consideration next week but the problem really is that there are really huge numbers of children arriving at the border this summer, and children when they get in to government custody are also staying much longer, which results in this shortage of beds. there are a variety of different reasons why children are staying so long in government custody, but what we know from talking to pediatricians and child welfare experts is regardless of the reason, it s leading to more lasting trauma for these kids. garance burke, thank you for joining us. garance we should note we reached out to customs and border protection as well and we haven t received any response either. thank you so much. ahead in the next hour, today s big question, what is the president s strategy when it comes to iran? we ll try to answer that. you re watching velshi & ruhle.
prohibitive favorite. nate silver said she s basically the strongest nonincumbent democrat ever. at least when it comes to getting her party s nomination. it s completely open on the republican side at this point. you have people around from last time who would like to run again, maybe santorum, maybe trump. you have the pundits from the senate, rubio, rand paul, and ted cruz who are outthere all the time with very loud and noisy messages but not maybe doing as much in the senate. then you have some governors who may be a little bit quieter and i think could be formidable, as well. right. okay. a final question then and starting with you, garance. do you think vice president joe biden will enter this race? well, his visit to the steak fry doesn t seem to be to be suggesting very much. he spent more time in iowa than anyone at the last cycle. it really didn t do him any
speculation based on that fact. now, the question is does she want to be president enough to go through a campaign. does she think she can win one? so if you have this, what did you say, clown car that she s running the race against. you can use other analogies, group of dunnederheads and dull lards, incompetent buffoons. you choose. there are plenty of descriptions. if she looks across the track and that s the car she sees, then it does certainly make her more likely to want to run the race if she thinks it s going to be that much easier for her to win. garance, one of the things people have said in the past is that it s axiomatic that the democratic party was the one that was disorganized, dysfunctional, at war with itself. how have republicans now taken on that marvelous reputation? you re quite right. the democrats are going into 2016 with hillary clinton as the
sort of deja vu thing all over again. we don t know what s in their minds, what kind of goals she has for herself or what they set for each other as i an couple. we don t note the specific terms of what their relationship is either. we will know mr. weiner has demonstrated what we think of as being egregious behavior. maybe he s lost quite a bit of credibility in terms of running pore mayor of the city of new york. i don t think that gives us license to judge his partner exclusively in that way either. garance, the call for the san diego mayor, bob filner to stand down have sadly fallen on kaef ears. moments ago, he did offer an apology. here s what he had to say. take a listen. simply not acceptable for me to try to explain away my conduct as the product of the standards of a different generation. i will be entering a behavior counseling clinic to undergo two weeks of intensive therapy to begin the process of addressing my behavior. did you notice there that he