Forth. she is so afraid for america. what you see happening here, the consolidation of people in power, trying to control elections, this seems very familiar to her. that s why i think the campaign line that donald trump uses rings true for so many people, they re coming after you, i m just standing in the way. in the meantime. and that s why i think people sometimes observers in the media have a hard time connecting the dots as to why trump s popularity would go up while the indictments go up. it s because they see him as the highest, most profile avatar of what they believe. they ve seen small wins, whether at school boards or facebook page or at their employer or mandates or vaccines, small ways their freedoms have been encroached upon. they re nothing they can do there s nothing they can do about it. if they re going after him at this kind of weight, if they can get trump it opens the flute gates for anyone else - flood
Biden administration. if you recall, under the trump administration, the they pretty much had cross border illegal immigration shut down. all that biden had to do was continue the trump policies and we would have no problem on the border whatsoever. now it s getting worse because biden is opening the flute gates for people who are flood gates for people who are coming what texas is doing, we re not playing games anymore. i deployed the national guard as well as the texas department of public safety and we have a new program in place because the biden administration plan is to catch and release. the texas plan is to catch and to jail. so we are arresting and jailing. the program has already begun. it took a few weeks to set up because we actually had to set up an entire new booking system. we had to get judges involved in the process, magistrates, we had to open up a former prison that has now 1,000 jail beds that we re starting to fill up.er
freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning we re talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we ll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let s start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of those gates toda
Normally have, all flowing right into the basin and we re now dealing with it today. no more rain today or nothing significant in these areas will have an effect. thankfully the weather will cooperate today but it still doesn t take away that tragic story. despite the amount of water coming out of the flute gates it will still take while to make its way down to morgan city. later this afternoon, into monday and tuesday eventually getting very close to morgan city. can you see in this map the location of baton rouge in the banks of the mississippi river. the objective is to keep heaviest floodwaters away from that area but still affecting some 25,000 people that call this area home. some 11,000 structures, roughly 3,000 square miles that could be in some spots below 20 feet of water by the time this is all said and done. we need the weather to cooperate. rain not in louisiana and