the system cannot sustain it financially. you may say they are liars. i didn t say that. they did announce they would send them back not give them humanitarian grounds. the only ones that do are cubans who step one foot in florida and all of a sudden are citizens. we can go back to that issue. that s a playing issue, a policy decision for a long time that s turned very political and might change in the future if president obama says he might want to change that. i have two things. you asked what could they have done? the administration has said they knew that this crisis was developing since last october. the other thing that they ve known is these fundraisers the president had in texas were on the books for a while. you don t just make those up overnight. so when they are in their planning meeting does no one in the room say, you know, if the president is going to texas and we know that there s a crisis coming and he s only doing fundraisers shouldn t we do
they offer a particular concrete proposal they can give the president about what they would do about it? i have not seen a concrete proposal. i ve seen a lot of republicans on the hill picking apart the president s $3.7 billion plan for emergency funding and haven t put their own emergency funding plan on the table. democrats will try to push back on that. from any objective standpoint this is a crisis that s not been handled welby the white house. they have been struggling to dig out. it s gotten practically worse and worse every day as this has continued and the president has appeared to be very reactive to events rather than getting on top of it from the beginning. ed, you mentioned crisis. we noted president obama seems to be blind sighted by these crisis, benghazi, irs, va, isis crisis and then the border. literally what s next? is there another one lurking around the corner that everyone will run to that crisis and forget about the border? what s interesting, as you know th
more fundraisers and a hastily arranged meeting on immigration. at the moment this president the politically radioactive. he s confronted now with as bad a set and as extensive a set of woes and troubles as any president at any time that i can remember between the va and the terrible situation in the middle east here, iraq and syria. you got this horrible situation downtown border and the terrible political dilemma it brings with it. theers situation is percolating again. this is quite a catalog and quite a burden for him and he, therefore, quite a burden on those who are seeking re-election this year. joining us now from dallas is our own ed henry. ed, why don t you catch us up on the day just to give us a picture of how the white house is dealing with this bitter pill it had to swallow this morning? reporter: pretty fast-moving day. in a couple of minutes you ll have a hard time hearing me because you ll have marine one
something? that s one thing that i think they should have done differently. they don t think ahead from text the president and the president isn t protect himself. if i could say one other thing. we re talking so much about the stalk, the number of children that are here. the real immediate problem is the flow. how do you stop the flow from coming in. that s the policy problem that the president should focus first on that and second he needs to deal with this issue that mexico and canada, those children have to have immediate hearings. i m sorry i blew right through that. mexico and canada those children get immediate hearings. congress could agree with the president to expand that to central america or maybe other countries around the world so that they fix that law like diane feinstein suggested. he s commander-in-chief, pull it together. he s treating the border
politically. he s not treating it patriotically he s treating it plumbly. that s an awfully strong statement. he s wonderfully consistent. coming up, president obama won t be going to the border today while he s in texas butwi perry about the crisis and you just saw them moments ago walking together. and fox s ed henry is in dallas to preview that sit down. it s all coming up next on the five. stay with us. i m randy and i quit smoking with chantix. as a police officer,