meets right now today and tomorrow about booster shots and that is not all. president biden is trying to get members of his own party on the same page. also a hercules task. this series of meetings the white house today with congressional democrats to try to push his bill back better agenda. plus the search for petito's missing fiance. on tuesday three ice agents were assaulted after a number of recently deported haitian men deported a plane that just landed there. ahead, what we're learning about that situation. we want to start with this virtual global covid summit. the president is hosting from the white house. you got shannon pettypiece for us. stephanie gosk following the cdc's meeting on booster shots happening right now. and infectious disease physician, the principal investigator on the pfizer trials at yale school of medicine, working on trials with children on boosters and immunocompromised, plus he has trained physicians and experts in rwanda and liberia as well. >> i want to talk about the covid summit that's set to kick off at any second now. talk us through exactly what the president plans to lay out here, and his ambitious goals ahead. >> well, the u.s. has been taking a lot of criticism, particularly this week, for planning to give out boosters to americans when so many of the world hasn't even gotten their first shot. that criticism has been especially pointed at the u.n. general assembly this week with some world leaders accusing the biden administration of essentially hoarding vaccines. in response to that criticism, the administration is saying today they can do both. they can have enough boosters to give to every eligible american and also help vaccinate the world. and they are announcing today that they're going to buy an additional 500 million doses from pfizer to ship overseas by this time next year. and that will bring the total doses that the u.s. is sending overseas to 1 .1 billion that will basically be between when the start of this administration and next september. that is more than any other country has donated by far. the u.s. has already sent out 160 million doses. it is certainly a big milestone in this effort to vaccinate the population, but in the big context of things, it is still a bit short of where the world needs to be. the biden administration says they are supportive of a goal of having 7 0 % of the world vaccinated by next year to get there, you need about 11 billion doses according to the who. certainly the administration setting an example, but they are going to need more countries to get involved here, or there's going to have to be bigger efforts coming over the next year from the administration if they want to really move the needle on global vaccinations. >> at this point it's a great effort but only a drop in the bucket. doctor, i interviewed in december when you got your first vaccine. it's fantastic to have you on the show this morning and your expertise, of course, having worked in parts of africa. you talk about the vaccination rate there. about 13% in rwanda. according to the world health organization, only administering about 215,000 doses total. talk us through why it is so critical to make sure we are getting third world countries vaccinated. also, to stop the spread of these variants. >> yes. thank you. great to see you again. it's very disheartening, the global inequity in vaccine distribution. the richer countries having 80% of their population vaccinated against 20% against some of the poorer countries. in africa they're feeling the pain. in many countries -- rwanda is an outlier with having higher vaccination rates than sister countries. i just returned from rwanda four weeks ago. in many parts of the world, if you get covid because of the lack of resources, your outcomes are pretty poor in that context. i think we still need to do so much more. one last point i want to make is we can clearly see the u.s. clearly has a stake in how well other countries do with vaccination. for example, the variants we've seen more recently, the alpha and the delta variants have not emerged in the u.s. but have eventually come to impact us. so i think it's really important that we pay attention to this and the u.s. has definitely taken the right in the right direction. >> we keep saying we're all in this together. i can't help but think about the infrastructure or lack frof in countries like rwanda and lie beer d -- liberia. you need infrastructure when it comes to the pfizer vaccines. it's a two dose regimen. you need special syringes. is the infrastructure there to support it? >> yes, so we've known for a long time the requirements for some of the vaccines. and the countries have been aware of those requirements and are taking great strides to provide some of the infrastructure including the ultra cold temperature freezers and working on the distribution networks. so it's really less so about the capacity to manage the doses but it's more about getting the doses available to those countries. >> steph, so as this is all happening, you got a cdc advisory committee in an hour into a two-day meeting on booster shots. explain what they're considering over these next couple of days and then what happens next here. >> sure. let's talk a little bit about this process. you really have the fda and cdc working in concert with each other. you had the fda panel recommending people get a pfizer booster over the age of 65 or if they're at higher risk. now you have this cdc panel meeting today to discuss who is high risk. then you have the fda's decision on who should get a booster or not. and then the cdc will weigh in one more time. it's important in the context of the discussion we're having about boosters that the who has asked for a moratorium on boosters to healthy adults. they have not asked for a moratorium on boosters who may fall into high risk categories. that's really what's being talked about and discussed at the fda and cdc. the issue of people over the age of 65 and people at high risk. >> doctor, you've been part of the studies when it comes to looking at the trials in booster shots along with five to 11-year-old children. major advances on that front. you look at the decision that was made by the fda so far, and, of course, talking about what they're deciding with the cdc. talk to me about what you are seeing when it comes to requirements in boosters. some of the physicians i've been speaking to are saying inevidently everybody is going to need that third shot. >> we're talking about this particularly because of the delta variant and the number of cases that have gone up, but also the observation that the efficacy wanes over time. there's a need to address waning immunity. i think where the work needs to be done is to assess which populations will benefit most from boosters and that's why the advisory panel that has suggested the most vulnerable which would all individuals 65 where we saw both lower responses to the initial vaccination series but also disproportionately impacted with break through infections with delta. that's a first step. we need to generate more data as to the subgroups, including those at risk for covid to keep them protected. >> so i also just talked about you completed a trial with 5 to 11-year-olds recently. my colleague spoke to a young man who was part of the trials. i want to play a little bit of what he had to say. >> they didn't really have to do anything major. and when i got the shot, there was no, like, big, really big side effects. my arm wasn't swollen. >> the consequences of getting covid and a possibility of dying is much worse than a consequences of getting a shot and it swells up a little bit. >> talk about the bravery, right and the intelligence of that young man that is for sure. your reaction, doctor, to hearing that young man talk about his experiences with the trial and what we can look forward to when it comes to these vaccines for 5 to 11-year-olds. >> yeah. what a lot of wisdom from a nine-year-old. that was great to watch. so we've seen that countries in very high vaccination rates continue to have ongoing infections with the delta variant. because over 20% of the u.s. population is under the age of 18, it's really important that we continue to push the envelope in terms of age cutoffs for the vaccines. it's a welcome development that kids 5 to 11, elementary, middle school kids will have access to a vaccine soon. we are doing studies on younger kids from six months and older and hope as we continue to generate data, this would inform great access to children. children suffer consequences from covid including long covid and other conditions. and i think it's really important that these vaccines become available to them. >> thank you all. shannon, we'll talk to you later on this hour. thanks for sticking with us. over the weekend coronavirus killed an unvaccinated montana man. just one week before his 25th birthday. nbc news spoke with him shortly after he was hospitalized earlier this month. and he wanted to share a really important message before it was too late. gabe gutierrez is here with this incredibly emotional story. gabe, i got to say, i saw the headline and thought unbelievable. such a young man to lose his life to the coronavirus, and the fact that you spoke to him just weeks before he, in fact, did. what happened? >> yeah. it was a gut punch to hear he passed away. and he was telling me that he regretted not getting the vaccine. he wanted to share this message that the virus was so serious. and at the time he thought he was one of the lucky ones. his condition was improving. unfortunately, then things changed. >> i would not wish this stuff on my worst enemy at all. >> reporter: 24-year-old covid patient patrick was hospitalized just over a week when we first met him earlier this month. >> sorry. >> deep breath. >> take a breath. >> reporter: he struggled to breathe, but he wanted to keep talking to share this message. >> as soon as i can, i'm getting the vaccine. and i highly recommend anyone who has it to do it. this is a very scary situation. >> reporter: do you regret not getting the vaccine? >> absolutely. i 100% regret it. >> reporter: what were some of the things you were hearing? >> that the vaccine was not a real vaccine. that it was, like, a tracking tip the government was trying to use on us. >> reporter: patrick was in billings, montana. this is the er. they've set up overflow beds in the hallways. nurse christy was among those caring for patrick. was it exhausting? >> it is. it's kpauzing. i've had days where i thought i don't know that i can get up and continue to do this job, and i've been a nurse for 30 years. i believe passionately in what we do. i want to make a difference for patients, but i never thought i would be there, but i've had days that i thought i don't know that i can continue to do this. >> reporter: since then she says things have gotten worse. the hospital has limited ecmo treatments, external machines that can function as heart and lungs. administrators have also discussed how best to get ready for what's known as critical standards of care, essentially guidelines for how to ration resources. >> this is heart breaking. this is something i have never prepared myself for or never anticipated. >> reporter: and suns we met, patrick took a turn for the worst. he was placed on a ventilator and died this weekend. >> every time we moved him, we weren't sure if the end was going to be in that moment. and so i just wanted to be there to hold his hand. >> reporter: in just one week, patrick would have turned 25. he now leaves behind a young son. >> i much like a lot of people in my age group, did really -- didn't have a lot of proper information. i was hearing a lot of propaganda, saying like, covid is a conspiracy theory. it's not real. you know, just a whole bunch of crap crap. this is very real. it's very scary. >> reporter: so hard to watch that now and patrick, unfortunately, is now the youngest covid patient to die at that montana hospital. >> our hearts, our minds, our hugs, everything we can going out to his young child, gabe. just an awful, awful heart breaking story. thank you for bringing that to us. gabe, we appreciate it as always. coming up, everybody, the president's got some tough meetings on his agenda today with members of his own party. how he's going to try to convince democrats to stick together to pass his infrastructure plan. and that massive safety net package with both progressives and moderates threatening to jump ship. and the latest from the ground in del rio, texas where thousands of haitian migrants are waiting to see if they're going to be able to apply for asylum or if they'll be deported. how the biden administration says it's getting things under control. and gabby petito's death has officially been ruled a homicide. where the search for her missing fiance stands. uh, i-i'm 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making other treatments more accessible and increasing the availability of public health tools like masks and tests. and building back better so our global health security infrastructure is more resilient than it is today. we've all suffered. the united states has lost more than 670,000 of our fellow americans. worldwide the death toll is above 4 .5 million people. 4.5 people. and this is a global tragedy. and we are not going to solve this crisis with half measures or middle of the road ambitions. we need to go big, and we need to do our part. governments, the private sector, civil society, leaders, philanthropists. this is all hands on deck crisis. and the good news is we know how to beat this pandemic. vaccines. public health measures. and collective action. during the first eight months of my presidency, we have worked aggressively to get americans and the world vaccinated. as president of the united states, my first responsibility is to protect the american people. i'm proud we've gone from 2 million americans being vaccinated from when i took office to 18 2 million and counting today in america. but we also know that to beat the pandemic here, we need to beat it everywhere. and i made, and i'm keeping the promise that america will become the arsenal of vaccines as we're the arsenal for democracy during world war ii. we've shipped nearly 160 million doses to 100 countries. more than every other country has donated combined. we donated a half a billion advisor vaccines new co-vax that i've announced, and they've begun to ship. today i'm announcing another historic commitment. the united states is buying another half billion doses of pfizer to donate to low and middle income countries around the world. this is another half billion doses that will all be shipped by this time next year. and it brings our total commitment of donated vaccines to over 1 .5 billion vaccines to be donated. put another way, for every one shot we've administered to date in america, we have now committed to do three shots to the rest of the world. i want to thank pfizer and the ceo and chairman, albert. albert has been a good friend and has been helpful. they've been and continue to be partners and a leader in this fight. and the united states is leading the world on vaccination donations. we need as we're doing that, we need another high income countries to deliver on their own ambitious vaccines and donation pledges. today we're launching the eu/u.s. vaccine partnership to work more closely together and with our partners in expanding global vaccinations. and as we do so, we should unite around the world on a few principals. that we commit to donating, not selling, donating, not selling, doses to low and lower income countries. and that the donations come with no political strings attached. and that we support co-vax as the main distributor for sharing w.h.o. approved vaccines. and that we fight vaccine disinformation and exercise transparency to build vital public trust in these life-saving tools. it's also important that we are working toward common goals and targets so that we can measure our progress and hold ourselves and each other accountable. secretary of state blinken will be convening foreign ministers later this year to check on our collective progress. and i propose that we come together for a second high level virtual summit in the first quarter of 2022 to help gauge our progress and keep our efforts fully aligned. another goal is tra dramatically boosting manufacturing capacity, enhancing transparency so that vaccine production and distribution is predictable and coordinated. in fact, an important part of the reason the united states is able to make these big historic donations is because we've worked with u.s. vaccine manufacturers to accelerate the manufacturing rate and protection, and now we're working quickly to scale up vaccine manufacturing in other countries around the world so they can manufacture as well. we're working with partner nations, pharmaceutical companies and other manufacturers to increase their own capacity and capability to produce and manufacture safe and highly effective vaccines in their own country. for example, our quad partnership with india, japan and australia is on track to produce at least 1 billion vaccine doses in india to boost the global supply by the end of 2022. and we're providing financing and helping strengthen manufacturing in south africa. and produce more than 500 million doses of j&j in africa for africa next year. and next, we also know from experience that getting those vaccines into people's arms may be the hardest logistical challenge we faced. that's why we need to significantly step up our investment and helping countries get shots in arms. today the united states is also announcing that we're providing additional $370 million to support administering these shots and delivering globally. and we will be providing more than $380 million to assist in the global vaccine alliance. to further facilitate vaccine distribution in regions with the greatest need. and while vaccinating the world is the ultimate solution to covid-19, we know we have to act to save lives now. that's why the united states is providing nearly 1 $$.4 billion to reduce covid-19 deaths and mitigate transmission through bulk oxygen support, extended testing and strengthening health care systems and more. and we're going to help all of us build back better by supporting the establishment of financial mechanism for global health security. to prepare for the next pandemic, because there will be a next time. we all know that. vice president harris will be speaking more on this issue later today. and finally, i want to acknowledge the leaders from the private sector, philanthropy, and civil society who are here today. governments can do a lot. but we cannot do everything on our own. we've asked our nongovernment partners to take up the call for new actions that it will solve the court challenge of making vaccines available to everyone, everywhere. solving the oxygen availability crisis, financing health security and more, and i'm grateful, i'm grateful for their leadership. and let me close by with what i made clear yesterday at the u.n. we can do this. this is within our capacity. we know what needs to be done. we just have to make the choice to do it. now, the leaders on the screen that i see here today, i know they've made that choice. and i think they know we can do this. and i promise you the united states will continue to lead. we'll continue to drive the storied commitments in vaccine donations. 1.1 billion and counting so we can defeat covid-19 together, and we'll continue to invest in creating a future of true global health security for all people. that is a big, big goal we have. we should have. and we're going to lead with the power of our example, and we're not going to stop. but the only way to get this done is for everyone, everywhere, it's for all of us to step up, which i'm confident you will, and now i'd like to turn this over to ambassador thomas-greenfield of the united nations, and i want to thank everybody on the screen. i can see here without going to each one of you for all you've done, continue to do. i think you all know, we can do this. we can do this. we have to do this. so thank you. thank you all. >> all right, we were taking a listen to the president addressing the virtual covid summit, laying out the goals for the united states going forward and its contribution to the world at large when it comes to getting rid of the pandemic we've been in the last two years. some of the commitments the president made. 1.1 billion donation of vaccines to be shipped at this time next year. that additional 500 million to be shipped at this time next year. a commitment to getting as many vaccines to as many people in the world as possible. collective action across the board, and public health measures as well to be taken. he also announced a partnership, the eu/u.s. vaccine partnership and a commitment to donate vaccines to low income countries across the world. and to encourage, of course, manufacturing of vaccines inside the countries that need them most. we want to bring in shannon standing by for us at the white house once again. as we were taking a listen to the president addressing, of course, the virtual covid summit, two things stood out to me. i'm wondering if you have the answers on these. one is how are they going to figure out distribution when it comes to the total of 1.1 billion vaccines, and why such a long wait when it comes to the shipping of these vaccines? the president mentioning this additional 500 million that will be shipped at this time next year. >> well, the administration has said this is an enormous logistic challenge. and they understand that. even before this additional half a billion vaccines were announced, just getting the 160 million they've distributed so far to about 100 countries out the door has been an enormous logistic challenge the administration has been working on behind the scenes for months to try and pull this off. so there is an acknowledgment of that. i know you were talking about a guest earlier about not only just the shipping and movement of all of these vaccines on planes, but then the storage of them. that cold storage that's required. having enough workers in these countries to actually be able to administer them. this is definitely a lofty task and something the administration is trying to think through. they expect to have another 200 million go out the rest of the year. they expect 800 million to go out next year. so that's a little bit of the timeline. and you know, one thing i will note on the timing, this deal with pfizer for the 500 million the president is talking about today, that contract has not been finalized. they are working to finalize it as quickly as possible. it should be finalized soon. but that all hasn't completely been nailed one. one other thing i would note on the contract, the administration officials said yesterday the doses will be made in the u.s., and they are being sold to the u.s. at the not for profit price. supposedly that is the price that pfizer is selling these vaccines at for cost. not making any profit on them. >> any deals in the works to get more donations from places like moderna and j&j, and, of course, wanting to take advantage of our medical system here and getting doctors and nurses help to go over seas to distribute the vaccines, get them into arms and treat folks that are suffering from covid. >> right. well, i mean, you raise a really good question about moderna. j&j. there's also astrazeneca vaccines out there the u.s. has not approved, but that were sort of stored in the runup to that. an administration official indicated that there would be more to come from the u.s. this isn't necessarily like we're seeing this is all we're doing. but you can hear the president there saying other countries need to step up, too. and administration officials said they're looking to be leading by example. they're not thinking that the u.s. is going to have to pull all this weight on their own. as we were talking a little bit ago, the w.h.o. says it's going to take 11 billion doses to vaccinate the majority, about 70% of the world's population. so this is a big move in that direction. but the u.s. doesn't want to be doing this on their own. they want other countries to step up as well. >> it's got to be a global partnership on all sides. thank you for jumping in on this. we appreciate it. and sticking with us. let's talk infrastructure. in a couple hours after the president wraps up this virtual covid summit, the president will play the role of peacemaker to try to save his build back better economic agenda. he is hosting a group of democrats from the house and senate to try to iron out the deep divisions between progressives and moderates. both sides are still in a standoff over the infrastructure bill, and that $3.5 trillion spending plan. here are the names of the moderates and progressives. the president obviously having a very busy day ahead. sahil, good to see you. tell us about the members on this list and what we know about how the president plans to approach this, plans to get folks on board and getting something passed? >> this is a broad cross section of the democratic party that illustrates the magnitude of the task. it includes the leadership and centrist leaders and includes the leaders of the progressive faction. now, one way to think of this is as a squabbling family that is fighting among each other and needs an intervention and this is the patriarch stepping in to make sure everyone is on the same page to resolve the differences. president biden's agenda does face a risk of going off the rails if he cannot resolve the divisions. here are the divisions in a nutshell. centrist democrats are wanting to move forward on the senate passed physical infrastructure bill. they want to pass that, send it to president biden's desk, celebrate that victory. progressives don't want to pass that just yet. they say they pointed out for months they'll only let that move with the multitrillion package at the same time. and they're worried if infrastructure passes out the reconciliation bill the centrist will have no use for that massive safety net package. that's a division that president biden and it appears only president biden at this point will be able to resolve. he has his work cut out. >> he does. now let's listen to cnn earlier this morning being interviewed on new day, i believe it was. it didn't seem like she was willing to judge on passing these things separately. and i also found it interesting, and i think it speaks to the mind set right now, in referring to the joe manchins of the world, she actually said conservative democrats, not moderate democrats. and putting him in the same bucket as a republican. what do you make of that? >> they do not appear to be bluffing when she says progressive house lawmakers are prepared to tank that infrastructure bill if it moves on monday before that reconciliation bill passed. she met for more than 90 minutes with speaker nancy pelosi yesterday. i spoke to her as she came out of that. she said she communicated that message to pelosi clearly. there are as many as 40 or 50 democratic members of the house willing to vote that. are there that many? depending on who you talk to, that number could defer, but the fact is democrats can only afford three defections. a fourth defection kills it unless republicans are willing to rescue it. that's not a bet they're willing to take. she is trying to flex the power of the progressive caucus to make sure their priorities don't get sidelined. she'll remind you this is president biden's agenda. these are subsidies on paid leave, things president biden campaigned on progressives say they're trying to make 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purchase a new samsung phone or upgrade your existing phone. learn more at your local xfinity store today. welcome back. we are following breaking news in louisville, kentucky. louisville metro police say two teenage boys were shot while waiting for the school bus this morning. one of them has died. according to police updates the drive by shooting happened around 6:30 a.m. near downtown louisville. a group of students were waiting at a corner for their bus when a vehicle drove by and opened fire. police also tweeted that a juvenile girl was also hurt and treated at the scene during a briefing this morning, a police spokesperson said they are throwing all their resources into this case. they're asking people with cameras in the nearby area to help with their investigation. also this morning, we're following new developments in gabby peito case. a criminal homicide investigation. a wyoming coroner confirmed the body found in the national park is, in fact, confirmed to be that of the 22-year-old. the autopsy ruled gabby peito's manner of death as homicide. but the official cause of death is, in fact, still pending the final autopsy results. right now police, they're continuing their search for gabby peito's fiance brian laundrie. the 23-year-old has been named a person of interest so far in her disappearance. vaughn hillyard is near that search area. that research, it spreads around 25,000 acres. that is a huge place to be searching. this search has been ongoing the last couple days. it seems like no clues as to where brian laundrie may be. what is the scene like this morning there as the investigation is continuing? >> we've continued to see atvs and other major terrain vehicles enter this rear. this is about 40 square miles. a great amount is a swamp. this is alligator infested, make infested land here. it typically has more hiking and biking trails. because of recent rain, this area is filled with much water here. at the same time, i think it's important to put into the context just how expansive this search extends. because it is simply the word of the family. brian laundrie's family that this area is a place of focus. it was eight days ago that the family, his parents say he drove his vehicle here to go on a hike. it wasn't until four days after that, though, that they reported to police that he never came home and he was missing. that is the whole reason that this is the focus point of this search at this point. but you can put the number of days together. eight days. that's a long time where brian laundrie would have gone. obviously you see that autopsy that initial report there suggesting that this was a homicide that killed gabby peito. after her fiance that was the one believed to be with her at the time of it. it was 22 days ago he arrived back here in florida per his family without gabby peito in that very white van. three weeks have a lot of time. we do not know either the extent to which his parents have cooperated with the authorities. two days ago the fbi went in with a search warrant and seized items from that house including the vehicle he was driving at the same time we believe that his parents are still living inside of that house. and there's questions as to what extent are they aware of what brian maybe did to gabby peito or even where his where abouts are right now. but this search, again, this is a 40-square mile area here. and this is just the start of what could be a very long search for brian laundrie. >> let's expand on that for one moment. you actually brought up a really good point. the only reason they're searching this area is because of what brian's parents told authorities and investigators as to where he went hiking that day over a week ago now. how long are they planning to search this area? >> reporter: exactly. it was eight days ago. last tuesday that the family said that he took his vehicle a mustang, the vehicle seized by the fbi yesterday. they said he drove it here. they said the following day he had not come home from this supposed hike. and so they came to go look for his vehicle. they found it here. it wasn't until the following day that they said they returned, picked up his vehicle, took it to their house, but then it took another day for them to report to police that they had not seen him since tuesday. he came for the hike. those are a lot of big question marks as to why this location, was he ever at this location? does the family know more than they are letting on at this time? >> yeah. and why it took them so long to report that he was missing, knowing what was swirling around their son in that moment? vaughn, great reporting. thank you. all right. a quote, insidious plot. that's what donald trump is alleging in a new $100 million lawsuit. it is against his niece, mary trump, and three investigative reporters. trump claims the group aspired to obtain his tax returns. mary said he's going to throw anything against the wall he can. it's desperation. one of the new york times reporters tweeted this. i knocked on mary trump's door. she opened up. i think they call that journalism. tom winter is following the story for us. tom, this was explosive coming out yesterday. walk us through kind of the details of this filing, and if there's anything to the timing of it. >> yes. so this is a state filing that occurred in duchess county court that's north and west of new york city in the far suburbs. it's not a federal lawsuit. it's a state lawsuit. it kind of attacks two different columns or areas. the first is mary trump. that she according to the lawsuit broke her nda and that they're attacking that and trying to go for damages there. the second part is "the new york times" component. claiming they prompted mary trump to break this nda into they say steal the documents. the documents were held at mary trump's own attorney's office, and presumably would, in fact, be her documents in the first place. they were part of litigation she was a part of. that's kind of the two different segments or columns of this lawsuit. now, it is seeking $100 million plus in damages. it's a little bit difficult to figure out how they arrive at that number. they don't say how they arrive at the number. that's something we'll need to follow. another interesting component of this. at the time the stories came out in the new york times that were centered around these trump tax documents, the president called it totally fake news. and by filing this document, he's essentially saying no, those documents are legitimate. if they weren't legitimate, he wouldn't have a legal ground to stand on. it's confirming the reporting about the president and his tax returns and what he paid and perhaps more accurately in this circumstance, what he did not pay. in taxes. >> all right. tom winter for us. thank you for staying on this as you always do. thank you. right now dhs secretary spending his second day in the hot seat. what he's saying about the sort of 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haitian men, women and children is shrinking. those left knowing they could be deported back to the island nation some left years ago. officials say more than a,000 haitian adults and families have already been sent back to haiti. on a tuesday flight, three i.c.e. agents were assaulted ar after a number of recently deported haitian men rushed a plane that just landed. governor greg abbott putting blame for the crisis squarely on president biden. >> the only thing they've shown is incapability of dealing with this crisis. it is total chaos. and the biden administration need to up their game big time. >> reporter: tuesday, the president gave just this brief assurance after a speak at the united nations. >> we will get it under control. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris responding to images that show border patrol agents potentially whipping asian migrants with horse reigns. >> human beings should never be treated that way. deeply troubled about it. >> reporter: stressing an 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