we have breaking news first to get to at this hour. almost 20 republican senators are at the southern border. they said lack of media access forced them to see the situation for themselves. this comes after president biden promised border transparency but we have seen little of that so far. the president has no immediate plans to head the border where the bigle policy crisis of his young presidency is playing out. two separate groups of lawmakers are there. democrats wrapping up a press conference a short time ago. we await the republican senators. let s bring in former acting ice director under president trump. a sound bite from joe biden yesterday that was at odds with the rest what have he said when he asked people to come to the border to surge to the border during the debate. watch this. why are some not going back? because mexico is refusing to take them back. they are saying they won t take them back. not all of them. we are in negotiations with the president of me
bill: we ll get a live report on the ground in alabama in a mooment here. not even the heart of the tornado season yet. dana: very powerful storms and we have five people that have lost their lives and there might be more. a reporter is headed there and we ll be able to get some on the ground update. bill: it s friday, i m bill. dana. dana: one of the most complicated jumpsuit trying to figure it out. president biden had his first formal press conference yesterday taking questions from 10 reporters, none from fox. one of the biggest takeaways photographers caught the president relying on pre-written notes with talking points. kristin fisher has more from the white house on all of this. i was dying to find out what you thought about all this. catch us up. one of the other big takeaways, zero questions about the coronavirus or reopening schools but a ton of questions on immigration. despite his own department of homeland security saying the u.s. is on pace for the wor
democrats win the white house and the senate, georgia becomes the first state to enact restrictive, new voting measures. the question is, will they hold up in court? and the mystery out west after large streaks light up the night sky. the question is, was it something from out of this world? it is definitely way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that thinks the only thing we seem to be missing is an alien invasion! i am kasie hunt on this friday. yes, it is friday, march 26th. we will start with the news. republicans in georgia have just adopted a sweeping, new election law, just months after the state helped democrats take control of washington. fueled in large part by donald trump s big lie about election fraud, the law tightens voter i.d. requirements for absentee ballots, a direct response to the surge of mail-in ballots during the pandemic that helped joe biden narrowly defeat trump in the state. it shortens the early vot
something we saw a lot of in the last election, especially in black neighborhoods. and it expands the legislature s power over elections, raising fears that republicans could interfere in predominantly democratic counties. last night governor brian kemp tried to justify the changes this way. listen. after the november election last year, i knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed. there was no doubt there were many alarming issues with how the election was handled and those problems understandably led to the crisis of competence in the ballot box here in georgia. from just two years ago when kemp defended the system that elected him governor, saying, quote, we have laws on the books that prevent elections from being stolen from anyone. the crisis of confidence he talks about didn t come from any actual voter fraud because, remember, georgia s ballots were counted three times with the same result. all of this came from donald t
peter doocy pressing jen psaki as criticism rains down on the biden administration from both sides of the aisle. 5,000 still left. where is everybody else? i m happy to get you a more fruitful rundown if it s helpful from the department of homeland security. what about the rest? if it s 10% or 15% i don t have the resize numbers. dana: now the biden administration is blocking border agents from patrolling on horse back. well oh he speak with a former mounlted border agent who says this is completely foolish. we re at the border in del rio, texas. what a difference a few days makes. incredible earlier in the week there were 15,000 migrants camped out underneath this bridge in del rio, texas. crews are out here actively clearing away what remains of this camp. probably around a couple hundred people left right now still camped out. where these folks are going and where the massive group went, a portion of the group has been deported back to haiti, around 2,000. 3900