specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers and i would like to go back to the deadline, the french authorities said today that it is necessary to continue the evacuations beyond this. we cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. i think as you saw central command referred to it as a hostile actor, and it just happened. so i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. again our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. it was maintained. sadly it resulted in a loss of a life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. that is our focus right now. the goal is to get as many people out as fast as possible. while we re glad to see the numbers we got yesterday, we re not going to rest. the focus is on trying to do this the best we can by the end of the month. f we need to have an additional conversation with the commander and chief about that timeline, he will do that, but we re not at
our power well i shouldn t say, there s probably more, we will do more. we will continue to try to make the case to the american people who haven t taken the vaccine, it s in your interest, can save your life and can fundamentally impact the lives of your children or the people you love. laura: did you hear that? there is more we will do. the language is frightening on its face and now we have a handle on what it could entail. under an article, the ap buried a nugget way down in the 17th paragraph. while more severe measures such as mandating vaccine for interstate travel has been discussed, the administration is worried they would be too polarizing for the moment. that s not to say they won t be implemented in the future as public opinion continues to shift toward requiring vaccinations as a means to restore normalcy. their concern is about it being too polarizing? how about illegal and unconstitutional? joining me now, mercedes and jason j fitz, fox news contributor. au
from louisiana senator bill because it marsha blackburn from the great state of tennessee. stadia meanwhile we begin with vice president, harassing the border is closed. a different story. hello, everyone. i am sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. john: i am john roberts in washington. the vice president is wrapping up their first foreign trip since taking office. she is facing scrutiny for not visiting the u.s. border. she is sticking to the talking point of telling potential migrants border is closed. sandra: but the numbers tell a different story. fox news is getting an exclusive right along look from the waters of the rio grande as migrants there from more than 70 countries continue to search across our border. john: one property order exclusively telling us that the vice president s comments about the border being close is a joke. he is live on the ground with more on all of this. chris, wow. tell us about what is happening right now. good af
first, chad pergram is tracking all the key votes from the last 48 hours. chad. reporter: good afternoon. well, it was an all night session in the united states senate, and here in just the past couple moments, the senate actually recessed for just a moment. they re coming back into session, technically you see the chaplain delivering the opening prayer. senators are exhausted. they have been voting for 25 hours straight, the session went really 25 hours here as they consider amendments to this coronavirus relief bill. senators have been catching cat naps in the back of the chamber as they process 345, 40 35, 40 amendments here. this bill is going to pass sometime in the next hour or so, we expect the vote to be 50-49. dan sullivan, republican senator from alaska, he is out. he had to go back to alaska because his father-in-law passed away, so we re anticipating a party line vote here, and that means they will not need vice president harris to come to cap to hill to break
washington. i am bret baier. president biden is in houston right now delivering remarks at this hour of coronavirus vaccination facility run by the federal emergency management agency s. you will see him there. we are monitoring these remarks and we will finish later. peter doocy on the white house domestic trip when one of the questions he is facing is about foreign policy, surrendering air strike in syria that we first told you about at the end of special report last night. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. on his way to those remarks president biden said that the air strike was to send a message to iran. you can t act with impunity, be careful. today after iranian forces, he has they are trying to heal texas. saving people s lives and as my mother would say, doing god s work. on the way to texas, the white house explains the rationale behind the first air strikes biden ordered as commander in chief. american interests in iraq. speak of the president sendin