Reason is border is not secure is donald trump and his maga republican friends. You see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. We dont know where they come from. Bill you get the tale of two borders today. President biden and former President Trump will be on the u. S. Mexican border in different locations. Dueling visits could not be more different. Dana has the week off. Im bill hemmer in new york city. Happy leap day to everybody. Welcome back to you in new york. Gillian. Gillian is it tomorrow . I dont know. Bill every four years were here. Gillian this is americas newsroom. Former President Trump is heading to eagle pass in texas. Thats the heart of the current iteration of this Border Crisis. Agents have apprehended over 2,000 migrants in the past five days. Bill p President Biden is going to brownsville. Agents have nabbed a few dozen migrants this week. The city is protected by razor wire. Gillian the problem has spiraled out of control and could be
enormous, four times, 200,000 people. that s just since we got into the christmas month of december, folks. not even over yet this month. many of them taking advantage of places where the border wall is broken or damaged by the cartels. this is my current fascination with this story. because the smugglers and the cartels just go out there and they cut through the fence. there s so many holes in the fence right now that workers work to fix them and they ve done it so many times that the washington post says parts of the barrier look like something out of a sculpture garden or mad max movie. joining me now, former new york republican congressman, lee zeldin along with the five co host jessica tarlov. we ll take you to the border. bill melugin with his live coverage today in lukeville, arizona. hi, bill. hi, martha. good afternoon. you re right. the border wall here gets cut every day. doesn t matter how many times border patrol fixes it. this is what happens when there s
border state democrats. the ability to close four wide gaps in yuma will better protect migrants that could drown in a low section hoff the colorado river. the biden administration must do much more. even if we build new walls, if you have the department of justice, the biden administration incentivizing and criminalizing people coming here and the consequences, you ll continue to see this escalating violence and americans dying. the white house claims this is not a flip-flop on the border wall. we re not finishing a wall. we re cleaning up the mess that the prior administration made. we re trying to save lives, this is what the prior administration left behind that we re cleaning up. since migrants starting arriving in washington d.c., mayor bowser wants to call in the d.c. national guard. they say due to a significant uptick from covid-19, the readiness of the d.c. guard has been severely degraded and the d.c. national guard does not have a standing domestic respons
mural bowser facing a legal setback over vaccine mandates tonight but the fight over the vaccination for students in the nation s capitol is not over. many are minorities. this is now her policy sparking backlash from the naacp. dr. marty is making a house call for us tonight. he joins us live. he tragedy lost his 21-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose by accident. his music continues to bless and inspire after walking through a very dark valley. stick around with a live interview with gramley award winning artist tobey mack. the affidavit laid for the groundwork for the fb, fbi s raid of mar-a-lago. kevin corke has more. last night we said with good reason the affidavit would be heavily redacted. it was. we said it would present uncorroborated allegations. it does. we also said it would paint a picture that would lay out accusations in such a way as to impugn the former president s motivations for having the documents and questions and we were right about that, too. th
rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i