officer dylan harris brother and sister-in-law, david and kayla are harris. good morning to both of you. good morning. morning. steve: david, tell us, tell us, if you would and our heart is breaking for your family are, but tell us what apparently happened with your brother. what we know is he witnessed a traffic violation, he made contact with the suspect at a gas station that happened to be across from the police station. the suspect failed to comply with him, you know, wasn t doing anything and ended up in being tased. a couple hours went by, my brother was getting ready to do paperwork at the police station and was shot in retaliation for that arrest. steve: unbelievable. and he had been in law enforcement for a while, but this was the first day at the new job, right? yeah.
reporter: so we are here in panama, the southern part, and behind me you can see panamanian military, and we re going to stay right here until they give us access because the foreign minister has suggested we want to see it. the reason why she met with congressman gonzalez, because she wants the biden administration to pay attention to this pipeline and put some pressure on colombia and other countries south of panama before the haitians make their way with. we are told from officials that aside from the 60,000 in the pipeline right now, some 20,000 or more are in colombia trying to make that path. but one thing is clear as you heard from that attorney, this is a profitable pipeline that starts in south america. and as we saw a few weeks ago, ended under a bridge in del rio, and there are a lot more on the way. steve, brian brian: i m just astounded that
secretary of state, department of homeland security secretary and attorney general all went to mexico to speak to the president of mexico the try to figure out how to stop all these people from coming. do we have any idea how they re going to do it or if they re going to do it? reporter: well, that s the key, steve, if the they re going to do it. there s no plan that is bubbling about how they re going to do it. and as you pointed out, vice president harris playing bingo with school children in new jersey on friday. but one thing it s an interesting development, also on friday the u.s. embassy in panama announced that the president has nominatedded a u.s. ambassador to panama. we ll see if all of a sudden they re going to perhaps catch up and try to get this under control. meanwhile, we re going to keep petition thing the folks here because we sent official letters requesting access, we were told we would be able to get that access but, obviously, they are stopping us militarily from
he loved his family more than anything. steve: david, your family, i know your dad was trying to convince your brother to get out of law enforcement and become an electrician because it was just too dangerous. we ve all had that talk with him. we ve all encouraged that out of him because we knew the dangers of it. we knew the direction this world was headed, and it doesn t seem to be getting any better. it s getting worse by the day, so we tried to encourage him that. he was actually enroll at the technical college here many dudley taking courses to be an electrician. our uncle s an electrician, so he kind of had a plan if, but we all knew deep down that s not what he wanted to do. he actually told my dad just a few weeks ago when they were talking about the, he said, tad tad daddy, this is what i was put hered to do. he knew that. he would have never have been
passing through a deadly stretch of the jungle. rachel: yeah, very dangerous area that they re being incentivized to go through. griff jenkins joins us live from panama where the military is denying access to the haitian caravan. griff? reporter: that s right. rachel, steve, brian, good morning. we are in the southern part of panama near that deadly area which i ll talk about, but we came here because the foreign minister of panama started sounding the alarm in the last few weeks about some 60,000 haitians specifically in the pipeline trying to get here. she spoke with representative the tony gonzalez who i spoke to yesterday who said not only are there 60,000 haitians coming, but this year alone some 52 known terrorists linked to al-qaeda have been is apprehended in this pipeline are. let me show you a map to explain what i m talking about. if you look here on the map, you can see in south america, brazil