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Policy issues. she hoped to make progress on root causes in central america. there was certainly progress, but there are some concerns that some of the issue mace have been overshadowed by questions her team knew she would be facing. its left some perplexed and the vice presidents team frustrated. >> reporter: a diplomatic test turned political quicksand. on her first foreign trip, vice president harris drawing fire from the right and the left as she undertook her mission to address the root cau...

Fran chess ka chambers. thanks for being with us. we did not need a pandemic to realize what we need. >> reporter: from inadequate ventilation. >> the windows. this is the only ventilation that the school actually has. >> reporter: to antiquated heating. >> we have a boiler system that runs on oil that is close to 50 years old. >> reporter: for lighting and asbestos beneath floor surfaces. >> changing these floors has an environmental impact given whats under these floors. >> reporter: superin...

Systems in their schools. the infrastructure bill has set aside money for internet. about a quarter of u.s. students do not have broadband at home. $45 billion would be used for clean drinking water. while leon wouldnt share the exact figure his district would be allocated, hes already planning how to spend it. >> we have a 3-inch binder. we have a good sense of what the needs were. >> how long will that take for it to be implemented? >> i envision once these dollars are assured, immediate impac...

In 2016, the district, one of new jerseys poorest, asked the state for $311 million to fund more than 150 projects. as of today, only 11 have been app approved. across the country, thousands of superintendents find themselves in similar positions. structural crises that president biden hopes to tackle as part of his nearly $2 trillion infrastructure plan. >> today, up to 10 million homes in america and 4,000 schools and child care centers have pipes with lead in them. >> reporter: the american s...

>> reporter: now, john and brianna, we should note that interview in newark took place at the end of april, and the biden administration was hoping to see a price tag for an infrastructure bill close to $2 trillion. now that that has been cut down, i reached out to superintendent leon and asked if he was worried about the impact and heres what he said. he said, we are proceeding with our planning as we have built flexibility into our process in anticipation of potentially changing time lines. we...

Wrote it. tell us how you did that. >> reporter: sure. so we had been interested in trying to learn as much as we can about the people who stormed the building that day, and so a number of them are in d.c. jail. we wanted to correspond with those folks and try to reach their families and ask questions, and what we got in return was a letter signed the january sixers and through additional reporting and contacting the authors family, we were able to figure out that the person who penned it was gu...

America, but it was a stern warning that caught her flack on the left. >> i want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the united states mexico border, do not come. do not come. >> reporter: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez calling that message disappointing to see. >> why did you feel it was important to relay that message while in guatemala? >> it can be a very treacherous and dangerous trek, and i dont take that lightly. i dont take tha...

Son, jackson reffitt. >> he and his family opposed to politics for sure. well talk about that in a moment. lets talk about one of the claims that stands out in this letter, that the rioters could have overthrown the government had they wanted to. tell us more about that. >> reporter: thats right. so what theyre saying -- what they appear to be saying in this letter is that they had the numbers, and the cops didnt, and the police were unprepared, and had they truly wanted to overthrow the governm...

I dont understand the point youre making. i dont understand the importance of the border. >> reporter: the number two in the white house talking about a crisis. >> we have a border crisis on the southern border. >> reporter: for weeks harris and her team have fought the perception that she is the administrations border czar, insisting shes narrowly focused the root causes of migration, but after the issue became a distraction, a change of tune. >> can you commit right now you will visit the u.s....