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Say about him, but hes the president of the united states. his job is to protect those people as a hurricane bears down on them and hes undermining that. >> go ahead, juliette. i know you wanted to jump in. >> no, i just think what hes also doing is hes greasing the runway for his failures as commander in chief, as ryan was saying, by moving all of that funding, by denigrating fema over the last couple of years, by not supporting what we call an all-hazards approach to homeland security, meaning...

A little darker skinned or speak a different language to vilify. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> maybe that has nothing to do with this this time. hes just pissed off because some of the political leaders in puerto rico had mean things to say about him, but hes the president of the united states. his job is to protect those people as a hurricane bears down on them and hes undermining that. >> go ahead, juliette. i know you wanted to jump in. >> no, i just think what hes also doing is hes greasing the runwa...

Help this situation? >> well, certainly doesnt help the situation when we are vilifying the agents and the officers. my men and women, the men and women of ice are doing the job that they are sworn to do and to protect this country. and i hate to see when the protests are impacting my men and women because they are doing annual amazes job on the border. griff: chief, for the better part of a year that i have covered border issues, i have seen your men and women courageously show up for work and ...

Border issues. those numbers you quoted earlier, el paso is the safest city in the country for its size based on fbi statistics. weve said that over and over and over again. its a welcoming community. we work closely with our neighbors in for him to. >> well be following the presidents travels today. we will not be losing sight, even when the president depart, of whats happening in el paso and keeping to the facts about what el paso is really about. thank you, sir. >> thank you. let me get bac...

State. the fact that republicans will almost certainly lose that seat in texas is probably the smallest of the implications here. hurd was the last republican representing any stretch of the u.s./mexico border so now republicans lose a credible voice on border issues. as abby pointed out he is also the only african-american member of the republican conference. there are only about a dozen women left in the republican conference in the house. the republican house conference now is almost entirely...

Illegals and, you know, we often think that it is only, you know, molly and kate we dont hear about them sheriff hodgeens. >> we dont you know and e these things are happening all over country and people are victimized what is interest is when sheriff was holding committee meet atop the national sheriffs on border issues, we have ranchers and farmers there, and one of the women said you know i cant walk go for my morning walk without carrying my weapon with me because im scared to death -- as to...

Was there in the congress. >> right. >> she continually came to me on border issues and others, how do you feel, what can we do? ive never seen her being disrespectful to women of color or any of her members, quite frankly. she is a true leader, deserves to be speaker. and works very hard to get all the message of the caucus together and be inclusive to her and represent all americans. not just black america or latino america. >> right. >> she wants everybody to move forward. >> and congresswoma...

At the u.s. facilities and advocates say theres not enough food, water or sanitation. >> we are seeing sick children and we are seeing dirty children and hungry children. >> reporter: the president on "meet the press" -- >> youre not schooling the kids anymore. >> we are doing a fantastic job and the democrats arent even approving giving us money. >> reporter: the president is expected to slap another round of sanctions on iran after calling off a military attack. new reports today the u.s. laun...

Subcontractors working on government border issues. how different does this landscape look from when you left government to where it is now when you look at how the border is being handled. >> my he second year in office we had the second lowest number of apprehensions on our southern border since 1972. ap mren shprehensions are a str indicator of total attempts to cross the border. through much of 2015 and 2016 the numbers were pretty low. we had the spike in 2014, it went down significantly. a...

Want to allow him to have the leverage, but the people who are making a lot of noise about this are ted cruz who said theres not a yes vote for this idea in the republican senate, john cornyn, whos going to be up for re-election because he understands the potential consequences, not just for the party but for him in texas and dan crenshaw, the very popular congressman from houston -- >> right. >> -- whos been way out front on border issues. so those three very significant republicans in texas ar...