chances of any kind of wider regional conflict are >> actually there? they're right now. we've done everything we could do diplomatically to head this off and have a lot of people pressuring the iranians. the uranian economies or mesh, they've had actually soldiers walk off the job because you're not paid the range of taken social security money from their populace inflation's high, people can't jump jeez, i can't afford it. they can afford gasoline so really this is the moodle as against the iranian people in some respect were they to get into a shooting war with israel they can't count on the support are their own populace in this. i think there they're going to wager that things will look different if they can become a nuclear power. and shown how that's going to keep them in place. shaw, i see them trying to do something something but being sly, clever, maybe something that's a semi

deniable, not giving israel a chance to really come in there and take out the drone factories or the nuclear capacity wrong is building general wesley clark. >> thank you. jeremy diamond as well. thanks. the news continues right here on cnn >> out front. next breaking news, trump announcing he will testify at his first criminal trial, which begins on monday. this as he threatens, quote, all hell will break loose on that debt. plus mike johnson showing up in mar-a-lago next to trump, warning about election fraud in 2024. out front to fact check the man who the trump campaign higher defined fraud in 2020. but he debunked every claim and kamala harris telling trump to stop the gaslighting when it comes to abortion. this as our kfile unveils the dramatic about-face gop candidates are taking on this issue let's go out for but evening.

>> i'm jim sciutto in for erin burnett outfront tonight, breaking news trump to testify. the former president announcing tonight that he will take the stand in his first criminal trial, which begins on monday testifying you're client. >> yeah. i would test if i absolutely it's a scam testifying. i tell the truth. i mean, all i can do is tell the truth but the truth tonight is as of tonight, there are no more delays for trump, the judge in the new york hush money trial, just moments >> ago, rejected one of trump's final request request to delay the trial this time, trump claiming the publicity surrounding the trial makes it impossible to begin on time judge juan merchan ruling the situation defendant finds himself in now is not new to him. and at least in part of his own doing this as trump and his team are laser-focused on getting just one juror to be on

his side. remember, it needs a unanimous decision or trump pump is acquitted >> jury selection is largely luck. >> it depends who you get >> and an ominous warning tonight from trump on his website reading 72 hours until all hell breaks loose those words you see in all capital letters, trump, adding. they want me in prison. paula reid is outfront live in washington. paula trump. he will be in that courtroom on monday with the potential jurors. and tonight he says he could testify yeah, he says he could testify, but it remains to be seen if that actually becomes a reality. sources close to his legal team tell me, yes, that is something there are still exploring. but first of all, they have to cede this jury and we expect that this will take a at least a week, but in talking to sources on both sides of this case, jen, truly unclear how far into april or potentially made this process will go. here's how

this is going to work each day. they'll have a pool of approximately 100 jurors that they will whittle down each day until they can seat 12 jurors and six alternates. now, going into this process, the trump team feels that they're already at a disadvantage because of the makeup of the manhattan jury pool where they argue that there there is a strong anti-trump bias. but jim, as you know, there is a system in place. this system of jury selection is meant to weed out bias jurors with the trump team is not convinced that that is going to render a fair jury. now here's what they're gonna do, if they have 100 people, they're going to try to strike people four, cause just allow people to raise their and if they have a vacation or if they don't speak or understand english sufficiently or if they have such a blinding bias against the former president that they couldn't be impartial. now, tonight, the trump de was asking the judge to separate out those two groups, people who cannot do this because they are so bias or people who have other logistical or other concerns. now, in a week of a lot of

failed motions from the trump team, this is a legitimate requests and it's one where they could be successful gym. they want to be able to say potentially, hey, this is how many people we lost because of bias. they're trying to preserve issues on appeal and i think we're going to see that throughout the process, they're gonna be raising issues and making motions even if they know they won't be successful in the moment because they're trying to preserve their options for appeal. now, after they get rid of those folks for cause, then they will randomly select a group of about 18 people. those folks will face questions from defense attorneys, prosecutors, and the judge. then the two sides can use each of their ten preemptive strikes. now, again, unclear how how long this is going to take and this is the system that is designed to seat a fair jury for most defendants. but of course, you're not dealing with just any defendant. >> had a defendant's certainly schooled in the art of delaying the process. paula reid, thanks so much. i'd out front now, robert hirshhorn jury and trial consultant, and ankush khardori. he is a former federal prosecutor august, if i

could begin with you, trump says tonight that he does plan to testify in this case. of course, whether he shows up, we'll see is that a good idea? it's generally not a, good idea for defendants to testify in their own defense and criminal cases. trump has done this in civil cases, of course, very recently, including the new york attorney general's civil business fraud trial, eugene carroll's second trial. and those did not go well for him. in fact, i think those efforts were counterproductive and probably made matters worse in front of the jury in the ag's case and excuse me, the jury in the carroll case and the judge in the ag's case. so it's not a good idea, but maybe he'll do it. it's such a great point that based on that experience which we saw play out just very recently, robert, how could trump's testimony in your view, impacted jury? >> jim, thanks for having me. well, look if he's really getting buried by the evidence in the case, he may not have a choice personally. i don't think he ever serves himself well by testifying. he

testified in the e jean carroll, the jury lit them up for a huge verdict. and then in the ag's case, remember one of the complaints he made is all i should have had a jury. now that he does have a jury, now that the king of continuance is finally going to have to face a jury. now he's saying that they can't be fair. you got to you know, he's he's going to have his work cut out for him, but jim, all he's got to do is find one. we all we've got to remember that if you can get one juror that doesn't vote for for guilty, then he's one anca sure. trump failed tonight and yet another attempt to delay the trial. in this case over pretrial publicity, but you didn't hear paula's reporting there? more challenges from the presence legal team expected next week, some of that as she explained, setting up for a possible appeal. but but i wonder is there anything you can think of that trump's team could do now to stop this case, we're moving forward even after it begins on monday. >> nothing that would >> work or nothing that should

work this trial should proceed on monday and go forward. but of course, trump and his lawyers often try highly unusual things, including all of the efforts this week to try to prevent the trough and going forward, several of them were highly unusual and new to me. they all flopped >> so it >> wouldn't surprise me if he tries more of that. him and his lawyers, maybe i'm going to the supreme court after the trial how has begun? i wouldn't expect that to work, but i also wouldn't be surprised if they keep doing it. >> robert. so monday trump is going to be face-to-face with these potential general jurors in that courtroom. he'll be there for jury selection. i wonder how could that impact what the potential jurors say, how they behave? i wonder if you've seen a parallel to this that might give us a sense of that >> yeah. well, he's the most famous person in the world. and when you've come face-to-face with somebody that's got that kind of charisma, that kind of power it tends to be intimidating, it tends to be

shocking, it tends to be excited thing but here's the thing, jim as long as the judge says to the jurors, look, we don't want you to tell us what you think we want to hear. just tell us how you honestly think and feel about this case. this defendant that's the best chance at this judge is going to have for getting a fair jury, but make no mistake about it. he's going to lose the vast majority of the jurors either four hardship, try they just can't serve that long or because they've already formed an opinion about president or former president trump, or the case. so he's gonna go through a bunch of jurors will know by the end of monday what the page looks like and how long it'll take to pick this job very >> that's a great point. we'll be watching for that first day. robert oncourse. thanks so much to both of you. >> and i'll front now, >> former republican congressman ken buck of colorado. he just retired from congress before his term was over saying the dysfunction was worse than he ever saw more than nine years in washington, congressman, thanks so much for taking the time this evening.

>> thanks for appreciate it. >> i wonder what your view is of the politics of this first criminal trial. the hush money trial. there are some who say that, well, he will be seen as a victim of all this. but i wonder how politically damaging you think this could be, because there will be some, some tim damaging evidence before in that courtroom >> there will be damaging evidence, you know, a lot of people on the right of made up their mind. they're going to support them. a lot of people on the left. i've made up their mind. they won't support them. >> the >> key to me is the essence of this case has to to do with donald trump having an extramarital affair, paying a woman to have that affair. and then paying that woman to not talk about the affair during the campaign for president in 2016, that will turn off a lot of republican evangelical, christian voters. and i think they will be hard press to support this president regardless of whether they get

whether he is convicted or not convicted, it's important to remind folks of the essence of this case where where it began, as you did their speaker johnson, as you know, he just stood next to trump at mar-lago and they spoke about quote, unquote election, integrity yes they did it amid an ongoing threat from congresswoman marjorie taylor greene to oust johnson from office. trump. just asked who he supports in this feud. i want to play his answer and get your thoughts it's not an easy situation for any speaker i think he's doing a very good job. he's doing about as good as you're going to do and i'm sure that marjorie understands that she's a very good friend of mine and i know she has a lot of respect for the speaker. i stand with the speaker. we've had very good relations kinship >> green, certainly not letting up saying she still doesn't support johnson and certainly the former president may calculate that having another

few just doesn't support his own reelection chances are election chances in the fall. do you think democrats may have to jump in to save the republican speaker? >> well, i think president trump gave speaker johnson about as good a, an endorsement as president trump could possibly give. and i think the message was directed at marjorie taylor greene and i think she got the message. if she does file this motion to vacate, i do think that there will be 4510 republicans who will vote to vacate the speaker. the only way the speaker keeps his job in that situation is if he gets a democrat votes, he may very well get those votes because he's putting a ukraine bill on the floor, funding bill on the floor and that is something that the democrats want and have signed a discharge petition for he has passed bipartisan spending legislation. i think there's a good chance that he will get democrat votes and survive this motion to vacate.

>> i made a republican lawmakers want that ukraine aid bill to get a vote on the floor two clear today, green offered trump the following advice. ahead of his meeting with johnson, have a listen to that >> he doesn't need to be worrying about what mike johnson is trying to talk him into and mike johnson's trying to saddle up to him because he's scared of a motion to vacate. mike johnson needs to do his job and lead president trump alone and let him win this election >> so she's mad at johnson as she referenced there, because she believes he might support more ukraine aid, which we should note a large majority of house members do support. trump just said he is at least looking at it, may consider it if it's in the form of alone given that you do you think greene, who you nickname moscow marjorie, which is catching on by the way. do you think she could change her tune support more aid, but more importantly, that congress will, that'll get a vote on this and get this aid to ukraine as it needs it if

this bill goes to the floor at absolutely passes, i think marjorie taylor greene should follow our own advice. she has never been near president trump where she hasn't taken an opportunity to have a photo op. and i believe that mike johnson as speaker of the united states house of representatives, has every right to visit with the presidential nominee from his party and come to some agreement so that this president is running on the same platform that the republicans in the house are willing to pass congressman ken buck. appreciate you joining us tonight >> thank you. >> and i'll front next trump and house speaker mike johnson, pushing new and baseless conspiracy theories tonight about the 2024 election before a single vote has even been catch. we're going to fact check him line by line. it's important, plus vice president kamala harris, just eviscerating trump accusing him of gaslighting the american public when it comes to abortion as our kfile is

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democrats are allowing migrants to cross the border to turn them into democratic voters. the hou republins are introducina bill tt will require prooitizenship to sense. i'm sure allf us would toote and us elections. but there are so democts who don't want to do that we believe that o of their designs, one of the reasons for everybody asked all around the country, why would they do this? why would they allow this chaos? why the violence? because they want to turn these people into voters? >> not really evidence of that. johnson rushed down to mar-a-lago for this so-called election integrity press conference with trump. as he's fighting simply to keep the speaker's job out front now can block. he was hired by the trump campaign to investigate election fraud claims in 2020 and debunked each claim put in front of him. he's also the author of the new book disproven. also with me,

stephen richer, he is the maricopa county recorder in arizona, one of the republicans who fought back against trump's efforts to overturn the election, thanks to both of you for joining tonight and thanks for your candor throughout all this of course, thanks for having me. i appreciate it >> it's even firstly, you you oversee the largest county in arizona, that county that's stayed could very well decide who wins and loses the election. so i wonder what you say to the claims. you just heard there. >> well, i agree as a matter of public policy in arizonans agree, and i think probably most americans agree that only united states to disengage should be voting in elections, and that we should show documented proof of citizenship. but in arizona, we're already 99% of the way there. we choir proof of citizenship to be able to vote a full ballot. we keep track of those who don't provide proof of citizenship and i think the

problem with this is the implication that it had any impact on a path selection or that if not passed, it would have an implication for a future election. and there's just no data or evidence to support that >> can to that point, johnson warned that the number of non-citizens voting could very well impact the election results in november, i want to play that and then get to some facts. >> there's so many millions of illegals in the country that if only one out of 100 voted, they would cast potentially hundreds of thousands of votes in the election. that could turn an election. >> this, this could >> be a tight election and in our congressional races around the country, it could if there are enough votes effective election. and so that's why house republicans are going to act >> i mean, the fact is these things have been investigated over many, many years. single-digit cases of this over many millions of votes. you investigated non-citizens

voting in 2020 for the trump camp pain in your work, did you find any evidence of large numbers of non-citizens voting in the 2020 election >> we didn't. in fact, in arizona, i was provided a list of 2,500 voters who somebody somewhere suspected were noncitizens. and i was asked to determine if i could and whether they were citizens are not it's extremely difficult to do. in fact, it's impossible to do in a way that would provide evidence that would stand up in court, which makes all of these claims so remarkable to me because like so many claims of voter fraud that i did debunk, there was no foundation. no, there's no foundation of fact behind them. they were more someone's fit. they someone suspected that something bad was happened. what would happen, but they didn't have any direct proof that something bad was actually happening. >> yeah, my four years later, we're still talking about it. steven. >> here are >> some of what donald trump said just before johnson spoke we have an election problem and

that's really what we're here to talk about today. we want to also mentioned election interference, and we want to talk about election integrity the factors again, as we keep saying those claims, they've been debunked for years. how worried are you that trump is already planting the seeds to say that there was fraud in the 2024 election, much as he did in 2020 and before a single ballot has even been cast. >> yeah, it's disappointing. i would say let's have the election first and then you might surprise yourself and see how things go. >> but to the point of >> arizona again we do require documented proof of citizenship for a full ballot and over 99% of arizonans have done that that's, true of many other states. and also we have to remember what the original law is, the original policy, it is against the law in every single state in the country to vote in the federal election. if you are not a united states citizen, that seems like a poor

cost-benefit analysis to be an additional one vote in over three million votes cast in the arizona presidential election. and run the risk of a felony that would then lead to deportation i'm not seeing that >> yeah. listen, it's such a good point to make. can are marshall cohen reported today that johnson was one of trump's biggest fighters and trying to overturn the election in today's back in 2020. here, just a few examples of the basics basis claims that he pushed at the time >> but i think all of us know intuitively that they were there was a lot of myths about this election day. the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigueur with this software by dominion. but there's a lot of merit to that. they know that in georgia it really was rigueur. i'm saying that the system is set up for massive fraud and error and irregularity just not true according to the record, by the way, dominion had to pay. there were a lot of money had to be

paid to dominion for spreading false claims like that. he went on to say in that same interview that the problem with every election fraud case is that they are notoriously difficult to prove so to you as someone who debunked each and every election fraud claim made by the trump campaign and brought to you what do you say to speak speaker johnson now yeah i am somebody who has delivered actual hard evidence of some voter fraud. i anticipated some deceased votes that were cast before they were cast. i've identified confirmed duplicate voters where individuals have voted in two different states. i've delivered evidence that stage ends up in court. speaker johnson is an attorney and he should know better. he should understand that hearsay evidence, which is what he's talking about does not stand up in court and it should not ever rise the level that it is right now where we're impugning our election integrity and our infrastructure based on hearsay

okay. which is what he is doing elicit by the way, that's what happened. trump made a lot of claims back in 2020. and when those claims went to court, they didn't stand up in court to both of you, gentlemen. you did the work you spoke the truth. thanks so much for joining us tonight. >> thank much. >> out front next trump's pivot on abortion is creating major headaches for republicans who once said this for me. there is no compromise on abortion. >> i would move to other national ban on abortion >> but as our kfile has uncovered, that is not what they are saying. now, quite the opposite. plus, i'm going to speak to a democratic strategist who predicted all the talking heads were wrong about a quote red wave in 2022, he was right now, he is confident that biden is going to win cnn saturday mornings starting today and eight on cnn

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>> while trump has switched his position on this 15 times, cnn's kfile finding example after example of republicans following trump's lead downplaying past anti-abortion stances or switching them completely out front. now, andrew kaczynski, senior editor i've cnn's kfile. so andrew, let's begin with a couple of examples of well-known names running for statewide office. >> yes. so we examine more of the a dozen competitive races around the country at various levels. house, senate, governor, and what we found repeatedly was republicans shifting their positions or downplaying them. in some cases, these changes have been settled, but in other cases, they've been rather over with candidates reversing course on supporting outright abortion bans, or even denying they ever opposed it. i now want to walk our viewers through some of them. let's take kari lake she is running for senate in arizona so now the arizona supreme court, this week ruled

that an 18 64 law banning nearly all abortions in the state must be upheld. but back when link ran a failed bid for governor in 2020, to listen to what she said about the law i'm incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that's already on the books. i believe it's ars 13, so it will prohibit abortion in arizona except to save the life of a mother and i think we're going to be setting the paving the way and setting course for other states to follow >> so now, lake said she opposes that near-total ban on abortion. here's what her campaign told us, saying that kari is personally pro-life. her position on a federal vantage clear, she opposes it, just like president trump kari is opposed to the territorial law and is calling on the state legislature to fix the issue. her focus is on saving babies

and helping women through protecting ivf baby bonuses, child tax credit, and paid family leave. so she now says she opposes that territorial band, even though she previously did say she supported that, she even knew the state law exact statue. so that is just a complete one at on the issue. now there's also mark robinson, he's a lieutenant governor in north carolina and he's now running to be governor now he repeatedly backed a ban on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest before the dobbs decision. and once regularly labeled abortion as a murder and genocide and even compared the anti-abortion movement to the abolition movement to end slavery slavery, listening to robinson at one event in july 2020 for me, there's no compromise on abortion. it makes no difference to me why or how that child ended up in that wound? >> flash forward to today, jim

and robinson has said he avoids using what he calls, quote, the a word entirely and he denies his past support for bans without exceptions with his campaign telling cnn, quote, as governor, he would sign a heartbeat bill with exceptions for rape incest. and when the life of the mother is in danger, what those previous answers are on tape. >> you >> also looked at congressional races and found this is happening all over the country jim, that's right. and there might not be a clear example in all of the ones we looked through, then joe can't he is the republican running for congress in washington in a swing state, swing seat. look at what he said in july 2022, he said, i would move to have a national ban on abortions now, look at this comment he made on twitter in january. he said posted dobbs decision. it's a state issue. i don't support a

national ban on abortion, so just he said one thing and he said the complete opposite and something that's really interesting about all this jim is we're seeing a lot of these candidates and you saw kant right there as a great example. who are citing state laws in trying to get around discussed discussing this issue. but in theory, they are getting elected to positions where they could change the law. trump has said he won't sign a national abortion ban, but he previously signed onto a one week ban at the federal level. so it's really going to be up to voters now to see whether they want to take candidates at their words on these changes. >> and you put the record before them. andrew kaczynski, thanks so much. for now, democratic strategists, simon rosenberg, he's been involved in presidential campaigns for the last 36 six years and confidently predicts that president biden will beat donald trump in 2024 he's gone against conventional wisdom before it was right, we should know predicting republicans would not get that much talked

about red wave in 2022. of course, they did not. simon, thanks so much for joining today. >> it's great to be here. jim >> so as you know, vice president harris in arizona just hammering republicans on that anti-abortion law there, 160 year-old anti-abortion law. and as we just heard in that kfile report, republicans are now scrambling to change their positions. that they clearly see a vulnerability. here is this going to be the issue democrats win on in your view >> listen, i think the election change this week. i think it's been a very, very bad week for the republican party because it's a confirmation that bagua, the threat that maga poses to fundamental rights and liberties in the united states is ongoing. it's not something that happened before. >> it's it's growing and it's becoming even more dangerous. i mean, millions of women in arizona and florida in the next few weeks are going to lose fundamental rights and liberties that women have had here in the united states for over 50 years and is common throughout the modern world.

and so, if you were scared of maga in 2018 and and 20202020 he two and 2023, when democrats won all these elections all across the country maga 2024 is even more dangerous and scary iteration of maga. and so i think it's going to be, this is going to reinforce i think the extremism of the republican party in a way that's going to be very damaging to them in this election >> yeah, i suppose you could look at some of those reversals from republicans is assigned a they see that as well. you say president biden is being underestimated, right now and you point to some new poll numbers, including this one right here. the ipsos reuters poll has biden leading trump 4012, 37% still within the margin of error, but you're confident things you're going to swing. biden's way, tell us why. >> yeah. so my basic take on the election as that joe biden is a good president. the country is better off. he's got a very strong case for reelection. the democratic party has strong unified, raising tons of money, winning elections all across the country and the republicans have trump, who i think is the

ugliest political figure that we've seen in modern times. and i think that everything that we need to do to win is within the normal bounds. would a political party has to be able to do in a campaign in the making, trump look like a serious candidate for president again, is going to be very difficult. i think he's far more degraded than he was, i think his performance on the so is far weaker than it was in 2020. he's got all the baggage when the trials and all the crimes that he committed in recent years and his own agenda is far more extreme. i want to say one thing about abortion here and what the republicans are trying to do by claiming that they're going to let it go back to the states when you say that, then you're embracing idaho's law which is it has no exceptions for rape or incest or anything else you're embracing six-week abortion bans. you're embracing and validating the most extreme abortion positions in the country. they think that's a safe haven for them. it's actually an endorsement of the most extreme abortion restrictions in the country so i do think that the republicans now i, my own view is that what's happening in the polling, and i think many of

us, including those of us, those in the campaign, believed that what would happen in the election as that as the general election began and it became clear that it was biden versus trump. and the biden campaign turned on that biden would start to gain in the polls. and that's what you're seeing right now. >> we've got a long way to go, but i would much rather be austin them seven months out. >> i'm in rosenberg. thanks so much. >> thank you, jim >> out for our next a cnn exclusive. we travel to the southern border with mexican authorities who tonight are growing impatient with us officials plus breaking news the us on high alert as president biden says, he now expects iran to strike israel sue so what might such an attack look like >> blue carbon. >> let's see an infill. >> sunday, april 20, first at nine >> skin craving, next level hydration, new neutrogena hydro boost water, cream of vital boost of nine times more hydration to boost your skin's barrier for quenched, dewy skin, that's full of life.

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a lot of the smuggle where are either directing or bringing some of the migrants to so that they can easily cross which makes these rugged back wrote the preferred and profitable routes for cartel backed migrant smugglers. we're about an hour east of t1a driving with mexican migration officials along the us-mexico border but we detour after learning a group of migrants has been rescued, has officials here say, they, them theirs. >> but as you maybe we pull up and find about a dozen folks who described to me there were attempts to claim asylum in the and he said he tried to cross, but mexican officials >> stopped him from being able to go. >> that's because >> mexico is now stepping up its efforts to stop migrants from crossing illegally into the us we don't know if he wasn't following requests from the biden administration. next goes now, pouring resources like the national guard and mexican army into help patrol and detain migrants like these.

eventually transporting them. the southern mexico where we separate them by nationalities and then from them, we determined the deportation process. >> what's happening here goes beyond stepped up patrols in recent months, mexican officials have built base camps, deploying troops to some of the most popular illegal crossing sites >> smugglers, van are there several of these vehicles just left abandoned and like seven vehicles in total in this area, the area as we pull up, we realized we've been here before. >> we've seen so many people across through this property. this right here >> at this spot, late last year, we met us residents fed up with migrants coming through their land. >> they can come to the front door. >> are cameras captured hundreds each day and night? >> that >> has stopped in recent weeks and it stopped primarily because of what we're seeing on the mexico side of things. this is a remote base on the border. you've got mexican immigration officials. you've

got national guard, and you've got mexican army, who are here 24/7 we have our fridge microwave, coffey, erin, >> you have moved resources to live 24/7 on the border. why is this important for mexico to be doing that? >> we want to prevent migrants to get in touch with the criminal groups the number of migrant encounters reported by us border patrol appears to reflect the impact of mexico's actions dropping 42% from >> december to january alone, and seeming to stay low but officials warn cartels and they're smugglers frequently adjust their tactics and keep close watch. they're watching us right now. they >> see when we are patrolling and we when we leave us pot, it's a crisis that has also sparked uneasiness for mexican residents. >> it's >> gotten so frustrating for these folks in particular that the community got together, wrote a letter to their governor petitioning for more

resources and for that reason that you have where you can see right here members of the mexican national guard for now, patrolling neighborhoods like this one to keep migrants from coming through. >> again, because i can 30 is here, urge migrants to use the cbp one app rather than to risk crossing with smugglers mexican officials at this location even helped pre-screen up to 500 migrants daily for the us asylum interview process. so is in communication with us officials but on the other side, and they're sending documents back i can forth to make sure that they have the right information. >> well, this is a more >> orderly way to claim asylum. it can take awhile to get an appointment martha gilad says, she's waited five months for this day >> i get it, but i'm happy so i asked why they didn't go through the smuggling route, which so many choose to do. my

mock-up in our corner service and she said for one it costs an extreme amount of money and the other aspect of it for her was they wanted to be able to enter legally through the appointment dried up build a better future there. >> the road ahead is >> uncertain for both the migrants hand for those protecting the border, we see that firsthand as we leave the remote border camps the reason why we've stopped and pulled over is because there are these spikes that we've noticed all along the different dirt roadways that take us to the border wall, evidence of a smuggler's desperate attempt to salvage their profits. >> there are dozens, if not hundreds, of these >> and while it slows them down momentarily, for now, they forge ahead and their efforts to curb the flow of a migrant crisis that's consuming resources on both sides of the border they have a great reporting, as we saw on the story, you mexican officials are expanding efforts to stem

the >> flow of migrants into the us. we're seeing some effect in the numbers there. as you noted, how could us politics derail those efforts though? >> i think the biggest threat to this bolstered support, which is as you're seeing, actually helping lower than numbers migrants crossing illegally into the us comes at the shifting of policies and that's policies on immigration matters that not only come at the federal level here in the, but also at the state level. so mexico gets increasingly frustrated when they see policies come out of states like texas or iowa and for them, that adds domestic pressures that during an election year, not only in the, but also in mexico could cause them tap two, then redirect those efforts, so to speak, and move those resources else tori. if they feel like it's just going to add more problems on the mexico side of things. they'll quickly abandon this added effort and put those national guard birds and mexican military elsewhere

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sienna and just learning the us has observed iran moving military assets. one source says iran is reading as many as 100 cruise missiles. this comes as president biden says he expects iran to attack israel, quote sooner rather than later, the us and the entire mideast is bracing for retaliation after multiple iranian officials were killed in an airstrike in syria, which iran blamed on israel. alex marquardt is out front tonight and alex, the president it says he expects it an imminent attack from iran based on us intelligence assessment. >> what >> when could this happen? and what might it look like? >> well, jim, the time-frame we're hearing from the president there that echoes what we've been hearing for days from sources and experts that this is likely something that is imminent that could happen the coming hours and days. but what this looks like what happens and where those are the million questions we have some worrying new reporting from our colleagues, oren liebermann, natasha bertrand, that just came in that us intelligence is seeing

military assets being moved around by iran specifically drones and cruise missiles. one source saying that they're reading as many as 100 cruise missiles that can mean a number of different things. they're posturing, they're trying get to deter iran. >> but >> or deter israel, but it could also mean that they're preparing an attack from iranian soil that would be the first time during this war >> that would be a >> very significant move by iran. but there are a number of different scenarios that we could see. we've also heard intelligence officials and experts talking about the possibility of proxy groups in neighboring countries. carrying out waves of attacks using a rockets, missiles, drones against military targets inside israel. because this is a retaliation against an alleged diplomatic post. iran could carry out attacks against israeli embassies around the world. one thing we do not expect to happen, jim is iran going after us targets. that is something that the us has warned against and but, but the us very much is helping israel

prepare for what may come. saying that they are prepared to help israel intercept anything that is incoming into israel. and the top us general for the middle east general erik kurilla here it's been in israel for several days preparing for this variety of scenarios. >> no question. and some of those assets being moved into the region are specifically for that task of potentially shooting down anything incoming. just briefly, alex, the lesson around have been communicating directly and indirectly to what end? >> well, both public and private messages from iran to the united states, essentially saying stay out of it, that this is between us and israel. the us has responded saying that you should not go after us targets and don't escalate the situation. and that is a message that iran has been getting from a number of different corners from the europeans, from the arabs to what extent they will listen remains to be seen. we could back to a very calculated but very significant retaliation by iran. jim no question. we know all eyes are watching right now. alex marquardt. thanks so