serve as a u.s. cabinet secretary. speaking to the president of the navajo nation about the great hope and turmoil for america s indigenous people. welcome to tuesday. it is mpt daily, and i m chuck todd. in a lengthy statement, the new dhs secretary said as a nation we re on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in 20 years. think about that. that s quite a statement. he noted border patrol facilities have become crowded with children and hhs does not have the capacity to intake the number of accompanied children they ve been encountering and that number of migrant children continues to go up. nbc news learned as of sunday border patrol had 4,300 unaccompanied children in its custody. it s a record number. last week was a record number. this is a 30% spike, by the way, in just a week. nearly 3,000 of the migrant children were being held beyond the current three-day limit. nbc news is also reporting from the associated press that fema pla
shots into arms, and america is a world leader in the vaccine distribution, and there s big news today from moderna which has began testing vaccines on children from babies to preteens. the news so many parents have been waiting for. but and this is important, we are at a critical juncture, and i know, i know, i know you have heard this a million times before, still, how we handle the next few weeks could either propel us back to normality by midsummer or we could end up like europe, gripped by what the french president called today a third wave. italy has returned to lockdowns. more infectious variants have become the dominant strains there and we are in a race against time before they become the dominant strains here. across europe the vaccine rollout has been sluggish and now there are concerned about the astrazeneca vaccine which is widely used there. a wave of european countries hitting pause on the vaccine because of concerns over dozens of cases of blood clots out of
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