Who worked so hard on that. There are a few members that wont vote for funding the government while we finish all the 12 bills. That was House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy on funding the government just moments ago on capitol hill as Congress Still trying to avert an impending Government Shutdown as a deadline looms. And some lawmakers are in town, the rest are off until tuesday, five days to solve the standoff. Welcome to fox news live, im aishah hasnie, mike. Looks like a few busy days on capitol hill. Im mike emanuel. And Senator Menendez, calls for him resign after he was charged with bribery. And broken once again. Throwing President Bidens Border Policies in the spotlight. Griff jenkins is in eagle pass. Griff hey, mike and aishah. You can hear the river boats behind me. Its a busy morning in eagle pass. More than 750 migrants already crossing right in front of our cameras. Lets take you back to our fox flight team, the drone in the sky. And you can see a group of migrants on a small island trying to make it across to eagle pass where theyre going to have to go through the dense, Dangerous Thick Razor Wire and the Border Patrol are in the boats because its very dangerous. Weve had three migrants drown in three days. Yesterday afternoon we watched as a body was recovered from the river. All a part of the humanitarian crisis here. Officials tell me here in the last week, mike and aishah, weve had more than 11,000 migrants crossing right here. And i can give you another look at this from our live ground camera. Weve got a roving camera here getting a shot and you can see on the other side of there, that giant flag, thats a Venezuelan Flag. More migrants who perhaps will soon be crossing as well. Its a Venezuelan Flag because the majority of these migrants are from venezuela, many of them drawn because they have gotten the news that venezuelans have been given it temporary protective status which protects them from deportation for up to 18 months and allows them to get work permits. Now, yesterday the situation has gotten so crazy here. I was interviewing representative Tony Gonzalez who represents eagle pass and migrants were crawling through the razor wire as we were interviewing him. Watch this. The images on the river are terrible, but what about the people that live in the United States. Those are the ones impacted the hardest. Just as were talking, you can see a gentleman is literally navigating, negotiating this Razor Sharp Wire with a child. Every single day and its sad. It breaks your heart. The trek that these people have made. They should never have to have that trek. Griff and cvp releasing, you can see here, the cvp releasing the august numbers, more than 232,000 migrant ent counters, the highest august on record. 2. 2 million fiscal year to date. And officials tell me, ill leave you with a final thought, mike and aishah. If you sort of look at whats happening here, this is a smaller station in eagle pass. On any given day they have about 50 agents. They tell me 85 to 95 of them are dealing with processing, meaning theres less than 10 actual agents on any given shift actually in the field protecting the border. Guys, back to you. Back here in washington The Blame Game is underway. A lot of finger pointing going on. Do folks there on the front lines Want Congress to pass more legislation or do they want the Biden Administration to enforce existing laws or maybe both . Thats such a great question, mike. You have to remember, these men and women of the Border Patrol and texas dps, they dont make the policies, they carry out the laws, but they hope that there will be something coming down the pike that will help get this under control, but more specifically, the Border Patrol agents morale is crushed right now. Theyre overworked, overwhelmed and see whats happening in washington and theyre very worried the government could soon shut down because that means theyll have to do all of this and possibly go without a paycheck. Mike. Griff jenkins starting us off live in eagle pass. Aishah great work, griff. Trouble brewing for democrats on the hill. New jersey senator bob menendez resisting calls to resign despite growing calls from his own party. The senator and his wife indicted on bribery charges yesterday. Alexandria hoff with the latest on the scandal. Hi, aishah, this is not the first bribery case the senator had to fight. A hung jury cleared him in a separate one six years ago. But it was after that Point Starting in 2018 that federal prosecutors say the long time new jersey senator, and then girlfriend nadine, protecting three new jersey businessmen, in the three counts against him, hes accused of using his position as chair of the Foreign Relations committee to benefit egypts authoritarian government. Senator menendez allegedly provided sensitive, nonpublic, u. S. Government information to egyptian officials and otherwise took steps to secretly aid the government of egypt. A search of senator men menendezs and his wifes property, showed that she received gifts, some stuffed in Jacket Pockets and gold bars. A mercedes also allegedly provided to the couple. From 2019 a motion was ironic when menendez accused then President Trump of being compromised. The American People deserve to know who they elected to be their president , and they deserve to know donald trump is Witness Wittingly or unwittingly an agent for the russian government. And phil murphy is urging him to step down, alleging theyre so serious, for him to effectively represent our state, ill calling for his immediate resignation. Senator menendez is not interested in that. And writing that so many are rushing to judge a latino and pushing him out of his seat. Im not going anywhere. And stepping aside as Foreign Relations committee, but can still serve on the. Aishah on the panel. Its going to heat up next week, thanks, alex. The white house trying to shift the blame for the migrants at the border as officials reveal a Record Number at the border in august. Hello, mark. The white house admits the surge of migrants crossing into the United States on a daily basis is a problem, but argues its a problem thats not unique to the Biden Administration. Just this week, the federal government announced its going to be granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of venezuelans who are already living here in the u. S. , essentially allowing these people to ann i apply for work permits. It may be to appease some governors, to help migrants adjust to life in the United States faster. As for the president himself, the growing surge of migrants daily complicates the claims that the u. S. Border is secure and now trying to shift. The last administration gutted the Immigration System for four years, thats what they did and you have Speaker Mccarthy and in congress continuously take steps to undermine what is currently happening, trying to undermine getting Border Security. Republicans insist they are ready to address the border with new restrictions and funding plans that the white house would never support. Likely the fight over the border could force the shutdown by the end of the month and saying that the white house is to blame. Thats typical of the president he doesnt take harm for anything hes doing thats literally destroying the country on top of that what hes doing in the border. Never in the history of the country has our own president done more to intentionally do have anything to harm the United States. Weve seen the white house push back that theyre ignoring the crisis. The Homeland Security next week. And going to arizona and california and no indication that hell talk about border issues when hes on the ground. Thanks. For more on the Southern Border, Glenn Grothman joining us, congressman, thank you for joining us on your saturday. We appreciate it. You heard mark merediths report there where the white house is blaming, of could course, the House Republicans, saying you havent done anything to tackle immigration reform. When democrats had control of both chambers, they didnt do anything about it either. I know that House Republicans say they want to tackle the border before they tackle immig immigration. Whats your response to the white house. We passed a comprehensive bill, and obviously we need democratic help in the senate and President Biden to sign on. This isnt Rocket Science. Under President Trump, we had about 1 20 the number of migrants coming across the border every month. Now, we even have 9 or 10,000 Minors Unaccompanied by an adult coming here. Its not Rocket Science how to deal with this. It was being dealt with very well a couple of years ago and unfortunately, President Biden, you could see it in his election, right. When President Biden first ran he said its Free Health Care for all legal immigrants and laid out where hes going to be. This isnt a surprise. I wish the some action would be taken. Were trying, we dont have enough congressmen on board right now, to say if were going to continue to fund the government after october 1st, we will require the Biden Administration as part of that funding, to in essence shut down the border or in essence lets talk about that, talk about the Government Shutdown and the new way to try to fund the government. We just heard from Speaker Mccarthy on capitol hill, negotiations are ongoing, and no votes to take place yet. What do you think about the new plan to pass single bills, these appropriations bills. Because as you and i know, thats not going to fund the government before the october 1st deadline. Right, these people are not sincere. Youre right. First of all, were never going to listeners know there are 12 separate bills to go into the federal government. We passed one and maybe get through another four by next week, but no way were going to pass 12. Then theyve got to go through the senate. To say that that is a plan. Thats a nice goal. We should be passing these bills, but thats not going to avert a Government Shutdown. We would have to pass what they call a continuing resolution to get there and in that continuing resolution, and i agree with Kevin Mccarthy on this, we ought to require that the Biden Administration do similar to what President Trump did and get us back down to about 10,000 people comes across every month instead of well over 200,000. Do you think that Kevin Mccarthy should reach aCross The Aisle and put something on a continuing resolution . I dont think that the democrats are interested in doing anything at the border. Im sure that kevin tried and will try again. Im afraid what will happen, some republicans will be nervous here that we might shut down the government and they will team up with the democrats and pass what they call a clean continuing resolution, we keep the government open, but we also would continue to allow a flood of people coming across the border. Aishah that cant happen unless the speaker brings that combination bipartisan bill to the floor. I want to bring up to you, there are threats if he does reach aCross The Aisle and gets help from democrats, there are threats that, you know, some republicans will file a motion to vacate, including matt gaetz and this is what he said this week. This is call for number two, guys. Look, im not building a coalition right now for a motion to vacate. Whether or not a motion to vacate happens or doesnt happen remains entirely in the control of speaker mccarccmccarthy. Its not something we put on a shelf to admire. We intend to use it if theres not a deal. Congressman, what do you think about that . That puts him in a tough spot. Kevin is doing all he can. He cant get 218 votes to put the provisions that we want about the Southern Border in there. Kevin is trying to get 218 votes and frankly shall the making it the most difficult are the ones that would turn around and kek him out. Shows a lack of sincerity there. Aishah and last 15 seconds. The reaction to the bob menendez news, the indictment. Whats your take on that, hes not stepping down. I cant imagine what the new jersey voters were thinking when they gave him another term, but we obviously have a moral breakdown in this country and him getting reelected is part of it and now were stuck dealing with him. Aishah congressman grothman, thank you for being on the show. We appreciate it. For reaction on the other side of the aisle, congressman Jake Auchincloss joins us. Good to be with you. New jerseys governor and others in the garden state are calling for Senator Menendez to resign. We havent heard from cory booker, and should he go . The charges against him are serious. If proven try, a grave violation of the public trust. Senator menendez needs to decide in consultation with his constituents in new jersey whether he can continue to serve ably while under this really significant cloud. Now, as ive said about all ongoing investigations, including that into donald trump, every american gets the presumption ever innocence until Proven Guilty in this country. Okay, to the crisis at our Southern Border, here are some of your colleagues on that front. I think President Biden has had a lot of ideas and proposals that republicans are stonewalling that would actually solve the problem. The idea that President Biden is at fault for congressional inaction is incredible to me. Republicans are the ones causing the chaos by trying to make things as confusing and angst ridden as possible. Is it the republicans fault or should the administration do a better job of enforcing current laws . I think the American People, when it comes to immigration are tired of blame shifting. Im a cosponsor of Bipartisan Legislation that would provide more funding for Border Security while at the same time providing documentation and dignity for these who are here in the economy, and trying to build a better life for themselves in the United States. And for Speaker Mccarthy, to actively have reform for the immigration for two decades. Ive covered the hill and when you say comprehensive reform, it seems to get stuck somewhere. Are there simple aspects that could be bipartisan, broad support . Lets look at where its stuck, under speaker boehner, speaker ryan, the mag ga maga caucus. Im willing to take a hard vote on comprehensive reform. Lets bring it to the floor and see if the republicans will do the same. Weve got a week left in the fiscal year. Are we headed for a Government Shutdown . If so, it will be the most preventible shutdown in history. We have 300 plus votes right now to fund the government, to fund ukraine, to provide disaster relief. But Speaker Mccarthy is afraid of his own shadow. More precisely hes avoid of Donald Trumps shadow and refuses to put the country first. He has a crocodile caucus, someone who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat his last. He fed the crocodile caucus, joe biden with the impeachment inquiry. And fed them ukraine. Theyre going to eat him anyway, but until then the country has to suffer. Some Freedom Caucus members obviously wont be happy about it, may try to vacate the chair. Should the speaker Cross The Aisle and try to get a bipartisan funding package done by the deadline . Of course Speaker Mccarthy should try to get it done by the deadline. Shutting down the government makes the border less secure and two undermines basic services for the American People. As i said most preventible shutdown in history. We voted on a compromise this spring that has the top line numbers for Funding Government