6 00 a. M. , sun is not up yet but you are watching the largest Healthcare Strike in American History and it is the third and final day today. You got 75,000 workers striking against Kaiser Permanente, protesting over wages and staff shortages. No signs of a deal between the two sides so well watch that and bring you updates as we get them this morning. We have a lot of backlash now at the border, america. President biden defending his decision to build more wall and the white house messaging is all over the place as we say hello on a friday. You have almost made it, america. Dana is off today. Im bill hemmer live in New York City. Sandra is back. Sandra i enjoyed the wakeup call this morning. Thanks for having me back. Good friday. The president s reversal on the Border Wall Igniting a media firestorm. The left calling him out for breaking a Campaign Promise but the white house is defending the move. He says the money was earmarked already for the wall back in 2019. And the president
Program, you went to court to fight for that. If this is such a problem, building 20 miles of wall, why not just go to court. We went to congress. Congress appropriates the funding, we asked them to not use the funding for that particular purpose they denied it and now we are complying with the law. If you have to build a border wall but you dont think its going to work, once its done are you going to tear it down . Im not getting into hypotheticals from here. Im just telling you what i can tell you from here, the facts are, that dhs is complying with the law. This is from fiscal year under fiscal year 2019, under Republican Leadership and dhs is required to do this. The president asked multiple times of congress to reappropriate, they did not. And we are not complying by the law. Thanks, everybody. Sandra clearly peter doocy getting questions at the end. If he had the chance, you know, she has obviously left the room. If the president continues to believe the border wall is not effect