Of last year coming across the border, that mixed into this pot of people were, we know, at least 180 convicted sex offenders. This article goes on to point out that additionally, agents arrested more than 50 members of a gang, ms13, a norre notoriou, and members of another gang called the 18th street gang. For my colleagues information, many of them have heard about a train that goes up through mexico that many of the migrants from Central America take in order to help them make their journey. This train is called the beas beast. It is sometimes called the beast of death. And the stories and indeed the books that have been written about this chronicle how horrendous this trip is, and you can see here in this picture, you have young people and older people sitting on top of this train riding it as far as they can, helping them make their journey up that eastern coast of mexico from Central America, the 1,200 miles it would take to get from Guatemala City to south texas. Many of them tr
Combat vet at that. The vicious ps is something we havent seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even though hagel wasnt even in the government when benghazi happened. Sick stuff. And it seems to be growing in inverse proportion to obamas popularity. The better he looks the worse these characters inhofe, cruz, mccain and Lindsey Graham are determined to look. Did you notice the smile on John Boehners face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union . If you did, youre imagining things. So afraid of the hard hating right of republicans these days of every stripe even boehners scared to death of looking like he might like something barack obama had so say. To do that is to risk political death in these days. Lets go at it. Our guests are joy reid of the grio and michael steele, former chafer of the Republica
Matter. The Senate Offers reason for hope because the House Intelligence Committee under the bizarre leadership of chairman devin nunes offers, in effect, zero hope. Hes canceled all of his committees hearings this week after making a secret trip last week to the white house and what has all the appearances of being a coordinated effort with the administration to muddy up the investigation. Senate chair burr on the other hand, with a strong contingent of professional staffers working on the investigation has his committee now examining thousands of pieces of intelligence, and they are, as he said today, within weeks of completing that review. Well, the committee has also made 20 requests for interviews. Among them, Jared Kushner. Their first hearing is tomorrow. The scope of the Senate Investigation is massive, and the overreaching message, overarching message today was that it will be bipartisan. This was one of the biggest investigations that the hill has seen in my tenure here. An o
Jeff flakes surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection came with a stinging rebuke of donald trump and stark warning to his colleagues, if you dont speak out, youre complicit and flake was not done sounding the alarm. Appeared on five morning shows on five different networks. Sf i think if we are waiting for the pivot, we ought to stop waiting. Its not coming. This is speech reckless and undignified. Until we do, we are complicit in normalizing that type of behavior. At some point the spell will be off and people will realize where are we, what are we doing . Weve got to accomplish something here. He published an oped in the Washington Post this morning. Theres a sickness in our system and it is contagious, said flake. How many more disgraceful public feuds with gold star families can we witness in silence before we ourselves are disgraced. How many more times will we see moral a. Mbiguity in the face of shocking bigotry and shake it off and hos till foreign power before w
Now. Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. This was day 379 of the Trump Administration. Tonight the president has arrived in florida. Heres a number for you while we watch that. The president has now spent 123 of his 379 days as president at a trump branded property. Tonight we now know whats in that top secret house intelligence memorandum thats been neused to accuse federal intelligence of bias and discredit the russia investigation. It was released today despite strong opposition from the fbi and Justice Department. Devin nunes helped to write the document, has been pushing for it to be made public. A party line release set it to be released unmotiin motion, an president signed off on it. Carter page, alleging that the warrant was wrongfully obtain bieby the fbi and the Justice Department. It refers to Christopher Steele who compiled the now infamous dossier on trump. Republicans say the dossier was a key part of the information shown to the federal In