monica alba is reporting from the white house, also with us, david drucker, senior writer at "the dispatch" and elise jordan, former white house aide under president george w. bush and an msnbc political analyst. so guad, customs and border protection literally moments ago announced the border saw a very slight dip in crossings yesterday. what are those numbers like? >> reporter: chris, so these new numbers say they saw 11,000 migrants cross the border on thursday, so that's about a thousand less than what we had seen monday, tuesday, and wednesday. it's a small dip, and it reflects what we've seen here. we still have large groups arriving near eagle pass but the crowds are a little smaller. customs and border protection has been working around the clock to try to process these migrants. we've seen a lot of buses and vans take them to the processing centers, which by the way, in this sector, the real sector that eagle pass is a part of, they say they're at three times capacity. so it could be that they're moving them faster, but if these numbers that were shared, 11,000 say, it's a little less, then it reflects what we're seeing here. speaking to some of t