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>> no, but lets take this, thats great question, thousands of dod personal on the border, to have all the resources deployed and he cant touch the money, that doesnt make sense to me. im not a lawyer. arthel: okay, i would like you to make the argument to those skeptics of legitimate need to build the border wall, tom, because youve had experience there. >> look, ive been enforcing immigration for 34 years, what im seeing right now is unprecedented. the numbers have never been seen before. never...

It and take their life. what can be done in congress? >> we cant simply keep blaming the v.a. even though there is a myriad of problems there and lots of people in the v.a. who care deeply about our veterans and work hard every single day. we have to get to the points of trauma which is war. we have to stop conflating this broken idea of masculinity with the fact that we send young men and women to do things that their hearts and finds may be trained to do but have ramifications and carry wounds...

Theyre not dealing with the housing of the families. >> i agree. >> and theres only so much money available through the declaration. >> i dont like that either. shame on both houses for you guys because youre not dealing. you say you care and you dont care. in fact, lets be honest. theyre not even saying they care enough anymore. back in 2014 with the obama administration and unaccompanied minors everybody ran down there. with the first role of people coming through here, all the democrats ran d...

I was all alone last time i was at the border. i thought there would be media there. so the compassion fatigue is real. but lets end it with where we started. what happens to get the help, rick, that they need right now? yes ken is right. dhs is working with dod trying to get more accommodations but it hasnt happened yet. the emergency declaration can help things happen faster. why doesnt the president use it and wind up cutting off the an mouse. towards the emergency declaration. >> its shockin...

Aclu, house democrats suing the administration, saying the presidents emergency declaration is unconstitutional. the crux of the argument when congress appropriates one money for one purpose, he cant spend it on another. today wall opponents basically said, when congress tells the president he cant spend money on wall, he cant do it. the administration counters with, border security is national security, so dod money can be spent here. the president has the authority to transportationer if money...

Region should iran attack u.s. forces and now both republicans and democrats and congress would like answers including trumps very good friend lindsey graham. >> removing personnel from embassies and consulates is clearly a serious move by the state department they feel the threat. and i would urge the state department and d.o.d. to come down here and plain to us what is going on because i have no idea what the threat stream is beyond what i read in the paper. >> graham got his wish. the trump a...

And there has already been loose talk of a potential force of 120,000 u.s. troops to the region should iran attack u.s. forces and now both republicans and democrats and congress would like answers including trumps very good friend lindsey graham. >> removing personnel from embassies and consulates is clearly a serious move by the state department they feel the threat. and i would urge the state department and d.o.d. to come down here and plain to us what is going on because i have no idea what ...

Has not provided any information to this committee on the intelligence behind their decisions or what they plan to do in iraq or iran. mr. chairman, i hope youll join me in asking the administration to immediately provide this committee with a briefing on the decision to order the departure of the embassy staff, the intelligence on what iran may be planning to do and any plans to go to war with iran. >> the president shot down the idea were going to deploy 120,000 people, but removing personnel ...

Us interpret them. jennifer hunt is a professor of economics at rutgers university and her current research focuses on immigration and wage inequality. now to an nbc nbc news exclusive. while the administration is unveiling the immigration plan, patrick shanahan is expected to sign a request for the military to build tents at six locations along the border to house 7,500 detained migrants. as for those who will be overseeing operations at these facilities, deft department spokesman chris mitch...

Strike force in the area and there has already been loose talk of a potential force of 120,000 u.s. troops to the region should iran attack u.s. forces and now both republicans and democrats in congress would like answers including trumps very good friend lindsey graham. >> removing personnel from embassies and consulates is clearly a serious move by the state department they feel the threat. and i would urge the state department and d.o.d. to come down here and explain to us what is going on be...