Energized Democratic Party and a few republicans in this country who are still in possession of their spines and their souls. The Trump Administration today doubling down on its policy of forcibly separating children from their parents at the border. Former First Lady Laura Bush in an extraordinarily rare rebuke of a policy and a sitting president , accurately describes the trump policy as, quote, warehousing children in converted box stores and writes, quote, i live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral and it breaks my heart. She adds, these images are eerily reminiscent of the japanese internment camps in world war ii, now one of the most shameful episodes in u. S. History. Hayden goes further. Comparing the scenes at the boarder to nazi camps. This is birkenau, then germany, now poland. No one can believe civilized behavior is guaranteed. In response the Trump Administrati
Wanting to do harm to people in our community you will go where you have a governor saying come on in. Crushing alabama. You cant write a hollywood script like this. Only god can do. This and thats a fact. Go big or go home. Go, go go big or go home go, go go big or go home. Brian that office looks so familiar. Where have i seen that before . Steve the resolute desk in the obama office. That is the chair the president will be sitting in the building in the west wing you will see it live tonight 9 00 p. M. Fox news channel. Sounds like the president is going to make the case that the situation on our southern border is a National Emergency and they have figured a way to reprogram 5 billion to build that darn wall because the democrats wont give him the money. Ainsley its a big wall and he is going big by doing that from the oval office. This will be the first time that he has had andreas from the oval office as president. All the networks are going to cover it would will be covering it.
Saying the feds didnt have a good enough reason to include a census Citizenship Question, trump orders the d. O. J. To get it back in. Neal katyal helps us make sense of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im ali velshi in for brian williams. Day 895 of the Trump Administration. There could not be a more stark split screen on the eve of the nations 243rd birthday. On the left preparations for trumps july 4th salute to america are under way on the National Mall in washington, d. C. A celebration featuring tanks, military flyovers, and a speech from the commander in chief taking place as his administration is in the throes of a fullblown humanitarian crisis on the right of your screen on the nations southern border. The president has promised our july 4th salute to america at the Lincoln Memorial is looking to be really big. It will be the show of a lifetime. The cost of our great salute to amer
Well see how that plays out. As we look at bordeaux. They will land there and board a smaller air force one and travel to the southwestern town, a sea side town. Its got some of the best surfing in all ofs france. That is where he will be for this g7 meeting. Its going to be he very interesting to see what he has to say. Its noon in france. It will be fascinating to see whaseesays, because of the escan of the trade war with china, it comes when the markets were anything but stable at the end of the close yesterday. So a lot to unpack there as these World Leaders, which are the largest economies in the world, that are getting together. Im always fascinating by your ability to bring surfing into anything. Any conversation. You talk about the Global Economy, talking about g7. You probably cant name all seven countries. U. S. , canada, japan, u. K. , france, italy, 40 of the worlds economy, coming together to discuss big issues. Many people speculating in the media, conservative and socall
Im not so sure thats true. Look at that. Thats two dozen members of her caucus who are saying do something that the House Speaker is saying, wait, lets not do it. That is the definition of division. Later this morning she and Senate Minority cleared Chuck Schumer will speak with the president directly. Remember last time, by the way, that they did that in the oval office with the cameras. Didnt go so well. They will speak directly with the president and try to build some bridges, literally build some bridges. They will talk about how they might pay for a 2 trillion infrastructure deal. We will get to that, but lets start on the hill. Manu raju has some new reporting. Good morning. What do we know about how pelosi will rangel or try to rangel her restless caucus . Reporter shes going to try to make the case that their approach is getting results, a methodical approach, one in which the investigations are being launched across various committees and they are prepared to go to court and c