in this country they will be sent back. >> reporter: now the president will be in texas this week, wednesday and thursday doing some fundraising but he's under pressure now not just from republicans but de well to go visit the border for himself. democratic congressman from texas says he thinks the president should get an up close look at the crisis. he was critical of the president said he should have seen this crisis coming much sooner, should have done more to deal with it. john earnest pushed back on that and said the president has no plans to visit the border because he's been briefed by top aides, full y briefed on the situation. >> there's been times before where they weren't concerned about the optics of these kind of situations when pressed to be hands on in some of these different stories. former presidential speech writer and american enterprise institute fellow, mark, good to