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
jacob soberoff, and garrett we will start with you. we have a surge in migrant children. there is a scarcity of shelter beds. what will fema s assistance mean for the situation now at the border? well, fema is the federal government s emergency logistics experts. that s why they show up after hurricanes and natural disasters. their goal is to try to alleviate the overcrowding situation. the border patrol stations here and at hhs shelters that are limited in how much they can take. so they re hoping to expeditiously move the minors. while that s going on you talk about the political battle here. they re trying to lay all of this at the feet of the biden administration, and they give important context that i got from veronica escobar last night, look at what she told me. part of why ibristle at the terms that there is a crisis at the border is because they want to ignore what is causing it. the real crisis is what is happening in the northern triangle. and what happens to t
Loss of life. i will do everything in my power to help maui recover and rebuild from this tragedy. really trying to lean on his past tragedies to really try to comfort people, something we ve heard the president do time and time again over the course of his tenure. you re right. he is going under an air of scrutiny. he was not only criticized by republicans but by others who say he did not give the attention. part of his presence is going to be refuting these accusations and trying to show he is bringing full government approach to it. i want to just read you some of the some of what fema and the white house has already been able to deliver to hawaii because this will be important. that also includes $8 million in assistance and $25 million in
Tropical storm that could bring a torrential rain to southern california and nevada but there s also the threat of mudslides and even tornadoes. is the very affluent situation. at this time we are working with the national weather service and the national hurricane center to make sure we have the most up-to-date information. from what we know right now there will be the potential for significant flooding anywhere from four 6 inches, that could change very rapidly. corkscrews aren t working hard they are sandbagging low-lying areas parts of southern california and arizona put law-enforcement telling people to be ready to possibly lose power. they say if you have to get out of your house have your bags packed and ready to go but presidential bites of the federal government is ready and willing to help. what fema has pre-position personnel and supplies throughout the region for their ready to respond as needed. i urge everyone, everyone in the
Fema is ever needed, we want to preserve our rights to be able to ask them for help. so to make sure that fema is ever needed in the future to help residents we ll preemptively file a document with fema preserve our rights if we need their assistance in the future. we believe that the railroad should continue to pay. we will insist that they pay whatever damages have been caused, the railroad is responsible for those damages. we are filing this paper with fema just in case in the future we need that. let s say the railroad stops paying for whatever reason we ll still go after the railroad but we want to make sure that there will be support for people if that support does, in fact, stop from the railroad.