And Nikki Haley coming up right away. Sandra we begin with new development in evolving with the covid Lab Leak Theory as he issue take Center Stage again on Capitol Hill. Hello, im Sandra Smith in new york, welcome to tuesday and this is America Reports be when im John Roberts in washington, secretary of State Anthony Lincoln facing a new round of questioning today before two senate committees over whether a laboratory in wuhan, china, made a key role in the Covid Outbreak as a newlyserviced u. S. Government Lab Report from the early days of the pandemic down to the completely plausible and said it deserves further investigation. Sandra former State Department Official will join us next hour on that report which then led to an investigation during the Trump Administration. We Look forward to that but first, lets go to for jeppesen live at the State Department with the latest on that. Hannah, rich. Good afternoon, sandra. In their investigation last year, former State Department Officia
Know what the problem is, clearly she is fearful but kamala harris was given one job, one job and that was to deal with the border and any leader knows you can t fix what you can t see. john: the vice president bypasses the border, new reporting shows illegal crossings are the highest level in more than a decade and while harris is now tell telling migrants not to come to the united states, critics say it is more mixed messaging from the white house. sandra: chad wolf is here and will join us in just a moment but we begin with bryan llenas who was live in mexico city for us today. high mike, brian. sandra, john, good afternoon. kamala harris finishing the bilateral meeting with mexico s president and she spoke one-on-one privately for 40 minutes. the drug trafficking, human smuggling and more efforts to go beef up border security but
U.s.-mexico border and tells would be migrants to not come to the united states. former united nations ambassador nikki haley will join us to talk more about that in a moment but we begin with bryan llenas live with the vice president in mexico city. hi, brian. john, good afternoon, remember mexico s president has shown a willingness to work with the united states on the issue of illegal immigration under the trump administration, allowing for the implementation of the remain in mexico, keeping a asylum-seekers on the mexican side of the border. the question now is whether vice president 316 harris who is currently in a meeting, what will they deliver, this administration, what will they deliver on drug smuggling, trafficking, issues of border security, both sides of make made it clear that the focus of this meeting today is really about addressing what harris has called the root causes of
Illegal immigration. they both, both countries signed a memorandum earlier today pledging economic support to the northern triangle countries to give people more reason to stay. our cameras were in their for the very beginning moments of that bilateral meeting, here is with the vice president said. we are embarking on a new era, of the interdependence and connection. meantime the vice president is being criticized for not visiting the u.s. southern border and she s also being criticized from members of her own party for her blunt message to guatemalans yesterday, listen. i want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous track to the united states had an mexico border, do not come. if you come to our border, you will be turned back. some democrats say this is
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