are sent to the northeast be the encounters last month top 200 30,000 people. that is the highest august ever on record. we are live at ground zero for the surge in the texas town with the mayor there has just declared a migrant emergency. hello everyone and welcome to foxfox news live by eric shawn. arthel: hello everyone i am arthel neville. another big story we are watching for you. we are three days away from the second republican primary debates, seven candidates will take the stage at the ronald reagan a presidential library that is going to happen and simi valley, california. before coming up we will hear from one of those candidates, vivek ramaswamy is here alive. he will join us and discuss what he will say at that debates. and get his reaction to the new stunning washingt washington pa poll that shows former president trump way ahead of president biden. arthel: we are going to begin at the southern border were large groups of migrants are pouring in that daily aft
hearings, and i ve covered dozens of them. when a top presidential aide is facing a hostile committee, the lawmakers conduct something of an inquisition, and the witness eventually jabs back at what he or she considers unfair questioning. so the stage was set when the house oversight committee began pummeling merrick garre canland for hours on the hunter biden investigation. but the attorney general was use as a punching bag, he did not punch back. instead, he repeated the same basic answer over and over and over again. he had named david weiss, a delaware federal prosecutor who had been running the investigation, as special counsel and stayed out of it. mr. weiss was a longstanding career prosecutor, was pointed appointed by president trump. i m not permitted to discuss ongoing investigations. mr. weiss is an experienced federal prosecutor with extensive experience and with sufficient credibility to be appointed by president trump. i just have no grounds for interfering.