of course big drama on capitol hill as well, as kevin mccarthy finally has the gavel. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. i want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place. there is really strong evidence that something happened, that something was changed in the transmission or inside. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. all converging and now we re on, as they say, the point of attack. look in the streets of brazil. look at the great patriots in brazil that at a lot of danger to themselves, have come forward in the streets of brazil. f brazl a corrupt president, the forces of fascism, and the mobs that believe the lies. this morning, we re following fast moving developments out of brazil where police have arrested hundreds who attacked the presidential palace and congress. we ll have the latest on the unrest
they needed to be arrested and processed and it could be determined whether or not they get returned to mexico or they re allowed to stay here and seek asylum. it s jonathan. tell us more about the letter and the demands there from texas governor greg abbott, and we should note the stop at the border just one of two for president biden on this trip. he s now in mexico about to start the three amigos summit if you will with the leaders of canada and mexico. the migrant issue is going to dominate proceedings there as well. we know in the letter it s coming from governor greg abbott who has made attacking the president s immigration platform a corner stone of his platform. he says it was too little too late for president biden to come to the border. he has been touting how his own operation lone star using state resources have stopped a lot of drugs, a lot of migrants coming into the country. again, those are state resources they aren t supposed to be used
jump in and they re paying attention to see what trump is doing before they make their decisions, and looking at each other trying to determine who else could be competition. so there s real frustration that trump has not addressed many of the concerns that have come from republican voters that led them to vote against them in the most recent election in figuring out ways to not only win them back but perhaps win some of the individuals from communities that historically do not vote for the gop, and so right now, most people are sitting on their hands, waiting to see what is going to be put forward and in the meantime, trying to maintain the support that they have until then. politics reporter at axios, eugene scott, congrats again on the new jon, and thanks for joining us this morning. it s going to be a busy day in washington and beyond. looking into the president s visit to the border yesterday, his high stakes summit in mexico today and tomorrow.
to be enforcing a federal immigration law. there s a lot of back and forth. a lot of actually ignoring of aboutt s demands by the white house because they think he crosses a line in terms of his own authority. as far as what s going on in mexico, couldn t be a more pivotal moment especially between u.s. and mexican leaders. as you know, last week, there was an announcement from the white house that 30,000 migrants per month from the countries of venezuela, haiti, cuba, and nicaragua will be turned back into mexico. that s a change. previously those nationalities could not be sent back into mexico. this is coming because of an agreement. mexico agreed to take those people back. it s hard for them because often times those nationalities can t be deported. their countries won t take them. mexico has to be able to find the resources, the shelters, to take those people in. they of course did come to this agreement because the u.s. is offering quite a bit of money to mexico. all of this just
want to go to you in that in a minute because, again, they want to slash the defense budget. they want to declare ideological war on our intel community. china s celebrating that this morning. russia s celebrating that this morning. north korea and iran are celebrating that this morning. all of our enemies are celebrating what these republicans that the wall street journal editorial page has been criticizing. we want to get there in a minute, but we have a reporter with us to talk about joe biden s visit to the border. yes, president biden visited the u.s./mexico border in el paso, texas, yesterday, his first visit to the border since taking office. upon landing, biden was greeted by members of congress as well as texas governor greg abbott who handed the president a letter that details his requests and complaints of the administration s handling of the