jacob soberoff, and garrett we will start with you. we have a surge in migrant children. there is a scarcity of shelter beds. what will fema s assistance mean for the situation now at the border? well, fema is the federal government s emergency logistics experts. that s why they show up after hurricanes and natural disasters. their goal is to try to alleviate the overcrowding situation. the border patrol stations here and at hhs shelters that are limited in how much they can take. so they re hoping to expeditiously move the minors. while that s going on you talk about the political battle here. they re trying to lay all of this at the feet of the biden administration, and they give important context that i got from veronica escobar last night, look at what she told me. part of why ibristle at the terms that there is a crisis at the border is because they want to ignore what is causing it. the real crisis is what is happening in the northern triangle. and what happens to t
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this for one second. when the europeans came to this country back in the late 1400s, this was all indian country. through treaties and executive orders and acts of congress, almost this entire united states is the united states when it used to be indian land n. exchange for all of that land, native americans the federal government made promises to indian tribes for education, for housing, for health care, for public safety. elizabeth warren understands that and i am very excited to work with her on ensuring that we finally have, you know, have this trust obligation taken seriously. all right. thank you to elizabeth warren s 2020 campaign co-chair, congresswoman deb holland. more politics nation after this. some things are harder than you thought. and others are easier. like screening for colon cancer with me, cologuard.
this does is offer her an important opportunity to address what has been a sensitive issue for her since getting into the race. this is the first time that we re going to sea warren publicly discuss native american issues. m.j. lee is there waiting for the speech to begin. m.j., what are you learning about senator warren s efforts to reach out to the native american community? reporter: well, kate, no question that this is a big moment for senator warren, as you said. this is an issue that has been tough for the senator, when she decided to release the results of her dna tests last fall you remember that there was a ton of criticism, a lot of backlash, including from tribal groups, and senator warren had to eventually apologize saying that she handled that in an insensitive way. you can see behind me it s actually congresswoman deb holland, one of the first two native americans who were elected to congress who has endorsed senator warren. she is now introducing her, so we will see se
received a ton of backlash and criticism including from tribal leaders. eventually she had to put out an policy saying she understands dna has nothing to do with the citizenship in a tribe. this is an issue we have seen her look pretty uncomfortable talking about at times. now the fact that she is participating in this forum means she s sort of wading back into this issue after some months of not having to face a lot of serious questions about it. talking to the campaign, the campaign says that they are going to deal with this and talk about this issue in the way they do with almost everything, right, focusing on policy, that they want to talk about substance of it s why we felt last week the senator put out major policy proposals aimed at helping native american community. she put out draft legislation with congresswoman deb holland, one of the first two native american women elected to coping