>> rachel, thank you very much for helping us today. >> great being here. what a great time. >> are you going to come tomorrow? >> no, you're on your own. >> run to the radio. >> we'll be there. >> dana: a new era taking shape on the world stage. president xi is meeting with vladimir putin in moscow today. their first sit-down since russia's invasion of ukraine highlighting the growing cooperation between the two countries and beijing's efforts to replace the united states as the world's dominant power. we have much more on this throughout the show. first is an indictment imminent in former president trump claiming authorities will arrest him tomorrow. the first former president in history to face criminal charges. i'm dana perino. bill has time off. good morning, john.

>> john: great to be back. i'm john roberts. this is "america's newsroom." the possible arrest related to a hush money payment made to stormy daniels, it happened in the run-up to the 2016 election. the manhattan district attorney's office has been investigating the case for years. a grand jury is reportedly on the verge of bringing charges. >> dana: jury still has to hear from one more witness. that will be a one-time legal advisor to president trump's former attorney michael cohen expected to rebut cohen who has been a key witness against trump. >> john: calling into question the timing of the arrest. republicans arguing the whole thing is political. >> it's the weakest case out there. trying to make a miss demeanor a felony. timeline doesn't work. too long past and doing it after a person for political purposes. somebody putting their thumb on

the scale simply because they don't agree with somebody else's political view. that's what's wrong and that's what infuriates people. this will not hold up in court. >> john: david spunt is live to kick us off monday morning. what's the latest from there? >> good morning. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has a specific goal in mind. he wants to take a misdemeanor and turn it into a felony using a very specific untested legal theory. let's go back to 2006. that's when stormy daniels, adult film star in her 20s claims she had an affair with donald trump. it is a charge he continues to deny, john. for years daniels tried to sell her story to the press and on the eve of the 2016 election daniel was paid $130,000. but not by donald trump. instead by his long-time advisor his fixer michael cohen. he paid daniels out of his own

pocket. bragg says cohen was later reimbursed by donald trump and insists it with as a hush money payment to keep daniels quiet and keep news of the alleged affair out of the headlines. 6 1/2 years later bragg is prepared to indict trump. he claims trump falsified a business record relating to the payment. that's a misdemeanor. bragg is making the -- it kept daniels quiet and trump won the presidency because her story was quiet. he wants to prove it was an unreported campaign donation. why? he believes daniels' silence benefited trump and put him over the finish line covering up unreported campaign donations is a felony. the federal authority has declined to prosecute trump using this specific theory concerned they wouldn't win in court. if trump is indicted it does not stop him from running for even serving if he is reelected.

there are other probes going on. specifically several here in washington involving the department of justice and we know those probes are still going full steam ahead, john. john we'll see what happens tomorrow. david spunt with the latest. >> dana: let's bring in andy mccarthy about all of these things. let's talk about the merits. what are the merits? >> it's clearly a misdemeanor. the attack on bragg shouldn't be a defensive trump. looks like it is a falsification of records. but the attack on bragg ought to be no one who was not donald trump would conceivably be charged with this. with respect to bragg the second part where he is being super aggressive even though he is incredibly not aggressive when it comes to real crime in new york, this idea of trying to sort of bootstrap campaign finance violations on this,

first of all most campaign finance law is federal, which is not what the new york penal code is talking about. he will say it could have been a violation of new york's election law and i don't -- you probably -- did trump lose new york by like 30 points? i don't know. >> dana: it seems very convoluted. let's get to other things. here is the "wall street journal" saying bragg's political charge against trump. very progressive prosecutor. we all know that. new york is in the middle of a horrific crime crisis. this is what he is spending his time on? >> the thing i would say about this, dana, we cover a lot of federal law with very washington centric. but prosecutors in the federal system are appointed and vetted to make sure they don't use law enforcement as a weapon. in the states and new york in particular prosecutors are elected officials.

and that i think pervades -- makes political considerations pervasive in prosecutorial decisions, they shouldn't be. while this is terrible law enforcement, at trocheous law enforcement to use it in a partisan way like this probably good politics. if you want trump to -- their dream scenario is trump wins the republican nomination and then they kill him in the election. so if they want to rile up his base. >> dana: the democrats want to run against trump again and trump is getting a lot of attention, got a lot of republicans to defend him and say it is outrageous. chris sununu had comments on cnn over the weekend. >> this has nothing to do with january 6th. folks still think it has something to do with january 6th. so i just think that not just the media but really a lot of the democrats have misplayed

this in terms of building sympathy for the former president and it does drastically change the paradigm going into the 24 election. >> dana: he is contemplating whether he runs for election. you have some republicans saying this is wrong and it would be the first in history and what does this say to the rest of the world? we do a lot on democracy efforts around the world in order to make sure people understand it is okay to respect your opposition, you don't need to pursue them. this seems to be so contrary to that. what a way to make history. >> banana republic stuff if it's not a strong case come pilling and deserves to be brought. i wonder whether it will be fleeting. i've always thought once the first prosecutor crosses the rubicon you have the fulton county prosecutor and you have the special counsel who is working on both the march laying owe documents and january 6th.

this may turn out to be a frenzy right now. but in the coming weeks and months there may be more. >> dana: we have the former advisor to michael cohen. he has been testifying against the president. that guy will defend the president today. at least attack michael cohen. could that testimony disrupt this idea of a possible indictment? >> it is possible. an off ramp for them if it goes this particular way. but there is a lot out there about michael cohen already. remember, this is a falsification of records case. the crime is in the documents, not in the -- with the witness. but it would be -- it would be good if he took a pause and said they are going to kill michael cohen in front of the jurey. maybe we shouldn't do that. it's why it won't happen. >> i think he will be indicted. >> dana: amazing. i'm sure we'll see a lot of you. here we go again. we always get together on these. great to have you.

john, now you have it. says it is likely to happen. >> john: remember the last big case, high-profile case when this happened with john edwards when he was accused of using campaign funds to cover up his affair. that was in federal court. where campaign finance violations are usually tried. he was found not guilty on one count. the jury deadlocked on five others and the justice department didn't retry him and it went away. the new york case is really unusual. >> dana: looks like it is happening, john. >> john: we'll see where it goes from here. always interesting to watch. spring break shootings leaving two people dead on miami beach. prompting the city to impose a curfew. the third year in the row that miami beach has had to do that. the gunfire erupted friday and saturday night. more coming up in the next hour with miami beach mayor. >> dana: financial lifeline.

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>> john: disturbing new study finds military pilots have high rates of cancer so do the ground

crews that fuel and maintain their aircraft. pentagon says it conducted a year-long review of 900,000 service members who flew or worked on military aircraft. it found and overall 3% higher rate of cancers of all types. air crew members had an 87% higher rate of melanoma and 39% higher rate of thyroid cancer. the pentagon will do a bigger study to try to find out why. >> dana: they should. two of our nations top rivals standing shoulder to shoulder in moscow today. chinese president xi meet than with vladimir putin days after the international criminal court issued a war crimes arrest warrant for the russian leader. the summit putting president biden's leadership to the test. mark meredith is live at the white house this morning. hi, mark. >> good morning to you. russia is rolling out the red carpet for china's president who arrived in russia earlier today. this is his ninth visit to russia in the last ten years.

his first visit since war in ukraine began. it generated worldwide interest many asking how to impact the world order. the chinese call russia a strategic partner and vowing to expand cooperation on a number of fronts including trade, cultural exchanges and foreign affairs. for russia president vladimir putin this trip comes at a crucial time facing pressure to change tactics as the war in ukraine drags on. the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him last week. today russia is claiming it is the u.s. which is responsible for this conflict continuing. putin spokesperson telling reporters quote the u.s. has indeed stuck to its position of further provoking the conflict, preventing the hostilities from becoming less intense and pumping kinds of weapons into ukraine. the u.s. and allies continue to show unwavering support for ukraine. white house aides say they believe it's possible at the end of this trip that china may call for a cease-fire for the war.

aides believe it is a favor to russia in in regard. the white house said it are he mains committed to keeping up diplomat ickx ties to china. >> he does want to set up another chance to talk to president xi. i suspect it will happen in due course when it is the appropriate time to do so. >> the white house has yet to say when the call happens. still questions whether or not it will happen this week or a few weeks down the road. a call expected at some point. this trip coming up for the president, he is going to canada at the end of the week. a lot of questions what happens overseas whether it will impact his trip here. >> dana: looking behind you, looks like beautiful blossoms starting in washington, d.c. great time of year. >> it is 30 today. i have a heavy coat. it is pretty to look at. >> john: february weather fools all the plants that come out early. retired four star general senior fox news senior strategic analyst jack keane for a deeper

dive on all this. general, a couple of questions off the bat here. do you think xi is playing peacemaker or trying to elevate his status on the world stage? do you believe china will start supplying lethal weapons to putin? >> first of all, i mean, to understand what this visit is really about. strategically it's a ratification of the strength of the relationship despite the failures russia has had during this war. xi sees himself as a global statesman and he clearly wants to influence the developing nations in the world by the deal he made in the middle east and by promoting peace. everybody in the international community sees through this. he is proposing to stop all the sanctions now and immediately go to a cease-fire which enshrines rush yeas conquest of the additional space in ukraine and puts them in a better position

to reset and reattack later. me terms of what is happening here strategically i'm not convinced our foreign policy and national security community has really adjusted to the strategic calculus and how serious it is. they are coming together with the mutual interests of deposing the united states as the world's leader and its influence over like democratic countries that have had such incredible influence over the last 70 years. that's really why they are together. given all their history of disagreements and diversions. likely what is going to happen here is yeah, xi will promote a bit of a peace proposal here. likely will talk to zelensky. zelensky wants him to hear that side of the story. that's where i am. russia will put the arm on xi for more support. he is helping them significantly

economically. $140 billion a year last year. now 200 billion since the war started. he is doing other things to help them with weaponization but not directly giving him ammunition and weapons. russia wants that from him. artillery ammunition and missiles. that's what he wants. >> john: so the white house is also thinking about this idea that xi might float some sort of peace plan or cease-fire. here is what john kirby said yesterday on "fox news sunday." >> coming out of this meeting if there is call for a cease-fire it will be unacceptable. all that will do is ratify russia's conquest to date. all that will do is give mr. putin more time to refit, retrain, reman and try to plan for renewed offensives at a time of his choosing. >> john: it would appear to be a realistic analysis of what people think putin is going to do. >> i thought i just said that. go on to the next question.

>> john: it's interesting the white house is getting it, too. i want to ask you about iraq. yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the declaration of war against saddam hussain. i was at a marine base in northern kuwait with the second arm ored battalion. we broke down camp and headed for the iraqi border. when you look at the costs of war, 4800 u.s. dead, 270,000 iraqi deaths. $2 trillion and launched on a faulty premise that saddam had weapons of mass destruction which he didn't have. >> i was a four star in the pentagon in december of 2001 just after we toppled the taliban prior to thanksgiving. when i was sitting at a meeting of the joint chiefs representing

the army and was told by the chairman that the administration made a decision to go to war in iraq. it was somewhat stunning. my response was why are we doing that? and when are we going to do that? our focus at the time, john, was we were after al qaeda the people that killed 3,000 americans. we toppled the regime. if they ran over to pakistan we wanted to follow them until we finished the job, period. that's where our mindset was. we got completely diverted here. there are some pluses that came out of this war and the troops who were in it and the sacrifice made. certainly we did crush al qaeda inside of iraq and liberated 24 million people under the boot and horror and brutality of the saddam regime and in baghdad a reporter has never seen life so good as it is now given the

20-year experience with this. the fact of the matter is yes, enormous actry files was made. people were liberated. al qaeda crushed. there is no denying we went to war on a false promis. >> john: general jack keane to kick us off this week. good to get your thoughts on things. >> great talking to you, john, thank you. >> dana: also in the middle east a wave of deadly shootings in israel and west bank sparking fears the security situation is deteriorating as ramadan approaches. good morning, trey. >> over the weekend an israeli american dual citizen was shot and injured while driving through the west bank. it was carried out by a palestinians gunman. the victim is a former u.s. marine. stern was able to return fire before israeli shoulder tracked

down and arrested the shooter. prayers for a speedy recovery and for calm to prevail. since the shooting the israeli military has closed down the west bank town that sits just south of the city over fears of retaliatory attacks. who israeli citizens were shot and killed there a month ago. it led to is railey settlers lighting cars on fire and burning the area. security officials remain on high alert. there was a shooting in tel aviv earlier this month killing one person. ramadan starts later this week. there is increased violence and terror attacks during the holiday and clashes at the mosque. not just shooting attacks that concern officials. saturday one rocket was fired into southern israel. groups have threatened the fire more rockets toward israeli

cities. >> dana: trey in israel. thank you. >> bill: billions of dollars spent on housing for california's homeless and the problem has gotten worse. where did all that money go? another twist in the murdaugh family murder mystery. why police are now reopening a hit and run case that was connected to that family. >> there was no evidence that pointed towards this being a hit and run. it looked like it was more staged, like possibly the body had been placed in the roadway. ha-ha! it was me the whole time. -whoo-hoo! -[ laughs ] well done, ma'am. what...did i do exactly? with snapshot from progressive, you get a personalized discount for doing exactly what you're already doing -- being a safe driver. congratulations. this is a bowling trophy. yeah, it's the biggest one they had. okay, thanks.

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don't complain about what happens in a general if you don't play in the primary. >> the radical left are trying to get folks hooked on the drug of victimhood. and the narcotic of despair. >> dana: nike haley was governor of south carolina and tim scott is the state's junior senator. he has yet to officially declare his candidacy. >> john: as we move here now to the homeless crisis in california, a recent audit shows taxpayers have spent billions trying to solve the problem but have very little to show for it. william la jeunesse has the story if los angeles. >> whether it's l.a. or any other california city homelessness is the number one problem. not for lack of money according to an audit but accountability. california has 10% of the u.s. population but 33% of the nation's homeless.

taxpayers spent $17 billion in the last three years say lawmakers to move people off the street and turn their lives around. that's 100,000 for every homeless person. >> we're wasting a lot of money. throwing good money after bad. the governor is now proposing another billion dollars on programs we don't know work. >> where is all the money going? critics say they call it the homeless ink. hundreds of government agencies, corporations and nonprofits delivering services over layers of bureaucracies. as for the services many homeless are on disability. that pays $8 hundred to $1800 a month. most qualify for food stamps, food assistance and three meals a day at shelters. cities build apartments in l.a., san francisco, average cost over $7 hundred grand per unit. there are also housing vouchers, subsidies and shelter beds. case managers help them receive

medical care, mental health, drug and alcohol treatment. some receive a free bus pass and safe place to park if they live out of a car. voters are losing patience, why? even as the state population decreases, the number of homeless increase. >> it feels like we're at a different point now. a crossroads where public sympathy is wearing thin. public outrage is growing. and if we aren't able to show meaningful reductions and fast, we are in danger of losing all public support for what we're trying to do. >> so people are fed up, john. san diego said last week it will remove those tent encampments from streets, sidewalks and parks. the homeless have to go to shelters if there is a bed. there are. unlike l.a. where we see tents everywhere. >> john: we're seeing it in washington, d.c. too. one thing to spend a lot of money to fix the problem and another to spend that much money

and not fix the problem. william, thank you. >> dana: another bank rescue swiss giant ubs buys credit su suisse -- will this calm markets and restore confidence in the global financial system? charles payne is here. wall street editorial headline. now a credit suisse bail-out. they don't want to call it that. how do you see it? >> it is a bail-out and shotgun marriage. swiss national bank was throwing a lot of money. couldn't stem the tide. there was no real game plan and it was very reminiscent because it happened on a sunday of bear stearns. my friend called me up on sunday said they got $2. i said what? that was 93% haircut where it closed on friday.

it was like you have to be kidding me, right? that was at the time i think 85-year-old bank. this is 167-year-old bank. they lost their way for a long, long time. we'll see what p whatens. there is one part of this that's intriguing. there is these things called at1 bonds. it is some sort of higher-risk bond. i don't know all the details. i know that they are higher risk but wiped completely out. $17 billion of them. when you have these structures bond holders get paid something before stockholders. it is not like the stockholders get a lot. they get crumbs. stock closed at 7.4 billion valuation on friday. this takeover 3.2 valuation. but it is intriguing because i checked on google this morning and you do see a spike in searches for that in this country. listen, it is worrisome when you hear a bond holder won't get paid. as far as stemming the tide, it

will be temporary. bear stearns thought they averted a major collapse and they hadn't. >> dana: every sunday in august at 4:00 get the phone call. elizabeth warren is talking about jerome powell the head of the fed. not a fan for a while. listen to what she said. >> look, my views on jay powell are well-known at this point. he has had two jobs, one is to deal with monetary policy, one is to deal with regulation. he has failed at both. >> dana: when -- will biden stick behind him and for how long? >> he will. he just renominated him against a lot of pressure, including warren. one of the reasons he brought brainerd from the fed into the white house was because they were trying to get her into the job, a progressive. people need to understand 89% of

people who work at the federal reserve are progressives. they are ready to get the right person in there to change everything. if you think the fed has too much on their plate now wait until their power and so-called independence which i call lack of accountability. she does have a point in the sense that he is the only central banker out there with a dual mandate. most central bankers are dealing with price stability. he has to deal with employment and price stability which is awkward. they acknowledge that the fed in order to get prices inflation down they have to create unemployment. and he went there two weeks ago on the hill, testimony. he had a hard time explaining that. not just elizabeth warren. senator kennedy grilled him good. it is an awkward position. is there some kind of better way of doing this? you mean to tell me you have to somehow create 1 or 2 million job losses to achieve your job? by the way, dana, the trillions

of dollars that poured into this economy, i don't think anything the fed does can really stop that. a certain part of that has to work its way out the system. when this thing first started you ask any economist the cure for high prices is high prices. all of a sudden the cure for high prices is redismantle the economy completely. they are making a mistake there. i'm going to say no although 75% chance of a 25 basis point hike. i would like to see them say i can pause. okay to pause for a moment to get a land to land. >> dana: we'll find out more at 2:00. great talking to you this morning. >> thanks a lot. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: ready for this, charles? march madness lived up to its name. watch this here. >> they have a time-out. barber with one second steps up

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>> john: from moscow our first images of chinese xi meeting with russian president vladimir putin in moscow. while xi has been to moscow to visit putin several times, it's

the first time since the beginning of the war in ukraine a year ago last month. xi says he is there to play peacemaker. will also meet with president zelensky of ukraine. as jack keane was warning a short time ago and white house would be the same mind there is concern any cease-fire would only allow a pause that would give putin a chance to reman, rearm and get ready to launch a new offensive against ukraine at the time of his choosing. we'll see where this meeting goes. one of the other big questions will it end up with china arming russia? >> dana: and-or calling for a cease-fire that would then as john kirby said yesterday benefit russia. it is a high stakes meeting. an important one and we'll keep an eye on developments as it comes across. a new twist in the low country murder saga involving the murdaugh family. authorities set to exhume the

body of steven smith found near the murdaugh home in south carolina. his death originally ruled a hit and run. officials now reopening the case potentially tying alex murdaugh's son buster to the crime. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta with more. >> well, double murder convict murdaugh is pushing back against speculation surrounding that cold case that happened near the family's hunting estate in south carolina's low country. buster murdaugh's former high school classmate steven smith was found dead on a country road in 2015. authorities said he was the victim of a hit and run accident but reopened the investigation six years later after buster's mother and brother were fatally shot. his father was recently convicted of their murders sentenced to life if prison. buster issued a statement saying i haven't spoken up until now because i want to live in

private while i cope with their deaths and my father's incarceration. he pushed back on speculation regarding the smith case saying these baseless rumors of my involvement with steven and his death are false. my heart goes out to the smith family. through an online fundraise than campaign relatives of smith are doing an autopsy. she writes thank you for not allowing steven's story to be swept under a rug. we'll provide updates along the way. dana, skeptics of the initial hit and run theory say there was no clear evidence of any vehicle impact. no obvious debris. the victim's clothes were intact suggesting he wasn't dragged but did have a massive head injury which they believe was caused by something other than a vehicle impact. dana. >> dana: fascinating.

thank you. >> john: let's bring in phillip holloway to talk more about this. we have something thought to be a hit and run death back in 2015 and now south carolina law enforcement division is looking at this in the wake of the alex murdaugh trial and going maybe this does necessitate a second look here. what do you think they could learn from an exhumation? >> this was blunt force trauma. that was the finding of the original autopsy. i don't think that will change. massive head trauma. that's not a kind of thing you'll see a lot of difference on, if there is a second autopsy. the thing to watch is whether or not law enforcement actually gets involved in this process. does law enforcement support this exhumation and this independent autopsy? that can be done privately by the family. i want to know does sled, law

enforcement also want this body to come up again so that they can have another look? if sled and law enforcement support this endeavor, that tells me they think something went wrong the first time around. the big question is, of course, even if it's blunt force trauma, how did that blunt force trauma get there? what happened? where and why? i don't think local law enforcement considered the idea that possibly this head trauma was inflicted somewhere else other than the middle of this road because as jonathan serrie just reported, there was no other outward look of any kind of collision with a vehicle. so those will be the key questions we'll have to look at moving forward. >> john: i guess story goes he was 15 miles away from the monthsel property. his car broke down. he was hit in the head by the mirror of a passing car. there was inconsistencies with that story.

there was a defensive wound on his hand. why would that be there? he was found in the middle of the road from where his car ran out of gas and he was wearing loose-fitting sneakers, which would be inconsistent with being hit by a car. you would think those shoes would come off. >> i've seen it where shoes come off absolutely. but we just don't know unless we have more, i guess, circumstantial evidence of how he came to be walking in the middle of that roadway. do people typically walk down the middle of the road or the side of the road? there was some reporting that it might have been the side mirror of the passing 18 wheeler. the fact that hit and run that's never been solved, that's troublesome enough. i personally have some doubts it was actually a hit and run. no doubt it was blunt force trauma. we need to know how that blunt force trauma occurred and where it occurred. it is very difficult for me to

conceive how this many years later, if we bring that body up, we are going to get any additional trace evidence or other things that might answer those questions. but if it does nothing other than brings closure to the family, it will be worth it because those people need closure and they need justice. >> john: a kid i went to middle school with was killed by a tractor trailer's mirror on the side of the road. we'll see if it's applicable to this case. thank you. >> dana: reparations getting traction across the country. how it could impact inflation. you know why people are always looking at their phones? they're banking, with bank of america. see cousin jimmy over there? his girlfriend just caught the bouquet so... he might need a little more help saving. for that engagement ring... the groom's parents. you think they're looking at photos of their handsome boy? they're not! she just saw how much

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>> dana: states and cities across the country are considering reparations programs that could cost billions of dollars. as inflation remains high warnings all the hand-outs will make things worse of the kelly o'grady in los angeles with more. >> well, nowhere is that call

for reparations gaining so much momentum as california. a number of different costly options are on the table. leading state proposal would give $360,000 to every eligible african-american in the state. san francisco, though is proposing a whopping $5 million. o one big criticism slavery was never legal in california. how to pay for it. california has no solution amidst a deficit. the $360,000 award would add another $640 billion. we ask californians how they feel about reparations and cost was a big concern. >> can we afford it? i definitely think i would lean for it if they could figure out a way to pay for it. >> it is hard enough to get money out for flood control. for something as way back as reparations for black people is not financially feasible.

>> you can hear cost is a big concern. the fear is as you said it drove inflation crisis, would reparations make it worse? >> dana: thank you so much. >> john: overseas french president macron facing a vote of no confidence and by passed the national assemblyly for changing the retirement. senior foreign affairs correspondent is live in london with the latest. we saw the fire and flames friday. now they bring the heat to the french parliament. >> more and more all over france. the moment of truth for french president macron trying to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. he rammed that bill through late last week. he feels it is necessary to get france in line with the rest of the world as the population ages

and deficits grow. 2/3 of the french think it's already to retire at 62. don't like the way macron is handling this protesting over the weekend with 100 arrests in the center of paris. later this afternoon they will vote on no confidence measures. his prime minister cabinet will have to step down and the bill would be killed. not thought that would happen. that could be worse for life in france. that could trigger more protests. trains and schools disrupted as the french seem to be going kicking and screaming into the 21st century. back to you. >> john: what a concept. retiring at the age of 64? perish the thought. thank you. >> dana: fox news alert. fox news cameras were rolling as a group of chinese nationals crossed illegally into the u.s. at the southern border in texas over the weekend. border officials say it is part of a