john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse. it would surpass the population of houston if title 42 is not renewed. 18,000 pouring into border states every day. bill joins us from the border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there? john, good afternoon to you. del rio sector getting hammered with activity, nearly 2,000 illegal crossings in just 24 hours, an
for the fed. they feel it could trigger a recession. john: gasoline prices record for the 10th straight day. average price now 4.58. and the cover the new york post summing it up, a picture of president biden riding a train right off the rails next to the words joe s train wreck. bret baier and larry kudlow will join us to break down the economic head winds facing the white house. gillian: jackie will join us in a moment, but first aishah hasnie at the white house. what is the messaging on the economy. we are waiting to find out, the president departed to east asia, and ten days in a row we have broken a record for gas. every state is spending more than $4 a gallon. households spend $5,000 a year. it could get worse. prices will surpass $6 nationwide by august. and get this, a gas station chain called 76 reprogramming pumps in washington state to sell gas at $10 a gallon. that s unbelievable. the white house responding to all of this by saying it s already released oil
Before the election, tweeted computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the trump organization to a russian bank. and jake sullivan said this secret hotline said it may be the key to unlocking the mystery of trump s ties to russia. and michael sussmann on trial behind me said he had evidence of a secret communication back channel between the trump communication and a russian bank with ties to the kremlin. sussmann said he was delivering it on his own as a concerned citizen, not on behalf of clients, including the campaign. but durham says sussmann billed the campaign for the private fbi meeting. and mock said he did not know
Sussmann and said of the fbi, we did not trust them. still, mock and his team were ok with sharing this information to the media who then disseminated it to the public. before mock fbi james baker finished his third day on the stand, him walking in with the glasses, he met with sussmann at the fbi and says sussmann came to the meeting armed with copy documents and two thumb drives. james baker is the central witness in the case, it s about the sussmann-baker meeting and baker has said different things about if sussmann said he was coming on behalf of a client and that s really what special counsel durham s case is about. remains to be seen if that will affect the special counsel case. no question, this is a come shell from the former campaign manager. john: and why did he blurt this out, was it strategic?
gillian: so after this meeting, the sussmann-baker meeting, james baker thinks to himself wow, they laid out this connection. the trump campaign is communicating with russian banks, this is pretty serious, i better brief the fbi director so he goes and he briefs james comey. so, take a look at this. a quote from baker s testimony on briefing comey, and also briefed andrew mccabe about this information from sussmann. he says it seemed to me of great urgency and seriousness i would want to make my bosses aware of the information, i think they were quite concerned about it. so goes from being a clinton campaign sort of, i guess opposition research item to a national security issue that the fbi director is allegedly worried about. well, you know, what john durham has done with this prosecution is make it clear how