conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the president s own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. we ll go to the border in just a moment. john: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let s listen. borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie. it s a lie. the borders are wide open. i have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. thousands of being released every day into the united states, many with
markets performance today after that shellshock of a trading day yesterday? a lot of market technicians look at this stuff and say after a huge sell off, it s kind of nice to see the next day be an update. it wasn t. it was better than yesterday, but all of this comes at a time when there s growing pressure to see what happens in china could ever happen here. most experts say no for the time being. but we have our own problems here. debt ceiling breach that could come sooner than we think. they re pushing that off. we re going to talk to senator john thune about the republican effort to challenge the democrats for punting on this one. we ll get the read on that shortly. the battle overhandling all of this almost simultaneously. that could weigh on stocks as well. first, susan li on what happens to the earlier very strong update. susan? not much of a rebound after the worst day for the stock market since mid may on monday. it was all over the place. google investors trying t
at war for the first time in 20 years. he also promised to work with congress to double u.s. climate funding to $100 billion calling climate change a challenge without borders. the president also said we have given more than $15 billion toward the global pandemic response and have shipped 160 million vaccine doses world wide. and with just about every challenge he mentioned, he note add group effort will be required to solve it. to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emergent technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. all this coming against the backdrop of this pandemic, of course. big vaccine news in the last three hours. johnson & johnson says its booster shot is 94% effective
vaccination. it s a ray of hope for millions of american families and a common sense approach to travel as we stair down what looks more and more like a bifercated country. we re sure pasting the devastating flu of 1918 and driven by the tragedy unfolding in largely unvaccinated states like mississippi which currently has the highest covid death rate per capita in the country and if it were a zone country, miss mississippi would be tied for second. republican governor tate reeves tried to down play his own incompetence. as you know, unfortunately, fatalities is a lagging indicator when it comes to the virus, it is a lagging indicator and so timing has as much to do with that statistic that you used as anything else. the president will try to believe the delta variant is only affecting republicans in the united states. that is not true. that is not a fact. move around the country and you re going to see fatalities rise in other states. we believe in personal responsibility
declaration and reference it. why? it recognizes a circle of liberty around every single individual that is not to be molested or penetrate by government. is what that you see happening today? the constitution puts great limits on the central government, creates central government. is that what you see today? it trying to protect the individual with the bill of rights and protect states with enumerated powers they grant to the national government, it is all turned upside down. because ladies and gentlemen this so-called progressive movement is not progressive. it an out growth of marxism. they assign themselves a progressive, i wrote a book called american marxism to expose it it does. i want to discuss a piece of it with you. you look what is happening with joe biden and democrat party, i say in american marxism : marxism : moreover this is another characteristic of american marxism, and the democratic party. this brings me to the second point: meaning those v