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is it over before it begins? i'm 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 not be enough, but haley has been steadily gaining in the polls and historically there's a lot of p...

Temporary protections to nearly half a million migrants. Republicans blasting the move. In texas, one border town declaring a State Of Emergency. And the tragedy. A 3yearold migrant child dying while trying to cross the rio grande. The alarming New Discovery at a new york Daycare Center where a 1yearold died after fentanyl exposure. What police found inside a trap door. The urgent manhunt after a dangerous Child Sex Offender escaped from the hospital. The images of him walking out and roaming free. Ukrainian president zelenskyy meeting with President Biden at the white house, and his plea to c...

Asking for asylum. they're not trying to sneak into the country. they're trying to use our asylum system to stay here. >> so you've witnessed, you've personally witnessed mass migration all around the globe. what's the common denominator you've seen, and how does that apply to what's going on on the texas/mexico border? >> when i was a foreign correspondent, i specialized in covering conflicts and humanitarian disasters, so i frequently went to borders of countries that were undergoing civil war or some sort of insurgency, and i witnessed hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives...

Largest deportation effort in the history of our country, we're bringing everybody back to where they came from. we have no choice. >> meanwhile, california just became the first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants under a new expansion of medical, spearheaded by governor gavin newsom. all qualify, including an estimated 700,000 adults age 26 to 49, living in the state illegally. now back to texas, there was this written in a recent column in the "houston chronicle", the border plan includes surrender and stunts instead of solutions. he added, abbott is right about o...

Residents cannot accommodate the families. he adds the governor diminishes his good deed by turning desperate migrants would political pawns. before joining the chronicle, he spent 20 years with the associated press, reporting from africa, the middle east and europe. thank you for being here. customs and border patrol intercepted, i think that's the way i should say it, intercepted 2.4 million people along the southwest border in fiscal year 2023. i then say, well, okay, if they stopped 2.4 million, how many got through? >> well, the border patrol says about 600,000, but there's a very good po...