Believe child separation is effective, and no one raised their hand. I wanted to note that for the record. I wanted to ask a question from the professor. Is that United States violating or violated human rights agreements set by the United Nations in the family separation policy . Yes. International law is clear family unity should be prioritized. So we asiocortez members of the United Nations signed on to the International Human rights agreement saying clearly family separation is a violation of International Human rights and then pursued a policy that violates human rights. I was looking how do we get to this point. How did we get to this point where we take children out of. Others and fathers arms it dated back we have taken children away from their parents , begin lastprocess year under secretary kiersten nielsen. I had to dig further and the staff dug further. Where did this start in the administration . We found a memo that dates back to april 23 2018. There was an official pursu
we have lots of news to, cover and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. the u.s. military shoots a mystery object out of the sky for the second time in less than a week. now the races on to figure out exactly what was in the sky over alaska. what we know so far, plus new details about what that chinese spy balloon was truly capable of. plus, trump s legal team reportedly hands over additional items with classified markings and a laptop. it comes as an fbi search of mike pence s home turns out another classified document, and pence himself faces a subpoena in the january six special counsel probe. when all of these developments tell us about where these investigations are headed. and later, michael cohen, trump s former personal attorney, meets with the manhattan district attorney for the 15th time, will join us live this morning to discuss that and everything else circling around trump world as these probes heat up. all of that more is coming up. good satu
about. we begin this morning with the latest signs that the justice department s investigation of donald trump are escalating and shifting to a more a vance s stage. on thursday, nbc news learned that former vice president, mike pence, was subpoenaed by jack smith, the special counsel appointed by attorney general merrick garland to handle this departments investigations of the january six investigation in of donald trump s handling of classified documents. the subpoena follows months of negotiations between pence s legal team and the department of justice. so, it is also the latest indication that smith is taking a hard look at the scheme to submit fake electors to falsely declared trump the winner over the election in states that joe biden actually won. in december, just about a month after he was appointed, smith subpoenaed local officials in swing states that trump s team targeted in its efforts to overturn those 2020 results. if trump had had his way, pence would ve play
february 11th, i m stan stein, filling in for my friend ali velshi. we begin this hour with the latest signs at the justice department s investigation into donald trump s escalating and shifting to a more advanced stage. on thursday, nbc news learned that former vice president mike pence was subpoenaed by jack smith, the special counsel appointed by attorney general eric garland, to handle the justice department investigation in the january six. and donald trump s handling of classified documents. the subpoena was filed between pence s legal team and the doj. it s taking a hard look at the scheme to mistake electors to falsely declared trump the winner of the election in states that joe biden actually won. in december, just about a month after he was appointed, smith subpoenaed local officials in the spring state, the trump team targeted in effort to overturn the results. trump it had his way, would ve paid a critical role. which is why this subpoena is a significant mileston
stay right where you are. cory coffin comes to pick up the coverage right now. good morning, welcome into you, i m cory coffin current you from new york. we will begin with the latest on the high altitude object that was fly over alaska airspace, and shot down by the u.s. military yesterday. ce, and it has been less than ak since a trial spy balloon was discovered flooded over the u.s., it was a sudden eventually shot down over the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. pentagon officials would not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon, or what the country of origin was. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car. flying at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircrafts. here is national security spokesperson and retired admiral john kirby yesterday. i can confirm that they department of defense was tracking a high altitude object over alaska didn t base in the last 24 hours. the object was flying a