Numbers of illegal crossings as recently as june but now warned the tide is turning reporting a drastic increase so far this month despite extreme heat and new restrictions put in place by Homeland Security. Republicans point to a border wall started under President Trump but never completed. Not a coincidence the thoughts on Physical Barriers Go Hand In hand with what we see as the consequence. The fruit of decisions. The white house insists their border plan is actually working. Listen. As we have said multiple times, our border enforcement plan works. It the deterrent. Diplomacy and enforcement. We have seen that plan working. Gillian officials in Sanctuary Cities including new york and chicago are struggling to support thousands of migrants and Asylum Seekers. It is a major rift in new york between the governor and mayor adams. Cb cotton is in new york with details on the emerging feud. We begin first in El Paso Reporting On The Trump border wall that never came to be. All up and d
afternoon, i m yasmin vossoughian, on a very busy saturday afternoon. coming on the air today following an ongoing military conflict inside russia. we are now learning moments ago, you give guinea prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mercenary group is standing down. , this after escalation late yesterday as the group started making its way towards moscow, threatening vladimir putin s grip on power. the wagner group, until recently, was fighting alongside russian forces in ukraine, but yesterday accusing the kremlin of killing thousands of its soldiers based on quote unquote, false pretenses, prigozhin and his troops have taken control of the city home to the russian military headquarters for the ukraine war, we are unsure where the control stands now. in a televised address this morning, vladimir putin accused the wagner mercenaries of quote unquote treason, and vowing to punish anyone involved in a, quote, armed rebellion. we this is a criminal adventurous to campaign. , i
from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with new word on donald trump s legal team preparing to challenge states that are trying to keep him off the ballot. the new york times saying these new filings could happen as soon as tuesday. both colorado and the main cases. maine joined colorado this week, disqualifying trump from its primary ballot, citing its role in the january 6th capitol riot. main secretary of state, shayna pillows, telling msnbc s laura mcdonald that she was bound to make this decision. i was duty bound to follow the two ensure that the candidates, all of them who appear on the primary ballot, or qualified for the office they seek. joining me now is emma barnett, who is in kittery, maine, for us. we are going to break this down. you have been reporting on section three of the 14th amendment. you have been following the possibility of donald trump being removed from this ballot for months. tell me how we got here a
texas governor greg abbott, about to sign a controversial bill that makes it a state crime to enter the state illegally. this, while the white house and senate negotiators are urgently trying to reach an agreement on border policy before the year is over and we are live at the border. republican presidential front-runner donald trump, unleashing a familiar play from his old campaign book, targeting migrants in his campaign speeches, but his rhetoric, darker than ever. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin, in israel right now presently display the protections of civilians in gaza , as global calls for a cease- fire mount. we re following these major developing stories and more coming in right here on cnn news central. right now, chaos at the southern border, really the focus in washington, texas, and the campaign trail. here in the nation s capital, senators worked through the weekend to still negotiate trying to get republican backed border security measures in excha
a hearing in the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government to investigate abuses by the fbi. the whistleblowers testifying at the hearing to suspended fbi agents and one former agent all claim the fbi retaliated on them for speaking out on the practices at the bureau . now, if i may, maybe just as a reminder, a couple of stories on those practices. in 2020 one , the fbi counterterror division raided the home of a red cross volunteer named joseph bolaños . bolaños is sixty nine years old, anonymous hipster s claimed bolaños was at the capitol on january 6th. there s no evidence, though, that bluenose was there, much less that he did anything violent, regardless of the fbi. regardless, they showed up at bolaños house. they were armed. they seized his electronics, and the raid was so traumatizing. the bolano suffered two strokes. then there were the pro-life raids on christians. mark and paul von again. no evidence that either of these men were threats