a lot of times you meet so many people. you just have to be able to forget it. and i think i m able to do that generally. sometimes i m not. i will say. but generally speaking, i think i m able to da that. i ll share the moment of bonding that occurred when mr. trump walked into the room and said hey, john heilemann, we should like each other, we re both german. let s get serious. so john has a quick question. i m going to go back to policy. how big a problem is the budget deficit and if it s a big problem, mr. trump, what you would propose to do about it? and i specifically am curious what you think about entitlement reform. it s important. we have other things in important. you know, we spend more money by many, many times on the military than anybody else. i ve been analyzing this for the last month. the money we spend is like protecting other places, like we protect saudi arabia. we protect south korea. we protect germany. we pro secretary so many other places. i m saying
they re also pledging $161 million for security and governance issues. all of this water, about a quarter billion dollars, senior lawmakers in washington still don t think that will be enough to stop the problem. senator john mcclain is one of those lawmakers, and he aired his concerns yesterday. right now, with the number of thousands that are crossing the border, that are sort of that have left central america and are on their way here, it s a roughly 15-day trip, that if we stopped tomorrow, there would still about that backlog that would be coming here. so it s got to stop. and it s got to stop immediately. white house has also said that this increase has led to misinformation by smuggling groups that say if you come now, you will be allowed to stay. that s simply not the case. so i m hearing $100 million
reporter: vice president joe biden meeting with leaders in guatemala as the obama administration struggles to deal with the growing immigration crisis. thousands of unaccompanied children like the ones we met along the texas/mexico border are risking their lives to enter the u.s. illegally. biden s visit is part of president obama s response to a growing problem. the administration hoping to quash rumors driving families and children north chasing a dream. so much of what we re seeing on the southern border is the result of a deliberate, misinformation campaign that is propagated by criminal syndicates in central america. reporter: nearly 1,000 undocumented and unaccompanied kids are piece housed in facilities throughout the u.s., according to new congressional figures obtained by cnn. their concrete holdin cells constantly full. from october to june, have,000 unaccompanied children have been
many as 300 u.s. military advisers to iraq this morning, president obama is urging iraqi leaders to come up with a politically inclusive solution to the nation s crisis. part of the task now is to see whether iraqi leaders are prepared to rise above sectarian motivations. to come together, to compromise. if they can t, there s not going to be a military solution to this problem. lawmaker in washington say iraqi president nuri al maliki has been unable to govern exclusively with shia and kurds. let s talk about this. the author of obama in the middle east. : the end of america s moment, the rise and fall of al qaeda. thanks for being with us. i want to ask you first and
where this threat emanated from? i think it s important for to us distinguish between a counterterrorism effort that is ongoing. dealing with al qaeda and the remnants that still exist in the fatah, creating platforms, taking targeted strikes where necessary. gathering intelligence. all that work has to be done would have to be done even in the crisis in iraq wasn t occurring. and there s no doubt that the problem in syria is one that we ve been paying a lot of attention to over the last couple years. as you see jihadists coming in from europe, as far as australia, to get trained, and then going back in their home countries. this is something we ve been deeply concerned about. part of the reason we ve been supporting the moderate opposition effort in syria is to make sure there are forces that are countering some of the games that some of these extremist