spring arrived weeks ago. i was just out west. it was like 30 degrees colder. it was the weird est thing. the weather is just all out of whack. it s crazy on the west coast we re seeing these blid saturday, but here on the east coast,s there was an 80-degree day in d.c. in february. that is not a good sign for the future. it really isn t. get your skiing in now before it all goes away. here s what we are watching on cnn this morning. you don t think he needs f-16s now? he doesn t. president biden rules out sending f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. and this morning russia continues to hammer targets there. we re going to take you live. and number two, gripping testimony in alex murdaugh s murder trial. are you a family annihilator? a family anigh lite r later? did i shoot my wife and son, no. we re going to take you to the courtroom as murdaugh takes the stand. why he says he lied to police but had had nothing to do with the their deaths. a hotter than expected
i paid for my student loan, and everyone else should too. neil: the price tag for president biden s student loan handout growing and so now is the pile-on, and it s not just coming from republicans. some swing state democrats are coming out swinging against it as well. why someone here that a alone might want to tell taxpayers what they need to know and maybe worry about. and still what we don t know in this battle two wean the justice department and former president donald trump. we do know that his legal team is making a new request for a special master to look at everything the department of justice and the fbi, all those documents that it had because of that heavily redacted affidavit that really isn t showing much. meanwhile, the current white house is still insisting it was in the dark about all of that from the very beginning. jonathan turley on maybe what we could read from that. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. lots to tell you about including the loan forgiven
going down. national border patrol council, art del cueto on border officials that are fed up and peter doocy on where the president is heading right now. let me just tell you, it s not at the border. welcome, everybody with busy news day. much more on the affidavit situation, the border situation front and center for the time being. there we go to casey stegall in eagle pass with a certain big visit today. casey? yeah, neil. the visit is wrapping up as we speak. secretary mayorkas made at least two stops here in this border patrol sector while he was on the ground. but no events were open to the press. so we did not get the opportunity to ask him any questions. they even wouldn t let the drone fly in the area once he was here. after landing in del rio, he traveled to eagle pass where the secretary visited a border patrol processing facility that opened last month. the 153,000 square foot facility is on 24 acres and has a capacity of 1,000. then mayorkas traveled down here
the unsealing of materials used to obtain the search warrant for former president trump s florida compound by noon tomorrow. this comes after the justice department submits proposed redactions to that affidavit. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department with the latest on this tonight. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. members of the public could soon see a tantalizing portion of the affidavit. it s the document that initiated the search at former president trump s home at mar-a-lago. exactly what we ll see remains to be seen. expect a lot of this document to be redacted when it is released tomorrow at noon at the latest. bret, the judge in the case, magistrate bruce rinehart issued an order a short time ago he wrote i find the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason, good cause to seal portions of the affidavit because disclosure would reveal the i ds of witnesses, law enforcement agents and uncharged parties. the investigati
president s own family. lauren fox is joining us live from capitol hill. good morning, lauren. what can we expect tonight? reporter: well, hundreds of hours of interviews behind closed doors and the public going to get a chance to see tonight what the january 6 committee has been working toward. we expect that the committee hearing will kick off tonight with opening statements from the chairman bennie thompson as well as the top republican liz cheney on the committee. committee aides telling us that we expect thompson will put this in a historical context, the violence that transpired that day, and the unprecedented nature of the attack on the u.s. capitol. and then we expect things will move forward in three different areas. one of them, the public will get a chance to see some previously unseen video footage of private interviews behind closed doors that the committee has done with white house officials, trump campaign officials, as well as members of trump s own feel. we