have been allowed to cross. healthy average american neanderthal want to live in an open state. they let people go across the border. wins las vegas. great job. ainsley: good morning to you. it is 6:01 here on the east coast. thanks for waking up with us. brian is back. he was down there in florida. brian: i was with you on friday. like you never missed me. ainsley: you went to interview desantis that was shot so beautifully. his wife is so cute. they have all their kids in the governor s mansion with him. you will see the whole interview. brian: a couple of parts spending the day in florida where you can walk around. people are happy. they wear masks inside when they are supposed to. they can walk outside alone without one. it is interesting. steve: that will come up in half an hour. ainsley: steve and brian spent a lot of time in florida. i will come with you all. steve: florida is where the action is. it is 22 degrees in new york city. we re going up to 60 tomorr
most all of them officials say, here, there is a non-government organization that has been providing help, trying to contain the covid threat here. he says that it was at a minimum but we don t know because they re all across the border. meanwhile texas governor greg abbott in a fight with the white house now because he says he is not happy about the number of migrants who were released that could pose a covid threat. let me give you a number the officials will not confirm but i have from a senior source at cpb. they tell me that since january they have released upwards of 11,000 migrants. compare that to 2020, the number was approximately 1000. however, at the white house, press secretary jen psaki says this is actually on abbott because they offered him money for covid testing. here is some of her pushback. this is what she said. the governor complained about testing at the border. people marks dhs, has offered, has worked with local
to offer some testing. but when theys cross, for example, in brownsville, texas, it s the city of brownsville that s doing the testing. that s how we learned the migrants that were released, the 108. but here s what s a little bit concerning, steve, and that is ultimately dhs is not releasing the number of people they re just releasing into the community. i am, from a source, that number s about 11,000, but we don t know the percentage of who has and who has not been tested. that s what s so concerning about the threat. brian: yeah. this is a crisis no matter how you slice it. thanks so much, griff. whether it s change of address forms, that s an issue. we had 71,000 people there, they just seem to have left. what was wrong with the remain in mexico policy? mexico did the not have a problem with it let s bring in arkansas senator tom cotton. senator, this is a crisis any way you slice it, and when jen psaki says on friday if you re a
family and for work, and that s all we re asking for. at the end i m going to be with the family. i could cross illegally. reporter: so jorge s clearly coming one way or another. we know in the sector directly across the river some 2100 apprehensions in the last 24 hours x that bus stop where we had last week 108 migrants that tested positive for covid, they would be literally across the river and a few blocks away. now, the above of texas, greg ab governor of texas the, greg abbott, is very upset, but the white house says it s abbott s fault. here s what jen psaki said at the white house. the governor has complained about testing at the border. fema, dhs has offered, has worked with local authorities, local ngos to come up with a plan that would cover 100% of
testing costs for migrants, and he has declined that funding. reporter: so this camp is empty. they ve all been let into the u.s. the migrants are here in the mat horas, in matamoras, in a dangerous city. we ve learned the white house led that team with dhs secretary mayorkas over here this weekend, because this is ground zero for what s happening on our southern border. steve: griff, just by virtue of the fact that you re wearing a mask, obviously, end coronavirus is a concern down there. when the migrants go into the federal u.s. government facility, are they tested? because we know when they come out, they re tested by by the ngos, the nongovernment organizations, that really don t have the authority to tell people to stop. reporter: so the testing happens. the ngos on the mexican side of the border have been trying