peddling denial. but you do get that is not the whole story, right? you understand the vaccine is not a cure-all. it won t get us out of the pandemic, not anytime soon. there are so many out there, i hear you on the radio, i see you on social media, i get your responses to the show. biden s doing a good job, take the win, why do you keep saying the situation is so dire? because it is. vaccine, biden, not enough. he s not trump. he s not going to tell you he s one move away and only he can fix. too many americans insist on falling short. so yeah, the vaccine s a step forward. but we re taking a step and after back. here s the proof. after weeks of steep declines, infections are rising again by more than 10% in 14 states this week compared to last. more states are reopening. is that good or bad? look, i believe it s how you do it and how you handle it on an individual basis. the opportunity is going to be there. what do you do with it? there will be more risk if you don t fly,
the el paso border sector. the biden administration still getting hit over a lack of transparency. sandra: to the new york post covered today showing migrants of the border with the headline divide and said help. and a rise in crime. john: but first let s get to griff jenkins, he s on the border in sunland park new mexico. chris, you ve been doing some amazing work. that s what the dhs and biden administration doesn t want you to see, and that s access as to what writer lungs are like. and that s, that s where we were with senator rob portman of ohio. he is the homeland security committee and he s getting a tour from the national border patrol council. that s the union, and we encountered a lot of traffic here. this is the wall area where we were, and i ve been talking to him. and you can see that stretches for miles, that s one of the heaviest traffic areas of the el paso sector, and alexander mallorca s is making it visit and being a tight-lipped about it. details
on ballots that had been mailed in this the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they weren t. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be a very illegal thing to do, right? so what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went the a right wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed. signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of mas
election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. when you
border crisis, the governor of texas sing the sharp increase in illegal immigration along the southern border states has led to a humanitarian crisis and not surprisingly the republican governor of texas is blaming the new democratic president. kristin fisher at the white house tells us what the biden team is doing about what he still refuses to call a crisis, but we begin with corresponding casey stegall in mission, texas, and governor abbott message. good evening. good evening, governor abbott did announced today that he has beefing up this program dubbed operation lone star, which is going to direct even more additional state resources and staffing here to assist at the border, but he insists that texas cannot shoulder this entire burden. how long will these children be here? what countries have they come from, and what covid variance have they been exposed to? along with the questions raised by governor abbott today, questions he says they don t have answers to.