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Joins us now. congresswoman, so you visited that facility in clint. the photos that were showing are from the facility in mcallen. do they match what you saw in clint? >> first, let me say i went to el paso, because this is an issue of consequence. the humanitarian crisis not only at the border, but this is an issue being felt throughout our country. the district that i represent, the massachusetts seventh, is 40% immigrant. the families i spent time with yesterday are from honduras, el salvador...

Vile rhetoric for vile actions! hateful rhetoric for hateful behavior! racist words and venom for racist policies! >> and congresswoman pressley joins us now. congresswoman, so you visited that facility in clint. the photos that were showing are from the facility in mccalifornm mcallen. do they match what you saw in clint? >> first, let me say i went to el paso, because this is an issue of consequence. the humanitarian crisis not only at the border, but this is an issue being felt throughout our...

Shows homelessless has fallen a bit during the obama administration and is now roughly flat. he could help homeless people get shelter and then jobs. if you look at what hud is doing in the trump era? its working harder -- i should say, its working to make it harder for homeless people to get shelter, this is a recent hud proposal that would allow shelters to discriminate. a plan that would potentially increase the number of people on the street. thats what the trump administration is doing. whi...

>> reporter: well, i think at this moment, at this place here its sort of a question of when will the police here react? im literally at the front line. outside the legco building. the legislative buildings. now turning to see the police inside. i can see the police officer in charge literally waving his hand, calming his front line officers down there. the officer in the white shirt is moving forward to inspect now just what the damage thats been done because each time you hear the cheers go of...

Thud, thud and the smash, smash, smash of doors just a few feet behind our cameraman here, that the protesters are trying to put through. behind me here as well theyre trying to get through. but its the officers inside. youre talking about how long can the chinese authorities withstand this level of protest campaign. but quite literally on the front line of this protest here at this moment, it does feel how much longer will the police remain calm, remain standing by, but the officers on the fron...

Here theres no police lined up behind these windows. its a systematic thud, thud, thud of the crowd using everything they can find, metal bars. theyre ripping up some of the barricades that the police have put out here to stop them getting access and literally ripping them up, tearing them apart and using trollies full of rocks, whatever they can to get inside the building. our view is slightly obscured by the mass of umbrellas there that i can just hear that glass crunching with each thud of th...

In our 2020 lead, were just hours away from the crucial first debate of this election cycle. here is how the democratic candidates will be positioned on stage tonight. starting with new york city bill de blasio, congressman tim ryan, former hud sect julian castro, cory booker,away, beto orourke, senator amy klobuchar, tulsi gabbard, governor jay inslee and former congressman john delaney on the first night of the two-night debate event. ken law takes us behind the saeps into the last-minute deba...

That we cant pay for, that all americans may not be supportive of. its interesting. elizabeth warren, who is surging in the polls, her policies are too left for me but im a huge fan of the campaign shes running. shes talking about the big bold idea agenda, which is what bernie did. but we saw in the recent fox news poll back that over 70% of democrats are looking for steady moderate leadership. only 23% were looking for that big bold agenda. sam looking for a center lane candidate. honestly, im ...

Highest homelessness rate in the united states. according to a recent hud report, taxpayers are being forced to shell out $11 million to build elaborate tent cities to house them. the mayor signing off on the plan in hopes of tackling the problem head-on. >> one of the things were doing in san diego that i think is having a dramatic effect in getting people off the streets as we have established shelters with health and wraparound services, storage center of her belongings thats helping to clean...

That has to do with housing, serving as secretary of hud for three years. there are new numbers that came out this month, show a large increase in homelessness in los angeles, for instance. whats your solution if youre able to have that wish from the bottle, what would you do to stop this rise in homelessness across the country in major cities? >> yes. to me, housing is a human right. so i put forward couple weeks ago a housing plan that would invest in creating millions more units of homes that...