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Will you be asking when this hearing starts? >> where is the money going to be spent? where is the must be coming from? is this just the beginning. next year well have a similar problem? are we going to have a so-called emergency request for more money and more money and the borders are still porous. im afraid weve been down this road before. >> are you offended at all that the president seems to say that this is just a political issue? yesterday in his speech when he was in texas, he said, look...

About something different today, right? >> reporter: he is. hes trying to turn the page perhaps stay on his own game plan which was to get out on the road and do some fund-raising for democratic entities. hes been doing a lot of that the last couple of days but also talk up the economy. stay on his game. the fact of the matter is this crisis is overshadowed obviously the entire trip. hes saying here on the road that what republicans need to do back in washington is pass that $3.7 billion emergen...

To intimidate him. he made clear today hes not backing down and while he gave the president credit for meeting with perry, the congressman said mr. obama should go the extra few hundred miles to visit the border instead of just fundraising his way through dallas and austin especially after the optics of the president playing pool at a bar with the governor of colorado last night. designee taught be meeting with the border leaders. he can get on air force one, be there in half an hour. personally...

>> reporter: and thats why the democrats who are defending the president saying he needs this $3.7 billion emergency request to be approved quickly, shep. >> ed henry for us from dallas, thanks very much. were learning the names of american -- i should say of the americans that our government reportedly kept tabs on using surveillan surveillance methods the feds claim they use to target terrorists. u.s. citizens including a former republican official who served under president george w. bush. ...

Well get nicer as we get closer to the weekend but another frontal system is out there eventually by friday making its way into the mid well. showers are still on the forecast. looking at the biggest threat farther down in the southeast kind of right around the carolinas where we still have the frontal system this morning. john? >> thanks, indra. now to the border crisis affecting tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants, many children, after some political back and forth. president obama an...

Back to central america? from denver to texas this afternoon, president obama will meet with faith leaders and governor rick perry in dallas, not at the border. >> the president would not travel to the border and hes not going to do that. >> either the president doesnt really understand this border crisis or he simply doesnt care. >> reporter: the united nations insists these children are refugees and should stay. the u.n. found 60% were victims of extreme gang violence. >> they believed that th...

Emergency request to congress, about double what they said they were going to ask for. it includes $1.6 billion for additional border agents, stepped up detention efforts in processing, another $1.8 billion for care for the unaccompanied children, and about 300 million for outreach and public media campaign in central america that is aimed at telling parents not to send their kids for america. republicans, though, on the mill already claim not to be sold on the request. >> they have asked the co...

State police down to monitor the border as well. but thats been one of his initial reactions and one of the things etahes talked about the most. it will be interesting to see what kind of comments he makes on the request for billions of dollars to solve this crisis. >> i sure hope people yell that question to him and he does take up that answer. let me just take it right to the middle screen where jim akous sta is standing by live. that is obviously a question that will be fascinating to hear hi...

United states to say this problem, in my opinion, created by the president of the united states in terms of his lax an enforcement of immigration laws now saying give me money and i will use it to help them settle further into this country. and providing attorneys which the immigration law specifically prohibits taxpayer dollars being used for. >> mr. chairman good of to you join us. thanks for your perspective. bob goodlatte of virginia. >> you heard the criticism. lets get the presidents point...

Right choice for the party. back to a top story, the obama administration talking about combatting the immigration crisis on our border. im jenna lee. >> im eric shawn. the white house questioning an emergency request for $3.7 billion to deal with the border crisis. >> in the meantime, the immigrant bases that used to house thousands of children are being maxed out. theyre saying they will cap the number of days that children can be held. we have the very latest on this story. the situation ...