. >> i was down on laredo yesterdawordy. i did a town hall down in laredo. i actually did it with then mayor in laredo and the democratic county judge in laredo. >> and what's interesting is ind texas, democrats and republicans going to workr together reasonably. >> nobody in south texasasonabln defend what's happening at our border. >> there aren't democrats who ca born defend because when you see the dead bodies, when you see the women and children brutalizwhen ye, when you see the people dying of drug overdoses, there is no defense and i got to say, yesterday when i was down on the border, they asked myee, do you have anything to say to joe biden? i said, come to the border. he announced today he is coming to the border, but i'm here to predict he's going to do hiat he di here tod in el paso,h is hide every illegal immigrant and put on a photo op. imm that's fundamentally deceptive. oh, like he shows up in east palestine a year after the train derailed. day late dollar short. you're late. thesr e three plus years late now. but it's the republicans fault.

how many times have we seen republicans take field trips down to the border, like eagle pass or laredo, and take pictures with the fence towering behind them, while bemoaning that the problem at the border is only getting worse? well, apparently, that was all for show, apparently republicans aren't actually serious about fixing the border, because you cannot, you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. you cannot claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you're going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about our border patrol agents while depriving them of the very tools and funding they're asking for. remember, the union of border patrol agents, a very conservative, almost always pro-republican group, wants us to pass this bill. why are we doing all of this? why are they going to kill, in one fell swoop, this agreement that has taken months to piece together? the own, why have republicans backed off on border when they know it's the right thing to do?

how many times have we seen republicans take field trips out to the board like eagle pass or laredo? take pictures with the fence towering behind them while but boning the problem with the borders only getting worse. well, apparently that was all for show. apparently republicans are not actually serious about fixing the border. because you cannot, you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. you cannotou claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you are going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about our border patrol agents while depriving them of the very tools and funding they are asking for. remember that union of border patrol agents a very conservative almost always pro- republican group wants us to pass this bill. why are we doing all this? why are they going to kill in one fell swoop disagreement that has taken months to piece together. the answer where the republicans doing all this? why of the box backed off on border when they know it's the

how many times have we seen republicans take field trips down to the border like eagle passport laredo, and take pictures with the fans cowering behind them while bemoaning that the problem with the border is only getting worse? well, apparently that was all for show. apparently republicans are not actually serious about fixing thebo border. because you cannot, you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. you cannot claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you're going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about our border patrol agents while depriving them of the very tools and funding they are asking for. remember, the union of border patrol agents, a very conservative, almost always prorepublican group, want us to pass this bill. and why are we doing all of this? why aren't they going to kill in one fell swoop disagreement that is taken months to piece together? the answer, why are the republicans doing all this, why have backed off on board when they

in coordination with the intent to cancel the remaining border barrier contract located within the laredo sector and all order barrier contract located within the rio grande center. >> without objection, so ordered. >> i ask for unanimous consent to include in the record, a book by the esteemed lawyers, explaining to mr. higgins' point, the fathers that met founders understood high crimes and misdemeanors as limited to serious misconduct that inflicted injury on the state itself. the term allowed impeachment for strong differences over policy and personnel. >> without objection, so ordered. for what purpose? >> from the same author, another excerpt where they explain the key elements of high crimes and misdemeanors, like treason and bribery include corruption, betrayal, or an abuse of power that supports core tenants of proof or intentional evil deeds that risk grave injury to the nation and the current standards that no reasonable official should -- >> just the title is all we need. >> we do not want the explanation? >> we are talking about saving time. are you done with the title? >> co

a ce hq intends to counsel the remaining border barrier contract located within the laredo sector and border barrier contracts located in the rio grande valley sector. >> without objection, so ordered. >> i have unanimous consent. >> mr. goldman. >> i asked include in the record a session of the book by christine constitutional lawyers laurence tribe and joshua matz explaining to mr. higgins point, quote when the famous replace maladministration with high crimes and misdemeanors they sought to mayor would not expand the class of impeachment offenses and high crimes and misdemeanors was understood as limited to serious misconduct that inflicted injury on the state itself. mason of medicine doesn't object to the trim that a lot of impeachment for strong differences over policy and personnel. >> without objection, so ordered. >> one more. >> for what purpose? >> from the same authors another excerpt where they explain that key element of high crimes and misdemeanors like treason and bribery involved corruption, the trail or an abuse of power that subverts core tenets of the u.s. governme

all right, let's press live now to jeremy laredo investigative journalist, the great zone, jeremy does this statement from the biden administration represent a shift and us policy part as well. no, i don't think that it represents a shift. i think it's all talk and you still have is really so organizations um getting their taxes through new york getting tax cuts um none of those were um affected. i think that it's really, truly just because he's speaking about this really settlers, although he's not saying anything about god, but they usually rather focus on the violence that is still affecting the west bank . but it's, it's sort of pills in comparison to what's going on. the gaza is strangely, it's focusing on the jeremy biden says the settler violence is a threat not only to the west bank the region, but also to us national security. what does he mean? i mean, in the west bank after the war years, early settlers were turned into military service after october 7th. so the state has given the same people were already trying to give get the policy means off the land illegally. i might,

i was in laredo, texas. these are phenomenal people. we're going to work with them, let them do their job. who said that? what you we got to let them do their job. they called me. i didn't call them. they said, mr. trump, please come, please come. we want to do our job. these are incredible people. they're told to stand back, let people walk right in front of them, stand back. beautiful people. they've got the guns, they've got the weapons, they've got the whole thing. they can do whatever they have to do. they want to do it and they're told to stand back. people walk in, people drive through the border, load it up with drugs. we get the drugs, they get the cash. they drive back. we're going to run our country properly. we're going to run our country properly. obama care is a disaster. obamacare is a disaster. obamacare is going to be repealed and replaced. a big part of the problem we have, the people i'm running against and others, politicians. in other words, they get funds so much money. jeb bush gets $150 million gone. it's wasted.

[speaking spanish] >> that human smuggling bust happened in laredo, texas. video shared with fox news is one of at least four human smuggling busts just this month alone. five smugglers, at least 36 migrants were arrested in the case. you can see the smugglers on the ground part of operation lone star led by texas governor greg abbott leading to more than 40,000 criminal arrests since he began in 2021. the surge shows no sign of slowing down. check this out. at least 30 migrants who crossed illegally into the u.s. taken into custody by border patrol agents just yesterday. razor wire and fencing block the border crossing in eagle pass, cameras captured migrants swimming across the river trying to desperately make it into the united states. a woman found in the water just before she was taken into custody. live in eagle pass, texas, the southern border is in the national spotlight. president joe biden will be here this week as well as former president donald trump. here in eagle pass this is what he will see. the texas national guard, razor wire, fencing, you

laredo, that way. >> griff: a pass through. >> ainsley: forget remain in mexico. these are issued by the mexican government. >> griff: they don't want to be in mexico. they want to be in the u.s. they want jobs qualify for asylum. shear little bit guys of what they told us. >> where where are you from. >> india. >> griff: as you can see at love migrants here. this gentleman is from cameroon. >> cameroon. >> where are you from. >> georgia. >> georgia? >> i'm from colombia. >> where are from you? why are you coming to the u.s.? why come. >> because we love america. we need a nice life. a nice life. >> griff: coming for jobs? >> yeah. a nice job. a nice -- because our country very -- >> where are you from you. >> colombia. >> colombia. >> brazil. prime brazil. >> brazil. >> kazakhstan. >> kazakhstan? where are you guys from. >> kazakhstan. >> kazakhstan. kazakhstan? >> yeah yeah. >> where are you from. >> brazil. >> lawrence: so important to note, too. if you were to take these claims in front of an immigration judge based on some of the stuff they were saying, none

you go to laredo and people says so much more in el paso. >> brian: you could see what the numbers are where it's bad and go to san diego and see where the buses are unloading people or shelby county park. >> ainsley: can i ask you what do we need to do to help mexico fix their government because rachel campos-duffy was down on the border and heart wrenching stories of people coming across the border. saying they had to sell their car for 2,000 to do so get money to pay a cartel. someone else said they had to sell their house. they were all charged money. the majority of them were charged money to come over the border. so the cartels are a problem. kamala harris was supposed to figure out root causes. well we know the root causes, it's the cartels, the drug problems down there. it's them not. >> famine. >> ainsley: why is it -- what -- how do we help the mexican government clean up so their people don't want to leave? >> i have been of the view it's in our interest and the mexican government's interest to support their border security efforts on their southern border: traditionally, we

how many times have we seen republicans take field trips down to the border, like eagle pass or laredo, and take pictures with the fence towering behind them, while bemoaning that the problem at the border is only getting worse? well, apparently, that was all for show, apparently republicans aren't actually serious about fixing the border, because you cannot, you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. you cannot claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you're going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about our border patrol agents while depriving them of the very tools and funding they're asking for. remember, the union of border patrol agents, a very conservative, almost always pro-republican group, wants us to pass this bill. why are we doing all of this? why are they going to kill, in one fell swoop, this agreement that has taken months to piece together? the own, why have republicans backed off on border when they know it's the right thing to do?

. >> it's like we're living in the upside down. 98 in laredo and we are still in february having all-timecords and windser records, meaning in the records we've had that go back reliably to the 1870s, we have never seen the swarm of temperature. omaha to 80, rockford, illinois, was 73. minneapolis which has had their hottest winter on record, 65. yes, there is a flip coming and there are some powerful storms that will come with it, but there will be more of those all times and's daily record highs across much of the country. look at all the red circles. that means you have the potential to tie, break, or smash a record for a lot of places in the northeast. it came with big wind and low relative humidity. jefferson davis county, one of the 150 wildfires that started burning last friday. we will see more of those warnings across the midwest today ahead of this friends. the tornado threat is what i want you to focus in on. chicago, detroit, parts of southeastern wisconsin all the way down to st. louis, indianapolis, including today this evening. >> thank you very much. the latest on the -- f

how many times have we've seen republicans take field trips down to the border like laredo and take pictures with the fed's towering behind them will be moaning that the problem at the order is only getting worse? apparently that was all for show. apparently republicans aren't actually serious about fixing the border. because you cannot come you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. we cannot claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you are going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about our border patrol agents while depriving them of the very tools and funding they are asking for. remember, the union of border patrol agents almost always prorepublican group, wants us to pass this bill. why are we doing all of this? why are they going to kill in one fell swoop this agreement that has taken months to piece together? the answer, why are the republicans doing all of this and why have they backed off on the border when they know it's the right thing to do? t