our colleague received some embarra e-mail that s show one border patrol agent witnessed an incident in early march. he observed his co-workers inside one of the facilities handing a handwritten note to a honduran migrant. and the note said in spanish, i like men, as this migrant was made to hold that sign and paraded through the facility potentially with an intent to humiliate him. now through the e-mails that we re seeing this particular agent who witnessed all of this approached his colleague and said it was unprofessional. but the e-mails show this is potentially one of several incidents like this of unprofessional or poor behavior and lack of response from management. now an official told cnn that this is being forwarded to the office of professional responsibility as they re in charge of hooking into this allegation, brooke. natasha chin, thank you. thank you to nick valencia and all the work he s done there. we are minutes from the closing
welcome back tonight, some republicans are sounding the alarm into traditionally red states they fear will be on next year s battleground map. turn texas blue. turn texas blue. that is the latest fear for republicans in the lone star state, but texas is not the republican party s only fear for 2020. take arizona, kelly ward attacked the state s last three senate republican nominees from the right. jeff flake is an embarra embarrassment to arizona. john mccain fell down on the job, he got weak and old. shnow she is the state party chair. coming off of the first loss in 30 years. ahead of the next presidential contest in what is suddenly a swing state.
in fact, in 1950, character assassination and uncorroborated allegations were being utilized in a very different debate in that era. john cornyn last week. i can t think of a more embarra embarrassing scandal for the united states senate since the mccarthy hearings when the comment was about the cruelty of the process toward the people involved. and the question was asked, have you no sense of decency? and i m afraid we ve lost that, at least for the time being. well, that s a heavy comparison and not an accurate one because this is not mccarthyism. mccarthyism was a sickness that infected american politics for years. it ruined the lives of countless
judiciary committee and one the speaker, the president s languages in there, the four pillars, whatever he d like. the clean dream act, the democrats put in and a very partisan border u.s. security and fix for dreamers. elizabeth: a couple of things i want to address. i want to sound bite from ed rollins. the timing is what critics are saying. and i want your reaction. to me this is the most treacherous things these guys can do. the president out what he wants and he certainly has a show on this and if they don t give him that wall, he s going to veto this thing and why override a weak speaker and put this up and embarra embarrass republicans and everybody else. elizabeth: the reason i thought that was so important, you said specifically you want a goal that s permanent and you look at the timing and four pieces of legislation you d be discussing and how could that be resolved with this particular house?
was a number between zero and one. he said he believed the russia investigation was an embarra embarrassment to president trump. john kelly also made headlines with npr when he said the president was embarrassed of the russia investigation and it hampering his ability to fornl forge relationships with world leaders and that it s essentially an elephant in the room. john kelly said he corrected that remark about it being an embarrassment during an interview. he did not correct it but he did later call it a distraction twice. of course he was essentially saying as much to my colleague jeff zeleny saying it is a distraction, saying it s a witch hunt, which is an echo of what