we are 700% over capacity bret: we have fox team coverage along the border in southern california where migrants from all over the world are heading into the u.s. but we would began with white house correspondent kristin fisher and the administration finally allowing the media inside a migrant housing center. brett, this is the first time the biden administration has allowed the press and the american people to see what it s really like inside one of these crowded border patrol facilities. steps in the right direction towards more transparency at the border. this is where the actual processing takes place. acting officer in the rio grande valley, a sector that s become ground zero for the recent surge in illegal border crossings. he says the capacity and the temporary processing facility down in texas is just 250 people during the pandemic, 1,000 during normal time, but now they are at more than 4,000. we are way overcapacity, 700% overcapacity. 1200 our children
bill: in is the quote that strikes you. the border is secure. the border is closed. i don t know how you rate that based on what we are reporting so far. that doesn t seem to match up with reality. there has been very little, if any, access the media has been held out from it. the pictures you just saw from a democratic congress member whose district spans that area of texas. dana: we ll talk to local mayors on the front lines. the numbers are staggering. officials are encountering close to 600 unaccompanied minors every day. as of saturday 1,000 kids have been held by border patrol for more than 10 days. the biden administration says the situation is being handled but republicans call it a free for all. are you thinking of going to the border? i will at some time. i know what s going on in those facilities. the border is secure. the border is closed. we ve been unequivocal in that and we re operationalizing our processes, executing our plans. the border is wide o
spending $86 million to put up migrant families in hotels, john. john: also, sandra, axios reporting as of saturday border patrol held more than 3,300 unaccompanied minors past the legal 72-hour holding period. agents in the rio grande valley released about 150 illegal crossers without giving them a court date. jeff self, a 33-year veteran with customs and border protection standing by for us. sandra: i m looking forward to what he has to say but we begin with grif jenkins live from tijuana for us with an exclusive look inside a migrant tent there. grif, hello. kick things off for us. what are you seeing? good afternoon. sandra and john, remember the day one promise from president biden to undo remain in mexico? it s caused camps like this one in tijuana at the foot of the bridge, the pedestrian bridge to san ysidro, california, to absolutely swell. they saw the people getting loud and waiting for the m.v.p. to go across and that has brought more. we have upward of 1,00
on his case later. # walk on, walk on. and tributes to gerry marsden, the singer of ‘you ll never walk alone‘ who s died at the age of 78. hello and welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the globe. a recording has been released which appears to show president trump trying to persuade a senior republican official to find enough votes to overturn joe biden‘s victory in georgia. the washington post says the audio is from an hour long phone call with georgia s secretary of state. according to the newspaper mr trump alternately flattered, berated and threatened brad raffensperger to get him to recalculate the vote in his favour. 0ur reporter paul hawkins has the details. impeachment, the russian scandal and catching covid in the middle of a pandemic. the trump presidency has been a rollercoaster ride so on one level we shouldn t be surprised. after all, donald trump himself said. losing is never easy, not for me, it s not. but on another level, no one could have fore
justice. we were a half step away from a constitutional crisis, a full-blown constitutional crisis. that s committee chairman dick durbin, and he s understating it. the report is the most comprehensive account we have so far of what if we were talking about it happening anyplace but here would be described as a coup attempt. a coup attempt as seen through the eyes of some of the people in the room, in the oval office even as key decisions were made in the effort leading up to the attack on the capitol to overturn the will of the american people. now, one of nine attempts to pressure the justice department to undermine the election. yet as horrifying as the details are and the attack was, it may still be tempting to file it away as just another collection of the latest in a series of such horrifying accounts. we ve all gotten pretty numb to it. and that s understandable. but it s certainly a mistake. it s not like reading william shier s rise and fauflt third reich when i