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"america reports" now. >> today i'm announcing my office has obtained a three-count indictment charging senator robert menendez, his wife, and three new jersey businessmen for bribery offenses. special agents with the fbi executed search warrants on the residence and safe deposit box, approximately $500,000 of cash, stuffed into envelopes in closets. agents also discovered a lot of gold. >> john: here we go again, federal prosecutors laying out a bombshell bribery case against the powerful democratic senate foreign relations committee chairman bob menendez and his wife in a scheme they say benefitted the egyptian government. welcome to friyay and good to be with you. >> gillian: thanks for having me. gillian turner in for sandra smith. this is "america reports".

unsealed indictment accuses the couple of literally lining their pockets with hundreds of thousands in bribes, in exchange for the senator's influence here in washington. prosecutors say the bribes included cash, gold, luxury car, even mortgage payments. >> john: senator menendez indicating he plans to fight the charges, saying prosecutors "misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office." >> gillian: fox team coverage. kerri kupec urbana, former counselor to attorney general bill barr and she will join us, first chad pergram from capitol hill. hi, chad. >> gillian, good afternoon. a major indictment for a senator indicted for corruption and cleared in a mistrial just a few years ago. the fed slapped menendez and his wife with counts of using his office to help egypt. >> as you can see here, this is the mercedes benz we allege your

rebate provided as part of the scheme. you see here three kilograms of gold. those together are worth approximately $150,000. and of course, here you can see just a fraction of the cash that was uncovered as part of the scheme. >> in a statement, menendez accused prosecutors of "trying to silence my voice and dig my political grave." he also said prosecutors misrepresented the work of his congressional office. menendez claimed he did nothing wrong in april as allegations swirled. >> this inquiry will end up, i believe, in absolutely nothing. number two, you know, the history you just recited, not only did the jurors not believe the government's case at the time, but the judge kicked out the most significant elements of their charges, saying there was no there there. >> this could put his seat in play next year, that's a problem in a narrowly divided senate.

this is trouble for the chair of the foreign relation committee accused of assisting egypt. he likely needs to step down as chairman of the committee. a spokeswoman of the top republican on the panel says it's up to democratic leaders to handle menendez. he had to step aside amid the first indictment. new jersey's political class says things look bad for the senator. >> it's going to be very difficult it seems to me for the united states senator to explain why he's got $480,000 in cash stuffed in jackets with his name on them hanging in closets in his home. >> menendez is expected in court next wednesday. citizens for responsibility for ethics in washington or crew, demand menendez resign. >> gillian: chad pergram, thank you. >> john: fox news legal editor,

kerri kupec urban. if this indictment is correct, this scheme started just about the same time that he was acquitted on the other corruption charges. i mean, it's 38 pages long, says the bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low or no-show job, luxury vehicle and other things of value. it's new jersey, it reads like "the sopranos" but menendez says the government has misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office. >> that's an interesting description, considering he was alleged to stuffing his pockets, and gold bars in the house. and this is not menendez first corruption rodeo, that whole -- those charges ended in a mistrial because of a hung jury and you know who got him off, abbe lowell, hunter biden's attorney. >> john: guess who will be back in the breach again.

>> interesting town for sure. i was talking to former secretary of state mike pompeo, this was happening, while mike pompeo was the secretary of state, and he reminded me that while he was there, menendez was going after him on ethics charges for what, for mike pompeo travelling to kansas too much, where he's from. this is as he's alleged to have been hiding money in his house from egyptian officials. >> john: he was not travelling in a free mercedes with gold bars in his pocket. >> exactly. >> gillian: what is baffling to me, how obviously avoidable this is, meaning if the goal was to make tens of millions of dollars, he could have so easily stepped down from office and done this in the private sector. i mean, he would have been almost guaranteed, you know, a legal above board way as a former senior senator to do this on the up and up. why stay in office? >> you know, we are sitting here and i can see the capitol to my

left and this is why people don't trust the government. because i think to your point, unfortunately people in power, when they are there for some time, they think they are impervious, and three different counts, five years for 1, 20 years, 20 years, in terms of potential prison time, you think to yourself, what was he thinking? >> john: up until today the biggest controversy across the street to my right, your left, was a certain senator from philadelphia wearing a hoodie and shorts and sneakers on the senate floor. when you think, though, of the public trust that was put in this senator who was renamed to the chairmanship of this committee after the first trial went through, to now be charged

again with, i mean, different charges obviously, but the abuse of power, if this is true, contained in this indictment, is shocking. >> it is shocking and at all times relevant tho indictment. menendez held a leadership position, first the ranking member and then the chairman, and influence over the executive branch decision to provide military aid. the reason that's important is because at the time relevant to this indictment, egypt was among the largest recipient in the world of u.s. military aid and typically the state department would not proceed with a transfer transferring the money until the chairman or the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee had signed off so they would hold and wait for someone like menendez to say okay, go ahead. meanwhile, that's the process, and then looking at the facts as alleged in the indictment, you know, he's working, he and his wife, with these egyptian officials taking bribes in order

to influence the amount of aid and weapons we were giving to egypt. >> gillian: should go without saying but saying anyway, as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he had a special responsibility and power to oversee the good stewardship of u.s. foreign relations, he represents the united states government when he travels abroad most of the time, he puts together congressional delegations to travel to the region. it's why the claims made here, the allegations, the charges, if true, are especially agregious. it's not a violation, it's the chairman of the committee and legal defense fund set up. he wants the american people to foot his legal bills. >> it's quite something. according to the indictment, he was doing the opposite. a text from his wife to an egyptian official, any time you need anything, you have my

number and we will make everything happen. >> john: and speaking of making everything happen, page nine of the indictment, it says about may of 2018 will hannah hosted another dinner at a high end restaurant with menendez during which menendez disclosed to hannah non-public information about the united states provision of military aid to egypt. shortly after the dinner, hannah texted egyptian official one, the ban on small arms and ammunition to egypt has been lifted. that means sales can begin. that will include sniper rifles among other articles. the level of detail in this indictment is very, very thorough. i mean, clearly the doj has done its work here. so for menendez to say oh, no, no, this completely misrepresents the normal work of a congressional office. the doj has clearly dot a different idea. >> gillian: he also says, john, in the statement, the people behind this campaign with not accept a first generation latino

american from humble beginnings to rise to be a u.s. senator and that's what this is about. >> that may have worked the first time, but to your point, john, the granular specificity the indictment contains, it presents what looks to be an airtight case. i don't see this going well for menendez or his wife or the other people as well. >> john: what's the difference between this case and the last airtight case that fell apart? >> it was a hung jury. so ten of the 12 jurors, they could not come to a decision and i'm not familiar enough to know what their rationale was. but that's what happened then. i think at that time, this is what is so interesting, doj right after that mistrial, they announced they were going to retry the case and abbe lowell, his defense attorney, hunter biden's defense attorney currently, said this is ridiculous doj is going after him, a week after the mistrial and here we are, 2023, that was 2018. >> gillian: totally different charges. >> john: kerri, thanks for being

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>> so what do you call it here at the white house when 10,000 people illegally cross the border in a single day. >> so what do you call it, peter, when gop puts forth -- wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. ok, we are going to move on. no, no, no, no, no, we are moving on. >> unbelievable they want to ignore this. >> joe biden doesn't seem to care, karine jean-pierre doesn't

seem to care and i know secretary mayorkas doesn't care. >> gillian: welcome back, we are waiting a white house briefing with karine jean-pierre, expected to face some questions about the border crisis. total migrant encounters this fiscal year have already surpassed last year. meanwhile, homeland security secretary mayorkas will head to the texas border tomorrow with the president of honduras. maverick county sheriff joins us in a moment, home to eagle pass, feeling the brunt of the crisis. griff jenkins joins us from eagle pass. what are you seeing? >> well, good afternoon, gillian. looks like the worst border crisis and the worst situation i've ever seen, i've covered this border for more than a decade and when secretary mayorkas goes to the border he's going over to mcallen in rgv,

and he out to be coming own here in eagle pass, and seeing what the sheriff is taking. take you to the drone and show you, a small group coming in the heat, temperatures reaching upwards of 100°. we have had 2400 migrant encounters in this area alone in the last 24 hours. we have had in this area three bodies recovered out of the river from drowning in the last 72 hours and some 9900 plus across the entire southwest border. meanwhile, over in el paso, they have rising health concerns, gillian, with three confirmed cases in el paso of tuberculosis, making it incredibly difficult to mitigate that situation with the capacity overflowing in their spaces where they hold them in the shelters and detention areas. nearly 2.4 million this fiscal year with a week or more to go still.

more than 10,000 than the record set last year. listening to a boat go by the river as though try to mitigate another group off to my left coming across. overlooks the influence and the grasp the cartel has on the border. make no mistake, everyone that crosses is part of the cartel a few hours ago. the border patrol chief jason owens posting on x or twitter a picture of drugs and narcotics, over 5,000 pounds of narcotics, 100 pounds of the deadly fentanyl, reminds me of the dea administrator who back in july filed a report with congress saying this, the sinaloa and cartels face the greatest drug threat the u.s. has ever faced. strong words and it really speaks to the situation and the seriousness of what they are dealing we are here at the border in eagle pass. gillian. >> gillian: griff, thanks for

that great reporting from eagle pass. we appreciate it. john. >> john: sheriff of maverick county, texas. the secretary of dhs along with the honduran president is going to be going to hidalgo county, a few over from where you are in maverick county. if they were coming to maverick county and you had a chance to speak to them, what would you say? >> i would say that it's out of control. what i see there now and yesterday and the day before yesterday, it's open borders, it's like there's nothing stopping those immigrants, nothing. it's unbelievable. >> john: so then for the department of homeland security secretary mayorkas to say repeatedly the border is closed, to you is a what? >> no, to me it's open. i don't know what they mean by closed because i haven't seen anything.

i mean, i know that -- i'm not blaming the border patrol agents, they are busy. most of them in the transport, taking documents and everything, processing the immigrants. they are not on the border because they don't have enough officers to work on the border and process the immigrants. so -- by being closed, maybe just seeing other ports. if you go to north to canada, it's probably slow there, they are on the wrong side, about you here in the southern frontier we are busy, it's not closed, it's open. >> john: we are looking at the pictures, sheriff, on the right side of the screen in eagle pass, which i believe is where you are. people just coming up the bank, sneaking underneath the concertina wire and apprehended by the border patrol. way up north in new york city mayor eric adams says that new york is on the verge of being

destroyed by an influx of migrants of 10,000 a month. that's 10,000 a month in a city of 8 million people. you are getting that number every couple of days in a county where the population is only 58,000. what is this doing to your county, what is it doing to eagle pass? >> well, it's -- it's -- my priority is security of the county and i know that my constituents are very nervous what's coming through because those immigrants, not all of them, are coming here to better themselves, better their lives. some are running from the law and from their countries. some are criminals, some are burglarizing, some are bringing drugs, so forth. so i'm just telling the u.s.a. all this traffic is going up forth and i said it a long time ago and it's happening. they are going up north and the problems will be up there. the majority of the immigrants don't want to stay at the border, they want to go up north

and i'm seeing this now that -- and remember, all the immigrants coming are not, they don't have any skills, so they don't have any skills, they are going to be here for any kind of welfare, or going to be breaking into houses, whatever, burglaries, or they are going to create gangs to survive. so we have to be very careful. >> john: i think you were telling our folks before you came on maverick county is seeing its most violent year that you can remember. the president was talking about this last year, he put the blame squarely on republicans. listen to what he said. >> we need our colleagues to act. for decades, immigration reform has been a bipartisan in this country. unfortunately republicans in congress and my predecessor spent four years gutting the immigration system. >> john: do you believe it's the fault of republicans what you are seeing on the border?

>> no, i really don't. you know, i want to be fair, when we started having this problem i know that the governor of texas, abbott, he -- he gave us a whole bunch of money to buy the equipment that we needed and hired some of the deputies, and he's been putting a lot of effort into trying to stop this illegal immigration. but to be honest with you, i haven't seen anything from the government. it should be, when somebody is going to come in to help out they come to the sheriff, the highest authority, i have not seen anything from the federal government, administration. >> john: biden was outlining plans to address the border, fast track processing at the border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities and speed up work permits for

illegals. to your mind, does any of that help curb the number of people coming across the border or does that only give more incentive for people to do it? >> yes, it's more incentive. it will be 0 tolerance. i worked 26 years with the boat patrol, worked in west texas and here in maverick county and whenever we had kind of like a big group of immigrants, every time we had administration he -- immigrants push through here, and when the government would see that it was almost out of hand, they would tell us 0 tolerance, arrest them, write them up, and deport them. they can deport them and they can do it the legal way. and the answer would be 0 tolerance, you have to do all this process, whatever in your embassy over there, the concept office, but not here on the river. why do you maybe the people

cross the river, drown in the river, we see bodies where they walk from ranches, they die because of thirst, whatever, why are we making the people coming and risking their lives by drowning and dying over there in the deserts and the ranches. >> john: the president insists he's addressing it in a safe and humane way but drowning in the rio grande and the hardships that they have getting here and then the hardships that they have trying to get into the country, safe and humane are not words that come to mind. sheriff, on the front lines of the crisis, it's a shame you will not get a chance to talk to the secretary tomorrow but maybe your counterpart in hidalgo county will have a few words. so, mollie hemingway in the next few minutes. >> gillian: defenders of the

president's border policies have been saying all 500,000 of these venezuelans who are fast tracked to get work permits now had already been guaranteed tps by the u.s. government. but griff jenkins, our reporter out there on the ground just told me that is not necessarily the case whatsoever. he's going to track down some of the real numbers for us. but just flagging for folks at home that that is not -- that was talking points are not holding up as of this hour. >> john: and not numbers officially released but good sources saying the last 12 months, and it's not even over yet, has set a new record for illegal migration to the united states. >> gillian: very real numbers we are dealing with. and also this, the ongoing auto workers strikes. thousands of more just joined the uaw strike against the auto giants. we will talk to one of the folks on the picket line. >> john: new details for the

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that prosecutors in both d.c. and california declined to bring charges against the president's son before delaware eventually took up the case. two other irs whistleblowers made the same claim in testimony to congress. david avella is the chairman of go pac, and kevin walling, before we dig into that congressional testimony, i want to ask both of you, david, let's start with you for reaction on the charges against senator menendez. >> every democratic senator and every democrat running for the u.s. senate should be asked if menendez is indicted -- he is indicted, if convicted, should he continue to serve in the u.s. senate. nothing saying he can't as a convicted felon, but asking republican should trump serve -- >> we are in total agreement, not just tie color but this guy

has no business with the charges laid out very clearly, just had a long conversation with kerri about this previously, these allegations are damning. the evidence presented in that indictment speaking as a democrat you have gold bars, a car that was given to this senator, i think he has no business serving in the united states senate. >> john: now on to the other topic at hand, hunter biden and a fourth irs official now coming forward to say that there were roadblocks put in the way of this investigation that weiss could not bring charges in d.c. and california, and how that flies in the face of this during the hearing with the attorney general. listen here. >> simple, mr. garland, you said he had complete authority but he had been turned down. he wanted to bring an action in the district of columbia and the u.s. attorney said no you can't and you tell the united states senate under oath he has

complete authority. >> john: yeah, i was expecting that we were going to hear something from garland in answer to that, but so now we have more officials saying he was stone walled here and there were roadblocks in the way of the investigation. >> my take-aways from the testimony out of the closed door sessions last week, you had multiple fbi agents and irs agents, colleagues of gary shapley, contradicting what he and his colleague said under oath about the nature of the investigation, that david weiss never asked special counsel status in that conversation that was talked about in that committee hearing. clearly there were more questions than answers, i want everyone to come forward and i want as i said before, you know, hunter biden to be treated like anyone else that we see in america. >> gillian: to that point, david, this fourth official said to congress, this is a quote

from the transcript as reported, that he disagreed with gary shapley's conclusion that all of this was some kind of a political hit job. he said, or the doj was, you know, protecting hunter biden in some way. here is the quote. he also "felt that shapley attempt to blame the roadblocks were unsubstantiated." >> kevin brings out more questions that need to be answered but some dots can easily be connected. one we do know, from the political side, the president will require this administration and campaign to defend hunter biden. this will continue to be an issue throughout the 2020 campaign. and it's the great irony that at a time when 77% of americans want someone other than president biden or president trump, yet it is republicans who united they want joe biden and democrats that they want donald

trump. >> john: to age raising its ugly head, jen psaki, the former press secretary talking about that issue and not just in relation to her former boss but all members of congress in a podcast yesterday. listen here. >> does it help or hurt that there's other elderly people struggling in our political universe? >> unquestionably hurts. they are so old and -- let's -- you know, and they are disconnected from what we are experiencing and what we are living and all of them are old and why are all these old people running washington. now, they are not the same, obviously, different health, all the things we can explain it but when you are explaining it, it's kind of a challenge. so i think it's unquestionably bad. >> john: well, there she is calling, i would think by inference for a new generation of leadership and yet joe biden is firmly running for president again. >> she sounds a little like nikki haley on the campaign trail talking about a new generation. i'm 38, the president is 80, i think the man is in way better

shape than i am. i can't tell you the last time i was a bicycle. he works out every day. >> john: whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, i -- >> all older folks in government, casting all older folks in government as the same. >> gillian: i can bike around all of sonoma after drinking two bottles of wine. >> not all old people in government are the same. i think you know, you have the situation with feinstein, concerns about mitch mcconnell and those serious pausings going on, and you know, not lumping all of the older folks in government -- >> john: i heard you ran a lot of cover for the president that takes the cake. >> i can't tell you the last time i was on a bicycle. >> very good at telling the same story and the same speech identically. jen psaki says people in the town are focussed on one thing. the group of people that need to be focused is the biden cabinet and when did the discussion

start the 25th amendment needs to be looked at. if this president can't and continues to stumble around and tell the same story over and over, it's -- it makes people question his mental competence and none of us get to decide whether we lose our faculties. but at some point there has to be a discussion that why do we continue as democrats to defend this guy, is he really just trying to defend and set up his vice president, keeping that generation of younger leaders that you talked about from getting up on top. >> you heard it here, david wants kamala harris running the government. >> joe biden certainly does. >> happen with the 25th amendment. >> john: i'm going to procure a fan and call up christian vanderbelt and put you on a bicycle. >> thanks, gillian. >> gillian: there's this as well, a new warning out from the surgeon general on social media and teens' mental health. dr. marc siegel how we can

create a healthier, safer environment to protect the nation's kids. >> are you concerned iran gets a nuclear weapon, about them getting a nuclear weapon? if they get one, will you? >> if they get one, we have to get one. >> john: the crown prince of saudi arabia discussing the possibility of a nuclear arms race in the middle east. oh, good. former cia station chief dan hoffman will tell us why he thinks it's a wake-up call for everyone.

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the beauty and fame and fortune is necessary to happiness instead of family, community and friends, elements that scientific data has now proven are the keys to mental health and contentment. dr. marc siegel has written a new opinion piece, he joins me now. dr. siegel, sort of false promise of social media from the earliest days of facebook has always been it makes the world interconnected, but time and time again now the data has shown that it makes young people especially more isolated and that leads to all these other mental health issues. >> exactly, gillian. it started with the internet, with dating websites and looking for the perfect person, and then it switches to social media which is doubling and tripling down on this and getting worse and worse, and i as a physician look for imperfection and how to stabilize imperfection so i have a radar for this kind of thing, where people are to be something they are not.

and the university of pennsylvania is studying the teenage brain and discovering that the middle part of the brain is still evolving, still getting the covering of the wiring, if you will, and teens are susceptible, and they feel judged and good and bad, and one-half of all teens feel bad by social media and one-third of teenage girls think they are addicted to social media. i think it's much more than that. i think once you good over 4 or 5 hours a day of social media and the pandemic made it much worse because the connectivity that the surgeon general also talks about was completely missing. people were shut down in their homes, they were not in school, could not have play time, they could not interact with each other. and what did they do, they turned to social media and that's why you are seeing an increase in anxiety, depression and substance abuse out of the

pandemic. >> gillian: the surgeon general put out the new advisory the effects social media has teens and teen mental health specifically. he seems to say that all of this can be overcome by people but it will sort of require an extraordinary effort by teens to seek people out in person face-to-face, irl as they call it, i think, that's probably outdated now, but do you agree with that idea that you can kind of overcome this crisis with more in-person interaction? >> i think it's an ideal, and i like it. but i know like we saw with alcohol and prohibition, teens find a way around this and i heard from one of my kids what tiktok is doing, they are sizing you up, making up an algorithm that fits you and bombard you with videos they think you will like or draw you in more and more and the surgeon general in the advisory is talking about regulating the technological companies. i don't think that's going to work. i think this has to start in the

family and i interviewed governor glenn youngkin of virginia and his right help right now program is about community, it's about family, and it's about insurance coverage for mental health interventions. we need more mental health interventions. >> gillian: dr. siegel, i could talk to you about this all day. but we have to leave it there. thanks for your expertise. everybody should check out that piece. >> great to be on with you. thanks, gillian. >> john: chicago's mayor citing a multi-million dollar contract for tent cities for migrants coming to the windy city. no word where these will be built and residents are less than pleased. we will speak with illinois state minority leader john curran on what he thinks about the plan. >> gillian: not only republicans criticizing senator schumer's dress code for the floor, some democrats are not happy either and speaking up. is the new policy already in jeopardy? stick with us.

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>> john: new dress code allowing senators to wear casual clothing on the senate floor like john fetterman wearing sports and a hoodie or shorts and a baggy

shirt, getting pushback from both sides of the aisle. joe manchin has a resolution to reinstate business attire. mark meredith, live on capitol hill. and mark, has this become a big issue there? >> john, it really has. we started the week talking about this on monday and at that point we were just hearing from a few republican lawmakers, since then this thing has really blown up. we have heard a lot of outrage from republican lawmakers, now as you mentioned there are some democrats who are speaking out not happy with the changes and also referenced, going to be an effort to try and reverse some of the changes next week. chuck schumer essentially eased senate standards reversing the need to have formal dress on the senate floor. this is of course what we expected to happen just days later, when then pennsylvania senator john fetterman, back to you. >> john: all right, mark. fox news alert, to the white house, where karine jean-pierre is taking questions on the bob

menendez indictment. listen in. >> just like all of you, but again, this is an active matter, i'm not going to comment. active matter, not going to comment. >> on the uaw strike, they have invited president biden to the picket line. any plans to go and the strike is expanding to 20 states. is the president going to feel more pressure to move both parties toward resolution? >> on the first question, i don't have any updates to the president's schedule at this time, just don't have anything to share but certainly the president appreciates the inviting him, including him, certainly with all the family and friends of the uaw, and so the president has been really clear about this. he believes the union built the middle class, it's something he has said for years now, and of course he is a union guy who will continue to fight for uaw and also union workers.

so, that will not end, that is something that he has certainly been steadfast about for the past several years, so we of course are in touch with the parties as you know, acting secretary of labor, julie su and gene sperling in touch the past several weeks with all parties. certainly the parties continue to remain at the negotiation table which is incredibly important, and so we have communicated to each of them the importance of continuing to work 24/7 to get to a win-win agreement as you've heard us say many times and look, the auto industry will remain here in america, that's what the president has been working towards, investing in that in the last two years, and you know, uaw workers remain at the heart, the heart of a growing industry, and so we will do anything -- everything that we possibly can to help in any way that the parties would like us to, but again, they are at the negotiation table and we believe

that's incredibly important. i know your dad had some thoughts about our back and forth yesterday, so maybe we should try this again. >> same question, same question as yesterday. >> can you repeat the question? >> what do you call it when 10,000 people illegally cross the border in a single day. >> here is what i will say. and you've heard me say this a couple times, i'll say it again because it is the facts. on day one, the first day of this president's administration he put forth a comprehensive immig immigration reform we believe was needed for the country. we are dealing with a broken system and no action was taken from congress and so what the president was able do, he imposed consequences for those who do not have the legal basis to remain and he has removed more than 250,000 individuals,

this administration has done so, since may 12. and so we have taken action, the president has secured, he also secured record funding, and let's not forget, record funding the president fought for over the last year or so was opposed by the house republicans. this is something that they opposed and didn't want to see. and so what it allowed us to do is actually hire about 25,000 more, bring on cbp agents and really do something that was historic that we hadn't seen and so broken system, it's been broken for the past couple decades, the last administration gutted the system four years, that's what they did, and speaker mccarthy took step to undermine what is happening, undermine getting border security. we saw that, we saw that this week with the cr, where they put forth another piece of

legislation to cut -- to cut, propose continuing to cut some important resources that's needed, whether it's cbp, 800 fewer cbp is what they wanted to do, 50,000 pounds of cocaine, that's what it would -- what it would hurt, right, and try to prevent that from coming in. when you think about more than 300 pounds of fentanyl, think about more than 700 pounds of heroin, 6,000 pounds of methamphetamine to enter the country, that's what they were trying to prevent from the work that we are trying to do, prevent from coming into the country. so, we would love to do this in a bipartisan way, but we are not seeing that, we are seeing -- what we are seeing from house republicans is wanting to defund dhs. >> when you spoke last month, and you said we are stopping the flow at the border, is 10,000 migrants in a single day stopping the flow? >> what i will say, i mentioned 250 individuals have been -- have been stopped who do not have the legal pathway from

coming in. that has been since may 12. and as we are, you know, looking at eagle pass and i know this is -- this is where kind of the issue is at the moment, you know, cbp quickly surged resources and personnel to the area and thanks to their great work, their great work, we are able to swiftly vet and process into custody more than 2,500 individuals and cleared the area where migrants had congregated and that's the work of our law enforcement. that's the work of our law enforcement at the border. remember, house republicans are trying to cut that, they are trying to cut that. >> totally different subject. there are some new relaxed standards in town. would president biden ever show up to an official meeting wearing shorts and a hoodie? >> you've -- i'm assuming you are talking about the senate, when you say relaxed standards. >> used to be president of the