Tough talk on immigration. While democrats are employing star power with oprah and joe biden. Our campaign road warriors are covering all of this for us again this morning. Plus the election wave thats already here. Black women making election history in one part of the country this year. In Shelby County, we sprinkled black girl magic across the field. Everywhere. Our tremaine lee with their stories. We kick it off on this friday morning with our team crisscrossing the country. W yes, we are all on the road. Lets get started not in West Virginia here but in texas. Candidates beto orourke and ted cruz are meeting with voters right now. In ft. Worth, texas, ted cruz is meeting with voters. Reporter were still a half hour from this rally with ted cruz. You can see the crowds filling in a little bit. Ted cruz is making an incumbents argument. Hes trying to disqualify his opponent, beto orourke, as too liberal for texas, and saying he can work with donald trump to get things done. We have
The border where crossings are the lowest in decades. The president is holding the American People hostage over his vanity project, this is a crisis of his own making. That is not democracy, that is dictatorship. Despite an attempt at reassurance last hour, donald trump reportedly looked at funding his wall on the backs of victims of natural disasters. Nbc news proposes that trump could dip into the 2. 4 billion allocated to projects in california including flood protection and projects at the folsom dam. Even republicans are warning against the Emergency Declaration this hour. I dont want to see a declaration. I think that would be done in the most extreme schisms. It is the power of the purse that comes from the elected representatives of the people. It could be climate change. And a one time speech writer for president george w. Bush puts a fine point on this particularly galling moment. He writes in todays Washington Post that security arguments would be at the center of trumps jus
A place. Place for immigrants leaving europe for the new world the passage across the atlantic was the 1st of many adventures played at their destination they were greeted by a spectacular backdrop. Of manhattan in the harbor they were welcomed by a goddess of the modern age holding high a promise anyone seeking to better their fortunes here would find freedom and security. This principle shapes the United States to this day freedom is paramount it stands above everything even justice. This idea continues to distinguish the. United states from the democracies of the socalled old world. The statue of liberty is a symbol of this principle a gift from france that was shipped across the atlantic in 885 she was intended as a beacon to the world a bearer of hope for all who had left europe behind. The 1st visual depictions of america by europeans showed adventurers searching for a route to india which is why they called the people they encountered indians the europeans were interested in mon