maria from venezuela tells us next to her 10-year-old daughter. i don t have anything to eat. i don t have anywhere to sleep, she says. today we saw that desperation as migrants here scrambled for food and water. we were here several months ago, and there appears to be many more migrants now. the difference is striking. this group extends all the way around this church for several city blocks. and tonight from texas to arizona to california, some border officials expect a daily flow of migrants will double when the covid border restriction known as title 42 is lifted a week from tomorrow. president biden under pressure. republicans arguing his lax border policies sparked the record number of illegal border crossings while migrant advocates say his upcoming deployment of 1,500 active duty troops to help border patrol sends the wrong message. why not send 1,500 attorneys? that s the necessity here. why not send 1,500 social workers? reporter: other
white house? reporter: you might think that the biden white house would say welcome to the party, mr. pence. but they have not done that. they have taken the approach of wanting to distance this as they have with the matter involving the president and his papers from when he served as a senator and a vice president, deferring any comment to the department of justice and to the president s personal lawyers. so they re not engaging on this. even though it might suggest that there is in political terms some of the pain can be spread across a broader group of people. it might suggest that there is it will be up to the american people to decide this, if there is a more explainable, more understandable process here that even though there are hard and fast rules about the possession and retention of these kinds of documents, that maybe inadd very the answer can happen and maybe it will not have the political affect. it also, of course, involves the republican former vice president
there s no sign of criminal intent. and i think in cases like that, the justice department makes a big mistake in trying to institute this heavy-handed investigative process that should be reserved for cases when we know people intended to mishandle classified documents either because they wanted to keep them for some inappropriate reason, give them to a former government, leak them to reporters. that s what the criminal justice system ought to be reserved for, not what our ultimately unfortunate but innocent mistakes. do you see the appointment of a special counsel in the biden case as a mistake and do you see maybe the fact that biden and pence have these documents, there s no potential intent for criminality, do you see that in a different bucket as former president trump and the mar-a-lago case? look, i think the trump case is very different because you have evidence here. i think if he had returned to the documents once it was discovered that he had them, it would look very mu
big update on the war in ukraine. nbc news reports that the biden administration is reversing course and will send tanks just as germany says it will send its own shipment of tanks with other european allies, expected to follow suit. we begin with that update we re expecting from president biden in the next hour. joining me right now, nbc news correspondent raf sanchez in ukraine, courtney kube, and former brigadier general. walk us through your reporting on the decision-making at the heart of it. as recently as about five days ago, u.s. officials here and the pentagon all around the biden administration were saying that there was no intention to send tanks to ukraine, logistical concerns, difficult to maintain, they take months for soldiers to train on, and there s this issue of exportable
reporter: at that vigil last night, a note was read out by a representative from the white house to let this community know that president biden is mourning with this community, that the nation is mourning with this community and we re expecting the vice president to visit this area later today to sort of reinforce this message. those notes are heartbreaking. thank you. thanks to jake ward as well. julia, these are the real-life impacts here of these horrific tragedies and i mentioned that secret service report on mass attacks here. what did they find? yeah, lindsey, when they scheduled this week to put this out, i think they had no idea how relevant it would be. but this comes from the secret service s national threat assessment center this. was begun as an organization to try to assess risk for places where, say, a president would be going. now they re sharing the data with the public. and they looked at 173 attacks that injured three or more