know, you cannot have completely open borders. you cannot accept all of these people, even children, who come. they need to be dealt with huma humanely, sensibly, following the law. but even if that is your point of view, you cannot simultaneously have this humanitarian crisis on your hands and seem at the best to be acting flip about it and joking about your pool game. and is that man competitive or what? unbelievable. thank you very much. thanks, andrea. and that does it for us for this edition of andrea mitchell reports on a very busy news day. tomorrow on the show, a lot more on the president s trip to texas and his meeting with governor rick perry. follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter. ronan farrow daily is up next.
border. let me play what a democratic congressman from texas just moments ago told me. the optics and the sepsns of it is that he should show up at the border. he can just look aloof and detached and not go to the border, send surrogates down there and say he s got everything under control. i mean, i know the white house can say he s not going to just play politics with this, but leadership does involve showing the concern. he went to with hurricane sandy, he went and met with chris christie and showed his concern for the jersey shore. and people are asking, including this democratic congressman, one of your own members, why he is looking so aloof, and why ever he decided to play pool last night in colorado. so, the president spoke in the rose garden about the situation more than a week ago. he has spoken about the situation on national television, and he s mobilized all of the federal government. at the end of the day, he s less
policy committee. thank you very much. the same question to you. should the president be going to the border today? he s bein texas. absolutely. he ll be 500 miles from dallas and 242 miles from austin, texas, for the other fund-raiser he ll be having. he s so close to the border. let me say this, when i saw, and i hate to use the word bizarre, but under the circumstances, when he is shown playing pool in colorado, drinking a beer, and he can t even 242 miles to the texas border, and plus, if he doesn t want to go down to the border, there s the air force base where hhs is holding some of the young kids from the border, he could at least make that trip to san antonio, but again, border community leaders wants to see him down there on the border, and i think the optics and the sepsns of it is he should show up at the border. why do you think the white house is so dug in on this? i don t know.
children away on a whim. they do it because they re in life-threatening situations. clearly, we have to deal with this. our country has to deal with this. we re having important discussions about it. i m saddened we have not been able to pass immigration reform so we have a way to deal with this more effectively than we have today. do you agree with the white house which would like to change the 2008 law which excluded the central american countries from the rules that apply to mexico and canada? i have not seen their language. they have sent over to us a supplemental request for additional funds. we re having a hearing on that tomorrow in congress. it s extremely important discussion. i think all of us are looking very carefully at the details of all of that. thank you very much. thanks, senator. thanks for being with us. and texas congressman harry represented a district that stretches from san antonio to the mexican border and he s the vice chair of the democratic
it s caused great confusion, disarray, and an outrageous response from people saying who s deciding ? it used to be that me, my partner, my fate, my doctor make decisions, and now you insert the guy who signs your paycheck into that decision? it s just outrageous. switching topics, i want to ask you about the immigration crisis. the president is going to texas today. he is finally going to meet with rick perry. they sent a letter the night before last that that is going to happen. he s going to have an immigration roundtable, no coverage, we re told, but why not go from dallas to the border and see for himself? obviously, i don t control the president s decisions on that. i do have to say that i think many of us are concerned about the refugee crisis at our border. we re tonging about very young children. parents don t just send their