clear there are core principles we are committed to uphold and defend, including ukraine sovereignty, and territorial integrity, and the rights to choose security arrangements and alliances. the document is with them, and the ball is in their court. we ll see what we do, as i said repeatedly, whether they choose the path of diplomacy and dialogue, whether they decide to renew aggression against ukraine, we re prepared either way. secretary of state antony blinken there, sticking with territorial integrity, and drawing a red line on nato. putin can get what he wants on nato in less direct ways with other concessions. his spokesperson has indicated there are concessions on the table, they include the state department was specific yesterday, today they didn t put the exact list out. they mentioned the place of s missi missiles exercises. now, on one hand it s important to consider that putin ....
the door earlier today. well, he didn t makeak the announcement. someone leaked his retirement plan. thenls a short timeeis later, the white house proudly confirmed joe biden s strategy to fill breyer sbi spot. now biden said he will make his pick based purely purely on race and gender and promised only an african-american woman will be selected. jonathan turley, a democrat, tquestions the constitutionaliy of this criteria. he wrote this precisely what the supreme court already declared to be unconstitutional discriminatet. we ll have more of his article a coming up and we ll break biden s potentially break it all down as unlawful potential, unconstitutional strategy. but first, another a groundbreaking morning at the whitebrea house. get this joe biden actually hadd a public event that did not involve ice cream. unfortunately for joebu didn t o particularly well. take a look. you know, i m always talking corvettes at don t make ford orb anybody else upset, but i migh ....
with minimal security. dhs contractor told him it was all by design. i guess the secrecy [inaudible]. you know what i mean? why? why? you know why. why? come on. what s the big secret? everybody knows it s happening. the government bill: that footage was obtained by former westchester county executive and acquired it through the freedom of information act. he is a candidate for governor in new york. here is what he told tucker carlson last night. we kept pressing them and they kept telling us nonsense. and this is all they do, right? where is the governor? she is complicit. she is turning a blind eye to all of this. she is more occupied about masking kids in schools and codling criminals than she is about this. i can t go into restaurants without showing a vaccination card or masking indoors. and she is refusing to do anything about this. dana: breaking this morning. ice agent weighing in on the massive migrant drops at the southern border and de ....
qualifications, character, experience and integrity, and that that person will be a black woman. we are reporting on who the likely front runners are. but right now, though, under an hour after that major event, the president is on a major call, speaking with the president of ukraine as the russian collar around ukraine tightens, vladimir putin s army conducted combat drills earlier today, live fire exercises with troops and tanks along the eastern border of ukraine. if the u.s. and nato were looking for signs of deescalation, this was not it. those drills happening just 24 hours after the u.s. hand delivered a letter to moscow yesterday addressing putin s demands. we don t know the contents of that letter, but russian morn minister sergey lavrov told reporters it failed to address nato expansion. the kremlin now warning that when it comes to diplomacy there is, quote, not much cause for optimism. putin himself has been largely silent on the matter, but he was seen in p ....