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good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the humanitarian crisis on the border. it is the challenge that americans say they want solved more than any other problem. and now president biden is making his most dramatic move yet to deal with illegal immigration. will todays executive action come too late to reverse the political damage that has been years in the making? plus details about the presidents son, including claims he was smoking crack every 15 min...

Absolutely. do the republicans have to come to the table to solve the fundamental issues of why people are streaming across the border? they must. i think we can all agree by the time someone packed their bags and traveled thousands of miles to the southern border, that is not american immigration policy. thats a broken system. >> let me go to the key political question that absolutely is here when were looking at june and an election year, which is there are warning signs flashing, trump has be...

Latino vote was gonna turn on democrats. its been a big talking point for the last year or two, latinos are quitting the democrats, switching to republicans, especially in places like south texas. overall, according to the exit polls, i think it was 60 40 in the end. how worried are you about the latino vote going forward? how crucial is the latino vote to democratic victories this time around? >> ive never been worried about the latino vote. i have to tell you that as nauseam. -- understand the...

For the last year or two, latinos are quitting the democrats, switching to republicans, especially in places like south texas. overall, according to the exit polls, i think it was 60 40 in the end. how worried are you about the latino vote going forward? how crucial is the latino vote to democratic victories this time around? >> ive never been worried about the latino vote. i have to tell you that as nauseam. we kept seeing, its our job to understand the latina voter. and theres never one point ...

Africa than of covid. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> theres been a mass defection of players on cubas national baseball team after a wave of protests for freedom that landed hundreds in jail. well talk to a human rights activist in the high land next. t cough cough sneeze sneeze... [ sneezing ] needs, plop plop fizz fizz. alka seltzer plus cold relief. dissolves quickly. instantly ready to start working. so you can bounce back fast with alka-seltzer plus. now available for fast sinu...

>> its really hard to say. there are two unknowns. one unknown is what the military is going to do. obviously the trump administration and others have been reaching out to the venezuelan military trying to entice them and encourage them to turn against president maduro, to get rid of him then be part of this transition in offering -- guaido, the self-declared president, also offered amnesty. no sign yet of a mass defection by the military and if that doesnt happen, the question will be if maduro...

Firm as well? >> we know that gates was the one that initiated the contact. this was, interestingly, in march/april 2016, right after gates was hired on to the campaign with paul manafort to -- for a specific task at that time. their job was to make sure the delegates, the republican delegates didnt have a mass defection during the convention for ted cruz, who at the time you recall was sort of the preferred republican establishment candidate. their concern was the delegates. one of the proposal...

Howard taft. the dissension and the fracture was not as wide. now will that cause mass defection among hard-core republican partisan voters? no, probably not. what it does do is contributes to the problem weve been talking about in the suburbs as weve talked about before, donald trump is the first republican ever at risk of losing college educated white voters. it never happened in the history of polling going back to 1952 and if you look at pennsylvania which youve been talking about and the po...

N tough districts and dont want to be seen with the national party. there are republicans who arent going to their convention too but its important to remember, these are incumbent lawmakers who dont want to be seen near the president. theyre not the challenger, in 2008, there were five republican senators who avoided their partys convention who were in tough reelection battles. four of them lost. its an interesting thing to remember, that perhaps a sign. also in 92 you had mass defection, peopl...

>> despite the apology, theres new tension along the syrian, turkey border. >> very tense. for the third day the turkish jets were scrambled because they saw syrian helicopters get very close up to the border. theyre on high alert. there was no action taken. the syrian helicopters did not cross the border. along that border, another mass defection. the word is 85 soldiers, including a general, and a couple of high ranking officers, coming over from the syrian army into turkey. weve seen a lot of...