top of the hour now, and texas governor greg abbott is pushing back at the threat of the justice department lawsuit vowing that he is ready for a major legal showdown over these floating barriers in the rio grande. he finally misseded this afternoon deadline to commit to removing the 1,000-foot barrier. in a recent letter to abbott, doj is saying that it violates humanitarian law, and risks public safety and the environment. rosa flores is right there by the river there in eagle pass, texas. describe the folks that are seeing this or hearing from this from afar, and looks like it, and frankly, what is this accomplishling well, it is accomplishing nothing. this is defiance on the border. this legal battle is over the buoys that you can see in the middle of the rio grande. these buoys were delaeted koulg this is an international boundary the rio grande and there are treaties that flow between the u.s. and mexico, and the top diplomat shaving violate to, and that they could
then i under 60, but the special got no and without them. kaitlan collins joins us with the latest reporting. also tonight, the justice department investigating what it calls, troubling reports on texas border authorities allegedly pushing migrants back into the rio grande and denying them water. we ll have a live report from the southern border and later knew details about what motivated a u.s. army private to race across the dmz into north korea. the good evening, thank you for joining, us a lot to get to tonight, we begin with behind the scenes drama unfolding as the former president faces a possible in as many months. the grand jury hearing the evidence the case is expected to meet tomorrow, and indictment if there is one key come at that. sources tell cnn the 2020 election case seems to be bigger than trump s legal legal team may have been expecting, in part because of the wide scope of the charges mentioned in the target letter the former president received. their depri
open to a run on the no labels ticket. here is manchin in the critical early voting state of new hampshire. i i m in races to win. the democrat and republican party that has a better model, their business model is better, you are divided. harris: recent polling my gave manchin optimism. 1/4 of voters surveyed said they would support a third party candidate if the election were held today. compare that with just 9% ahead of the 2020 election. fox news correspondent molly line kicking off our coverage now. molly. senator joe manchin rather artfully dodged the question whether or not he would head up the third party ticket saying they put the cart before the horse. manchin head lined in the first in the nation primary state of new hampshire alongside former governor of utah. it was hosted by no labels, a political group laying the ground work to support a potential third party unity ticket securing ballot access in five states. both manchin and huntsman spokes with bret ba
what evidence does the special counsel have against trump. trump s legal team wants to know. the lead starts right now. it is a scramble for trump s lawyers as their client faces a potential third indictment and second federal indictment. what does the special counsel know that team trump does not and how will donald trump hanle the invitation for him to appear before a grand jury by tomorrow. and a new photo of the american soldier detained in north korea. why did he run across the border into the hermit kingdom? a saw is telling what she noticed about the moment. and plus signs of life. the new grainy video suggesting that yevgeny prigozhin might be alive. this is weeks after his revolt in russia. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start with our law and justice lead. and in what could be an unprecedented third criminal indictment and second federal criminal indictment against former president trump. for his unprecedented actions. today trump s lawyers
that target letter. the legal statute that could guide the case. trump blasting it as interference in this election, so is he poised to be indicted again? police in alabama speaking out about carlee russell, who claims she was abducted for two days saying they can t verify her initial statement to detectives. what her online search history revealed. new insights about the u.s. soldier who ran into north korea. a member of his tour group telling our reporter how he suddenly bolted out of the demilitarized zone. what his family is telling us. plus, why he had been jailed in south korea for a month before being detained in north korea. flash flood emergency in kentucky after almost a foot of record-setting rain. a tornado rips through north carolina doing major damage to a pfizer facility. and passengers on stretchers taken off a las vegas plane with no working ac as a brutal heat wave sets records across the planet. two irs whistle-blowers telling congress why they