you look at it. i always think it is a neat ice breaker when people ask what is unique about yourself? i'm five years old. it depends on the day and how you look at it. >> steve: the only 5-year-old at clemson. >> ainsley: next year you'll be six in four years. do you have the same friends? tell us about your personalities. >> we're all at different colleges and universities and have separate friend groups and enjoy slightly different things. we bond together closely. >> steve: elizabeth, would you like to wish happy birthday to everybody? you have five seconds. >> i would like to wish everybody else on leap day a very happy leap day birthday. >> ainsley: have a great celebration. we're so glad you were born. god bless. >> president biden: the only

reason is border is not secure is donald trump and his maga republican friends. >> you see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. we don't know where they come from. >> bill: you get the tale of two borders today. president biden and former president trump will be on the u.s. mexican border in different locations. dueling visits could not be more different. dana has the week off. i'm bill hemmer in new york city. happy leap day to everybody. welcome back to you in new york. gillian. >> gillian: is it tomorrow? i don't know. >> bill: every four years we're here. >> gillian: this is "america's newsroom." former president trump is heading to eagle pass in texas. that's the heart of the current iteration of this border crisis. agents have apprehended over 2,000 migrants in the past five days. >> bill: p president biden is going to brownsville. agents have nabbed a few dozen migrants this week. the city is protected by razor

wire. >> gillian: the problem has spiraled out of control and could be the deciding factor in the november elections. fox team coverage. griff jenkins in brownsville. >> former president trump will be in eagle pass later this afternoon coming to one of the most high-profile and busy spots anywhere along the southern border. meanwhile, president biden is going to be over 300 miles away from us in the rio grande valley in brownsville. an area has seen little to no activity in recent days and internal cbp data shows the difference between the two spots. look at the graphic here courtesy of cpb sources. border patrol patrol apprehensions in five days. in eagle pass over 2,000 in the last five days. brownsville has had just 46 in the same time. take a look at monday here in

eagle pass, 500. 0 in the brownsville area. some of the activity in eagle pass. look at the images. it happened yesterday. border patrol and texas dps coming agroup of five unaccompanied migrant children mixed in with 60 illegal immigrants. they were from honduras and guatemala ages 5-11. notes with addresses in new york and texas. they'll be resettled in the u.s. over 400,000 of these unaccompanied children that have arrived under president biden's leadership. look at the mug shots here. a series of high profile arrests involving violent crimes in illegal immigrants this week. a venezuelan man arrested for the murder of laken riley in georgia. a salvadoran man for a death of a 2-year-old. a honduran man and a venezuelan man arrested for the sexual

assault of a 14-year-old. president trump is promising there will be mass deportations if he is he elected. >> by the time this guy gets out of office we'll have 18 million in my opinion that some come from prisons and meant institutions and terrorists. we'll pay a price. the largest deportation in the history of our country. >> former president trump will be joined here in eagle pass by texas governor greg abbott and the president of the border patrol union, brandon judd endorsing him for president. the border patrol union tells us the white house never reached out to them. they never invited them for their trip down in brownsville. send it back to you. >> gillian: bill melugin for us this morning. >> bill: debra bell has lived in brownsville her entire life and says law enforcement is personal for her. justin lives in eagle pass where

the border crisis cost him his business. welcome to you both and thank you for your time. debra, what will the presidency in your city today? >> well, depends upon where he goes. i've been told the area he is going, he will see nothing. he picked a very beautiful spot. perfect for a photo op. if it's the area i believe, i grew up out there and rode horses along the border. beautiful, like i said, beautiful area. nothing is happening in that particular area. it is a disrespect to brownsville residents that he has chosen, if indeed that's the spot, it is a disrespect that he has chosen to waste his trip looking at absolutely nothing. there are plenty of other areas in brownsville where he could go and witness the damage done. he could see the tons and tons of trash left ott the riverbank. he could look at the new hot spot for crossing in the

south-most area in brownsville. this trip is just so pointless and the fact that bill melugin mentioned the white house never reached out to the governor, or to the border patrol union speaks volumes about their purpose of being here. a dog and pony show. >> bill: for our viewers screen right it was may in brownsville. it was nine months ago. you saw the numbers coming across back then. let me move up the border to justin. how did you lose your business there in eagle pass? >> so with the border crossers coming along we had just started up running and as soon as this crossing started i had a whole bunch of illegals and i say illegals by the bunch, 20300. it wasn't safe for the kids and parties happening at eagle pass. i wasn't going to take a risk for the kids and get them

injured or hurt or anything. >> bill: i can understand that. debra, what your dad was a cop, right? >> yes. my dad is a brownsville police officer currently. >> bill: your sister is a border agent. you said something about immigrants wandering the streets with nothing to do. i think that is a bad formula. explain that. >> absolutely. you have hundreds and hundreds of illegal immigrants here in our streets with nothing to do. i've dropped my son off at school multiple times just to see young men, illegal immigrants, wandering the fenceline of the school. as a mother, as a resident, as somebody who has grown up in a law enforcement family, you can most moat assuredly bet that's a recipe for disaster. nothing to lose and nothing to do. >> bill: everywhere where it's

an issue. >> everywhere. all of america should be concerned. >> bill: one last question to justin here. you play baseball in mexico so you cross the border all the time and common for people who live on either side as long as they are legal residents here, okay? the cartels are moving in different directions now. can you help us understand why they know our system so much better than sometimes we do? >> like i say, look right behind me. the border is right there. you can see what is happening. with the whole situation going on right now there is a whole bunch of technology. everybody can figure out anything basically. again we cross daily, weekly, i cross weekly and the border goes around quick especially in a small town like this. >> bill: water always finds a way of finding the next location

and it's true in so many ways. i want to share -- we have had five major primary nights so far. this is what gallup finds issues in america. immigration at 28%. it is still number one right now for what americans feel the most problem and the most important problem facing the country. good luck to you and your families down there and watch today. gillian has more. >> gillian: let's bring in brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council and a trump surrogate in in election cycle. take a listen to yesterday. >> what do you say to people who think this is just an election year stunt? you are finally caring about the border. >> on the first day of this present administration he put out a comprehensive immigration policy to deal with this issue. he did that on the first day. his first piece of legislation.

i would hope the american people would see how serious this president was or is about fixing this issue. >> gillian: i don't know, brandon, are you happy? is it better that the president comes for the second time in this term or would you prefer he is not there at all today? >> i would much rather use facts than rhetoric. when you listen to karine jean-pierre and says from day one president biden put out policies. the only policies that he put out was amnesty or a pathway to citizenship for these people to cross the border illegally. nothing in any of his policies that were border security measures, nothing. when we look at actual facts and the explosion of illegal immigration under president biden, we have to understand that if we don't get this under control we'll continue to have the laken rileys of the world and it's unfortunate. she paid her life for president biden's ego rather than what is best for the american people. we have to get everything under control and the only way we can

do that is policy. not money, not more technology or infrastructure. it's policy. if we had that policy we could control the border and go after the cartels and do all that's necessary to protect the american people. >> gillian: what do you want to see president biden say when he is there later today? >> there is nothing that he can say because of where he is going. the reason why border patrol agents are so up set about this visit is because he is not going to any location where he is going to be able to evaluate what he needs to do. what are the policy and programs that need to go into place? he won't be able to do that in brownsville. san diego, tucson, if he would have come to eagle pass, would have went to the trouble locations he would have been able to get a little bit more understanding and evaluate the situation to come up with it. he is not going to do that. he can't do that. he has repeatedly said he

doesn't have executive authority to control this. if he did something today everybody would recognize the past three years are all on him. >> gillian: to your point about location, brandon, former president obama's dhs secretary on "fox & friends" this morning saying it makes perfect sense biden would go to brownsville. that's historically the epicenter of the border crisis. what do you say? >> no. mcallen would be historically the epicenter of border crisis, not brownsville. you have to look at specific areas. everybody thinks that the border is a one size fits all, that we can control with operations the same way we do everywhere. that's not true. we have to look at specific areas. that's why we're broken into stations and why brownsville has its own border patrol station and mcallen and eagle pass has two border patrol stations. you have to go where we see the traffic and where the problem is. if you don't do that, you are not going to be able to get a proper evaluation. >> gillian: we have to leave it

there. thank you for taking time with us today. check back with you soon. >> bill: thank you, gillian. that will dominate the coverage today and this is coming up next hour live look on the hill. defense secretary lloyd austin set to appear before the house armed services committee facing questions on that secret hospitalization and the breakdown in communication that brought really intense criticism for him and his office. a pentagon review released earlier this week found no ill intent behind the secrecy. lawmakers will have a lot of questions and that's at the top of the next hour. >> gillian: president vladimir putin has a new warning for the west saying russia has weapons that can penetrate allied territory and even nuclear weapons making the statement during his annual address. he added continuing to thwart ukraine could escalate the war with nuclear weapons and lead to the destruction of civilization.

>> bill: a wildfire alert. north texas is in a tough spot. fast-moving flames devouring parts of that state. evacuation orders underway at this hour. >> gillian: will hunter biden now testify publicly? following his closed door meeting on capitol hill yesterday. jason smith was in the room during the deposition and will join us to tell us what happened. >> bill: we watched this live yesterday. protestors shouting down a mayor in athens, georgia after the murder of a student at the hands of an illegal im grant. this fallout has gathered steam by the day. >> many of the elements -- >> liar. >> liar, >> liar. >> we're here to listen. >> you are a liar. >> we are here to listen. there will be time for questions.

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community, a small community up north of amarillo. the surrounding circumstances with that death unclear at this point. look at this video out of the region. stunning and heartbreaking. northeast and northwest of amarillo five different fires still burning. the largest according to the forest service has grown to some 850,000 acres and is 3% contained. that's larger than the entire state of rhode island. emergency management officials say 40 homes have burned on the edge of the small town called canadian texas, other cars and property reduced to ash. >> we have lost everything. this is the only pair of pants i've got, the shirt, that's it. >> emergency has been declared in 60 tech as counties. crews from across the state are responding. the ft. worth fire department shooting this chilling video of

the flames in hutcheson county as folks work around the clock to try to get this under control. >> a lot of those volunteers left homes and businesses and families to go out and fight fire and do evacuations leaving their properties at risk. we owe them a great amount of gratitude. >> the scope of damage is not fully known at this point as officials tell us they're very much in active build firefighting mode. they haven't really been able to do thorough assessment. they're just trying to get a handle on the situation, bill. >> gillian: we're tracking those fires closely this morning. >> bill: hunter biden went behind closed doors. said yesterday his father was not involved in his businesses. republicans say the first son's answers don't explain the evidence stacked up against him. democrats are rushing to the biden's defense. >> what we just witnessed over the last hour was, i think, a deep sea fishing expedition.

>> we're talking about someone who is a regular citizen. >> this whole thing has been a tremendous waste of our legislative time and the people's resources. >> bill: now jason smith, house ways and means chairman with me now. good morning to you. i want to read a statement that david spunt got from abbe lowell, hunter biden's attorney late last night this is what he said. the transcripts of witnesses who have been called to date makes us obvious there is nothing left to ask, answer, say or do. now that hunter has put this part son con spur -- republicans are talking about the next phase. it might be a public hearing. are they going to resist that do you believe based oh than that statement? >> i think they will continue to resist, bill. they have been doing that the whole time. that is what is leading us to a lot of obstruction in the

investigation. we've been asking for emails from hunter biden, from joe biden. we've been asking for numerous documents and we still have not received those to this day. but what hunter biden did yesterday was just protecting the brand. the brand is what they've been selling for tens of millions of dollars across the world and the brand is joe biden. >> bill: can you guarantee today that there will be a public hearing on this? >> i can't guarantee because that public hearing will come out of oversight or judiciary. the plan all along has been to do these depositions and then to have a public testimony so the american people can see everything. >> bill: hunter biden said the hearing went great. >> hunter biden would think the hearing went great because he stayed on the company line. that was protecting the brand. let me tell you those two i.r.s. whistleblowers provided numerous examples of evidence including a whatsapp message that said he

was sitting next to his father when he was sending it to a chinese business official demanding money. nine days later $5 million showed up. 327 different emails that joe biden had with hunter biden and his business associates that the i.r.s. whistleblowers provided and numerous business associates of hunter biden that have testified about his involvement. in fact, one of them said he was not just a participant, he has an enabler in the entire process. so the biden family has been staying to one tune and that's to protect the brand. >> bill: whatsapp to paraphrase, i'm sitting with my dad. i want the money wired now. what he told you however he was either drunk, high or both and that his dad wasn't even in the room. i don't think you can prove his dad was there. does that matter? >> you know, the i.r.s. whistleblowers tried to do geo tracing of that cell phone back during the investigation and were denied anything that could

lead to the president joe biden and even denied asking any questions of joe biden. that's what the justice department obstructed throughout the process according to the i.r.s. whistleblowers. we need to find that out. the excuses to say you are drunk or high or you don't recall. it is very similar to his father not being charged criminally because he is not mentally fit. >> bill: my question was does it matter whether you can prove the president was in his presence or not? you think you have the financial record to show the exchanges happen. maybe it's a mute point. part of his statement from yesterday. i did not involve my father in my business. not while i was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions, domestic or international. not as a board member or artist, never. can you prove that that statement is a lie? >> the i.r.s. whistleblowers proved that statement is a lie. they proved on numerous accounts

where joe biden met with hunter biden and his business associates in the white house, on trips to other countries, the four seasons in washington. numerous examples. what they said is completely counter what the whistleblowers said plus you had tony bobulinski said he sat down with joe biden in 2017, named the time, place and location and spoke for more than 45 minutes discussing the relationship with the chinese energy company. the only people that are denying everything are the ones with the last name biden. >> bill: appreciate your time. last night on sean hannity's show you gave this an eight out of ten. what two were missing then? why not a ten out of ten if you thought it was so great? >> i would say if he completely answered all the questions it would have went a whole lot great. when people don't want to tell the truth, they say i cannot recall.

i cannot recall was named numerous times with hunter biden. >> bill: numerous times. dozens or more? >> more than dozen. >> bill: we'll wait until the transcript is made public. appreciate your time this morning. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, sir. >> gillian: two states have kicked donald trump off the primary ballots now add a third to the list, illinois. is the move constitutional or should the decision be left to voters? there is also this? >> you are not defending us. you aren't upholding your oath of office. >> gillian: residents of athens, georgia blaming the democratic mayor's policy following the death of laken riley. >> i was outraged. i can't imagine what this father is going through losing his young daughter who had her whole life ahead of her. if that was my daughter, i think i would have done a little bit more today in that meeting.

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you need to go, sir. we don't want to hear from you no more. you are not defending us. you are not up holding your oath of office, sir. you are lawless. >> the briefing was held to discuss public safety in the community related to immigration. mayor made it very clear that athens is not a sanctuary city and said that term means different things to different people depending on the context of the discussion. however, there is a sheriff's policy in place that allows undocumented immigrants in certain situations to be released even if ice has issued a detainer. now protestors held signs that read blood on your hands, make athens safe again and demanded athens clark county revoke a resolution that the mayor signed back in 2019 that states the government welcomes, quote, people from all lands and backgrounds end quote. >> 2019 was not that long ago. you might remember the dynamic

we were living in in the late teens in this country. where you had the president of the united states speaking in the most vile terms about people who were foreign born. >> and through that friction the mayor seems confident what he is doing in athens to protect the residents is good. he mentioned that police officers are getting a raise, they are adding multiple cameras for surveillance and even saying murders are down every year since 1992 staying firm on the fact this is not a sanctuary city, bill. >> bill: he had quite a bit to say and be debated. we'll have more on the community's anger over the mayor's lenient policies and migrant and talk to a life long resident of athens, georgia and get thoughts from her coming up. >> gillian: an illinois judge removing donald trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot citing his role in the january 6th riot at the capitol. he is putting the ruling on hold

pending an appeal from trump's team. jonathan turley, law professor at george washington university is joining us now. illinois joins maine and colorado trying to strip the president off the ballot. what if anything distinguishes the legal case here from the two other states? >> for one thing it doesn't matter. it's superfluous. most judges are waiting for the supreme court. there was forreason for this court to issue this opinion. it is a cut and paste from colorado. she accepted everything colorado said and put her own name on it and it has that feeling of sort of well me, too. i want to be included. she will not be included. this won't be in front of the supreme court. we expect a decision any day now and the oral argument did not go well. it was not the conservatives that asked the most difficult questions. it was justices from the left of

the court who raised a number of the problems, including justice jackson who said look, this is ambiguous. why should i adopt the least democratic interpretation of this constitutional amendment? it doesn't bode well. most people are expecting the court will roundly reject this theory and this disqualification effort. >> gillian: the three are far from alone, as you know. 35, 36 states have filed some kind of legal challenge to the former president's candidacy. we checked with the brain room at fox news. of the 36 challenges biden carried 22 in 2020 and trump carried 14. does it give us a clue what's happening in the legal system? >> there are academics who have good-faith reasons why they think insurrection means something much broader under this amendment. i strongly disagree with that. i think they are wrong on the

history and definitely wrong on the text of the constitution. but this is being pushed by a number of democratic secretaries of state like the ones in colorado and in maine. in maine you had a secretary of state that had been saying since the inauguration that this was an insurrection brought about by trump. so these advocates knew where to go and there was hardly any surprise. they had her at hello when they asked for disqualification. >> gillian: in the wake of the supreme court gangbusters decision yesterday to take up trump's immunity claims a lot of analysts and journalist folks are questioning the legitimacy of the supreme court now. listen to rachel maddow. >> this is b.s. you are doing this as a tactic to help your political friend, your partisan patron, and for you to say that this is something that the court needs to decide because it is

something that's unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant and they know it and they don't care that we know it and it's disturbing about the future legitimacy of the court. >> gillian: what do you make of that? >> i wrote about this on my blog this morning. this is why you have such anger. this is why people go to the homes of justices. this is what they hear in this echo chamber that the court is a bunch of robotic partisan hacks. you've had law school deans refer to them as hacks. and what people hear about that but don't hear the truth, the supreme court has ruled against donald trump, against conservative causes regularly, including the conservatives on the court. you had one person yesterday say that well, the this just shows the court is part of the insurrection. the insurrection is ongoing. that type of rhetoric is what is fueling rage in the country. the court anticipated this for review.

through issues here. it is a longstanding debate. i think that trump is at a disadvantage on the merits but some of the justices may have serious questions of where to draw this line. to tell future presidents when they are or are not protected. this rhetoric is dangerous and it is wrong. >> gillian: a lot of rage to go around. it will kill you young. we have to leave it there. thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> immigration is part of our foreign policy. part of our national security. it is really up to the federal government to continually send the message, send a consistent message executive and legislative. >> bill: the migrant crisis issue one in the 2024 campaign. president biden and former president trump both heading to the border today. what will they see and what will we hear from them coming up. president biden also going for a physical not taking a cognitive

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career points and a few games left. good stuff there. keep going. >> gillian: something completely different. defense secretary lloyd austin is about to testify before the house armed services committee expecting to face grilling over his secret hospitalization. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon this morning. >> that's right. this is the first time lawmakers will be able to directly question defense secretary lloyd austin about the communication breakdown when he went into the hospital in early january. and why he or his chief of staff did not tell president biden or congress about his hospitalization and his treatment for prostate cancer on december 22nd. secretary austin explained how his cancer diagnosis was a gut punch that shocked him and his family and took full responsibility for the communication failure at a press briefing february 1st following his return to the pentagon. >> we did not handle this right

and i did not handle this right. i should have told the president about my cancer diagnosis. i should have also told my team and the american public. and i take full responsibility. >> 2 1/2 page summary of the 30 day review conducted by civilian personnel in the defense secretary's office raised the ire of senators this week after they received what they said was an unsatisfactory classified briefing on the review that concluded nothing examined during this review demonstrated any indication of ill intent or a tempt to obfuscate. >> if it was unprecedented and you have a defense secretary in an icu who called down to the deputy defense secretary on a beach in puerto rico and not say it might be time to come back, even without violating hipaa.

>> the secretary's mill tear aides notified the deputy secretary's staff that a transfer authority would occur. the deputy secretary had full access to everything she needed to execute her duties as the acting secretary of defense. at no time was there any gap in command and control of the department of defense. >> house armed services committee chairman demanded answers from the pentagon and launched a formal inquiry in january and leading today's questioning. we're told there could be other questions that have nothing to do with the defense secretary's health today. gillian. >> gillian: thank you. [shouting] >> bill: everything is great.

president biden passing his annual physical with the doctor identifying no new concerns. the lack of any cognitive exam raising some questions. fox news contributor dr. marc siegel is here with us. hello to you. two things to share with you. sheer what the physician said in part. president feels well and no new concerns this year. he continues to be fit for duty and fully executes all his responsibilities without any exceptions or accommodations. the question from quinnipiac. do you think president biden is too old to effectively serve? different from mentally acuity. 2/three say yes. you thought this report was sneaky and left out a lot. what do you mean? >> the poll you talked about also asked fitness to serve versus age. this is important. i'm not concerned about age. i don't think we should focus on age. we should focus on fitness. the american public is questioning fitness. 2/three ask if he is mentally

fit. that question was not addressed by the physical this year. this physical looked almost identical to last year's. one line that he doesn't have parkinson's or stroke or multiple sclerosis was lifted wording from the year before. the gait, his problem with walking, again saying it is due to arthritis in the spine and some orthopedic problems. some neurologists have told me the gait where your feet are glued to the floor is more consistent with fluid on the brain or possibly not enough blood flow to areas of the brain. i'm not saying he has that. i haven't examined him. we didn't see any imaging of the brain and no cognitive testing. the american public is questioning his cognitive ability because of the frequent lapses he has had in memory. neurologist eaves have been quoted saying well, when people get older they have memory lapses. i personally in my practice have not seen this kind of memory lapse. if i did i would refer the patient to a neurologist to get

testing for it. they are avoiding the elephant in the room in my opinion. >> gillian: he is also taking criticism or the white house is for not having the cognitive test embedded in the physical. if you were going to design something like that for presidents or candidates seeking office can you break down for us what you would like to see in there? what are we looking for? what kind of questions are we trying to answer in a cognitive test? >> really important question, very well phrased. it is over time is the answer. a words called cognitive reserve. remember, if it's a grandfather maybe you don't care about that. the president of the united states you want to know how their memory affects their ability to make decisions. their flexibility of decision making. their creativity. thinking outside the box with new things coming at them all the time. how do they look compared to other foreign leaders? you can't tell that with one cognitive test. it would be an assessment over time. >> bill: nice to have a doctor

in the room yesterday, too. would have been nice to answer some of these questions. thank you for coming. marc siegel, thank you. >> gillian: we're awaiting president biden's departure from the white house to brownsville, texas later today. we'll take you on the ground there coming up next.

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mural bowser announced a program that divided 1.5 million among 132 new and expected low income moms to help them with childcare and housing costs. the "washington post" found that at least in one case the lump sum payment of $10,800 was used to fund a trip to miami. so while these are noble in pursuit the ideas of handing out cash, some said quite often these hand-outs actually trap people in a cycle of poverty and this is not helping people build long-term wealth and have long-term economic prosperity. in addition congresswoman omar proposed a $1 thousand a month payment plan lasting five years for those aging out of foster care. >> bill: as we move gillian to a new hour i want to show you capitol hill. right now defense secretary lloyd austin gearing up to face sharp questions over his secret hospitalization while being