passing legislation to say you shouldn t be ripping kids out of their mommys arms. why does this administration think this policy is good for them? i don t know is the short answer, katy. this is not a new problem. this is a problem that we ve seen in previous administrations, something that we should have been prepared for. there s alternatives to detention. this is an outcome from a larger problem. we should be working well salvador and nicaragua and honduras addressing some of the root causes in those countries that s causing this migration to come up here. we should be helping them with rule of law and economic development. we should have a border security strategy that is smart, that relies on technology. you ve heard me say it a billion times. building a 30-feet-high concrete structure from sea to shining sea won t solve this problem and it won t prevent the problem we re having right now.
courtroom when it was sean hannity revealed to be michael cohen s third client. i think, really, any name at that point would have been surprising. but to think that it was a host of a news network who is represented by or had some legal dealings with the president s personal attorney was a shocker for everybody. there was definitely a moment of where that air gets out of a courtroom. katy, you know what i m talking about when it just tells like all of a sudden everybody exhales, and can t believe we heard that name. that was definitely surprising. it was packed here. my colleague, hannah rapidly spent two hours waiting in line just to get into the main courtroom. for those of us in the overflow courtrooms they were packed. i have down here for major terrorism trials where there was plenty of seats in the regular courtroom you could have a bench to your. today they needed two overflow
but it is an alternative to the more sinister hypothesis suggested in that tweet. the secretary general of the u.n. said we are entering a new cold war. do you think that is true? katy, i like to use a different term. i call it the hot piece. because the name of my next book is called from cold war to hot peace and i use that phrase to echo the cold war but to also suggest that it is different. because something sm things a s are the same. we all have the nuclear arsenal to blow up the world and capability second to china between the united states and russia. that is like the cold war. we have an ideological struggle today that i don t think a lot of americans understand but that is most certainly the way that putin sees it. but some things are different. even in the last decades of the cold war, nobody annexed territory. that is what putin did in the ukraine. nobody intervened in the 20 in our election in the way that russia did in 2016. that is something new.
against nancy pelosi? this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening. i m katy tur in for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily ment would you take president trump seriously if he talked about going to war with the nra? would you take him seriously if he talked about seizing guns and background checks and limiting bump stocks and all policies meaning to go to war with the nra. who you take his stance on arming teachers and if he would have run into majory stoneman douglas high school if we didn t have a weapon and if we need more institutions. he said all of these things at a meeting of the nation s
i have seen no evidence, none whatsoever, that would justify this criminal referral. stunningly and sadly, this first major action by the republican leadership of the judiciary committee is aimed at someone who reported wrongdoing rather than committed it. but seems more like an effort to distract from the real priorities, what should be the priorities of the committee. joining us now, jill wine-banks, also ken delaney with nbc news. ken, let s start with you. what more do we know about this potential investigation into christopher steele? well, katy, this is a partisan referral by the republicans only on the judiciary committee.