Conference from Texas Governor Greg abbott, top of the hour. He is calling on the Biden Administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. He said tHis is a crisis of the president s own making. We have the latest from the Dhs Secretary testimony to the Senate Homeland Security committee tHis morning. Well go to the border in just a moment. John we kick off hour one of America Reports with former acting Ice Director tom holman. I wanted to play from yesterday, theres a little bit of sound from the Dhs Secretary and get you respond to it. Lets listen. Borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. John he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. What do you say to that based on what we have seen in Del Rio texas in the last couple of weeks . Its a lie. Its a lie. The borders are wide open. I have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. Thousands of being released every day into the United States, many with Covid. 350,000 got away.
Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone vice president harris tonight is wrapping up the last leg of her first foreign trip in office after meeting with mexico s president on her mission to deal with what s driving that record surge of migrants to the u. S. The vice president focused on investments and opportunities in mexico and central america to discourage migration. But she has been unable to escape questions on this trip about why she has not also traveled to the border to witness the migrant crush for herself. Today, after being pressed on the issue in our exclusive interview, vice president harris told reporters she will go. I sat down with her last evening in guatemala city tonight vice president harris in mexico, meeting with the mexican president. You can t say you care about the border without caring about the root causes. Part of her first foreign trip targeting the root causes of the record migrant surge i spoke to her last night in guat
Who shut down the colonial pipeline. What that ability means for future attacks, especially ones with the rise of cryptocurrency. And vice president harris is in her first diplomatic trip in office. She sits down with nbc s lester holt as she tries to tackle the ongoing crisis in our southern border. We re live ahead. Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the press daily and i m chuck todd. There are plenty of headlines from the january 6th report on the insurrection on the capitol, like the planning failures before the attack. The breakdown of communication and lack of resources available to authorities on the ground during the attack. There are new harrowing accounts from police and what they experienced amid the siege and whole host of recommendations about beefing up capitol security capabilities. Here s what s not in the report, an analysis of why the attack happened in the first place, what fueled it and just as importantly, who fueled it. Those are the questions that, of course, involv
what democrats have been calling cages since trump s presidency. now that painful site is sinking in and their reaction is coming fast and fierce. you had children side-by-side and come aligned on the floor, no beds, no cots, no mats, line on the floor covered up with reflective blankets and 10 percent of the population there is testing positive for covid. it s a humanitarian disaster and crisis and it s man-made. joe biden because this with political decisions made in the opening weeks of this administration. the numbers are just as stunning. border officials more than 4,000 migrants inside that facility. that s only meant to hold 250 during the pandemic. coming up, what he just saw during his tour of the facility they re. there. john. we begin our day with casey steagall he is live at the border in eagles pass, texas again today. hi, casey. hello come out with you do the math, what those numbers that you were just talking about, the donna cross-section facility here
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