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Saying it is hard to say if that promise will be met by 2021. >> how many miles of wall has been constructed, not wall thats replacing old wall, but new wall has been built to this point? >> so, 78 miles of new wall has been built. >> how many miles of wall exist where there was no wall whatsoever? >> my response is every mile thats being build is new wall. >> how many miles new where nothing new existed? >> right now the 78 miles that have been built have been built where there was an existing ...

That is what the trump administration plans to argue. >> is there a chance here for, lets say, a land owner or a group of land owners and their legal team to try to drag this out in court hoping that another administration could possibly be elected next year and the border wall plan is dropped or they reverse course on the land confiscation? >> it could be possible. it just depends on kind of how those arguments go. for example, if the judge decides that they can in fact start building before th...

An uphill battle because of the supreme court ruling. >> congressman andy biggs, see you back on the hill after the break. have a happy fourth. pro-life groups vowing to fight all the way to the supreme court after federal judge temporarily blocks enforcement of the new abortion law in ohio. the so-called heartbeat bill would ban most abortions every fetal heartbeat could be detected which could be as early as 6 weeks. breaking tonight, major legal setback for the trump administration, the left-...

This issue into an asset, talking about introducing one of the first climate change bills back in the 1980s, as a way of saying, look, i get this and i understand why its important to you and why i will fight for it. he has not spent much time zbgog into the details of what is in his plan specifically, but i think thats the kind of thing as he continues to campaign and do more of these town hall-style events that he did last night that he will get pressed on. >> garrett haake, thank you. and ali...

Cracks down on voter suppression. it calls for nationwide automatic same-day voting registration. orourke also pushing to expand early voting and make election day a national holiday. voter turnout has been a central issue in orourkes campaign, as he looks to stand out in that crowded field of 2020 democrats. also rolling out a big plan today to legalize marijuana nationwide. democratic presidential candidate senator kirsten gillibrand. she says that current laws disproportionately affect black ...

Coalition. bidens campaign telling nbc news, several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22-page document. as soon as we were made aware of it, we updated to include the proper citations. with me now, nbc news senior political editor, mark murray, who co-writes "first read" every day, by the way. and adrienne elrod, former senior adviser to the hillary clinton campaign. shes also an msnbc contributor. adrienne, let...

Such an unforced error is at least giving some people some pause. >> well, mark, you also noted that the plan itself, at least as its presented, bears striking similarities to another democratic contender. >> yeah. and outside of the language that was actually used in the 22-page plan from the biden campaign, the actual top lines that came from the plan itself, and that is, net zero emissions by 2050, $5 trillion in both public and private money are the exact top lines from the beto orourke clim...

Portion of the fence which is just barbed wire in some places. they also told me stories about how they have helped migrants. given them water. tried to make sure that they were okay and help with their held and safety. i think the biggest take away for me is there are families on both sides of the u.s.-mexico border who feel they are entitled to safety and security from the u.s. government. when you talk to these rancher, they feel like their concerns are being over looked by the government. >>...

I dont know that theyre right whether china represents the existential threat to the united states. >> attacking china on industrial policy, a lot of people have critiqued the means of doing that. the president is putting into place an industrial policy of his on to prop up the farmers. >> right. its not a sustainable plan to give the farmers what your reporter called trump dollars. that is not going to be a sta sustainable -- thats not an agricultural policy. its something heartening about the ...

Well, im david gura. president trump torpedoing his meeting on infrastructure with democratic lawmakers choosing instead to blast their investigations and their comments about those investigates in a rose garden press conference made to look hastily arranged. theres something familiar about this. smack in the middle. volume 1, james comey testified before congress. nine subsequent iterations of infrastructure week have come and gone each derailed by the purported plans lack of specificity. the a...