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Of the final committee meeting with andrea mitchell, katy tur and hallie jackson. right now as we speak, it is 30 degrees fahrenheit, below freezing in el paso, texas, where hundreds of people, including children, are sleeping on the streets after crossing the southern border. the mayor of that city declared a state of disaster this weekend saying asylum seekers are not safe with processing shelters at capacity. in just two days, the biden administration is ordering some using title 42, the poli...

Youre on the mexican side there, guad. what are you hearing from people? >> reporter: jose, well, you mentioned the temperature. its 30 depress right now. the sun came out, but it is still freezing here. first of all,, when we arrived overnight, this is where a lot of the migrants have lined up. local police from juarez told me because of the cold weather they had to leave the area and find shelter somewhere. with the sun rising a lot of them were lining up. i was just speaking to this gentleman...

Tend those graves. why do they do that? because the united states came in world war ii and helped liberate their country, and the only thing we asked for in return was ground in which to place our dead. thats the united states of america. god bless the founders of our country for sending us in the direction they did. brian: absolutely. lets talk about whats happening at the border. we have never seen anything like this, karl rove. we have never seen what looks to be basically an invasion. in el ...

Tend those graves. why do they do that? because the united states came in world war ii and helped liberate their country, and the only thing we asked for in return was ground in which to place our dead. thats the united states of america. god bless the founders of our country for sending us in the direction they did. brian: absolutely. lets talk about whats happening at the border. we have never seen anything like this, karl rove. we have never seen what looks to be basically an invasion. in el ...

Tend those graves. why do they do that? because the united states came in world war ii and helped liberate their country, and the only thing we asked for in return was ground in which to place our dead. thats the united states of america. god bless the founders of our country for sending us in the direction they did. brian: absolutely. lets talk about whats happening at the border. we have never seen anything like this, karl rove. we have never seen what looks to be basically an invasion. in el ...

42 and, you know, on the 21st. >> what kind of strain does that put on your residents? >> the strain we are seeing right now is just the ability to keep up with that type of flow through the community. what i mean by that, el paso is about 800,000 strong. we have a moderate-sized airport. we have a couple of smaller bus terminals. but thats not enough to keep up with normal holiday traffic. now on that you have another 1,400 people who are looking to travel. the vast majority are not staying her...

Efforts to extend title 42 failed in a circuit appeals court. they might take it to the supreme court, but looks as it stands now that it goes away on the 21st. are you worried about that? >> well, it puts the burden squarely on the shoulders of congress, neil, to finally do something about this. this has been one of the most frustrating parts of my 10 years in the senate. i naively thought when we did a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013, great, it was bipartisan and the house will d...

That get away. to call it not open, thats not serious talk. >> are you personally dreading the 21st? >> we all are. the numbers that weve been seeing this month, were seeing days with over 8,000 encounters per day on average and we saw those numbers last year when that haitian migrant camp formed here in del rio. weve already seen what it looks like when we see numbers like that on a daily basis. now our infrastructure is a little better to deal with larger amounts, but thats 8,000, these are un...

Actually stem the flow and have a more orderly, controlled situation at our border. but, again, it remains to be seen if the travel governments going to follow through. were trying to do as much as we cannot only on the enforcement side, but also on the legal side having everybody involved with the situation, try to do as much as they can with the resources and the authority they have within the state. neil: you know, lieutenant, we are getting some sporadic details of what the administration is...

States, but more from a global perspective. neil: all right. we end showing you a number of inflation which has come down from its highs, guys, have a wonderful christmas. thank you again. of course, we are also keeping track of whats happening at the border and title 42 going away on the 21st. its going to change a lot of things including not only how democrats and republicans respond, but the administration. . oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. ...