administration s immigration policy. before we begin bussing up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. in the last two weeks texas has sent roughly 1,000 migrants to new york and since april they ve sent 7,000 migrants to washington, d.c., where the mayor has asked for help from the national guard. joining me now is the former acting secretary of homeland security under president trump chad wolfe. thank you for being with us. what do you think of this policy? do you agree with what the governor of texas is doing, loading them on buses and just dropping them off in new york and washington without much of a plan in terms of dealing with those municipalities? they re just handing them over. this is what dhs has been doing for 17 months. they re sending them into communities all over the country whether it s in new york, it s
in atlanta and when maybe president trump himself will decide if he will announce the campaign. even though you have some republicans saying let s step back, if i were a practitioner in the business, i would be worried about the threat and whether that threat gets worse not better after the midterms. and, phil, one of the most appalling comments we ve heard was this recent remark from republican house candidate karl paladino. let s listen to that. an administration of people who should not only be impeached, probably should be executed. i mean, this is this is just over the top. it s crazy to make those kinds of comments. i would say it s worse than crazy. you are putting people in danger and the reason is what the congressman just said in the clip leading up to this. he admitted there s maybe 1%, which seems tiny, of the party who he would, i assume characterize as an extremist
about probably won t lose much sleep. and no heads rolled after this tour de france cycling champ defended his dog. don t stand on my dog or i ll cut your head off. reporter: aides did have to separate these two, karl paladino, an unsuccessful candidate for new york governor was yelling at a post editor. we watched as representative grim later said he had apologized to the reporter he threatened to break. i m sure my italian mother is going to be yelling at me saying you weren t raised that way and she s right. reporter: it could have been worse. reporters have been doused, and whacked. sprayed with bug spray. attacked with a hoe. dogs have even been sicked on
i m thinking in new york, karl paladino was able to win the gup na tore yal party. i don t know if anyone could have beaten andrew cuomo but he was a particular disaster. right. the first thing we have to very there s voter apathy across the country, period. when you identify issues that may rile people at their core, whether tea party. it pushes people to be more active and get involved. therefore they come out more. right? you look at kyle wright in virginia and other places, you have people riled up to their core on their core beliefs, on political issues, so they participate more. in the republican party what you had, voter apathy is across parties. it doesn t matter. you have people more engaged and being the part right of the party right now and that s why you are sort of seeing more of those candidates pop up. those are people who continue to keep those headlines in the
flash flooding and extensive damage leaving 90,000 people without power. these latest storms come less than two weeks after the series of deadly tornadoes ravaged moore. killing 23 people. the tornado touched down in st. louis prompting the consolation of the baseball game. for more on the deadly tornadoes in oklahoma, we go to nbc s mark potter who joins us live from oklahoma city. reporter: hey, steve, the last thing that central oklahoma needed at this time was another round of tornadoes but that s what they got. they cropped up yesterday afternoon into the evening, out west of this area. they first hit in rural areas and then in small towns and then made their way to the suburbs of oklahoma city and into the airport area. the airport was closed down. all flights canceled. they are still not running at this time now. as you said, five people were killed. confirmed so far. two of them include a woman an her infant killed in their car. three others also killed in their veh