very interesting way. bill: during the trump years this was quite common. make a phone call, take you down there, see what you wanted to see. a very different story in the first two months of this administration. dana: as the feds restrict media access rob portman let fox news tour the border with him. griff jenkins joined him last night and has been delivering incredible reporting from the border for weeks. let s take a look. the residents here in at least the rio grande valley sector of texas where we are say they ve never seen anything like it. the rio grande river is where we re seeing an unbelievable number of migrants coming across this sector here in el paso is on fire as well. hasn t heard the u.s. president now is not the time to come. i listen to the news that they were letting people in. does it frustrate you that the new administration does not call this a crisis? yes, sir, it does. when you see a father with a 4-month-old baby riding on his chest, a
but the directive has not changed with the administration? nope. juan: that happening after president biden got called out by his own voter official. they claim he is denying reality what is happening. the same officials warning they were being overwhelmed and don t have the resources to handle thousands of children coming into the country. the biden administration also under fire for not letting the media into migrant facilities. agents reportedly feel like they are under a gag order. the white house being called out for lack of transparency. you all came in and to be truthful and transparent administration. and you will oversee the department of homeland security. so if you all wanted to grant access to the press couldn t you just tell them to do it? again, we fully support transparency and call homeland security for any press access or what you are looking to accomplish. the white house, we all need administration support in finding a way to grant access to the
already passed. the white house has said repeatedly this is a popular law. if that is the case, why is it important to get out and sell it? it is not selling it. it is literally letting people know their rights, right? you buy a product, you are sold on the product but they are not directions on the box. think of it as an education campaign. dana: as progressive policies, president biden preparing for the largest tax hikes in 30 years and democrats spending $4 trillion on green infrastructure plan. so much to get to, kd, why would you announce a press conference nine days from now? my theory is you announce them that morning because the president will come anyway? who knows what will happen in nine days. katie: that is a good point and dana i have to give your credit because you were the one who predicted the biden administration would wait until they pass the plan so that they could have something to successfully towel to appear they are doing this nine days from n
border. a crisis at the border starting to take shape. a surge of migrants crossing. fema stepping in to help with the more than 3,200 migrant children being housed in customs and border facilities as of last week. that figure is a new record. republicans are seizing on it. in a matter of hours, kevin mckathy and other congressional republicans will be at the border in texas. they are calling it a crisis. democrats are calling it a challenge that they inherited from the previous administration. that s where we start. garrett haake in el paso, texas, where a group of house republicans, including minority leader mccarthy, making the border visit. i want to bring in the former white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president obama. jacob is with us in california. we know that part of fema s role we don t have jacob yet. garrett is in el paso. congressional republicans making a visit to the border in a matter of hours. this visit coming as congress preparing to
months to come. there is hope on the horizon. cautious and fragile. but there is hope. it is my hope president biden will do what leaders should do, which is deflect any perceived credit and shoulder at least his share of the responsibility. that is what leaders do. the reality is we are most hopeful because of the medicine. the vaccines, treatment and the therapies. that gives us both physical resistance to the virus and some measure of emotional security. the credit for the medicine goes to the women and the men who dedicated their lives to creating, studying and testing the vaccines in therapies. credit goes to those bold enough to believe this could be done and could be done in record time. some of those bold enough to believe were in the previous administration. i harbor no illusion that president biden will give credit to the previous administration and the women and men who help us get where we are today. but he should. it s been an american tragedy. an american respon