serve as a u.s. cabinet secretary. speaking to the president of the navajo nation about the great hope and turmoil for america s indigenous people. welcome to tuesday. it is mpt daily, and i m chuck todd. in a lengthy statement, the new dhs secretary said as a nation we re on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in 20 years. think about that. that s quite a statement. he noted border patrol facilities have become crowded with children and hhs does not have the capacity to intake the number of accompanied children they ve been encountering and that number of migrant children continues to go up. nbc news learned as of sunday border patrol had 4,300 unaccompanied children in its custody. it s a record number. last week was a record number. this is a 30% spike, by the way, in just a week. nearly 3,000 of the migrant children were being held beyond the current three-day limit. nbc news is also reporting from the associated press that fema pla
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there, i think it s a very sad day for our country. he worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what? he happens to be a very good person. and i think it s very sad what they ve done to call manafort. important to note, ken, that the jury is not sequestered. that s right. it is possible. i mean, they re not supposed to listen to this kind of stuff, but it s possible that they ve heard these comments. yeah. you put your finger on a real dilemma. jury sequestration has grown increasingly rare. it s thought to cause more problems. jurors won t like to be away from their families for long periods of time, but this jury takes an oath not to look at outside news kvrcoverage. every day the jurors walk out and see ten television cameras. they know they re in the middle of a high profile trial. if any one of them is looking at news coverage, they re violating
for is the jury gets bogged down in the papers, in all the data, in defining what exactly and a fara account, exactly what is a tax fraud or bank fraud and things that may not even have that much to do with the actual elements. sometimes juries get bogged down on. now, should they have been sequestered? i don t know. jury sequestration is an extreme remedy to be rarely used. however, as to jurors mingling around freely, that is a concern. sometimes you run into them in the bathroom. you go, get out, don t say a word. but just mingling freely, that s not something you normally see. part of what might not get this 10-8 according to gene rossi are these issues related to the case. the credibility of rick gates. that was brought up in the last week or so. we also have the quick pace of the trial. that s also going to be a consideration. the no case by the defense. so when we look at this, christina, it may not be so easy in the end. maybe one is what danny is saying, but maybe not 10-8 a
circumstances, adding that ohio voters already decided in 2004 on a ballot initiative that gay marriage should not be recognized and are, quote, entitled to the choice they have made on this fundamental issue. it s ridiculous. there are many people who simply don t understand humanity and love is love. reporter: for outfront, alina cho, cincinnati. well, in our money and power tonight, the cost of the george zimmerman trial. today we learned the seminole county office of emergency management spent $91,000 during the trial. the services provided included public information, safety, logistics, and planning. and this is on top of the $353,000 spent on jury sequestration and other costs by the sheriff s office. still to come, two young women attacked with acid on vacation. for the first time today, we see