john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
trump won. nancy mace took the primary defeating trump s preferred candidate, katie arrington. and in texas republican mayra flores flipped a democratic house district where 85% of residents are latino. senator marco rubio says it is a sign the gop is making big gains among that voting block. it is severe losses by democrats. so-called hispanic activitys or people who claim to speak for hispanics but everyday voters and people aren t the same thing. hispanics don t want to pay $5 for gas or criminals running the streets or schools trying to convince their son that he is their daughter. it is voting against the party responsible for those policies. dana: alicia has more for us. this is interesting and exactly what the national republican party was banking on here because it dumped more than $1 million on tv ads alone on this special election in a traditionally democratic district and the candidate is now congresswoman mayra flores filling the remaining months in office,
gillian, nice to have you here in new york. here is harris now on the faulkner focus. harris: we begin with a fox news alert. three high profile courtroom visits in focus. former president donald trump talking with the media and directly to the voters on his way into court today. president biden s son, hunter biden, was in and out relatively quickly on federal gun charges. and it is jury selection day in the case against accused crypto crook sam bankman-fried. from the legal cases to a congressman carjacked at gun point. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. let s begin with the who something-year-old son of president. hunter had to take a drug test today and passed with a negative result from drugs. he arrived and left the delaware courthouse all in under an hour. he faces three charges, two for lying on federal gun forms and another for illegally possessing a firearm while using drugs. his plea not guilty. the arraignment coming after his controversia
l.l.j. cool j. and joan shengang shanga god save the queen, man. john: and the gaffes just keep on coming. in a few minutes, press secretary karine jean-pierre will face tough questions over president biden s electability, two new polls are raising concerns over his ability to keep the white house in 2024. all of this brings up a crucial question, should he step aside as the 2024 democratic nominee and realistically how difficult to replace him. juan williams, chris bedford, steve hilton and arkansas governor sarah sanders, straight ahead. i recognize this will be the biggest fight yet but as i have stated throughout this whole process, i firmly believe when all the facts are presented, not only will i be exonerated but still will be the new jersey senior senator. john: bob menendez not stepping down as he defends his 17-year record days after the feds charged him and his wife on several counts of bribery and conspiracy. i m john roberts, welcome to monday.
colleagues fed up. it s an unmitigated disaster, right now on the majority side, this is stupidity. the idea that we are going to shut the government down, when we don t control the senate, we don t control the, white house these people cannot define a, when they don t know how to take yes for an answer. it s a clown show. you gave running a, lunatics you re gonna be in this position. i am disappointed, i am kissed, off it was showing the government, then everyone that s usually where dysfunctional, it s just that simple. we are dysfunctional. the homeland security secretary sat with a key meeting this afternoon, the border as well as the biden administration deals with the migrant crisis, then you ve got the uaw expanding its strikes as thousands of workers from the picket lines, and millions dealing with the impacts making landfall, bringing heavy rain, and potential flooding, power outages as well. all of that plus more calls for the resignation of majority