needs to get a little bit emotional to challenge this president to one, spend the money that s already been appropriated where it s appropriate and if there needs to be more money, congress can do that but dog gone it, take these children out of these facilities and put them with their parents, with their families, put them in homes where they can be taken care of. america should be ashamed right now of what s happening with these children on the boarder. matt, what is congress to do? the president is pointing to congress saying they are not giving me the funding and congress is simply saying we can t trust where the money is going. we don t want to spend more money on i.c.e. raids or worry it could go towards the president s wall. that s the problem. this president lies about everything. he lied about this. he s lying how obama did this, which he did not. this is bis barerous.
how can they stop it? hold up the budget, which it must pass until they get a firm commitment that this is going to change. now, there have been there are some results coming. we saw the media coverage from the a.p. story and other store are is had moved these kids, sole out of the worst of these conditions. because of media coverage. right, these can change and what the democrats and congress can do is manipulate media coverage. they can be holding the line on the budget and hold hearings and they have the power to do things but they need kind of concerted effort to do it. the problem is there are so many plates spin for the democrats in the house. they are the only ones doing any oversight that have the mueller investigation and all of the kind of chaos coming out of that and they got to try to keep the lights on for government. there is a lot of things to do
new this morning president trump saying he has full authority to initiate military action without first going to congress. i like the idea of keeping congress abreast but i couldn t have to do that. nancy pelosi said you must have congressional approval. you disagree? i disagree. most people disagree but i do like keeping them with ideas, intelligent people will come up with thoughts i actually learned a couple things the other day when we had our meeting with congress, which were i think helpful to me but i do like keep ever ke ing them abreast. the comments come as new reaction pours in from iran. one senior iranian official saying they need the permanent closure of diplomacy between the two nations. let go to kristen welker. what more is the president saying about this interview with
facilities. the question now is how does this end. congress is considering $4.5 billion in emergency money for food and supplies here but many of the people we spoke with agree there is no short term there is no long-term fix in place for this. the question is what will happen to these children as this crisis unfolds, stephanie? a funding issue, a management issue is what we just heard. nbc s gabe gutierrez, thank you. back with me for a doubleheader, don edwards, darrell west and matt bennett. i want to play a piece of what law professor gidford who had been down and witnessed these conditions firsthand, what she told our colleague chris hayes last night about the cost of caring for these kids. these facilities cost about $750 per day, per child. that is what we would pay to put a child in the ritz carlton. these are not ritz carltons and to make it worse, these kids are
the president said over and over we have a strong economy. but based on this reporting in these counties, that s the same economy obama gave us. a strong economy for some but not for others. mostly demographic counties. if you look at the counties gaining population, it is overwhelmingly democratic which voted for obama and hillary clinton. the counties which losing voters are these flip marginal counties. and the republican counties are kind of in the middle. so the strong republican base is doing okay. the democratic base is actually doing extremely well. and it s the middle base, the flip counties which are doing the worst. what are they saying? how are they feeling? the president would say i need more time. it s great. it s congress that is blocking me. do they believe him? there is no evidence that they believe him. there is demographic evidence of moving to the richer cities which are overwhelmingly