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. Im 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. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll 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 study. The Vice Presi
too often in this country at another mass shooting in allen, it. just outside of dallas. eight people were killed and 7 were injured. the gunman was shot and killed by a police officer who was at the mall on unrelated call. a witness described the horrific scene. i never imagined in a hundred years i would be thurst into the position of being the first responders on site to be taken care of. the first person was clutched down covering her head in the bushes an i felt for a pulse and pulled her shead to the side an she had no face. no one could not bees effected it. it is just unfathomable to see the carnage. the morning after we are waiting for more information from authorities. but here is more from the mayor of allen, texas, last night. allen is a proud and safe city which makes today s senseless act of violence even more shocking. however i want to commend or police and fire department for their response. their training not the to hesitate to move toward the threat l
policy to expel 3 million illegal immigrants. bill: thousands are waiting for the green light in mexico. in texas, governor greg abbott is deploying national guardsmen to shore up security in his state. dana: they re relying on barbed wire to help make up for gaps in the border wall. despite all of this, dhs secretary mayokas continues to insist the border is closed. he blames the surge on criminals and cartels and urging asylum seekers not to listen to them. smugglers have long been hard at work spreading false information that the border will be open after may 11th. it will not be. the smugglers care only about profit, not people. they do not care about you or your well-being. do not believe their lies. do not risk your life and your life savings only to be removed from the united states if if and when you arrive here. bill: on the hill house republicans ready to vote on a comprehensive immigration reform bill. president biden has pledged to veto that arguing the
i went to the first person i found crouching in the bushes, looked like she was praying. and felt for her pulse. there was no pulse, so i pulled her head up to look at her face. and there wasn t a face. just brain matter. so i went to the next guy. he was already staring straight ahead. his eyes were fixed can dilated. felt for a pulse. no pulse. mass murder has become a regular occurrence in red states like texas. as republicans keep trying to gaslight us about how the guns somehow have nothing to do with it. plus, new information on the eight victims including three children. also tonight, the new more conservative cnn has decided to give a mega phone to donald trump at the same time that he s being investigated for fomenting an insurrection among other alleged crimes. plus, the blowback from parts of the british commonwealth, especially in the caribbean, following this weekend s lavish and an acronistic coronation. we begin tonight with a question. is it safe t
released without proper es to democrats during the 2022 midterms. one republican was one of 11 affected, saying what happened goes way beyond dirty politics. doing identity theft with our social security numbers to get this. they paid for this. did they get the information, know it was done illegally? we want to know this. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel on this one. hi, mike. two powerful house chairmans set a deadline for today to be notified for how widespread the problem has been. mike rogers is the chairman of the house armed services committee, james coleman of house oversight. they wrote to secretary austin, quote, the recent broad release of records, highlights the inadequacy to secure military personnel files but raising concerning questions of possible illicit motive or political partisanship. they were released to a private research firm with ties to the democrat congressional campaign committee. one of the republican congressman told his understa