I signed an executive order. we re going to keep families together. the president wants families kept together at the border, but getting families back together after separation is another story and it won t be easy. the president wants to merge the departments of labor and education. the centerpiece of the plan rolling out today to consolidate american bureaucracy. and devastating floods in south texas. over a foot of rain in a few days. a 91-year-old woman among those rescued. welcome back to early start. i m ryan nobles. i m christine romans. it is thursday, june 21st. the first day of summer. let s start with the families at the border. they are facing a long road to reunification after reversal
The owner says the same sign has been hanging in the front window the past 12 years and will remain. outrage after video surfaces of the muslim professor demanding his students praise allah. say what you want me to hear. don t want them coming in your office. it is not a prayer place. requiring his students remove their shoes before entering his office was the university of connecticut says he has retired since the video was taken last year. how about business news, crackdown coming on facebook, tracy carrasco here with what the social media site is doing to prevent gun sales to minors. reporter: facebook announced it will stop from showing weapon accessory adds to minors so this takes effect this thursday,
good morning. it is thursday, june 21st. i m melissa francis in for gretchen carlson. a house panel votes to hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt and moments ago, eric holder spoke out and we have his brand new reaction. and the video is unreal. floodwaters washing out a zoo. sweeping two seals and a polar bear right into the street outside. talk about the state of emergency. no kidding. and forget the billions of dollars spent on solyndra. now, we re paying prison inmates to make solar panels for a company in taiwan? really? fox & friends hour two for a thursday starts now! today in center square, we have melissa francis from the fox business network where she hosts a primetime show!
point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he ta
the red sox god, they can t beat the twins, seriously? we can t do that and the yankees are doing exceptionally well. the red sox are going to be fine. did you see the walk-off home run. the astros. it s the june swoon. the astros did they win again last night? i know you have a lot to say and i can t wait to hear it, actually. is thursday, june 21st. with us, politics editor for the daily beast nbc news national political reporter heidi przybilla on set. president of the council on foreign relations and the author of the book a world in disarray richard haass. what are you doing this weekend with his book? it s going to the sauces. and white house reporter sauce works very well in a