tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the appalachian trail. but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. and counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, baring it all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford s career. it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens of south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor? a mystery tonight in south carolina. the state s governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. governor alert: the search for mark sanfor
show. jesse: see you soon. bret: good evening, breaking tonight we are following several major stories the biden administration is taking major criticisms over its withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan in 2021. it s all coming out in a fiery hearing on capitol hill. we ll take you there. first up though, a new ruling from the u.s. supreme court on the border crisis. justices just ruled 6-3 that texas can arrest migrants suspected of crossing into the country illegally and send them back home. it s a significant setback for the president s policies. correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight live from the justice department. good evening, david. hello, bret. this order from the u.s. supreme court as divisive as the issue of immigration enforcement itself. it is a classic fight between the federal government and local government when it documents law enforcement. and, right now, texas is winning the legal battle. let s take a live look at our fox news drone came
united states of scandal is next for our country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy we sure do love a strong man from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality, and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream of begins tonight. [cheering] so there s this honest politician named eliot spitzer, a white knig
tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the appalachian trail. but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. and counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, baring it all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford s career. it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens of south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor? a mystery tonight in south carolina. the state s governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. governor alert: the search for mark sanford.
tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the appalachian trail. but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. and counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, baring it all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford s career. it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens of south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor? a mystery tonight in south carolina. the state s governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. governor alert: the search for mark sanford.