it. i want you to hear what jeh johnson told us earlier about this very issue. on tuesday, there were 4,000 apprehensions, one day alone. 4,000. we re on pace this month for 1,000 apprehensions. the highest we saw on my watch was may 2014, 65,000, so this is a crisis. when i was down there in may, 135,000 came in may. total of 690,000 by the end of june. jeh johnson said that was too much to handle then. he was asking congress to do something a month ago. they haven t. where do we go from here? where you go is after the fourth of july holiday, president trump should convene a bipartisan group of legislators on both sides of the aisle in order to create and hammer out a comprehensive deal. i don t think they will do it. we ve been trying to do this piecemeal for 40 years.
the fourth of july holiday, to which the judge as i just said, simply said no. the judge then told the government lawyers, if you were facebook and an attorney for facebook told me one thing and then i read a press release from mark zuckerberg telling me something else, i would be demanding that mark zuckerberg appear in court with you the next time because i would be saying i don t think you speak for your client anymore. leading off our discussion tonight, neera tanden, president of the center for american progress and eugene robinson, associate editor and pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington washington post. he s an msnbc political analyst. this was a remarkable, very quick telephone conference today where the president tweets something and we bring america s best legal minds to study it and none of them can figure out what he meant. right. and they work for the president. so the president is the client in this and they have no idea.
johnson told us earlier about this very issue. tuesday, there were 4,000 apprehensions, one day alone. we re on base this month for 100,000 apprehensions. the highest we saw on my watch was may 2014, 65,000, this is a crisis. when i was down there in may, 135,000 came in may. total of 690,000 by the end of june. jeh johnson said that was too much to handle then. he was asking congress to do something a month ago. they haven t. where do we go from here? where you go is after the fourth of july holiday, president trump should convene a bipartisan group of legislators and order to create and hammer out a comprehensive deal. i don t think they will do it.
this map. it s not just those two candidates. you can see how many of the 2020 hopefuls are here. it s joe biden, kamala harris, bernie sanders, pete buttigieg, tim ryan, and beto o rourke. and if you look at the latest iowa poll that just came out, you can see that joe biden still is in the lead, but that lead has had a significant cut in it. right on his heels? kamala harris, elizabeth warren, and bernie sanders fourth. it mirrors a national poll that came out. similar to a cnn poll that was also conducted. and throughout this week on this fourth of july holiday, they are going to have a very iowa event, all of these candidates are going to be doing parades, picnics, holding a number of town halls. pete buttigieg, a candidate who is also going to be here, he is going to be unveiling a new
reform, but morgan also said i.c.e. has the authority to enforce the rule of law. i don t want to go to their house, i don t want to go to their worksite, but they ve left us no alternative. they have refused again and again to comply with our laws of this country. they re forcing me to send men and women of i.c.e. out to go get them. i wish they wouldn t but we have no choice. reporter:board both houses of congress are set to take up bills this week to deal with issues at the border, and both parties say they want to reach an agreement. right now we re trying to get some additional funding to take care of the migrants who are at the border. even if we don t agree on everything, there ought to be some steps we can take together where we do agree. reporter: important to note, jon, congress is scheduled to be off for the fourth of july holiday, so they really only have one working week to meet president trump s deadline. jon? jon: not much time. christina coleman, thank you.