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
nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan into law, meaning millions of dollars will flow into bank accounts and the hands of americans. another 12,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment claims, lost their jobs just last week. tonight s prime time speech is a new time for the president. look behind with sorrow, look ahead with hope. we re one year into the start of the new world. sports stopped, offices and schools began closing. the world health organization one year ago today called covid-19 a pandemic. one year. nearly 30 million cases here in the states, 118 million plus globally, soon to be 530,000 american deaths. the president will outline his two-track path to post-pandemic life tonight. a spring surge in the covid vaccine rollout and a surge in economic help to families, small businesses and to schools. but the president s hope does come with a messaging challenge. telling folks if there are ball games or a family picnic coming up, mask up and be extra careful ju
protect national security. so it s going to rely on this prosecutor and the officials doing the review to determine what level of threat was posed, what intent potentially was. but we re really as the general public not going to know much other than what is determined by the doj. let s go to arlette saenz. people are calling into question the timeline here appeared the dis disclosure from the white house, why the public didn t know about this sooner now that we know that the national archives was informed starting on december 4th. some republicans point out that was before the midterms. i don t know anybody on either side of the aisle who would voluntarily disclose this before the midterms. but november 9th, 14th, 20th where they could have said something so what was the thought process and how are they explaining it from the white house? reporter: that is really one of the complicating issues in all of this is that they now have this messaging challenge where they have had this st
they re feeling this pain and speak to them directly. perfect, i m so glad you brought up gas prices, because i want to give you a messaging challenge one of the biggest drivers of inflation and gas prices. we just learned today that gas prices are 50 cents lower than they were at the peak in june. if you are joe biden, if you are democrats right now, how do you get this message out there? well, we need to continue to talk about it and the progress we ve made. but it s not far enough still in california you see gas prices at five 90 a gallon, so we can t spike the football quite yet. but we should be talking about the progress that he s been able to make, and how we are producing more oil under his administration to alleviate costs than almost any time in history. can the democratic party fit
strengths come in. he s an extremely empathetic person, and we know that the american people are feeling a lot of pain right now. they re feeling pain from the followed of the pandemic, from high gas prices, from inflation, and there is no one who feels their pain more than someone like joe biden. he needs to get out away from the white house, and among the american people in communities across the country where they re feeling this pain and speak to them directly. perfect, i m so glad you brought up gas prices, because i want to give you a messaging challenge one of the biggest drivers of inflation and gas prices. we just learned today that gas prices are 50 cents lower than they were at the peak in june. if you are joe biden, if you are democrats right now, how do you get this message out there? well, we need to continue to talk about it and the progress we ve made. but it s not far enough still