do not come. >> reporter: that answer upsetting many, including members of her open party and calling into question her diplomatic chops. just a day later, harris causing headlines, again, by dismissing the criticism that she's never been to the border. >> we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border? >> and i haven't been to europe. i mean, i don't -- i don't understand the point that you are making. >> reporter: and causing friction with a key member of her own party. >> we can't continue this way. >> reporter: for going to west virginia and sitting for local interviews about the covid stimulus plan without giving a heads up to the state's longtime senator, joe manchin. >> i couldn't believe it. no one called me. we are going to try to find a bipartisan pathway forward. i think we need to. but we need to work together. that's not a way of working together. what was done. >> and back on this week's dustup at that school just outside washington, d.c., we spoke today with many of the groups that were originally concerned with the vice president's response when she