tonight, the campaign battle over immigration heating up as the president moves to shield half 1 million undocumented migrants from deportation. also, donald trump doubles down on his anti-immigrant attacks while trying to walk back his comments fleming milwaukee. then, the dictator summit. putin, kim jong-un, 2 l trump praised, meet one-on-one in north korea as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >> good evening. once again, i am stephanie ruhle and we are now 140 days away from the election. that means there are just 20 weeks until americans head to the ballot boxes to decide who will be the next president. today, the incumbent joe biden was making big moves at the white house. he announced an executive action to shield undocumented spouses of u.s. citizens from deportation. he called out donald trump for his comments about immigration. >> we can both secure the border and provide legal pathways to citizenship. we have to acknowledge that the patience and goodwill of the american people is being tested by their fears at the border. they don't understand a lot of it. these are the fears my predecessor tries to play on when he says immigrants in his words, poison the blood of the country. folks, i'm not interested in playing politics with border or immigration. i'm interested in fixing it. >> the president also marked the 12th anniversary of the deferred action for childhood arrivals and then he added this. >> why the action we are taking today matters if you wonder about that, ask business leaders, ask labor leaders, ask economist, ask elected officials. they know it's good for american business. they know it's good for the american economy. they know it's good for the american -- america period. >> the economy is a central theme of president biden's campaign. biden is drawing an even sharper contrast with trump by taking aim at taxes. the president is promising to end the trump tax cuts for people earning above $400,000 while vowing not to raise taxes for anyone making less. meanwhile, we have more signs than a lot of investors continue to have a lot of faith in the economy. the s&p 500 closed at a new record high, while the dow also finished the day on an up note. with that, let's get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel this evening. and b.c. capitol hill correspondent, ali bertelli joins us. peter baker , chief white house correspondent for the new york times and raul reyes, immigration attorney and nbc contributor. what does president biden's move to protect undocumented spouses mean in reality? >> this is potentially a true game changer for so many people in the immigrant community. it is a very common misconception right now. people have the idea that if you have come to this country without authorization and you marry a u.s. citizen, that automatically confers citizenship, but it does not. the only way a person can adjust their status in that type of situation is to leave the u.s., returned to the country of origin and then wait potentially three years, 10 years, or maybe forever, because that triggers a ban on their returning to the country, so we have this sort of catch- 22 system in our immigration policy right now, and what biden is doing is fixing that, so now, families will not have to split apart with no guarantee of being able to reunite just to get a green card that the undocumented spouse is already eligible for, so this is a big deal, and coming on the anniversary of daca and in immigrant heritage month, i think this could potentially energize many latino voters and many on the progressive side of the party. >> our immigration system is been broken for years with congress doing nothing, but president biden is now insisting that america can both secure the border and create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants. what do you think about that messaging? >> i think the messaging is outstanding because number one, look at the contrast with con donald trump. he has already promised mass deportations, detention camps, and has even said he would not rule out family separations, so what joe biden is doing is sound policy but it is very good politics and just to be clear, president biden is not giving anyone anything. what he is doing for the undocumented spouses of citizens, he is clearing an obstacle that will allow them to access green cards they are already eligible for, so there is no reward for illegal behavior. this is a benefit people are already entitled to, they just can't access it without this extreme hardship and uncertainty. >> peter, one immigration advocate called this the biggest policy announcement since obama announced daca. how big of a deal do you see this as? >> i think it is a big policy announcement, absolutely and it is comparable to dock in a lot of ways. obviously, like dr., it is an executive action, meaning there's going to be a challenge to it. it also means it does not have the same enduring force that a law passed by congress has therefore, it is a less than ideal solution for those who are looking to accomplish the aim but it is a way for biden to say look, i'm doing what i can while congress is not taking action and it's also taking place in the exact same time dr. took place. obama did this in june of an election year. of biden is doing june of election year. that's not a coincidence. they are trying to appeal to the progressive part of the party, to latino voters and remind them there's a difference to having president biden in the oval office and having trump in the oval office. this comes after president biden took some stringent action in terms of limiting asylum rights for those coming across the border which upset a lot of people in the progressive wing of his party so he's trying to say to them yeah, you may be upset with me for that in terms of trying to print secure the border but here's part of the solution on the other side of the equation. that is a mix, by the way. you mentioned securing the border and at the same time trying to provide relief for those here in the country illegally, that is a mix of what of barack obama and george w. bush promoted for years but never got congress to adopt. >> immigration and border security are huge issues for republicans, but also some democrats and those who don't have strong political affiliations but do vote. what are people on the hill saying about this move from the president? >> i think raul was right at the beginning of this to bring up the fact that this was a move that was really geared toward showing up progresses. i think certainly that was noticed today. as i was reading through and listening to the reaction from congressional leaders both at the white house or voicing their opinion and statements and tweets, but i also think peter is right. a couple today's announcement with the announcement the came several weeks prior, which was on asylum and trying to stem the tide of illegal crossings at the southern border, that is something that drew the ire of progresses and we heard some notions of that even as they were praising this latest action today. on the republican side of this you can almost guarantee republicans are going to balk at any move the white house makes on immigration, either calling it too little too late or saying that it's too much. certainly that was the reaction we saw today but i think it is important as we continue to talk about the role congress plays in continuing to not solve this problem, there was an attempt earlier this year and we cannot remind of this enough, that was bipartisan in nature, that was putting on the table things republicans did not think democrats would entertain and ultimately, democrats more than entertain them, they left them as part of the deal then ultimately that scuttled and fell apart because trump singled to republican allies on the hill that he preferred to keep this as a live ball during the election year. we saw the fail earlier in the year as soon as the deal was cobbled together and then several weeks ago just before we saw these executive actions from the president, we saw senate majority leader chuck schumer once again put them on the floor, a last-ditch effort maybe but definitely a political messaging vote to show what republicans were on solving an issue that is so central to their election messaging point for november and for 2024. it is a favorite thing to talk about for former president trump consistently, and peter and i have been out with him for years now since the 2016 campaign. every time he finds himself in a spot of polling trouble, he pivots back toward immigration. you know trump wanted to leave it as a live ball for that reason but watching the ways congress and the biden administration of tried to work on this shows that they want to highlight it as a 2024 election issue that they are really trying to turn in their favor. >> it should come as no surprise that donald trump reacted to president biden's announcements. he said this about migrants. watch. >> they give them welfare, free healthcare, food stamps. chain migration, chain migration, one of the many catastrophic things we are confronted with when they come in. crooked joe is sending a message to the world that he rewards illegal entry. >> there are voters all across the country to hear this and they believe it. our democrats framing their response in the right way? >> my sense is that democrats are beginning to frame their response in the right way, and for starters, for fact say, as we say, not only is what former president trump is saying they are untrue, undocumented people do not qualify for these government benefits that he is mentioning, you could argue that people in the president's own family have benefited from the so-called chain migration so i believe that there but the thing is, for democrats coming into the debate, they are starting to draw a distinction between themselves and the gop. it is a question americans will increasingly have to ask. we want to be a country that is in favor of family separations or do we want to be a country that is at least trying to keep families intact, and to preserve our border security? i think the president deserves a lot of credit, though, for recognizing that the immigration issue is not just about border security. it's about our undocumented population. it's about people here with no ways to adjust her status, so he is seeing the bigger picture on this and he is with the public. earlier this year, the pew center asked americans what they wanted in terms of immigration solutions. 56% said they wanted more pathways to legal status for the undocumented so i think the president and the democratic party are on the right track here. >> for the last two weeks, republicans seem to have had one single strategy, spreading videos to make president biden seem feeble, old, and unfit, but as we like to say on the show, the truth matters, but only if you see it. this is a video of the rnc published of president biden at the d-day event apparently struggling to sit in his chair but in the full video, you can see he was just waiting for secretary of defense austin to be introduced. on a separate occasion another day, the new york post shared this crop the video of the president seeming to wander off during a skydiving demonstration at the g-7. guess what the rnc did, they ran with it, but in the wide shot you can see the truth. the president is talking to several of the skydivers that are just out of the frame. now, outlets like fox news are now saying that biden's pause at an l.a. fundraiser of the weekend is just the latest example of supporters directing the president. spokespeople for the white house and host jimmy kimmel say he was just taking in the crowd. no, press secretary karine jean- pierre and others are calling these cheap fakes, but what it is, is truly deceitful behavior that is not rooted in truth. peter, the fact that this is what trump is going with, right, we've got months to go before the election and he is making up and distorting things about the current president to win over voters. what does that tell you about how worried donald trump is, or how little he has to say about his own platform? >> well, we have a contest here between two men of relatively similar age. former president trump just turned 78 last week and of course, he himself has been questioned about the effect of age on his cognitive function and he is trying to turn that issue against president biden. at the same time, of course, there are plenty of reasons to ask questions about president biden's age and the effect on him. he certainly had moments where he seems to struggle to remember names, where he confuses facts or dates. that happens, but what the rnc and these conservative internet organizations and people are doing is taking what is already out there and exaggerating, distorting essentially going way beyond what the actual facts are to create the image of a doddering president that they hope will be effective in the fall and i think if you actually look at the original video and many of these cases, you will see obviously that is not the way it is portrayed. even their own video, sometimes if you click on the things they send out, you actually look at what they say is a moment of confusion or odd behavior, you can tell that -- that is not the case. >> i think i lost peters -- okay. the argument that the trump campaign wants to make, that president biden is old and feeble -- if they had a real argument to make, why wouldn't they be showing real examples of it? yes, both guys are old, and you do hear the president miss a word or two. he has a stutter. the fact that trump is making up or distorting stories to try to make his argument, could that blow up in his face? >> well, look, it seems like the only thing both campaigns agree on is that the other candidate is senile. i do think that your point is right, though, which is that the trump campaign could find the examples that peter is talking about, moments where biden might trail off or forget a name, but they are instead opting for these created moments where a chair wasn't there but really it was, or he was not talking to someone that was in the frame but really, that is what is happening. i think this is all going to be the thing that when we look back on the 2024 election we look at this as a hallmark of new miss and disinformation. at the same time as we are all preoccupied around defects and what that looks like in celebrity culture, there is a political threat to this, too, which is, how does this play out in the way that more casual news viewers on social media are characterizing the 2024 election. i think what is more important is that you are watching the debates, karine jean-pierre, other members of the white house staff trying to, in real- time, fact check this and that is important but social media moves so fast that most times a fact check comes even seconds too late, that's going to be a real challenge here, and that is why you are watching so much concern from this strategy online from the trump campaign. it's one thing to emphasize and opponents weakness but to do it thickly is a whole other problem and that is why there is concern. >> we also know that a lie goes around the world in milliseconds with a megaphone and a correction is a whisper heard in the closet. great to have you back. peter, thank you. raul, great to see you again. when we return, donald trump in damage control in wisconsin from his own behavior. his rally today outside milwaukee where he tried to walk back his insults to the very city hosting the sears rnc. later, putin makes his first visit to north korea in 24 years. what it could mean for the war in ukraine, the 11th hour just getting underway. 11th hour just getting underway. hi, i'm tali and i lost 85 pounds on golo. following golo and taking release i was able to lose weight gradually and keep it off. i wish i started sooner. don't wait go straight to golo.com. while president biden was busy making major policy moves, former president trump was in damage control mode today. he held a rally outside of milwaukee hosting the rnc in which trump reportedly called horrible last week. at today's rally, he tried to deny making those comments. >> i love milwaukee. i was the one that picked milwaukee i have to tell you. i was the one that picked it. these lying people that say oh he doesn't like milwaukee i love milwaukee. >> he loves milwaukee so much that he was going to commute 90 minutes from chicago throughout the convention next month, that is according to the new york times but after reporters started to press them about these plans, the campaign reversed course and said trump will now stay in milwaukee but is it too late? please remember milwaukee is the largest city in a critical swing state donald trump needs in order to win the election. we have a veteran wisconsin radio host, msnbc contributor, columnist and author of the book, "how the right last it's mine." and cornell is here, democratic strategist, pollster and founder of brilliant quarters research, also on msnbc contributor. charlie, how bad of a look is this for the trump campaign? to the people of wisconsin, of milwaukee know what he is done, insulted their own town? >> yes, they do. we always speculate about what breaks through. trust me, everybody in wisconsin knows what donald trump said and you can't unring a bell. you can't say well i didn't say it. we have all of these other republican congressmen coming up with different explanations for why he was saying that milwaukee was horrible and then of course you get this by chicago. what you need to understand about milwaukee is that milwaukee has always had a quasi-inferiority complex, a little bit of a chip on his shoulder being in the shadow chicago so these things tend to sting a little bit but they also, you know, will be remembered, so he's not able to scrape this one off his shoe and there's nothing he can say that is going to change that. >> good enough for laverne and shirley, charlie, it's good enough for me. cornell, here's what i need help with. donald trump is insulting voters in a key swing state that he needs. he is refusing to court nikki haley voters who are very loyal to her. explain to me how these could be the actions of a person who would like to win this upcoming election? >> you know, despite all that, it is what we have all seen of trump and his supporters, right? they don't move. they're not going anywhere. he's not going to lose any support in wisconsin because he insults milwaukee because his support isn't based on that sort of thing so he's got a base locked in. the question really is you know, can biden really pull back together that winning coalition that looked a lot like the obama coalition from 2012, but that coalition that eroded away in 2016, much of it eroding away not for donald trump but away from hillary clinton and third-party voting. >> charlie, we need to look at the video because i was talking about it in the previous segment. donald trump and republicans 24 seven are just attacking president biden, whether he is fit for office, and sharing misleading videos of the president because they're trying to attack his fitness. put your misleading videos over here and let's just watch a clip of what donald trump had to say today at his own rally. watch. >> joe biden is forming, granting mass amnesty. >> this guy is just the worst joe biden the worst president in the history of our country will be a fading nightmare. he will be a fading i have fading memory but i think you mind if i change it? >> a fading and coherent nightmare. one could say that is what they just watched. if you are the biden campaign, what you do with this? >> well, you do what the trump campaign is doing. you try to weaponize it in a certain way and that should be relatively easy because you have these episodes of gibberish every single time he speaks and of course, that's going to be on display during the debate, if it actually takes place, next week, but i think it was tom nichols and the atlantico made the point that one of trump's great tricks that he pulled off was to convince many people in the media that this kind of incoherent gibberish is just sort of well is just donald trump. you can brush it off. there is an asymmetry where joe biden is held to a standard that if he misses words, if he misses stutters, that somehow this is more evidence that he is losing it and then donald trump goes off and you know, is talking about sharks or batteries with the kind of incoherent ravings that you just mentioned in wisconsin is sort of like well you know, trump, same old same old and it's a problem they're going to have to confront. >> cornell, i want to ask you about two other swing states, pennsylvania and michigan. president biden, according to some polls, has dropped more than 20 points among black voters since election day 2020, this is according to new usa today suffolk polls. what you make of these numbers? >> well, it is poles and polling are predictive, right? you know, as someone who worked for the obama campaign back in 2012, i assure you, barack obama was not where he would like to be or where we needed him to be among young voters and voters of color. it was like you know, we got all the change we need, we are good. we just fine. it's perfect all that change that was promised, we got it. now it's about running a campaign so when i look at the drops and let's get more specific, if you look at again, the point i was making also about wisconsin is also true of pennsylvania and michigan. if you look at where hillary was off obama's margins, she was off a bomb in's margins and almost the exact percentage of the obama continuum voters, those younger diverse voters, the third-party voter really hurt her ability to get to obama's margin in the swing states. if you look at those polls right now in pennsylvania, michigan, you have almost a third of african-american voters not breaking for trump, but breaking third-party and the same is true in pennsylvania. i'm a lot less worried about donald trump's over performing. i know the media is fixating on it. that is a false signal. the real thing is, how do you stop those breaking third parties. he's got to get live voters. >> we are not fixated on it here. cornell, great to see you. charlie, thank you so much. before we go to break i want to check in with the dj t tracker, donald trump trumps media company warned investors that a conviction in his case could cause stock to dip and it did. since the guilty verdict, shares of the company of tank 39% and today, the company said it had gotten the green light from the s.e.c. to make more shares available. that means to reward donald trump with more shares and others, but it also means a diluted value for each outstanding share that is out there and on that news, prices dropped 17% in after-hours trading. that's a big drop but don't forget, donald trump's steak is still worth billions. we're going to keep watching trumps media stock and make sure you know what is going on every day. when we return, the new arms race begins as ukraine gets more help with weapons from the u.s., putin makes a rare visit to north korea for a boost on the battlefield. we are going to get in it when the 11th hour continues. >> i am jonathan r continues. >> i am jonathan remember the three p's. what are the three p's? 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>> first, i just want to say it is purely coincidence that i am in seoul, that when mr. partners in north korea. i'm not trolling him. second, it's a great question because it underscores putin's desperation. he would not be here if the war was going well. he would not be here if he had enough artillery shell sent ammunition to keep fighting. he is so desperate that he is coming to what used to be a pariah state, north korea, even for russia. i think that is important for people to understand. when i was in the government a decade ago, we were cooperating with the chinese, with the russians and other partners to stop them from getting the kinds of weapons and technology putin is now pledging today because he is so desperate he is holding hands and riding in cars with kim jong-un, one of the greatest pariah states in the world today. that is how desperate putin is. >> what does north korea get out of this? >> we don't know for sure, but reporting from the biden administration officials is that he is going to get a lot. think of this is a low technology transfer to russia. artillery shells, soviet arrow shells for high technology military or kinds of technologies that could help the modernization of his nuclear weapons program, and i can tell you here in seoul, that is the concern of our south korean allies, that this is a bad deal for everyone. this makes ukraine less secure, but it also makes our south korean allies less secure. >> michael, these two dictators share one very big fan. it is not ambassador mcfall. watch this. >> what you make of the north korean leader? >> at a very young age he was able to assume power, he was able to do it so obviously he's a pretty smart cookie. the problem is not that putin is smart, which of course he is smart, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb. >> president xi of china, kim jong-un, all of these leaders are at the top of their game mentally, there at the top of their game. >> how much does it help kim and putin to help -- have trump back in the white house? >> i know putin's thinking better than kim jong-un's but you are absolutely right to underscore that former president trump is the only president in american history that embraced all of these dictators. remember, you said he fell in love with kim jong-un. he actually said that. those are his words, not mine and we all know about the romance he had with vladimir putin where he never has criticized him ever and i want to remind people what did that get us? if god is nothing in terms of american national interest but with respect to your question, mr. putin is waiting for donald trump to be re-elected. all of his commentators on tv, they'll talk about it. they wait for it. they think that this will be a great blessing for their war efforts in ukraine but i would say more broadly that a return to trump is a return for normalize relations, in their view, between russia and the united states. >> ambassador, thank you so much for being here. you are always helpful when we need to get smarter and complicated stuff. when we return, we are going to follow the money. a new must-see documentary uncovers how the biggest world powers are trying to control or most vital resources. the team that uncovered it all joins me on the other side of the break when the 11th hour continues. continues. and i fell off the wagon. release worked fast. my sweet tooth is gone. i'm so happy with my progress and now i love myself. se a slcan it keep me warm nwhen i'm cold?d? 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>> that's right. i looked at how china's largest meat company but smithfield foods, which was effectively one in four american pigs and at that time, the u.s. senate was trying to figure out of the chinese government was behind the deal and i was able to dig into it. i went to china and was able to show that the chinese government did back the deal and it was part of their five- year plan, the strategy to go overseas and control food and water supplies and once i dug a little bit deeper and ask why do they want to do that, that is when it sent me off on this course, this journey of reporting because what i discovered was that powerful countries all around the world are increasingly looking at food and water as the strategic asset of the 21st century, as the way to control power. >> in your travels across the globe, you spoke to people who have been devastated by this fight to control food and water. what did these people tell you? >> yeah. everywhere from arizona where i broke the story about saudi arabia buying 15 mi.2 of like wiley e coyote saguaro desert and pumping up the aquifer and impacting the locals in that area who were seeing their wells increasingly go dry to zambia, where i went and worked with this amazing human rights attorney, zambian attorney, and he began showing me what was happening as these foreign companies were coming in and buying up land and turning it into big commercial farms and then shipping that grain overseas to many of these other countries, so you are seeing this impact in arizona and all the way in zambia throughout the americas. it has really become a global phenomenon. >> gabriella, let's tangle up this web even more because there is a wall street connection to this, especially when it comes to leasing land to these foreign countries. can you explain why they would be doing this? >> that is really nate's reporting. one thing we learned from our experts who were cia, dod, some of these folks you would not imagine being in the food sector, was that we don't have a national water strategy. we don't have a national water policy. what ends up happening is you don't really have a national water policy or strategy or see it as national security when we are at war. when we are at peace, we do business and water is business so thereby allowing the wall street and these kind of connections to sort of like -- water is going to the highest bidder and it is being grabbed up. whether it is wall street, corporations, actual countries, powerful entities are actually grabbing up what is underneath us without us knowing it. >> let's go back to wars, because the film also gets into this issue of force causing food crises. explain how. >> this is something that came out of my reporting as i began talking to people in the u.s. intelligent community and the dod is an increasing -- increasingly they were seeing conflicts. conflicts are often from a myriad of reasons. but increasingly, they were seeing that food prices were rising. food availability, food was more scarce and as that happened, people would get more and more upset and you would see these regional conflicts over these resources start up and those regional conflicts could become, you know, civil wars, overthrowing of governments, potentially international wars and so this is the trend line that the dod and the intelligence community sees moving forward into the 21st century. >> gabriella, there is a lot of heartbreak in this movie. i mean, nathan said more than any other reporting, it is this project that kept him up at night but i know there is also a lot of hope in it. what do you want to see happen as a result of this film? >> i'm so glad that you saw that side of it. i think there is, once you realize that there is something dehumanizing and something about human agency that is actually causing this rather than this existential environmental climate change or things that seem beyond our control, once you realize that it is human agency causing these things, you realize that human agency could fix these things and what we do see is in interconnectedness. you see the arizona farmers from these red states having more in common with the folks in the villages in zambia. you see that there is plenty we can do as human beings. you could start doing life differently tomorrow in terms of wasting food. you know, we throw away a third of it still. we eat too much water-intensive foods. there is so much we could do, getting up tomorrow, that we could do differently and then we do probably need a national water strategy. we need to see this as a universal story. water is the universal shared story. this is something that you know, it is a river that starts with me and goes to your community and through another community and everything that i do with that water happens in my community is going to affect you downstream so we need to start thinking about this and you know, locking arms essentially to try to do a little bit better. >> nothing more powerful than water. nathan, gabriella, congratulations on this project. this film is called the grab. please see it. it matters. when we returned, we remember one of baseball's all-time greats, willie mays, when the 11th hour continues. ts, willie 11th hour continues. ♪we can secure our world.♪ ♪watch out for offers too good to be true.♪ that's phishing! ♪someone's trying to take advantage of you.♪ learn more at cisa.gov/secureourworld ♪that's how we can secure our world!♪ ♪we can secure our world.♪ ♪don't just use a password alone.♪ ♪mfa sends a call, a text or a code to your phone.♪ learn more at cisa.gov/secureourworld ♪that's how we can secure our world!♪ tonight, saying goodbye to the say hey kid. the family of baseball legend willie mays announced that he died today at the age of 93, considered by many to be the best baseball player of all time, mays does to new york and san francisco with his big hits and unbelievable catches in his two decades in the big leagues. he once said you respect the team you play, the guys on the other side. that is how the game works. play to win but appreciate the opposition. some very good advice from an all-time great will take us off the air tonight. and on that sad but beautiful note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the network at nbc needs, -- news, thanks for staying up late with me. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the end of tomorrow.

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