If it's Wednesday is the Biden administration about to take a page from the Trump playbook

at the border. The White House bracing for a surge of migrants when a pandemic era restriction

expires in just one week. Plus the crypto contagion. Congress looks for answers in the wake of

one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.

That's left a trail of dirty campaign money here in Washington.

And the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to their highest levels in 15 years as policymakers continue to wage a war on soaring inflation.

Is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning of these rate heights?

Happy hump day and welcome to meet the press now. I am Chuck Todd here in Washington. We're

going to begin today with the escalating political and humanitarian mess at the southern border,

which is the Biden administration, believe it or not, looking to the Trump playbook for some solutions.

The White House is bracing for a potentially major surge in border crossings because one week from today,

the pandemic era policy known as Title 42,

which essentially allowed for just immediate border removals, is expiring via court order.

The public health order allows authorities to turn away migrants, including asylum seekers

at the border, citing the need to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Since the restriction began, Title 42 has been used more than 2 million times to turn folks away.

And as a result of the pending expiration, officials tell NBC News that the number of migrants crossing the border,

which is already near record levels, may increase by as much as 33%.

And that would mean an additional 2,500 crossings every single day on top of the 8 to 9,000 to 10,000 that we're seeing now.

Both Republican and Democratic officials along the border have been sounding this alarm.

Here's Texas Democratic Congress from Henry Quayar earlier this morning.

Communities are going to be overwhelmed. Not only in Pazzo, we've seen that in the past with Rio Grande Valley.

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