meanwhile, sanders isn t just reluctant to get personal with warren but also about himself. sanders closest adviser, jeff weaver, summed it up like this, quote, if somebody wants a candidate who will make health care a right, raise wages, deal with climate change and immigration reform and justice reform, bernie sanders is your candidate. if you want somebody who will talk about their cooking, their dog, wardrobe, travel habits or favorite books, bernie sanders is not your candidate. yamiche, you and i covered bernie sanders in 2016. there s so much inside that quote, including possible sexist overtones that i m reading into that a little bit, but all of those things while bernie himself may not be willing yet to attack him on the trail, the chief of staff is basically saying elizabeth warren is talking about frivolous stuff and we re not going to do that. i think there are two things, people are friends right until they re not. if they re scrapping at the end,
some of the men were sleeping on concrete. when the men saw the press arrive, they began shouting and wanted to tell us that they had been there 40 days or longer. the men said they were hungry and wanted to brush their teeth. it was sweltering hot. agents were guarding the cages were wearing face masks. water was available outside the fences and the men men said they could leave and get water when the press wasn t there. in his tour the vice president said he was not, quote, not surprised by what he saw adding, quote, i knew we would see a system that was overwhelmed. this is tough stuff. and yamiche, it is so far from give me your tired, your poor, your hungry, those yearning to breathe free. we are so far away from the american ideal that ken was talking about. and there s this idea that the administration is looking deeply at this issue and basically saying, the president said this is better than what they would have had in their own countries. so i think when you thid about
what happened. what s the back story? this is obviously generated so much fear in so many communities. i think that is the lead, that s the story itself, the comments by the president. i.c.e. detained 150,000 people in this country every year. they deport around 250,000 people. so the idea a few hundred people being picked up by i.c.e. is news or something new is just not true. and we really don t know what of these quote/unquote raids or these quote/unquote detentions are part of some kind of new trump policy or just sort of the everyday functions of i.c.e. i think to your point and to echo what ken and everybody is saying, the way the president is putting the messaging out there, the way that he s putting pressure on an entire community, a community of undocumented individuals, that is the point here, that is the purpose. and it s part and parcel of the image that s we are seeing on the border. it is all connected. the president and this administration are very clear, they want to
detention centers in texas this week. at the first center he visited in donna, texas,.vice president said he, quote, couldn t be more impressed with the compassionate work our customs and border protection are doing. that facility has only been around two months and conditions there stood in stark contrast to what he encountered later in the day at a facility in mcgowan. here you see the vice president flanked by members of congress feed away from men packed behind a chainlink fence. jacques dossy wrote at least 400 men were caged in caged fences with no cots, the stench was horrendous. it was so crowded it would have been impossible for all of the men to lie on the concrete. there were 384 single men in the portal which allegedly crossed the border illegally. there were no mats or pillows.
again,ivity to get things done and work across the aisle to do that. let me ask about the president s tweets this morning, and when he spoke about the he suggested that they should go back where they came from. three of them were born in america, ilhan omar became a u.s. citizen as a teenager. do you agree those members of congress should, quote, go back to where they came from? of course not. look, i don t like the discourse in the country right now. i don t like the media feeding into it. i don t like the bombastic statements on either side. i understand why rep omar has anti-semitic comments. s i don t think any of that has any place in our country. how do you plan on winning, given the political trends in your state? that s a good question.