border, provide resources, look at the way border patrol agents and law enforcement were vilified over the last four years and certainly during this administration there aren t enough resources, not enough, there s not enough pressure on making sure our borders are safe and secure, it s not just an economic issue but first and foremost about law and order and safety and security of americans and people like my family who came legally support that and it is going to be a huge topic for all legal immigrants coming up in midterm elections how this administration has poorly handled the border crisis and why we need to make sure we have safe and secure borders for all americans and making sure we go against what this administration was doing when they were campaign which was incentivizing illegal immigration, look under trump s administration those border policies worked, we need
disposal. i think all of that will be looked at. i want to stress that these operations are normal in general. we have people in these places doing important work and i want to make sure that americans understand that this is more normal than abnormal as tragic as the loss of these soldiers lives is. the pentagon has said this is routine patrol but these service members they were in unarmored vehicles, no rapid response from the u.s. side. does any of that concern you? it doesn t necessarily concern me. it s not really unexpected. niger is not a mature battlefield. we sent small special forces teams to conduct unconventional war fare. the infrastructure in africa isn t built up the way we have it built up in the middle east. there aren t enough resources to go around. as tragic as this event is
that was targeted is my home state of delaware. i know the head of our state election commission, and i think they are a professional, nonpartisan, actively engaged group. but there aren t enough resources dedicated to strengthening our electoral systems at the state level and county level across the country now that we know how aggressive they were in our last election. i know that the ranking senator on the rules committee which has responsibility for this area is working hard to move forward. my appropriations subcommittee has responsibility for this. i m trying though move forward increased appropriations for this. but so far we are struggling to find ha good partnership across the aisle. and i think will is more we can be doing as a senate and congress. finally i want to get your quick reaction to new york times report that at least six current members of the trump
circumstances. but, you re quite right, elizabeth, there s the danger of distracting from relief efforts or of just diverting resources to presidential visit. i honestly feel for any president in that situation because i think it s such a fine line you have to walk. elizabeth: so far it s hard to be critical. the declaration came out early, came out strong. he may be at camp david, but elaine dukes just got the phone with him. he s not holed up and he s making himself accessible. that being said it s just the beginning and we ll find people criticizing and politicizing just about everything. we re going to see the task of how good preparation has been. but so far, i don t think there s been any obvious wrong-footed move by the administration. elizabeth: right, right. leland: it s important to note sometimes no matter how much you pre-position sometimes you re overwhelmed. there aren t enough resources to be able to deal with 50 inches
wasn t enough. i think again that goes to the point we can continue to blame black voters but i could black voters are very clearly the most loyal voting base, not only in the democratic party, but period. black people turnout and i want to remind you, don lemon, this is not after spending a whole lot of resources in our communities. the cbc members that i ve talked to have been very, very clear about the fact they have continually stated there aren t enough resources being poured into this election, and there aren t enough resources being targeted to our constituents and they said it through tuesday extended up being correct. what about mark leblack men, the men went for donald trump. do you regret voting in pen ben where the margin was 68,000? i voted my kansaconscious, id for the person who i wanted to