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wall street journal assistant editor james freeman is here to weigh in. >> but first, no end in sight for the migrant crisis overtaking the southern border and no plan in place yet from the white house with the title 42 policy possibly ending any day now. welcome to "america reports," im aishah hasnie in washington. >> im rich edson. border patrol agents are taking drastic steps to prepare for the worst. in just a matter of days, built a massive tent in the el paso desert bigger than a...

catch dr. oz. there will be a recount. more on the monologue. first matt, with pinpoint accuracy you told us we would be in this position tonight. where will we be tomorrow and monday? >> well, last night there was talk about 25,000 republican ballots out there. i didnt believe that. there are 8700 mail in ballots and thats lower. they are slower in getting those numbers upon i -- you have the same day ballots. dont have many out. i said to the viewers the majority of the precincts are...

Influence the president on twitter? first matt, then david, weigh in. matt? >> yeah, i havent heard of this before. i think partly because weve never had a president who was so vulnerable to taking the bait before. this is a pretty smart idea because donald trump might just retweet something that could start a firestorm. and so i think thats very shrewd of them. it sounds very sneaky and clever. i also just want to say, anecdotally speaking, that, you know, during the campaign, i was inundated b...

With the goal being there to create distrust among americans and our allies. is that a new theory in terms of them trying to directly influence the president on twitter? first matt and then david, you weigh in. >> yeah, i havent heard of this before. i think partly because weve never had a president who was so vulnerable to taking the bait before. this is a pretty smart idea because donald trump might just retweet something that could start a firestorm. and so i think thats very shrewd of them. ...

Going to be much harder than they thought it was going to be. if its possible now, first matt, and then kareem. >> i set out to write a piece, this is how republicans can fix obama care. i talked to a bunch of conservative health care experts. they cant do it. what barack obama accomplished was, a par dime shift that says its now the responsibility of the federal government to take care of health care, make sure you have access to health care insurance. once donald trump has accepted the premise...

>> theyll have to cover them a different way. >> were figuring out this rubiks cube. >> thats part of the whole trickery here right? if we cant have a mandate, lets have a tax incentive, where -- a tax rebate, where we basically give people money to force them to sign up. if thats what you want to do, is that a great free market solution. >> matt, the rubiks cube thing, i have one on my desk. its been there for a couple years. they can do it any second. hand it to them and they can fix it. i don...

Interview joyce mitchell talked about the plot. >> the plan was to get them changed, get them in the car. you would have drugged lyle. he would have been passed out at home. and what did they say they were going to do? >> at first matt said he was going to go back and take care of lyle. he was going to kill lyle. and that i couldnt let him kill my husband. theres no way. >> you keep saying i love my husband. and its hard to believe. >> i know its hard to believe, but i do love my husband. and i ...

Grateful. >> how have the children been? obviously, i know at first matt had indicated that they were told she was still at work or would be coming back, but its been a long time now. >> right. >> how have they been asking for her? >> well, the thing thats really amazing is that we have michelles face all over us. we wear it every day. im going to be wearing these shirts until the day we bring her home. we have billboards and we have signs all over central florida. they see her as were driving b...

Whatsoever. im very grateful to see the grandbabies. they have been part of my life for three years now and theyre very much a part of me and i know that wherever michelle is, she would want them to still, you know, be part of our part o as well. theyre granting me that. im very, very grateful. >> how have the children been? obviously i know at first matt had indicated that they were told she was still at work or would be coming back, but its been a long time now. >> right. >> how have they been...

Very much a part of me and i know that wherever michelle is, she would want them to still, you know, be part of our lives as well and they are granting me that, so im very, very grateful. >> how have the children been? obviously, i know at first matt had indicated that they were told she was still at work or would be coming back, but its been a long time now. >> right. >> how have they been asking for her? >> well, the thing thats really amazing is that we have michelles face all over us. we wea...