makes anyone who is white uncomfortable. to say anything sort of cast aspersions on slave owners to make them something other than benevolent people to say the founders were sort of innocence on race and that they really had this master plan that they were going to end slavery they had slaves, but they had this master plan. if you re not saying that, they should say it s illegal to teach anything like that. how can those two things happen? it s a push-back. it s a conundrum. it s a pushback over the efforts since the 50s to bring a more realistic vision about the america about america s beginning, slavery and so forth, so i think a lot of people are self-conscious about the strides we ve made in doing that in history. i don t know what s going to happen with this. teachers are very nigh mother was a high schoolteachers. they re creative people.
they re dead. nobody knows who they are and how many there are. there doesn t seem to be a lot of urgency to try to find their bodies and give them a burial. shepard: not to cast aspersions, what is striking from hundreds of miles away, you don t see anyone out there trying to get anything done. have you been able to figure out if anyone is in charge or when no, no. i tell you, i saw good things. i saw people getting on boats, people trying to escape this. this is basically a hot tin pan of destruction and dead bodies. people are just trying to get out of here as fast as they can. we ve seen helicopter pilots from the u.s. coast guard carrying people off that were either so weak or so traumatized they can t even walk.
our high watermark which was two months ago in the month of may. there is actual progress that s being made. i wish there was progress from our legislators instead of the requisite pressure being put on mexico to do their job. if we had our legislators stepping up and doing what they need to do, this border security issue would go away. instead we are trying to rely on another country and to be honest with you, that country is doing a good job. whether they continue to do a good job into the future, that remains to be seen. right now as we speak, the numbers are going down and we are getting a better hold of the border security issue. neil: thank you very, very much. we should stress that these facilities were built during the obama administration. not to cast aspersions but that was then what it look like they had an awful room for the facilities that where they are. obviously now just the opposite. something you might remember
want to hear what trump could do to fix the issues that we know to be true that exist here in baltimore rather than just cast aspersions on them and speaking to them like they re less than can american. experience robert costa, how does the president arrive at a strategy such as this? let s call it what it is. and second, where are the republicans? it s not so much a strategy, but a reaction. talking to the president s closest advisers like former mayor rudy giuliani, he said the president is fighting back constantly. he s not thinking through this as a political strategy, even though at the white house today at staff meetings they were talking about how it could rev up the base for 2020. but they also know the republicans in this white house could pay a political cost. you look at a state like georgia in the south, growing in its
regularly seen as one of the most affluent counties in the country. we talked to folks from areas like winchester, an area where freddy gray died in 2015. in areas near columbia, maryland, which folks may have heard of during the historic flooding. and the biggest thing we heard is that people are very supportive congressman cummings. one woman says though her city is a more affluent area, it s not the same issues we face in baltimore city, she feels that congressman cummings serves her equally. people feel the rhetoric is racist and incendiary and they want to hear what trump could do to fix the issues that we know to be true that exist here in baltimore rather than just cast aspersions on them and speaking to them like they re less than