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Today nbc news correspondent jacob soboroff traveled by u.n. aircraft to see their food distribution efforts in an area of the country devastated by the recent earthquake. and he joins us now live from porto prince, haiti. jacob, glad to see youre safe on the ground there. do we know if the white house plans to make any changes to its plans to deport migrants back to haiti? >> thanks, jonathan. its good to see you as well. it doesnt sound like it, quite frankly, because there was a delegation on...

August 14th earthquake, straining any capacity to receive returning haitians. conditions in haiti continue to be dire and not conducive to forced returns, end quote. my colleague has been covering the situation in haiti. yesterday he flew to the united nations in a remote southern part of the country affected by the earthquake. he joins us now live from the capital. jacob, what is the situation there? >> reporter: well, exactly as the un said it, ali. it is dire. so we have been here for most of...

Juan gonzalez from the nsc talking to local leaders about a way forward. secretary mayorkas and his counter part, the ambassador to haiti at the embassy of washington say they want to treat people with dignity and respect from this country. and i think the people being deported to this country, excelled to this country every single day on multiple flights would question every day whether or not thats happening. thats all for now from this hospital here on the outskirts of porto prince. >> thank ...

After having left after the earthquake and made their way to the border to be deported a place not only doesnt look familiar to them any longer but as you said it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and incredible amounts of food insecurity, the violence in the streets. the gangs control so much of this city and this country. in fact doctors without borders said they had to stop operating one of their clinic because it was so violent and move everyone to another one. and again, that...

Unicef. come over here. this is the line of people who are here in order to receive this aid. theyre taking it and they go off, but this is the last major food distribution of this program by the world food program. after this, this wont exist any longer, and theyll be on their own. so, when you talk about whats happening when people get back? this is whats happening. certainly in the rural communities, and then when you get to the city, port-au-prince, youve got gang violence on the streets, cr...

Their president, and escalating gang violence in the citys capital, now the united nations is urging the united states government to halt deportations. today, nbc news correspondent jacobs over off traveled by aircraft to receive -- in an area devastated by the recent earthquake. he joins us now live from port-au-prince haiti. jacob, glad to see you are safe on the ground there. do you know if the white house plans to make any changes to its plans to deport migrants back to haiti? >> thanks jona...

The migrants who are going to return here on the ground. many of whom had not been here in years if not as long as a decade, having left after the earthquake to work in places like brazil and chile. and make their way to the border. only to be deported to a place, not only that they dont know, that doesnt familiar them any longer, but as you said, it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. there is incredible amounts of food insecurity as we saw with the world food programme today. the...

One person is fighting back, however. her name is aradna jacobs. she filed a $6 million defamation suit against taylor lor renz. jacob is an entrepreneur and marketing expert, founder of influences.com. she explains her lawsuit. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. taylor lor renz stalks the landscape hurting people. if you say something, she claims youre attacking her because of neuroses or whatever. youre the aggressor. tell us why youre doing this and what your claim against her is. >> thank...

Get it done and well do what we need to do in the next couple weeks. >> it is interesting. i think mitch mcconnell words can be used by democrats to say, look, when they need government to work, its an odd piece of leverage that i dont know quite what he thinks hes getting there. senator padilla, democrat from california, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective. lets turn now to a developing story in haiti where just moments ago the latest plane carrying haitian migrants that were...