Time. Deadline: white house starts right now. Hi, everyone. Happy monday. It s 4:00 in the east. Look all around the world today, and you will find the lessons and the warnings and the stark reminders of the incredibly high historic stakes of november s presidential election here and in the fight for democracy against autocracy. In france voters came out for parties on the left and center to deny the far right a chance at running the government for the first time since world war ii. It was a stunning upset made possible by an extraordinary effort by parties and voters from across that center to center left ideological spectrum to put aside differences and unite when faced with an authoritarian threat. Hundreds of miles away, the deadliest and most devastating war in europe since the second world war grinds on and has taken a grisly turn this weekend. Russia struck ukraine s largest children s hospital on monday as part of a barrage of strikes across that country vladimir putin shows no
Conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. He is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. He said this is a crisis of the president s own making. We have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. We ll go to the border in just a moment. John: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. I wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. Let s listen. Borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. John: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. What do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie. It s a lie. The borders are wide open. I have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. Thousands of being released every day into the united states, many with covid. 350,000 got
People should not make the dangerous journey. It s clear they re open. This man, rodney scott was president trump s and then president biden s chief of the u. S. Border patrol. He also worked in counter terrorism at the border in 29 years of service there. He recently wrote this letter to the leaders of the homeland security committee in the senate. I witnessed the unprecedented seismic shift in border security and immigration policy initiated january 20, 2021, the biden inaugural. This shift, he writes created the current crisis. He goes on to say contrary to the current rhetoric, this is not a surge, this is a national security threat. Low level unsophisticated and uneducated smugglers are crossing the border and evading apprehension daily to think that wellresourced terrorist networks, criminal organizations and hostile nations are not doing the same is naive. So here s what the president had to say just a short time ago. He s at the u. N. Today where he spoke. He never mentioned an
Markets performance today after that shellshock of a trading day yesterday? a lot of market technicians look at this stuff and say after a huge sell off, it s kind of nice to see the next day be an update. It wasn t. It was better than yesterday, but all of this comes at a time when there s growing pressure to see what happens in china could ever happen here. Most experts say no for the time being. But we have our own problems here. Debt ceiling breach that could come sooner than we think. They re pushing that off. We re going to talk to senator john thune about the republican effort to challenge the democrats for punting on this one. We ll get the read on that shortly. The battle overhandling all of this almost simultaneously. That could weigh on stocks as well. First, susan li on what happens to the earlier very strong update. Susan? not much of a rebound after the worst day for the stock market since mid may on monday. It was all over the place. Google investors trying to figure out
The people you work with, the people you care about, people you love. You ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin and refusal has cost all of us. So please do the right thing. Maria: look over here, not over there at the massive blunder in afghanistan. 13 military heroes dead, a nation still mourning. 20 years after the worst attack on our country. So who is accountable and will any heads roll? coming up antony blinken on the hot seat tomorrow, testifying and the first republican to question him is here with us this morning. Texas congressman michael mccaul, the ranking member on the foreign affairs committee gears up. Ramifications of shutting down bagram airbase as china looks to move in. Plus the call that no one is talking about. Joe biden and xi xinping, on the phone for 90 minutes this week but the origins of covid did not come up. Florida congressman michael waltz, the first green beret ever elected to congress, a veteran of the war in afghanistan, assesses the china t