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. i m 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. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. that s where you ll 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
i m todd piro. hi, carley. carley: this is true, we have beef over christmas movie, that s about it. i m carley shimkus, more on the president s outburst. first breaking news overseas. weapons will arrive in ukraine in a moment and troops are ready for possible deploy toment eastern europe. todd: live in kiev with the latest, steve. steve: todd 8500 u.s. troops on heightened alert. they can be sent to eastern europe if there is invasion of ukraine. no plan for u.s. combat troops on the ground in ukraine. four countries have pulled out families of diplomats due to worsening security situation here, along with the u.s., u.k., australia and germany pulling out. ukrainian officials say such a move is unnecessary and premature. russia says the u.s. reaction is one of hysteria. administration officials say there will be no air lift for u.s. citizens remaining in ukraine. press sect. psaki: we are conveying to american citizens to leave now there is not intention of an evacu
to moscow later this week and talk to vladimir putin. the white house is said to greet congressional aids. they re expected to give briefings when they return to congress next week. the stand off sending jitters across the u.s. and global economies, adding to white house worries about inflation. and now soaring prices for food and gas. this as we await policy announces from the federal reserve after they conclude a two-day meeting starting today in washington. in covid, major setbacks for mask mandates. in virginia, 7 districts are suing governor youngkin after he made masks optional and in new york, the court shut down the indoor mask mandate. the escalating tensions for russia and ukraine. the senior white house correspondent, o donnell and kelly, first to you, what might the president s decision be? when might he make it? we know the troops are on standby in the u.s. we know the president has made one decision already and that s to accept the decision of deputy assis
election fraud delusions and drew the line at the coup attempt telling the associated press publicly what he told people privately that there was no widespread voter fraud that impacted the outcome of the 2020 election. committee charnl thompson confirmed sunday the committee is in talks with bill barr and looking at a draft executive order to allow the defense department to seize voting machines across the country. we had conversations with the former attorney general already. we have talked to department of defense individuals. we are concerned that our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false so if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines even though it s a discussion the public needs to know. we have never had that before and so any of these individuals who are participating in trying to stop the election, the duly election of a president, and if we can document it we will share it with the public. the spokesper
african countries where this variant emerged. the reason for the travel ban, there s a significant number of cases unlike any other country in the world. we needed time to give people an opportunity to say get the vaccination now before it heads it will move around the world. martha: so joe biden had a different take on that when president trump did a similar thing. we ll talk about this with karl rove who is starting by on that part of the story. but for, a senior scholar from the hopkins university. he s focused on preparedness and infectious disease. great to have you back with us today. thanks for making time for us what is your take on omicron at this point? well, we don t know a lot about omicron at this point. we know it has a lot of mutations, some have which have been associated with vaccine evasion. we know it s spreading in south africa but we don t know answers. it s something to take seriously to track and understand but it s not a cause for panic. we hav