we'll discuss that with lieutenant chris oliveras from texas dps. democrats defending president biden's reelection bid arguing he can serve another term. >> ashley: polls show most americans think otherwise, alexandria hoff is here. >> alexandria: major players came out in defense this weekend. chris coons and bernie sanders, who is a year older than the president. >> i think joe biden is agile, capable, his record of leadership at home and abroad make him imminently qualified and we should focus on the experience and wisdom he brings to the job. >> the democrats and president have to be stronger on working class issues, do that, i think biden will win in a landslide. >> alexandria: according to latest polling, democrats are split on this with 19% preferring robert f. kennedy jr. and 9% prefer marianne williamson and asa hutchinson says age does play a role for the american people. >> the american people figure this out very quickly, every time you go to a town hall meeting it is a mental acuity test. voters will make a decision on this and i don't

migrant crisis, which is coming behind me in that last hour, we had that exclusive interview with chris oliveras who gave insight on difficulty of bringing oropesa into custody. they recovered this cell phone near where the crime happened and he could be headed to get back into mexico and coming through this area of brownsville because most direct route to the houston area. it is just really a testament how difficult it is and this combined law enforcement effort is and the frustration that chris oliveras said about the fact that this individual could have been deported as many as five times and yet there was nothing in terms of like a binding consequence that would have kept him from being able to come back. all of that happening as literally you will see this morning, we continue our coverage, bus after bus of migrants passing behind me because we are having to just check with our sources and were 2085 migrant encounters in this area yesterday. we'll get newer numbers later this morning, but it has been going on in 12 days more than 20,000 migrants, which says how much of this surge and crisis

and i think moving forward, that's what we're going to do. >> reporter: lieutenant chris oliveras, thankmuch for your time. back to you. jacqui: all right, bill melugin, thanks. mike: hunter biden could soon learn his fate as federal prosecutors near the end of their investigation into the president's son as house republicans release some of the finds into their own probe into with hunter biden's business dealings. joining me now live in studio is tim bellevit dis, a former federal prosecutor and sec trial attorney. thanks for coming n. obviously, time is precious, let's get to it. what is your take on the state of the criminal probe at this point? >> no charges have been filed, of course, but it's believed that they're going to happen soon. the government seems to be focusing on tax charges, potential tax charges and specifically some failure to file charges which would be misdemeanor as well as a tax evasion charge, that's a felony. separate from that the government's also considering a false statements charge that relates to an atf form that he filled out back in 2018 where he answere

joining me now is lieutenant the chris oliveras with the texas department of public safety.ieutenant, thank you for joining us. this slowdown that happened after title 42 went down, do you expect it to continue? and, of course, by the way, president biden's taking full credit for it. what do you say to both of those questions? >> well, first off, david, good morning and great to be with you. of course, there's multiple factors that are causing this decrease crease in numbers at the border. keep in mind, we're still averaging anywhere from 4-5,000 encounters at the border. that's not taking into account those illegal immigrants that are being released through the ports of entry with notice to appear with court dates three or four years from now or much longer. last week, during the title 42 week, over 6,000 were released without any type of notice to appear. when we look at the numbers, we still have a serious problem at the border. as far as the credit, i think the crept goes to the state of texas for -- the credit goes to the state of texas, our texas the state troopers, ou