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i'm martha maccallum. this is "the story" today. it's a big one. a border showdown is brewing in eagle pass, texas right now. a huge hub for illegal border crossings. there's a standoff that is underway between the federal government, which wants the razor wire that texas put in place there to protect its own state, they say it has to go. republican texas governor greg abbott says he will not. the biden administration has given him a deadline of tomorrow to allow border patrol access to the area. it's called shelby park. essentially setting up a confrontation potentially between fede...

i wanted to do a few minutes on how your father invented the iowa caucus. and i wanted to hear all the bedtime stories he told you about going out to iowa in 1972 for george mcgovern, the first time any presidential candidate played attention to the iowa caucuses, and winning it and how he created political history with everyone wanted to follow in karl wagner's footsteps, managing a winning presidential -- >> the monster he helped create, in other words. [laughter] >> we were working monday night because of coral. he did that to us. >> he was looking down on us with a smile on his f...

bedtime stories he told you about going to iowa in 1972 for george montgomery, the first time in a presidential candidate paid attention to the iowa caucuses, winning it, and how he created political history with everyone wanting to follow. karl wagner's footsteps, managing a winning, presidential -- >> the monster he helped create, in other words. >> we were working monday night, all because of carl. he did this to us. >> he was looking on us with a smile on his face, and probably, a frown. >> brilliant. a brilliant move when he did it, and i'm just sorry that it has become an endur...

the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we've got a lot of numbers here. >> yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we're hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they've secured more than 772 b...

hi, thanks so much for joining me today. i'm jessica dean in washington, d.c. in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a major shift in memphis. just a day after video shows the brutal police beating of tyre nichols, the city police department announcing it is permanently deactivating the scorpion unit. all five officers charged in nichols' death were part of the movement and after protests around the country demanding it be dissolved. the attorney for tyre nichols's family ben crump telling cnn that it is a positive step but the work is far from over. >> in communities of color, th...