von seele. >> steven rios had a brand-new defense attorney.r sensitivity. his name, gilles leonard. >> i like to think i'm sort of like jimmy stewart and anatomy of a murder. just a good, all down home lawyer that just likes to drink down ten and he likes to do well for people. >> the defense attorney plays no big surprises. the prosecutor's case was mostly a replay of the trial three years before. ambitious cop, desperate to keep a secret, kills caleb. or >> you're going to hear that this defendant committed this murder out of lust and blind ambition. >> science? the prosecutor promised the jury would prove. it who else but the murder would leave dna under jesse's fingernail? or hairs on jessie's chest? and the crime lab had unmasked who the murder was. >> the profiles from the three hairs are consistent with each other, as well as the profile from stephen rios. >> but this time around, the prosecutor's case was humbled by that appellate court ruling. this time, the jury would not get to hear what jessie told his friends about his plans to ex

steven, most recently the thousand foot-long border buoy in the rio grande that a jung ruled had to be could, in fact, cut through it. right now they've been ordered not to do so pending this appeal. but if you point to any one of these instances, steven, this is kind of an ongoing theme with the state of texas taking on the federal government when it comes to protecting the border. >> and governor greg abbott has certainly had a lot to say -- a lot to criticize the federal government about its response at the border. how has he responded? >> as of right now, we have not received any official response from the governor. we have heard from him just recently as the last several days pointing to the record number of migrants that have come across. of course it was just last week 12,000 crossed illegally in a single day against the whole u.s.-mexico border setting an all-time record. we'll be keeping a close eye out to see what he says, but i think it'll be a fair expectation to assume he'll not be backing down from this threat, from the department of justice with that january 3, 2024 dead

as far as hearing from the mexican president, he did make a point prior to that sitdown, steven, sayingng-term solutions cannot come from extending border barriers or from putting more barbed wire along the banks of the rio grande but by re-establishing relations with many of these central american countries, where so many of these migrants are coming from. >> leaders in texas definitely disagree with that one, morgan. i also wanted to ask, there's been discrepancy in the number of people actually in this latest caravan. what do we know about that? >> reporter: just a few days ago, organizers of this caravan seen near guatemala said they had grown to about 8,000 people. but two different sources, the mexican president said that that group had dwindled to about 1,600. and then federal officials said that this is numbering in the low thousands, 3,000 or so migrants. so, definitely different numbers there, but at least at last check it does appear the size of that caravan still, mind you, about 1,000 miles south of where i am, does appear to be dwindling. steven? >> long way to go. morgan