First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at on
Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at on
Converge at the same time. The big important one, the president of the United States that is planning to combat crime that he says is the source of guns. Too many of them out there in everyones hands and he wants to limit that. Were also going to hear from his Attorney General on how you go about doing that without stepping on some Constitutional Rights here. Critics are already saying the president is ignoring some other factors that have been at play for quite some time, long before the gun issue was an issue. More on that in a second. First, to black berman with the latest at the white house. Blake . Thanks. State dining room here at the white house. We expect to hear from President Biden at animent. The president will lay out the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and crime is how theyre putting it. Let me walk you there what were about to hear from the president this afternoon. His plan calls for a zero tolerance policy for rogue gun dealers, allowing atf to revoke lice
Converge at the same time. The big important one, the president of the United States that is planning to combat crime that he says is the source of guns. Too many of them out there in everyones hands and he wants to limit that. Were also going to hear from his Attorney General on how you go about doing that without stepping on some Constitutional Rights here. Critics are already saying the president is ignoring some other factors that have been at play for quite some time, long before the gun issue was an issue. More on that in a second. First, to black berman with the latest at the white house. Blake . Thanks. State dining room here at the white house. We expect to hear from President Biden at animent. The president will lay out the comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and crime is how theyre putting it. Let me walk you there what were about to hear from the president this afternoon. His plan calls for a zero tolerance policy for rogue gun dealers, allowing atf to revoke lice