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Caught over 170,000 illegal crossers last month alone. that is a staggering increase of 140% from the last time, same time last year. joining us now is yuma mayor, judd nichols. mayor nichols, thanks for joining us. i want to start asking you why did you declare a local emergency and how did you get to that point? >> we've been watching the immigration situation on the border beginning of year but watch it every year being a border city. great concern about january, hearing discussions about the traffic picking back up. sure enough it picked back up but it was at a point where customs, border ...

Secure our borders, preserve our national security and also maintain our values. those two are not mutually exclusive. i'm sick and tired of hearing discussions if we have to pick between the two. >> let these guys get in here in just a moment, but i watched your ads, listened to you on the campaign trail. you knew things had to be fixed but you were optimistic they were going to be fixed. >> of course. >> given that, what has this entry into this new job been like, to go there and see so acutely the level of dysfunction, seeing washington not operating efficiently. >> washington, d.c. is abso...

Trying to take back the house this year. but because these districts are so closely divided, it's been a little bit of a high wire act for some of these candidates. even the democrats who are really energized to go up against donald trump hav to kind of hedge their bets yuftjun terms of not wanting to alienate too many republicans. so you most often are hearing discussions about universal health care, childcare, issues like that, so they can preserve their options for november. >> also noteworthy in california is the voter registration. republicans apparently sliding into third, meaning more r...

With the russians. so it's very logical what was goings-on here was the phish and national security agency were listening to russian communications and hearing discussions about jared and mike flynn and others in trump's orb orbit. based on what they were getting from that intelligence and other intelligence and the secrecy with which these meetings were taking place, they obviously, according to our sources -- scrutinize is a very nice way to put it. they're investigating jared's participation in those meetings with the russians, trying to get to the bottom of what was discussed and how does ...

Now getting might have been softened a little bit. it's not clear whether that might have made a difference, but certainly that's the question that everybody is asking right now. >> and then why would not a search warrant have been applied for weeks ago upon the discovery as opposed to now we're hearing discussions of a search warrant are happening? >> that's right. exactly. that's another question we're asking, which is, if you had dealt with this back in early october when you certainly had a clear picture that this was related to the ongoing -- to the clinton investigation, then why didn't ...