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
You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactl
The whole world has to be merged donor to the world crisis for good afternoon. Youre watching our International Start this hour in france, where 4 teenagers have been reportedly charged in connection with the beheading of a teacher that rocked the country back in october. For to be among them. The daughter of a man behind an Online Campaign against samuel passing. He was killed after showing his students controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a lesson on free speech. Lets get more details now. And go to paris is speaking, covering this story for a shot at what details do we have regarding the investigation . Well, 3 of the individuals are said to be 13 and 14 years old, and they have been indicted for complicity in a terrorist assassination. And thats because theyre said to have been the teenagers who pointed out to samuel pattis murderer, who he was there for allowing that beheading to take place. The 4th teenager who has also been indicted is said to have been the daughter
To president elect biden Energy Continues a monster move higher the oil and gas etf up 13 in the last two days. Despite the steady increase in covid cases vaccine developments are continuing to help the likes of the airlines, cruise stocks, retail all surging higher today as we cross that 30,000 level once again, to check it we are still above it will we say that 59 minutes left to trade. 29 points above it. On todays show, two voices to help explain the dows record rise in just a few minutes Jeremy Siegel will join us and later Liz Ann Saunders plus former testry secretary jack lew will discuss president elect biden pick of janet yellen to lead his treasury administration. Lets get the latest from wall street mike santoli is tracking the action to led us to dow 30k. Certainly the story today because of that big round number i am going to keep it consistent, though, and take a fwlims at the s p 500. Similar look in every respect in terms of getting back up pretty much to an alltime hig
What can it be . Well take you inside why. Heres our main story. The enemy is within. Nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, saying democrats are threatened by a cult of chaos rising within the ranks of the gop, listen. We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members. When the enemy is within the house of representatives. It is a party at war with itself. And the leaders now seem to have no control. The proof, you have the main republican in the house, kevin mccarthy. He told his caucus to get along. The next day, upstart Congressman Matt Gates went to the home state of liz cheney, number three in the caucus, and attacked her personally. If you want to prove that you have the power, defeat liz cheney in this upcoming election, and wyoming will bring washington to its knees. Maybe we ought to fight the neocons at home so we dont have to fight them in washington, d. C. But thats the problem, isnt it . Because the neocons are at home in washington, d. C. I had a chance to