believed to be the deadliest smuggling tragedy in recent u.s. history, the death toll has risen to at least 51 people after they were found in and around a truck in the scorching texas heat trapped inside with nowhere, no water. and later this hour, we ll break down some of the dangers that lgbtq plus migrants face around the globe. and we begin this hour with those capitol hill shock waves, a top aide to former president trump s chief of staff mark meadows testified before members of congress that the president knew his supporters on january 6th were armed and on route to the capitol, but didn t care. cassidy hutchinson recalled the president saying quote they re t here to hurt me. she also detailed the president s rage when he was stopped from joining them on their march to the capitol. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. hutchinson also had a lot to say about former white house counsel pat cipollone
this cargo trailer. when you look at the number dead, the majority are mexico, some from honduras, some from guatemala, the migrants that experts told us are taking risks and losing their lives because they want to turn themselves in under the current policies. you have migrants from other countries, socialist countries like nicaragua, venezuela, who will cross and turn themselves in because they are granted the opportunity to seek asylum, but again, all of these policies are just all over the place, and the migrants are just taking more risks to try to enter the country. people have asked for immigration reform for everyone, something that could help with what s happening at the border, a crisis that we know has worsened because of the pandemic and the number of people that have left places in central and south america to come to the u.s. you spoke with the arch bishop from san antonio who spoke with victims from the hospital. what did you learn. the arch bishop was so
just the larger idea that immigrants themselves are basically abandoned and that this the people behind this truck basically saw this human life as easy to discard, and he was really just upset by it. i mean, his gentle soft voice broke with so much emotion over this. he was very upset about how the governor responded, that the first tweet from the governor was not just compassion for humanity that was lost, particularly coming so soon after in texas we lost so many young children in the school shooting, and he was upset with the governor for not just focusing on the loss of humanity, at least on the first day, and then just assigning blame. the arch bishop who also was with the families of the victims of that horrible massacre in uvalde as well. i thank you very much for being with us this morning, and for
more on this, i m joined by julian castro, served as secretary of housing and urban development. he s now an msnbc political analyst. it s always a pleasure to see you. as someone from san antonio, you know, when you hear of this tragedy, it looks like these people were put into this truck, you know, crossing the border, and then 150 miles up, i m thinking, suzanne was talking about just the abandonment of human beings, of people. it s heartbreaking. in the community in san antonio you ve seen this outpouring of compassion, a sense of sadness, the arch bishop, as she mentioned, not only to the hospital to visit the survivors but to the site itself. elected officials, charities throughout the community. because san antonio, because it s at the intersection of
the policy of this administration and the congress. she portrays columbus and the native-americans in a hifrlt light. they were all warmongers and killers. to think all of the tribes were peace loving and letting the corn grow, they were killing each other. that s what happened here. laura: did she talk about how certain native peoples were vicious to each other? right. laura: was that mentioned? no. another thing , laura: the arch bishop and the covid mandates. he said no one should be forced to receive a covid-19 vaccine if would violate the sanctity of his or her