crisis is not just happening at the border, in facilities around the country. you have this system the president has barely intentionally sets up to spread fear through the community and also send the message to the world. i cannot stress this enough, the message sent to the world, when you put kids in cages and stop the media from getting into those sites, america is closed. a lot of the messaging is working and people are afraid. jacob pointed out that people are coming quickly because of a lot of rhetoric we see, not only on twitter but directly from the president. i want to put this up by nancy pelosi again. we expect the house to vote again. there has been some dissension among democrats how to approach this. pelosi said in a closed door meeting with her fellow democrats, a vote against this bill is a vote information donald trump and is inhumane
come from places you don t even want to know about, the way they ve lived and the way they ve been, the poverty they grew up in. with that, if we can get this bill signed, we ll be able to do it. the democrats don t want to sign anything. now, i think they re going to probably sign this, from what i understand, i call it humanitarian aid. here to talk about all of this, eli, white house reporter for the las angeles times. democratic strategist from washington and heidi, national political correspondent for nbc news and perry is at the facility from homestead, florida and jacob has been covering the ongoing situation at the border for us. eli, let me start with you. we just heard from the president there. he s talking about the situation in congress now a bill expected to make its way through the house tonight, democratic house, republican senate bill. we will see what happens there. in the meantime, as all of that plays out and we absorb these
welcome back. you re looking at the live scene in miami. preparations well under way. tomorrow night, the first night of the two night debut democratic debate here on the nbc family of networks. ten candidates will be on the stage. debate season begins. before you know it primary season will be here. the panel is back with me. we have ten candidates going tomorrow night. the biggest name, joe biden, will be thursday night. couple other big names, tomorrow night, elizabeth warren, you see her in the middle of the stage. she s the highest polling candidate going tomorrow night, that s why she s in the middle of the stage. cory booker on one side, beto o rourke on the other. seven other candidates. i want to ask about the seven other candidates.
reports from clint, texas and elsewhere, are there any other steps the white house is taking to deal with what the whole country has been reading about this week. not that we know of. you heard him blaming democrats and they need to come up with humanitarian aid. the humanitarian crisis on the border is at least in part because of this administration s policies and the president s decision to try to crack down on people coming to this country seeking asylum, separate families, house young children and keep them in some of these facilities by all reports we re seeing, completely overrun and overcrowded and conditions appalling. the house democrats and progressives decided we don t want to just rubber stamp the senate bill. we need to come in and put some teeth into this bill so the administration changes its policies how it s caring for the kids and the shelters. the problem is the republicans
everyday we re hearing new stories of people dying whether in the rio grande or desert, because they re trying to evade the detection and enforcement of this administration. there s nothing wrong with debating how strong that enforcement should be. thank you for joining us. still to come. one day, saying this, counting down, finally down, a day before the first democratic debate and joe biden facing a big test and we have fresh evidence of how he s faring in the aftermath of controversial comments. and donald trump ease defense starting up more outrage and the intrigue of the inner circle and another shake-up in the works. we ll be right back. we ll be right back. relieving ol constipation and abdominal discomfort. new benefiber healthy balance