reporter: hi, mike. from whistleblowers to sur styling americans, the fbi has had a lot to answer to this past week, starting on monday with the release of the durham report which concluded the agency did not have sufficient evidence to open investigation into then-candidate trump and, quote, our investigation also revealed that senior fbi personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards or the information they received, especially from politically-affiliated persons and entities. this is an investigation with no basis, and that makes a lot of people mad. that hurt the previous administration for about two years. it is critical the american people understand how their government, their agencies have been turned on them, the taxpayer. reporter: republicans want durham to testify on capitol hill this week. there are democrats downplaying the report, some outright dismissing it. this is an investigation that started in a flawed manner, it was conducted in
i can t say for every single one. a couple of them probably they got out of control. good day. i m andrea mitchell in new york today. border patrol agents and heavily armed texas national guard troops are bracing for the expiration of title 42, put in place during the coronavirus pandemic to turn away migrants. a shortage of social services and judges to handle the flow. officials expect an increase along the 1,000 miles of the b border, creating a situation the president described as chaotic. joining me guad venegas and julia ainsley, 700 miles to the east in el paso, texas. julia, you have been covering this throughout the biden presidency. you have been there for weeks at the border. take us through the new rules the administration is putting in place and what you are seeing in texas. reporter: right behind me is a wall separating us here in el paso from suarez. they are put into buses here. they are taken to be processed. the chief of the border patrol told us that 17
control. what they ve done to these people, they ve persecuted these people. and yeah, my answer is i am most likely if i get in i ll most likely i ll say it would be a large portion of them. donald trump s town hall went exactly how most expected and feared it would. he repeated lies about january 6th, the 2020 election, and he inflated his own record. we ll have much more coverage on all of that in just a moment. plus, we ve got new polling on president joe biden s approval rating and a potential rematch with his predecessor. and also ahead the latest from the border as a pandemic restriction on immigration is set to expire at midnight. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 11th. i m johnlen lemere, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with former president donald trump continuing to cling to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, an election he lost. within the first few minutes of his cnn town hall las
attempt to claim crimea from ukraine. russia claims at least three people were killed. a russian investigative committee arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. cnn s fred pleitgen is live for us from kyiv with the very latest on this. fred, russian officials are now saying traffic has resumed on the bridge? how is that happening? reporter: well, they are saying that the traffic is in reverse on that bridge. they are trying to clear the cars off that bridge but trying to get the traffic moving again as fast as possible. essentially, what they are saying is that all of this happened, this explosion happened in the early morning hours of this morning. when the lacey latest that they have is a struck they say exploded, even though it s not exactly clear whether or not that is the case, that a truck blew up. we have some of that video of that explosion taking place, which seems to have been massive. as a result ther
well, i mean, there s constitutional duty. what he has, he s the commander in chief. that was my biggest issue with him, as national security adviser. white house advisers to former president trump understood the constitutional oath of the presidency. trump apparently did not. mika, as we have gone through the testimonies, as we ve talked through this the past several hours, one thing really does keep sticking out to me, and that is the testimony of cipollone, where he was asked who else in the white house agreed with the president that the riot should continue. who in the white house did not want him to stop the riots, did not want him to speak out and tell them to stop. he said nobody. nobody. he said nobody. nobody inside the white house wanted the riots to continue. let me put it a different way. everybody in the white house wanted the president to act affirmatively to stop the riots. they told him that. he refused. his family members, his children, told him tha