Lester Holt sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris for an exclusive interview, and when he was asked why she hasn't visited the border yet, you could tell that she didn't quite have an answer prepared.

Listen to this.

Do you have any plans to visit the border?

At some point, you know, we are going to the border. We've been to the border.

So this whole, this whole thing about the border, We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border.

We've been to the border.

You haven't been to the border.

And I haven't been to Europe.

Well, that escalated quickly.

That's right.

Harris was not in the mood.

Don't be surprised if you see Lester Holt narrating his own episode of Dateline.

Started out as a normal interview.

All right.

We'll get to that answer from the vice president and the much bigger, much more complicated problems beyond the border coming up.

But first President Biden flies to the UK this morning, leaving behind infrastructure talks with Republican senators that have now collapsed.

He heads to Europe, too, as NBC News frames it, meet Putin, a pandemic, and skeptical allies.

A lot to cover. As for covering the president on the trip, though, the plane carrying the White

House press corps to Europe gets delayed after doing battle with cicadas. We'll get to the trip and the insects in a moment.

But first, Willie, the stalled infrastructure talks.

Yeah, full collapse.

President Biden's talks with a group of Republican senators

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