On the left side of your screen. Chaos happening inside the White House Biden gave the directive to build a border wall. Just as the news was hitting the nation about miles of border wall going up on the southern border, the White House Press secretary said, this is a quote, walls dont work. And now her boss is saying walls dont work. Who is in charge at the white house . Biden or Karine Jeanpierre . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The political pressure became too much to ignore. President biden promised there would not be another foot of border wall built on his watch. Then he caved. After all, walls do work. How do we know . His Vice President Kamala Harris comes from california, a state where there is a wall. Maybe thats why, as bidens border czar, Kamala Harris has never known what to do about the waves of humanity illegally coming into america. Her state has a 15foot tall barrier between san diego and mexico. Part of that barrier goes right through the beach
Our guard, willing the pandemic to be over but the slowly rising tally of the dead won t let it be and forces us to confront some tough questions, like how many of those 1 million deaths might have been prevented? we counted on the tools, the vaccines, the masks, the distancing, but we forgot about the unpredictability of free will, mistrust in science and simple human behavior. it was hard enough to process 750,000 deaths, 500,000, 250,000 before that. each mile post leaving us as unsure as the next as to what such a moment called for. maybe because the pandemic changed our rituals of death and grief. tearful good-byes between families and dying loved ones not at bed sides but via ipad funerals delayed or bypassed altogether at the moment we most
Steve: he spent 90 minutes at bed sides at the university medical center. he met with 100 medical professionals a young high school student. 18 years old tiffanyizener was one of the survivors. afterwards she was asked about the visit to her hospital room of the president of the united states and first lady. this is what she had to say about the president. did he offer you words of comfort? did he say anything that stands out to you? he said he was super nice. he was much more comforting. what did he say that was so comforting? i don t know. just his voice and the way he was. steve: the way he was. ainsley: not the guy that he appears to be on social media. brian: anyone that knows the president has a chance to meet him and the reason he got elected president is because he connects with people. one of which he connected
As commander and chief i have not shied away from using force when necessary. i have ordered tens of thousands of young americans into combat. i have sat by their bed sides sometime when they come home. i have ordered military action in seven countries. the are times when force is necessary. if iran does not abide by this deal, it is possible we don t have an alternative. but how can we in good conscious, go to war without trying this first? a deal that is agreed to by iran and supported by the rest of the world and preserves our options if the deal falls short.
Later this half-hour, beating the heat at the movies. we ll preview colin ferrell s total recall and stay tuned for insomniac theater. you ll be at the movies, taking your son? my son is bugging me to talk him to wimpy kid. and i want to see total recall. in the theater all weekend. bring me back popcorn monday. we turn to the long distance bus that slammed into a highway overpass in illinois. police have identified the woman that died in that crash. she s a 25-year-old graduate student from india. this morning, anxious families are waiting by the bed sides of the many other whose are injured. abc s lisa stark has the story. reporter: it was a violent crash, the double-decker mega bus traveling at highway speeds rammed into the concrete pillar of an overpass. investigators say it may have been a blown tire, causing the driver to lose control. after he hit whatever he hit and the tire blew, it felt like we were going to tip over. he was trying to regain control of