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Critical in the post-debate push. and if it s wednesday, it s meet the press daily. good evening, i m steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. we begin with the growing outrage over the trump administration s handling of the migrant crisis at the southern border. scrutiny which just elicited this response from the president moments ago. he said that if undocumented immigrants are unhappy with the conditions, they shouldn t come. this afternoon he also painted the government s migrant facilities as, quote, far better and safer than the conditions those migrants fled. he rushed to the defense of his border patrol agents saying they are not doctors or nurses and blamed the crisis, as he has numerous times, on democrats. the president s comments defending the administration s border personnel come as his acting dhs chief directed an immediate investigation into disturbing social media activity involving some agents. it comes the day after an ....
Still subject to the deportation process if that s the determination. also, open border is a right wing talking point. we have 654 miles of fencing. we have thousands of border personnel. we have planes. we have helicopters. we have boats. we have guns. we have security cameras. nobody has called for open borders. that s just a right wing talking point. and decriminalizing improper entry in your mind doesn t take away a tool to deal with the crisis at the border? not at all. this is the way we used to handle this up until about 2004 and at that time, there was still an immigration process. there would still be a court process. all of that continues. what it takes away is the ability of a cruel administration like this to separate little children from their mothers and i believe that there s a smarter more effective and more humane way to do things on immigration. i also pointed out last night ....
Across the country. one democrat is retreating. this is castro. i am for decriminalizing, not legalizing. people are still part of a court process and still subject to the laws of the united states and go through a process. open borders is a right wing talking point. we have 654 miles of fencing and thousands of border personnel and planes and helicopters and boats and guns and security cameras. jesse, what do you think of that? beto doesn t want a wall. trump wants to issue deportation and they issue ini haveation invitation. they wanted to pull back border patrol from the front line and don t want to fund the border patrol. they are not doing anything to ....
Caravan forming in honduras. the president said, a big new caravan heading to the southern border from honduras. tell nancy and chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them. only a wall will work. only a wall or steel barrier will keep our country safe. stop playing political games and end the shutdown, which brings us to our second point. where is the shutdown now, senator? there seems to be no movement as of this hour. i was with the president yesterday. he gave a speech in new orleans, in my state and i rode back on his plane with him. he is not budging. i think he understands what most americans understand, that it is ludicrous to think that you can secure a 1900-mile border without barriers. it s laughable on its face. he doesn t want to build a wall 1900 miles long. he understands we need technology and drones and more border personnel and more detention beds. he believes, as i happen to, that illegal immigration is ....
House democrats are going to force their hand and there s concern there could be almost 2 dozen republicans in the house who vote to open up some of these different agencies when the house goes and passes the bill separately. we heard pence talk about border personnel and judges. even when that was floated other the weekend, the money for those type of things was on top of the $5 billion for the wall. so is there really any negotiating room? pence talking to staffers. ain t nothing happening unless it s trump. because trump makes a job out of undermining his own team. it s hard to negotiate with someone you can t trust. there is no negotiation. one you mentioned before, we just had the midterms. this was an argument republicans made in the midterms. including members of congress on the border. orange county in the south p. people who would be affected saying no, we don t want this ....