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smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? im michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley h...

is it over before it begins? im michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sown up the 2024 gop nomination, or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion, but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan in the "wall street journal" writing this week, i refuse to see the story is over. the voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, "the new york times" wrote, the christie vote alone will probably ...

record numbers of migrants crossing the u.s. border, a dire humanitarian crisis. "the lead" starts right now. with border crossings at an all-time high, the biden administration warns times ahead will likely get even worse now that a key immigration policy that had been used to turn away migrants has expired. the scenes at the u.s.-mexico border today as we learned of two u.s. migrant children who died in u.s. custody. all this as the debt crisis intensifies. >> we wont in some cases b...

Presidents? >> well, you know, the border policy has been subject to an immense amount of litigation, and so weve had judges giving -- federal judges giving orders in different directions. you know, we have to remember that barack obama deported more migrants than donald trump in his first four years in office. so the trump policy was not that great. up until title 42, the pandemic-era policy was rescinded by court order, biden deported 500,000 migrants. so its not as clean-cut as k.w. would hav...

Presidents? >> well, you know, the border policy has been subject to an immense amount of litigation. and so weve had judges giving -- federal judges giving orders in different directions. you know, we have to remember that barack obama deported more migrants than donald trump in his first four years in office. so the trump policy was not that great. up until title 42, the pandemic era policy was rescinded by court order, biden deported 500,000 migrants. so it is not as clean cut as kw would hav...

Alexandria is there. >> this endeavor was revealed by homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas as he testified on capitol hill. the focus was supposed to be on the administrations planned end to title 42, the border policy, but then he was asked about the person who had been chosen to lead the department of the disinformation governance board, nito jenkins. >> is this the same guy who said that the dossier was real, and running the governance board. >> im not familiar with those statements...