KING: Topping our political radar today, the House Speaker Paul Ryan might be leaving. But Republicans can find some solace in this new poll. Just released survey from Quinnipiac University finds the Democrat's advance on that so-called congressional generic ballot question down to just three points. That's inside the margin of error. Remember this?</s>KING: Well, instead of offering up cigarettes to President Obama, the former House Speaker John Boehner wants to sell you legal weed. The former speaker announcing on Twitter today he's putting down a glass of Merlot and joining Acreage Holdings, that's a cannabis company. It's a big reversal for Boehner, who once said he was unalterably opposed to legalizing marijuana. A warning from the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, says border crossings spiked in March and spiked by a lot. She told lawmakers at a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee the numbers, in her view, scary.</s>KIRSTJEN NIELSEN, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: The current statistics from March 2018 tell a dangerous story. Overall, the number of illegal aliens encountered at the border increased more than 200 percent when compared to this same time last year. Perhaps more troubling, the number of unaccompanied alien children encountered has increased over 800 percent. And the number of families encountered increased over 680 percent. We also have seen 37 percent increase in drug seizures at the border in March alone.</s>KING: Secretary Nielsen did acknowledge the jump is similar to some previous years at this time. But she says, in her view, it still justifies the need for greater border security ASAP. Up next, new legislation to protect the Special Counsel. Some Republicans fracture now over the question of how the President should treat Robert Mueller.
DHS Secretary Claims Major Spike In Border Crossings