peddling denial. but you do get that is not the whole story, right? you understand the vaccine is not a cure-all. it won t get us out of the pandemic, not anytime soon. there are so many out there, i hear you on the radio, i see you on social media, i get your responses to the show. biden s doing a good job, take the win, why do you keep saying the situation is so dire? because it is. vaccine, biden, not enough. he s not trump. he s not going to tell you he s one move away and only he can fix. too many americans insist on falling short. so yeah, the vaccine s a step forward. but we re taking a step and after back. here s the proof. after weeks of steep declines, infections are rising again by more than 10% in 14 states this week compared to last. more states are reopening. is that good or bad? look, i believe it s how you do it and how you handle it on an individual basis. the opportunity is going to be there. what do you do with it? there will be more risk if you don t fly,
while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwide. on thursday. there is no progress on vaccinations. president biden marking today the 100 millionth dose, two months ahead of the goal he set. in total more than 115 million vaccinations have been injected into arms. more than one in five in the u.s. have received at least one dose, and more than one in ten in the u.s. are fully vaccinated at 12.3%. my next guest says that her coronavirus vaccina
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very interesting way. bill: during the trump years this was quite common. make a phone call, take you down there, see what you wanted to see. a very different story in the first two months of this administration. dana: as the feds restrict media access rob portman let fox news tour the border with him. griff jenkins joined him last night and has been delivering incredible reporting from the border for weeks. let s take a look. the residents here in at least the rio grande valley sector of texas where we are say they ve never seen anything like it. the rio grande river is where we re seeing an unbelievable number of migrants coming across this sector here in el paso is on fire as well. hasn t heard the u.s. president now is not the time to come. i listen to the news that they were letting people in. does it frustrate you that the new administration does not call this a crisis? yes, sir, it does. when you see a father with a 4-month-old baby riding on his chest, a
the el paso border sector. the biden administration still getting hit over a lack of transparency. sandra: to the new york post covered today showing migrants of the border with the headline divide and said help. and a rise in crime. john: but first let s get to griff jenkins, he s on the border in sunland park new mexico. chris, you ve been doing some amazing work. that s what the dhs and biden administration doesn t want you to see, and that s access as to what writer lungs are like. and that s, that s where we were with senator rob portman of ohio. he is the homeland security committee and he s getting a tour from the national border patrol council. that s the union, and we encountered a lot of traffic here. this is the wall area where we were, and i ve been talking to him. and you can see that stretches for miles, that s one of the heaviest traffic areas of the el paso sector, and alexander mallorca s is making it visit and being a tight-lipped about it. details