rising, one study says by next week at this time, it could be 22000. by may, the end of may, close to 30,000. we re also going to be speaking with the retired acting i.c.e. director on what to make of this , but first, we want to go to mark meredith with the president in wilmington, delaware on what he is saying about this. hey, mark. neil, good morning to you. the white house says president biden is regularly briefed by his immigration team about what s going on at the border, but this comes as those republican senators you were just talking about were making it clear this issue isn t going anywhere and they want to keep it front and center what s going on on the border. take a look at some video that texas senator ted cruz posted on his twitter account last nice this comes after a tour on friday where you can see that there appear to be hundreds of migrants enter these border patrol facilities, underneath some mylar blankets resting on the ground. the video came after cru
the biden white house before sending a controversial letter calling on the fbi to investigate parents as potential domestic terrorist. was the biden administration colluding, with the national school board administration, with the white house weaponize the doj to label parents all across this great nation as domestic terrorists? the answers to those questions seem to be unequivocally yes. the justice department and then quickly followed the ns b.a. s lead a memo saying they would identify and prosecute these domestic threats. but how did the doj reach that conclusion? did they do some type of in-depth research? did they conduct a nationwide investigation, did they have specific threats? congressman jim jordan wanted to find out. wanted you first review the data showing this so-called disturbing uptick? i read the letter and we have been seeing over time i didn t ask you, you read the letter, that is your source? let me be clear, this is not a prosecution some s
decision to carry out the strike. so how will russia respond to all of this? we ll ask pentagon press secretary john kirby when he joins us live. and in the southeastern ukrainian city of mariupol this morning [ she wlling ] that is shelling of the azovstal steel plant it is believed 200 civilians are sheltering there at the plant. women, children and wounded soldiers. at this moment the next stage of evacuations are underway. the united nations is hoping that a joint effort with the international red cross would be able to get more people out of that plant today. a medic on the inside says that people are dying in agony. bullets, hunger and a lack of medicine. now elsewhere, the pentagon is saying the russian forces made some small progress in parts of the eastern donbas region, but clearly not as much as the kremlin expected and hoped by this stage. let s bring in analyst kimberly dozer and former special forces operator mark hayward. he just returned home after vol
absolutely got to thank the 45th president of the united states donald j. trump. ladies and gentlemen, they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of donald trump s america first agenda. ladies and gentlemen, it ain t the death of the america first agenda. a source says the former president called vance to congratulate him, he was said to be relieved by vance s come from behind victory. trump won ohio in 2020 by 8 points. on the democratic side ten-term ohio congressman tim ryan easily won his senate primary and now will face vance in november. we will talk with tim ryan ahead. and the race for governor in ohio, mike dewine secured the nomination in his bid for a second term defeating four challengers, this was seen as something of a test or referendum on dewine s handling of covid. he is face off in november s general election with nan whaley, she beat former cincinnati mayor john cranley to win the democratic nomination. we have cnn s kristen
which appears to show new damage in recent strikes. also this morning, ukranian troops refusing to surrender the besieged city of mariupol, despite a deadline by forces. they are asked to agree today on a corridor. this hasas the u.s. sends anoth $800 million to ukraine, including weapons. matt, the mayor is urging the residents to evacuate, and it comes after state department officials said nato allies could be involved in helping civilians get to safety. this is new. what are you hearing? reporter: this is new, bianna, and it s something we know the people inside of that steel plant complex called for as early as yesterday. we spoke to, cnn spoke to the commander of the ukranian marines that are part of the ukranian resistance that is still holding out inside that steel plant yesterday. and what he said is he was calling for a third party country to basically be involved in an evacuation route, basically saying it would take a country outside ukraine and russia to kind of