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Protesters are taking action against the prosecutes crackdown. Activists say the recent wave of arrests is striking fear into families who pose no criminal threat. Ice Officials Say that the arrests were in fact routine. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez joins me from atlanta. Gabe . Hi, there, amon. There were several arrests in atlanta alone. Ice Officials Say these were routine Law Enforcement operations, but immigration advocates say this is what they have feared. On the same week that protests ecorrupted...

Virus can, and how much work still has to be done as well. this administration of course is still dealing with the afghanistan withdrawal, and now we are seeing potentially a government shutdown, and as much as, to be clear, some of the fault lies at the feet of republicans, being obstructionists, its not clear that the general public at large will see that and democrats who won all parts of government right now could face the majority of the blame so there is a lot going on right now for this p...

Its a senate rule and only the senate can do it. i certainly think that there are many senators who understand the urgency of the moment. but there are, of course, a handful that we have to continue to persuade, and that is something that will take place with increased intensity over the next few days and next few weeks. youre absolutely right, because republicans have committed to voter suppression as an electoral strategy and they are bankrupt of substantive ideas in so many areas, we know tha...

Magazine. whats going on and where is the hill on all of this? >> reporter: its another about face from the president who early this week tweeted that now is the time for congress, as he put it, to fix the countrys broken m aggregation system. but just this morning hes now saying that republicans should hold off, should wait until after the midterm election. so hears one in a series of tweets. republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congre...

Sticking with the idea that to fight back is to wichblt we want to agree with president trump when hes right. we believe in government that works and is effective, but were not going to compromise your values or what our constituents need. we dont want to go along with president trump just to avoid this image of being obstructionists. in the long run, weve got to win some elections. were going to try to be as articulate as we can. >> do they stand back and see how republicans handle this works g...

presidential election. >> the caucuses arent until its winter, until snow on the ground. >> at least its been entertaining. up first texas governor rick perry on the attack in new hampshire. hit the ground running and hitting president obama hard calling his handling of the economy a disaster. hes not backing down from his verbal assault in iowa this week on fed chairman ben bernanke. heres what governor perry said. >> if this guy prints more money, between now and the election, i do...

That republicans have not gotten the job done and adding, and im quoting him now, im not going to blame myself. on health care and taxes, the president specifically blamed democrats, calling them terrible on policy but good at being obstructionists. also breaking, a top north korean official tells cnn that kim jong-uns regime is committed to developing a long-range missile that could hit the u.s. east coast. the same official went on to say that until north korea develops both defensive and of...