john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse. it would surpass the population of houston if title 42 is not renewed. 18,000 pouring into border states every day. bill joins us from the border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there? john, good afternoon to you. del rio sector getting hammered with activity, nearly 2,000 illegal crossings in just 24 hours, an
tonight. bill melugin is in he ll pass, texas with what this means for officials and states along the border. but we begin with peter doocy on what the ruling says and the politics of this moment. peter is traveling with the president in seoul, south korea, good evening peter, good morning i should say to you. peter: good morning from saturday morning in korea a bret. and keeping this policy and deporting more people that come into this country illegally may wind up being politically beneficial to the president. but on paper, this would be a loss for white house officials who have long said title 42 is not their immigration policy it is a public health policy put in place by the trump administration. and they thought that they could stop using covid as a reason onto deport people but a judge is not satisfied with post title 42 plan. so, in this ruling, part of it says the records support the plaintiff s state position that the termination order will result in increased bord
What the judge was basically telling durham s prosecutors is, you know, look, this is the michael sussmann false statements trial. you are not turning it into the hillary clinton trial. and, yet, it seems like that s exactly what the defense did today. if you start to pull a thread out of the sweater, that sweater is going to come apart ultimately. this is the thread that is pulling at the entire clinton campaign. bret: and matthew, this is how cnn writes it again, this is cnn writing it hillary clinton personally approved plan to share trump-russia allegation with the press in 2016. campaign manager says the trial has shed light on the dark arrests of political opposition research and how campaigns dig up dirt and plant stories in the press. implications? it s a reminder at the moment during the watergate hearings when nixon aid alexander butterfield revealed the existence of the taping system it shocked the world. here robby mook is saying hillary clinton gave the order. she or
About three weeks ago the judge in the case ruled that text messages that hillary clinton herself sent out on october 31, 8 days before the election, about this very thing, were excluded from the case and what the judge was basically telling durham s prosecutors look, this is the michael sussmann false statements trial. you are not turning it into the hillary clinton trial and yet it seems that s what the defense did today. john: let me go back to what you just glanced over there. this did seem to really take the attorneys on both sides by surprise. we didn t know about this before, and in fact, as far as we know, everybody associated with this has been doing their best to distance hillary clinton from this. and for him to just suddenly say we told her we had this and wanted to share it with a reporter, she agreed to that, what do you think is behind