they re still grappling with at this key time, caitlin. yeah major questions, manu and i should note we are now hearing that president biden and senator schumer spoke before president biden shared the letter announcing online that he was exiting the 2024 race. manu. thank you. for that cnn breaking news hello, and thanks very much for joining us. i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. kaitlan collins is joining us from new new york. and i want to begin with the major breaking news. we re following right now, president biden just announced that he s dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and publicly endorsing vice president kamala harris as the democratic presidential nominee. he made this truly historic announcement in a statement he tweeted out just before 2:00 p.m. eastern earlier today stunning decision that he kept very close to his vest, alerting as senior white house advisers and campaign s
democracy. we remember that it s not at all how things work and many other places or ever have. they don t have representatives. in most places and times, if you wanted to take over a country, first you had to control its military. the guys with guns. the army is essential for political control. government dictates have no meaning without the credible threat of force to back them up. guns are two laws is what gold is to paper currency. value and strength in a democratic system. the military serves to protect the entire population no matter who they voted for. that s what democracy is. in an authoritarian system of the armies the enforcement apparatus of a specific political party. that s the difference between the two systems. it s worth remember and that given what we are seeing happen all around the world right now. the german defense ministry recently announced its dismantling its best to train special operations unit. dozens of operators have recently been fired. none hav
welcome to all of you. we have a civil rights attorney and the search is on. the fbi went looking through hi home where his parents live. the focus is trying to search t the massive nature preserve. they called off the search citing dangerous waters with alligators and snake. they are not doing an autopsy o the body that matches her description but we do not expec confirmation until today. for some brand-new insight into the case. we drove by them and the gentleman was slapping the girl. he tossed her in the car and they drove off. if in fact this was going on i know you are an attorney. if they were having problems before what does that communicate the? there was a potential crime and there may be a history of domestic violence. arthritis we know the fbi has a search warrant. they need to have probable caus of some sort of criminal activity. they did not take this type of aggressive action. they must know a lot more in th public does at this point for them to get a searc
conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the president s own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. we ll go to the border in just a moment. john: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let s listen. borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie. it s a lie. the borders are wide open. i have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. thousands of being released every day into the united states, many with
mostly haitian illegal immigrants crammed under a bridge in south texas last week. and they are still there right now. things are so bad it s not just republicans sounding the alarm as obama s dhs secretary jeh johnson, well, he is also crying uncle. we have to get control of our borders. 200,000 a month is a lot of people. dhs just released the numbers for august, it s 200,000. august is typically a month where it s very low. and those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience saps the ability. it overwhelms the ability of ths, the border patrol, ice,. pete: overwhelmed. unable to ignore the crisis any longer the white house sent current homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas down to texas with a shall we say weak message for these illegal immigrants. we are very concerned the haitians who are taking this irregular migration path are receiving false information that the border is open or the temporary protected status is available. i want to