coming up texas governor greg abbott on sending a tenth bus filled with migrants right to joe biden s doorstep in washington, d.c. also, the king of this information lectures upon disinformation and censorship. the first amendment is a check of the power of the state. it does not apply for private companies like facebook or twitter and it s not necessary for people to believe misinformation in order to weaken democratic institutions. you just have to flood a countries public square with enough raw sewage. maria: prompter coming up the former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on durham s findings and biden s dangerous iran deal. in the poorest of them all joe biden doubling down on the influence peddling cover-up. had the great pleasure of being listed for congress this year. i m still making a hell of a lot more money than anybody else because i was getting a salary. no kidding i didn t think you should make money while you re in office. maria: some fact ch
i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hello eric hello everyone i m arthel neville. president zelensky announced a plan bidding yesterday it is the first american delegation especially once the defense secretary arrives, to be on ukrainian soil since the war began. that meeting is one of several big stories we are following this hour over in france, projections show voters have reelected president emmanuel macron for a second term paid his far right challenger marine le pen conceded about two hours ago back at home the search for missing soldier for the third day he went missing friday after jumping into the rio grande river to save to migrants who appear to be drowning. authorities say those migrants are suspected of drug runners from mexico. will have more stories on that story in a moment but right now are going to get the latest from ukraine, trey yingst is live in kyiv. arthel good afternoon per the reports of those critical u.s. officials here on the ground in kyiv come
stand of solidarity with ukrainian people. but for now, tomorrow he ll be visited by the secretary of state and by the secretary of defense for lot more on that in just a moment. but first a tragic update from the southern border that search for a missing texas national guard soldier is now a recovery mission but we are told he never surfaced yesterday. after heroically diving into the russian current of the rio grande river to rescue illegal immigrants were struggling to cross into our country from mexico across the other side. hello everyone welcome to fox to slide by eric shawn, hi arthel. arthel: hello everyone i am arthel neville by the crisis of the southern border continues with no end in sight. latest numbers from customs and border protection show agents encountered more than 221,000 migrants trying to cross illegally last month. that is the most since 2000 and pray those numbers are expected to go even higher if president biden forges ahead with his plan to repeal t
that the biden administration is primarily responsible despite the president s attempt to blame vladimir putin let s bring anna markey s managing director of the stag will group and chairman of the harris poll, mark. the president, 40% approval, that is lousy for this stage of a presidency. how do you explain it? i think the problem is the biggest issue in the country right now is inflation and the president receives his lowest ratings about 35% approval on that very issue. if he does not get moving on the economy and the economic concerns of everyday americans, this is going to be a very tough mid term let alone an attempt at reelection for. the white house is attempting to sound the economic point what, got great job growth and got growth we ve got nominal wages rising but you say inflation is dwarfing all that economic news? absolutely. they are willing to give him a little better rating on creating jobs but it really doesn t matter they think the economy is in the w
time right now. so that is yet to materialize. we ll see. so much breaking news. welcome, everybody, happy to see you this weekend. we re trying to get to the bottom of exactly what s going on there. what we know without doubt is that the russian assault not only in mariupol, but the eastern and southern part of the country is running very strong, and a record number of sorties over the past 24 hours. let s get the latest from matt finn. matt. reporter: neil, it s just a dire standoff at the steel plant in mariupol. vladimir putin said he would stop bombing that plant and instead barricade it, basically forcing the people inside to starve or surrender, but now ukraine says russia has resumed bombing on that plant. an estimated 2,000 yaiben marines ukrainian marines along with civilians have been holed up in tunnels underneath the plant, and now we re getting some of our first glimpses. new video released by the ukrainian military appear to show women and children hiding i