house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can t say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren t doing that. when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all along the
reporter: interesting tone for the lawmakers not going after director sullivan, not blasting him, if you will, but certainly blasting the behavior on that trip in columbia, jon. jon: i would not want to be that director right now testifying in front of that committee. mike emanuel, thank you. and jenna we ll be talking go ahead. jenna: that s okay. i will be talking with senator lieberman coming up a little later on. we have a lot of questions with him including what is happening with iran and the latest story about what the white house allowed hollywood to see when it came to the osama bin laden raid. lots coming up in half an hour with senator lieberman. new warnings that the u.s. economy will likely sink back into recession if tax cuts are allowed to expire, and spending cuts are also made. the congressional budget office, the cbo predicts the scheduled tax hikes along with automatic spending cuts will shrink the federal deficit but may also stall the economy. so consequence to
secret service sex scandal. hi, i m jenna lee. welcome to a brand-new hour of happening now. jon: apologizing for the behavior of agents who hired prostitutes while on official business in columbia. bringing women back to their owe hells ahead of the president s visit. i just think that between the alcohol, and i don t know, the environment, these individuals did some really dumb things. and i just can t explain why they would have done what they would do but i will tell you that i do not believe they did it because they believed this type of behavior would be tolerated. we have a zero tolerance for this type of behavior. i cannot figure out why they did what they did. jon: well mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more about that controversy. what s been the tone of the