that s not a law enforcement function. and, frankly, i don t think that it s even something that we need to be considering. we need to shift away from that. that s one thing that i think we need to be having much bigger conversation around. and i think that that would actually free up border patrol to do more of what it s supposed to be doing. do you just secretary, cbp, either of hem planning to come to your committee to speak on this? i know you ve requested if? we believe so. we hope so. i ll find out more when we get back. but as of right now we believe that the hearing s going to continue on friday. okay. census. we have the president saying that he could issue something of an executive order to allow for the citizenship question. the logistics of it are nearly impossible to figure out how that would practically happen. what are your thoughts about that, that the president would do that? so this is where i think we re coming closer and closer to a true constitutional crisi
and edwards air force base is just outside of our district, they re providing support to the lake so we want to make sure they have the resources they need as well. we just heard the president blame your party for the conditions at the centers where they re holding migrants and others along the borders, those seeking asylum and the like. is there a point that he makes, could democrats have potentially signed a bill earlier to alleviate the issues at these centers? no. i think that the issues at the centers come from really frankly systemic structural problems. the first issue that i have and that i think we need to examine in this maehearing is why is it that law enforcement agencies are operating these centers that need to be centered on humanitarian relief? you re talking about what would normally in any other situation be operated by a nonprofit for by a community-based organization like the red cross. this is where you have people living in conditions that they re not crimina
lot of interest in kamala harris. some of that might be simply about the fact that she herself is a black won wman who say candidate for president. but there is a lot of favor for her out of those debates and some of what people saw in the debates really began to challenge some of the prevailing narratives about electability and who can really take on trump. so there s a lot of talk about her. but there s also a lot of interest in elizabeth warren. i think her very specific plans appeal to a lot of people. and sort of speak to that respect issue that i was referring to. and then of course there s plenty of talk about joe biden here as well. okay. those being the top three, relative to elizabeth warren, that must have played fairly well, the concept that she would have an executive order day one of her administration that would basically hold companies accountable if they did not hire black women in kind and be, you
the candidate at least at that point whom he fears the most? well, i think in some ways there obviously is concern within the trump camp about vice president biden in part because biden might any way appeal to the specific states that trump flipped from blue colonel tloum red column in 2016. that s those american states like michigan, ohio perhaps, wisconsin and pennsylvania where biden was born. if the appeal that biden has is one of to a more working class democrats, he might fit that bill. that s what gets him in trouble within the democratic primary because there s a lot of energy on left that says, wait a second, we re not looking to go for trump voters, we re looking to excite our own base and our own people and to draw a sharper ideological contrast with president trump. but within the trump camp they see biden as a threat. and the president likes to have an enemy, i think. he likes to have somebody he can target. biden is the biggest the biggest guy on the other side
of the two-week deadline, the president imposed on democrats to work out a solution of the asylum problems along the southern border. and the mystery deepening over vice president s abruptly cancelled new hampshire trip this week. here s what the president told reporters about that yesterday. why did the vice president cancel his trip the other day? you ll know in about two weeks. it was a very interesting problem that they had in new hampshire that i can t tell you about it. it had nothing to do with white house. there was a problem up there, and i won t go into what the problem was, but you ll see in about a week or two. according to the washington post, a top police official in salem, new hampshire, says that he was unaware of any security threat that would have caused the vice president to cancel his trip. joining me now, betsy woodrough, reporter for the daryl beast, and msnbc contributor, jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. big welcome. always good to see