Joe spoke with former Republican Texas Congressman Will Hurd on southern border policy and if there's any chance of getting immigration reform through Congress, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Government analyst Nathan Dean on the outlook for crypto regulation, and Ron Meadows, founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions, a Silicon Valley company that makes purpose-built pico balloons for hobbyists, educators and scientists for his take on the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade's balloon that's missing in action - and if it could be one of the balloons the U.S. shot down.
Plus, our politics panel, Bloomberg Politics Contributors Jeanne Sheehan Zaino & Rick Davis on southern border visits by members of Congress, President Biden's trip to Poland as we approach the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the odds of crypto regulation, and what happened to the an Illinois hobby club's "pico" balloon that went MIA around the same time the U.S. shot down unidentified objects.

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