i m martha maccallum. this is the story today. it s a big one. a border showdown is brewing in eagle pass, texas right now. a huge hub for illegal border crossings. there s a standoff that is underway between the federal government, which wants the razor wire that texas put in place there to protect its own state, they say it has to go. republican texas governor greg abbott says he will not. the biden administration has given him a deadline of tomorrow to allow border patrol access to the area. it s called shelby park. essentially setting up a confrontation potentially between federal agents and the texas national guard. when asked to the governor, will you comply with this order, here s what the governor said. watch. texas has a right as a state to stop criminals from coming in to our state. to make arrests of those criminals. we have national guard as well as texas department of public safety officers that are there to make those arrests and to deny illegal entry. mar
decision. he said students must be based on his or her individual experiences, not on the basis of race. many universities have for too long done just the opposite. in doing so, they have concluded wrongly that the up to stone of challenges bested schools built or lessoned learned but the color of their skin. he says that is not going to work with our constitution as we know and understand it. and it doesn t do us service to students of other races. in this case, asian american applicants that said that they were being passed over with perfect test scores and fantastic gpas because of their race. president biden says that there s more to the story. he s upset. the biden administration had argued in favor of harvard and u.n.c., the policies continuing this. not surprising that he had the reaction that he did. he adds this in speaking about it today. we cannot let this decision be the last word. i want to emphasize, we cannot let this decision be the last word. the court can
cnn this morning continues right now. deep uncertainty on capitol hill over kevin mccarthy s plan to lock down the votes to get this passed. when you maxed out your credit cards, it s a pretty good time to evaluate your spending habits. no one in this country can afford the risk of default which is why republicans should take it off the table. e. jean carroll expected to take the stand today. they say donald trump raped carroll in a dressing room. trump s lawyers say she schemed. and two other women will testify who allege that trump forced himself on them can also take the stand. mastermind of the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the white house hasn t said when he was killed or how. the chairman of the house foreign relations committee said, quote, any time a terrorist is taken off of the board is a good day. but this does not diminish the biden administration s call pablt. culpability. incompetence, that s how
soldiers callously dragging the bodies of their victims and stacking them into the backs of their trucks. the two dead victims who were finding out or later ditched on the side of the road were identified as shy he d woodward and zin del brown. mexico still hasn t returned their bodies. what a great ally. as for the survivors, they were kidnapped and held for days in a dirty stash house on the outskirts of town. one of the survivors, eric williams was found with a bullet wound to the leg. the other survivor, la terrify i can t mcgee was the reason they were in mexico to begin with. la terrify i can t went to mexico to get a tummy tuck operation they traveled all the way to south carolina to save three grand by getting the procedure done in mexico little did she show she was entering gulf cartel territory. the kidnap u.s. citizens likely came from the top of the cartel. from the leader of the gulf cartel himself jose alberta garcia milano also known in mexico as la kanya. they
including during president trump s ellipse rally, indicating that elements in the crowd were preparing for violence at the capitol. over multiple months, donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the chance for a presidential power. in our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan. that s the january 6th committee vice chair liz cheney laying out the case against donald trump in the first hearing into the the attack on the u.s. capitol. the committee presented new evidence and graphic, new video last night. we learned that, as trump watched his plan unfold on television, it was vice president mike pence who essentially acted as president, making calls to rush federal help to the scene. there is also new information on trump s staggering reaction to threats against his vice president s life. and how a republican congressman who assisted in the election scheme allegedly knew his a