to milwaukee to duke it out in the first presidential debate of the campaign, but several are sharpening their knives to separate themselves from the pack. tim scott is taking a different approach, touting his optimistic message of the future and focusing his attacks on president biden rather than his fellow republicans. ask if his strategy is making enough in-roads coming up. john: the president arriving in lithuania ahead of the high stakes nato summit, he will likely need to shore up disagreements among america s closest allies. sandra, vacation is over, we are all back. sandra: big welcome back to you, john. let s get right to it. sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. president is kicking off the trip with a visit to england where he met with the u.k. prime minister before appearing with king charles at windsor castle. their first meeting since charles coronation. john: his stop in london may be the easy part of the trip as the president s comments
stress when in fact it s causing mental illness, anxiety, depression, suicidal thinking. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour number two. i m john roberts in washington. that s pretty stunning, sandra. sandra: really serious stuff. sandra smith in new, i don t. all new at 2:00, we speak to a mother who lost her son to suicide. she blames years of heavy cannabis use that made her son s delusions worse. her story and her warning just ahead. as we top a brand-new hour, any moment now we are set to see the pentagon take questions as u.s. troops remain stationed at the southern border with thousands of migrants still making their way into this country. president biden claiming the crisis is far less serious than some feared. how do you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than y all expected. john: the president claims things are looking great, more than 83,000 migrants were detained in just the past week, and given court dates to app
border. a crisis at the border starting to take shape. a surge of migrants crossing. fema stepping in to help with the more than 3,200 migrant children being housed in customs and border facilities as of last week. that figure is a new record. republicans are seizing on it. in a matter of hours, kevin mckathy and other congressional republicans will be at the border in texas. they are calling it a crisis. democrats are calling it a challenge that they inherited from the previous administration. that s where we start. garrett haake in el paso, texas, where a group of house republicans, including minority leader mccarthy, making the border visit. i want to bring in the former white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president obama. jacob is with us in california. we know that part of fema s role we don t have jacob yet. garrett is in el paso. congressional republicans making a visit to the border in a matter of hours. this visit coming as congress preparing to