forward to something fun. texas governor greg abbott sending 10 buses of illegal migrants from lone star state to washington as republican governors brace for a major surge. joey: white house is on clean-up duty as president biden confuses title 42 with his effort to reinstate the mask mandate for travel. carley: alexandria hoff has more. good morning. alexandria: when the president was asked about title 42, he brought up the department of justice, which seemed strange, doj had not been mentioned on the issue. here is what happened. are you considering delaying lifting title 42? president biden: no, what i m doing is continuing to hear from my there will be an appeal by the justice department because as a matter of principle, we want to be in a position if in fact it is strongly concluded by the scientists that we need title 42 that we be able to do that. there has been no decision on extending title 42. alexandria: that was confusing in the wake the president h
42 next month. today a fresh wave of bipartisan push-back against that move, a 58-member house caucus, 26 being democrats announced support for a bill that would stop the president from lifting title 42 without a plan to handle an expected surge. tony gonzalez from texas introduced that legislation and he joins me now. congressman, great to see you. we know you re a republican. i want to start by p colleagu t it provides an incentive to the criminal organizations that say hey, now we can promote this, we can market this saying that the border is open and they make a lot of money. i think the bottom line here, congressman, it doesn t matter your party affiliation. if you know what is happening at the border, you realize democrat or republican that it s a disaster. yeah, thank you for having me on, trace. i will start by it s another tragic day here on the border in texas. we have a national guardsman that is now missing over the last hour, divers are in the water, looking
i ll ask a top pentagon spokesman, john kirby, how these weapons might make a difference. our correspondents are standing by in ukraine with cnn s live global coverage as this war enters its ninth week. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this hour, we re following what could be a final showdown between russian and ukrainian forces in mariupol. a critical battleground in the war. there s also new satellite evidence emerging appearing to show mass graves outside that southeastern city. let s get the latest on the fight for mariupol. matt rivers has our report from the war zone. destroyed one tank today. two vehicles and one armored carry. the numbers of enemy losses are still increasing. this is an officer in the batallion currently fighting for his life and others inside the besieged steel plant in mariupol. the plant has taken constant bombardment for days on end. now ukraine n
20,000 new border crossers every day. so obviously this is a huge political difficulty, hurdle for the white house. you have a number of democrats running in november. this puts them in an even tougher spot than they re already in. some urged the white house for a delay or at least to lay out a clear plan to avoid as many as 18, 20,000 crossers once the title 42 is lifted. look at these folks asking the white house to please be clarifying on this issue. we haven t received that in a clear way yet. that includes four senators up for re-election. mark kelly is on the border in arizona, raphael warnock in georgia, maggie hassen in new hampshire. she had her picture taken in front of the border wall under execution by president trump at the last administration. these are toss-up races in the power rankings. a very interesting pickle for a number of politicians on all of this. let s bring in katie pavlich, a fox news contributor. great to have you with us today. so you know, under
have hours left. and a problematic breakdown in the supply chain. it not just amazon orders caught in the backlog. some companies warn the slowdown could soon have a life threatening impact. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead. president biden is meeting with his top military leaders at the white house as the ukrainian leaders plead for additional stance from the west. to save innocent lives. ukrainian president zelenskyy says 120,000 ukrainians remain trapped in mariupol where local military leaders are reporting a constant bombardment by russian forces. the mayor of mariupol urged residents to leave as quickly as possible, but this afternoon, ukrainian officials announced today s humanitarian corridor, quote, did not work as planned. they say fewer people than expected showed up to board buses out of the city. some of the buss are being forced to follow routes determined by the russians. city officials say they do plan to try again tomorro