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
Burner as the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats push forward on a cody relief bill that some lawmakers and even leftleaning economists say could actually hurt the economy in the long run. President biden saying today its an easy choice, pointing to the latest jobs numbers as proof there is no time to waste. This as he met with 10 republican senators earlier this week who proposed a Counter Offer to his nearly 2 trillion plan. White house correspondent Kristin Fisher has been following it all. She joins us live from the north lawn from the white house with the latest. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. The week started with President Biden meeting with republican senators and hoping to cut a deal. But it is ending with the president giving his strongest signal yet that he intends to move forward with his relief plan without republican support. Im going to act. Im going to act fast. In his most fiery defense of his 1. 9 trilliondollar relief plan, President Biden made it
impossible. we won this public narrative with the support of the american people between president biden and speaker mccarthy, house republicans won from start to finish. ainsley: president biden also praising its passage this is what he tweeted out. i have been clear that the only path forward is a bipartisan compromise that can earn the support of both parties. this agreement meets that test. but other lawmakers on the hill arguing it doesn t go far enough to curb spending. some republicans even suggesting there might be an effort to oust speaker mccarthy from his role. how do you. discussion on the motion to vacate. there will be discussion motion to vacate, yeah. stay tuned. the discussion about the motion to vacate is going to happen in the next week or two. brian: all right. the deal now heads to the senate with four days to go before the default deadline set by treasury secretary yellen. she is very elastic with that deadline depending on how many days pr
william la jeunesse is in tijuana, mexico to assess the conditions there jacqui heinrich at the white house with the latest from the biden administration. but we begin with correspondent bill melugin in brownsville, texas again tonight. good evening, bill. bret, good evening to you. cbp sources tell me in the last three days in a row, border patrol has made at least 10,000 migrant apprehensions. those are the highest daily totals ever recorded. fox is also told in the coming days we can expect to see the largest wave of mass releases the u.s. has ever seen. back to in the mexican border city of reynosa thousands of haitians have gathered ahead of title 42 s expiration at midnight. the change in policy means for the first time in over three years, border patrol will lose the ability to quickly expel migrants back to mexico in an already historic border crisis is expected to get worse. here in brownsville, evidence of that crisis is on full display. images from a fox dron
money case. you are uch waing fox and friends first on friday morning. i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. at the center of national debate with critics accusing alvin bragg of doing democrats bidding. todd: new york post writing alvin bragg is trying to turn a misdemeanor into a felony. this shows that the legal system is biassed and politicized. ashley: we start with brooke singman to walk us through the next steps in the case. brooke: a manhattan grand jury has indicted former president trump donald trump. alvin bragg has been investigating trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election, including a $130,000 payment made to stormy daniels and another $150,000 payment made to former model karen mcdougle. alvin bragg s office says we contacted trump s attorney for a supreme court indictment which remains under seal. guidance will be provided when arraignment date is selected. the former president saying this is political