He warns of traffic and further delays. Our country is full. Were full. Our system is full, our country is full. Cant come in. Our country is full. Strong reactions from the candidates for the democratic nomination crisscrossing the country this week. This is a very serious threat to our economy, to our democracy, to our way of life in this country. Thats beto orourke in iowa. Mayor petes campaign is picking up steam. The 7 million man is rallying voters in New Hampshire. Freedom doesnt belong to one Political Party, especially when that Political Party has just experienced a hostile takeover by a president with authoritarian tendencies. Plenty of people weighing in on joe biden, including President Trumps supporters. A protrump Group Released a new ad saying bidens behavior is unacceptable and should instantly disqualify him from running. The groups name is independent republicans of new york, or irony. Elliott williams was a Deputy Assistant attorney general and lisa, walid shalid is a spokesman and beth. I want to begin with President Trumps latest moves on border policy. Last night the president announcing redeployment of 750 border agents. This will cause traffic and commercial delays, the president warned, adding until mexico cleans up this ridiculous and massive migration, we will be focusing on border security, not ports of entry. On friday the top border enforcement in the country said the u. S. Has hit a breaking point at the border as the number of migrants attempting to enter the country continues to surge. The warning followed the president s threat to completely shut down the border, a threat he has backed away from. Hes announced funding cuts to three countries in Central America. Experts argue the president s tactics are actually making things worse, encouraging migrants to race to the u. S. Before perceived crackdown. The Washington Post reports despite pumps public fight the number of arrests skyrocketed from 58,000 in january to nearly 100,000 last month. The reunification of Migrant Children with their families, Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff report that lawyers for the Trump Administration say reuniting thousands of migrant families will take up to two years. 65 children still separated from their parents or guardians. On saturday the president declared the country is full. Get out. Sorry, get out. Were full. Our system is full, our country is full. We cant handle anymore, our country is full. Lisa, i want to start with you and the rhetoric. Hes mimicking what he said the day before at the border at an event with Border Patrol officials and he said that. He addressed migrants directly. How much of a change is this . What do you make of this as this being the image of america projected to the world. The president has never demonstrated an understanding of the cause of migration. Hes handled it that the issue could be solved at the u. S. mexico border. Anyone who understands this issue will tell you if you want to tackle immigration coming into this country, you have to look at the push factors in Central America. You have to look at the reason that these migrants are coming. Theyre coming from countries that are grip liappling with violence. No matter what policy you institute at the border, they will continue to come. Some are couching this as a crisis, a humanitarian crisis for sure at the border. The way that the president is marshaling resources is not to deal with the humanitarian crisis. Its no secret trump is a xenophobe, racist. If you look at the Election Results in 2016, they did lose the battle on immigration if you look at trump winning the presidency. You have Julian Castro trying on rhetoric and policies focusing on the humanitarian stuff. Elizabeth warren and Bernie Sanders are saying trumps race war is a class war, that he wants to divide and conquer working people of all backgrounds by pointing the finger at immigrants and then you have people like alexandria ocasiocortez saying if were going to decarbonize the whole economy, we should welcome workers because theres so much work to do. I dont know which of those immigration messages will be part of the Winning Ticket for democrats. Beth, were going to draw on your recent trip to New Hampshire but how are candidates talking about this . We heard from beto orourke and Pete Buttigieg as well at the top. Do you see any coming together on this . Certainly theyre pushing back on what trump is doing and saying and certainly theres no wall. Rt for building a border beyond that theres no really that ive identified a uni lets face it, in the past democrats have definitely voted for robust border security. Theres hundreds of miles of fencing down on the border already because at one point or another democrats voted for that. It was really done after the 2001 terror attacks when the country was clamp douing down a securing all sorts of places so there was great support for that. Now democrats do criticize what the president is doing. They dont have a really clear idea of what they want instead. But i will make one point about what you said about how 2016 trump winning was a victory for that hardline approach. He got very little traction in 2018. Virtually none with that big battle he did about the bordear that was going to come. Republicans lost seven seats in california, got swept in new mexico. Democrats picked up a house seat in arizona and Texas Democrats did better than they did in 28 years. So the approach that President Trump took about making that the signature issue in 2018 didnt work for him. You look at the way the president ha fumbled over the course of this week. He talked about how he was going to seal the border and then said maybe it would happen in a years time. You couple that with the announcement about the redeployment. The folks on capitol hill and the pentagon are just flum objection flummoxed. Help us understand that policy side of things, how the president is fumbling for answers here. Something we didnt talk about, i worked for i. C. E. For the whole first term of the Obama Administration so spent a lot of time thinking about these issues. Whats consistent about the president s approach is that he has to keep theesident has done a National Emergency, by alienating our allies, as long as he can go to these rallies and say we need to close the border and things are bad. If you actually told the truth about operational control of the border, if you actually told the truth about the fact that border crossings have been down significantly since 2000, if you actually told the truth about the fact that as beth had said border wall construction has been in place that democrats voted for years and years ago and if you were to actually be clear about the fact that you have different border fencing needs in san diego where you get 90,000 people crossing on foot pardon me, 90,000 trucks and people crossing in the course of a year than you do in el paso or brownsville or some of the other places. So if we exist in a world of reality, the president is just wrong on the border. Uild the wall chant was a political you know, its all political. It doesnt actually help. And like we saw from this week from that construction in san diego, its just theres no basis for it. I think one of the challenges for democrats to connect some of the points that people at this table have made is for a long time they acted as if they made a series of concessions about security at the border that they would be able to bring moderate republicans to the table and have enough support for a comprehensive bill. They are now grappling with the fact that that did not work. They were never able to push it over the finish line. So they as a party have to reestablish where they are. Beth brought up something interesting, which is if you look at those 2018 numbers that you were rattling off, thats a very different electoral map. That is shifting attention away from the American South and shifting it towards the southwest, which someone like Julian Castro has argued is his path to victory. If he can get arizona, if he can get texas, all of a sudden that changes the way the democrats can look at that map. I want to ask about the vacuum thats opened up. You have nancy pelosi filing suit against fraud and appropriations, the president declaring this National Emergency and stepping on the toes of lawmakers in doing that. The president is going down there and making these policy proclamations and saying hes going to do x, y and z. Thats happening on capitol hill, things are making their way but the courts. How much is the political distraction as things are happening at the u. S. mexico bo border. I dont know if trump cares about immigration policy. Hes not filling that void. No, the distraction is his strategy and the politics. Elizabeth warren says it well, when you pit white workers in ohio against latino workers in texas, who benefits . Trump benefits. The only way he can unite republicans is by race baiting and giving them something to rally around, which is build the wall. He has nothing else for them. The whole idea of shutting the border down would be disastrous for the United States. There were the memes about avocado production and they would get expensive. I i dont say the number of the 90,000 crossings. 600 billion of commerce in trading. Youre talking about people coming to work in san diego and el paso. Manufacturing. Manufacturing. Like people the number of people who lawfully cross back and forth every day just to live their lives and to benefit the United States. And forget the cities along the border, everything from mexico that comes into the u. S. , automobiles and so on. So it was all about frightening people. People bought it. We have a scary situation. Hes right, youve got to close the border. Its just whipping up his supporters. Broadening this out a little bit, you saw the evolution, what the president is saying about the border. What does that say more broad low about his handle on things . A lot of ink spilled about the disconnect between reality and the white house. He floated closing the border and then pulled it back. At one point he was complimenting mexico for trying to help with the migration out of Central America and then he turned around and said mexico is doing a terrible job. Theres so much confusion that he wants to promote because it keeps everybody confused. The fact that most of these people coming over are migrants with families with kids as opposed to bad guys running across to grab your job. Hes intentionally muddied that whole situation. Deliberate incoherence. A lot more ahead, including the 14 million documents Michael Cohen is offering the democrats. Up next, if you cant say his last name, youre in good company but get used to hearing it. Pete buttigieg. Yeah, we got it, pete butter scott. Buttigieg. Billy bob thornton. Repeat after me. Boot edge edge. Buttigieg. This has been the roots mispronounce buttigieg. Uttigieg . Its a free alert if we find your Social Security number on the dark web. Good, cuz im a little worried about my information getting out. Oh, whys that . 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The mayor of south bend, indiana, is making headlines for a tweet taking to task israels prime minister. Benjamin netanyahu said he would move ahead with annexing the west bank. Buttigieg writes this provocation is harmful to israeli, palestinian and american interests. Supporting israel does not have to mean agreeing with netanyahus politics. I dont. Buttigieg is expected to kick off his president ial Campaign Officially in a week with a rally in his hometown. He has earned the nickname the antitrump. Buttigieg signed up for military service. Buttigieg comes from a small midwestern city rather than the big apple. His politics are formed by a deep grasp of history, philosophy and ethics that are at odds with trumps rejection of expertise. Josh letterman, he and beth fouhy were up in New Hampshire for a series of Pete Buttigieg events. Josh, what was the vibe like . I read one of them had to be moved from one venue to another, there was an overflow crowd. They had to expand it and there were lots of people outside not able to get in. In his event yesterday at a bookstore in concord, beth and i were both up there, hundreds of people really packed into this back store wanting to get a glimpse at Pete Buttigieg. We asked when did this guy come onto your radar . For a lot of them it was two weeks, three weeks, maybe a month. For a lot of them it was that town hall that he did on cnn was the first time they had ever heard of this guy. Woe asked is that something thats concerning to you, hes not really been on the scene for a while, has that wealth of experience in National Politics the way that someone like joe biden does, even Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders have been around for a while. The answer for most of the folks that we were talking to was, no, theyre not concerned about that. They actually like the fact that Pete Buttigieg comes to the table without a lot of the political baggage that you see from a lot of these other candidates. If one of the things that we looked at from the last two weeks looking at what joe biden has experienced, democrats love him, they appreciate everything hes done for many, many years for the party, but he has a lot of baggage and that freshfaced new voice seems to be something a lot of democrats are hungry for. Beth, talk to us about the challenges that he faces at this point. Hes drawing crowds up in New Hampshire. He raised a lot of money, 7 million in the First Quarter of the year. What happens next . Theres this event a week from today in south bend, indiana. But what happens between now and then and after that. Well, hes going to be on meet the press this morning. Shameless plug and i appreciate that. For chuck todd. He does have a big challenge. Hes running a really fantastic media strategy and thats gotten him to where he is in terms of his money and recognition. Hes been on bill maher, hes been on morning joe. Now he has to build a campaign, an Actual Campaign which is very different. When youre talking about these early states, particularly iowa where that caucus system is so hard to navigate and candidates really rely on experts who have done this before and know how to put that caucus team together. Most of those are spoken for now by this very diverse field and they grabbed up the talent. So Pete Buttigieg, perhaps he can steal some from other candidates since hes the hot guy or he has to go out and find new people and thats a tricky place to be. And then New Hampshire where josh and i saw him, thats a totally different system. Its a primary. Its an open primary. Anybody can skroet vovote and r that day. So youve got a different challenge there. So hes got a lot of momentum but he has to show that he can do the hard work of creating a campaign that can actually produce votes. Elliott, theres remarkable selfawareness to this guy. To put it simply, mayor pete seems designed to expose everything that makes the country tired of trump. There was a moment this week at al sharptons event here in new york where the issue of black lives matter came up. He said all lives matter. He reevaluated his position on it and was very frank in the remarks that he gave there about learning from that and moving forward. That is something we have not seen in recent months when it comes to National Politics. We havent. And i think the refreshingness, if you look at the history of democratic nominees over the last probably going back to the 1960s, democrats tend to nominate insurgents, people from outside the i dont want to say outside the beltway, but bill clinton, barack obama, jimmy carter, a lot of these folks were not they were actually quite exciting candida