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
By the thousands with hundreds more massing on the rio grande river, preparing to enter the u. S. Illegally, and the biden administration in damage control mode after the defense department admits that the drone strike last month killed ten civilians, not isisk terrorists. Arthel: bill melugin on the border in del rio, texas. But first, the gabby petito case. Lauren green on the search for the missing 22yearold with, and now to charles watson live in northport, florida, with the deepingenning mystery deepening mystery. Reporter: there s no shortage of twists and turns when it comes to this story. You ve got a search for gabby petito out west, and now investigators in northport, florida, searching for her boyfriend, brian laundrie, as investigators fear he could be in danger after going missing for days. We just heard from the northport police department a short time ago who tell us about 50 officers including fbi agents are on the ground conducting a search of a 25,000 acre wooded area
The capsule will do a couple of burns to slow it down, and lose altitude. As they start to interfere with earth s atmosphere, they have to zero to four times their body weight. That is me after a thanksgiving meal. As close i get to space travel is space ice cream. I love space ice cream. Here we go. Top of the hour, with the horn. Great to see you. If you are sticking with us, thank you. If you are just joining us, welcome. I am here in washington, d. C. , covering the capital d. C. Rally, a small group of republican extremists, i was in the thisk it a short while ago. A review, the barriers behind the stage. And barriers in front of the capitol building. I was able to talk to the few who gathered, and the organizer, it seemed to we are asking for our turn, a right to recognize peaceful protest is the way to go. What happened on january 6th should never happen again. It should be organized. And equal justice under law. Many who participated that day, are locked up for a very long time
Lived through january 6th and will be on duty again this weekend, an undercurrent of fear remains. Quote, am i scared? absolutely, an officer told the post. This saturday rally forces a traumatized police force to once again protect the capitol from protesters who openly sympathize with the people who attacked them the first time. Take a listen to what the officers told the january 6 select committee back in july. On january 6th for the first time i was more afraid to work at the capitol in my entire deployment to iraq. I witnessed the rioters using all kinds of weapons against officers including flagpoles, metal bike racks that they had torn apart, and various kind of projectiles. Officers were being bloodied in the fighting. Many were screaming and many were blinded and coughing from chemical irritants being sprayed in their faces. As my physical injuries gradually subsided and the adrenaline that had stayed with me for weeks waned, i ve been left with the psychological trauma and th
Tensions this week which are more about the future than any history of january 6 which trump supporters are invoking that fateful day as an alleged injustice to them and they want to use this gathering they say to address that. But there are many contrasts here to january. Instead of a federal government helped by a supporter of the big lie, today the biden administration condemns violence and is taking no chances on preparation. Authorities planning to erect temporary fencing around the capitol this week before the rally begins and doing everything they can to prevent any hint that there could be anything like a rerun. Now, the last probe here that we ve been covering, the probe into the last time continues. There s heat on government officials who may have been more secretly helpful to those criminal insurrectionists as they went on. Take donald trump s top aide at the time, chief of staff mark meadows. We re learning about just how he is one of the targets that the house committee i