welcome to the beach weekend. i m ari melber. let s get right into the headlines. in the political world, is adjusting swiftly to the republican results out of iowa, which showed trump in the league. as we were covering that night with rachel. but half of that red electorate open to alternatives. the top two alternatives, which are two individuals separated by just under 3000 votes in iowa, are squaring off, there are high stakes in new hampshire. this is the more moderate, independent state that could favor haley. it s voters also will look more like the november electorate than the nominee, whoever the republicans ultimately pick, will have to face. new tonight, desantis is not campaigning in new hampshire right now, having given up on the moderate-leaning states, giving the quote, abysmal poll numbers for the new york times. and while it is january, we must remember the rest of the last political parts of the nation are probably a little bit exhaust at the thought
william la jeunesse is in tijuana, mexico to assess the conditions there jacqui heinrich at the white house with the latest from the biden administration. but we begin with correspondent bill melugin in brownsville, texas again tonight. good evening, bill. bret, good evening to you. cbp sources tell me in the last three days in a row, border patrol has made at least 10,000 migrant apprehensions. those are the highest daily totals ever recorded. fox is also told in the coming days we can expect to see the largest wave of mass releases the u.s. has ever seen. back to in the mexican border city of reynosa thousands of haitians have gathered ahead of title 42 s expiration at midnight. the change in policy means for the first time in over three years, border patrol will lose the ability to quickly expel migrants back to mexico in an already historic border crisis is expected to get worse. here in brownsville, evidence of that crisis is on full display. images from a fox dron
the grotesque and cynical politics behind the florida governor s migrant stunt. just like the racist reverse freedom rides of the 1960s, these migrants were lied to every step of the way, so desantis could own the libs. also tonight, new reporting from the washington post on how trump s team grossly mischaracterized the nature of the documents that he was keeping at mar-a-lago. when the national archives first asked for them back. and what a way to end the week. fresh from her triumphant victory at the emmy awards, sheryl lee ralph from abbott elementary joins me tonight. we begin with the freedom riders. the group of white and black civil rights activists who rode buses across the south in 1961 with the goal of integrating public transportation and bus terminals. one of the original 13 freedom riders was the late great congressman john lewis. it was a bold act of resistance to challenge the segregation laws and the riders encounters violence, beatings, and yale time.
What ive had a great past, but anything Closing Arguments are on tuesday. We will see what the jury decides after the six weeks of evidence in this case that they have heard laid out. Thank you so much for joining us here on the source cnn news night starts right now. Once a mistake, twice something more ominous. Thats tonight on this good evening. Im abbyhillip in new york and tonight, the benefit of the doubt is shrinking for an associate Supreme Court justice of the United States, samuel alito, the New York Times. Now when covering four different photos taken on four different dates at the second house owned by the justice, Where A Second Insurrection Sympathizing Flag was hoisted yes, really, the photographs show an appeal to heaven flag that is outside of the Long Beach Island home. Several times between july and september of 2020, Google Street View even shows the flag how long do you think the flag would have had to been out there for google maps to capture it. Now, this appeal
But in all of it, was this feeling that it would never get better and i now know that thats not true. Hello. Here in france, round one is over. And after an Election Campaign of twists and turns, The Big Surprise was the lack of big surprise. But it is a huge turning point all the same. The established parties became marginalised, in third and fifth place and now the contest comes down to a showdown between nationalistic populism and globalist liberalism. That is the battle being fought across the west. France is now divided down the middle. The radical candidates, who want to overthrow the existing order le pen on the populist right, melenchon on the left, and six fringe candidates as well they got a total of 49. 6 per cent of the vote in other words, half. There is an enormous well of discontent out there. For now, Emmanuel Macron is the man to watch the best hope for a battered establishment of seeing off the radicals. But the twists continue in this campaign tonight, his opponent M