Reviewed in the senate held by members of the appropriations committee. Homeland security secretary jasonson will do his best to sell the plan to some skeptical lawmakers who claim the funds dont solve the larger problem of securing the border. The president is fighting back against critics who have slammed him on everything from the way hes handling the issue of immigration to not visiting the border. Congress has the capacity to work with all parties concerned to directly address this situation. Theyve said they want to see a solution. The supplemental offers them the capacity to vote immediately to get it done. But the problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. The challenge is, is congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done . Another way of putting it, and i said this directly to the governor is, are folks more interested in politics or are they more interested in solving the problem . If theyre interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics, then it wopt be solved. This isnt theater. This is a problem. Im not interested in photoops. Im interested in solving a problem, and those who say i should visit the border, when ask you them what should we doing . Theyre giving us suggestions that are embodied in legislation that ive already sent to congress. So its not as if theyre making suggestions that were not listening to. In fact, the suggestions of those who work at the border, who visited the border, are incorporated in legislation that were already prepared to sign the minute it hits my desk. If i sponsored a bill declaring apple pie american, it might fall victim to partisan politics. I get that. On the other hand, this is an issue in which my republican friends have said its urgent, we need to fix it. And if thats the case, then lets go ahead and fix it. This is something you say is important, as i do. This is an area that you have prioritized, as i have. Dont wait for me to take executive actions, when you have the capacity right now to go ahead and get something done. I will sign that bill tomorrow. Were going to do what we can administratively, but this gives us the tools to do many of the very things that republicans are seeking. Now one of the president s most vocal critics on immigration has been Texas Governor rick perry. The two men met yesterday after a headline making exchange earlier this week when perry initially refused to do just that right there, greet mr. Obama at the airport, but in a facetoface discussion, perry renewed his request for the president to visit the border and stop the flow of immigrants crossing it illegally. In an interview with kate bolduan, governor perry talked about working on a solution. I have to ask you you said this administration was incredibly inept or theyre in on this somehow. After your meeting today with the president , which one is it, governor . Well i dont know and thats the reason i asked that question a month ago was, why havent we had any more action out of this administration . And you know, again, the president has come to texas. The president was gracious and allowed me to give him my insight on this, and i appreciate that, but the fact is, he still hasnt acted, and so actions are really important in this process. But words are important here as well, as youre saying, as you think as republicans believe that the president s words in talking about the dream act previously, that has sent the wrong message to Central America so words do matter in this debate. Do you really honestly believe as you said in the interview last month that the administration might be in on this somehow . I mean youre suggesting theres some kind of conspiracy here. No, what im suggesting is that this administration and their words and their actions or the lack thereof are part of the problem. I think youre putting the words of conspiracy in my mouth, which i did not say. No, you actually did say the word i hate to be conspiratorial but and i hate to be conspiratorial. I hate to be conspiratorial. I did not say i was. How can you move that many people from Central America across mexico, and then into the United States without a fairly coordinated effort . Im asking you, governor. Words do matter, you know that. I dont know and there is, i totally understand, but the real issue here, rather than getting into semantics battle, is whether or not this president is going to lead this country. Can you work hand in hand with a president that you criticized so harshly on an issue that is so important to you . Can you get past the politics . I did today. So i suspect we will. Joining me now another lawmaker whose state has been impacted by the surge in undocumented children coming to the United States, republican senator jeff flake from arizona. Senator flake, thanks for being with us this morning. You really know firsthand. Weve seen these pictures obviously this hits home for you, children transferred to your state after texas shelters became overwhelmed. Tell us more about this situation that arizona is facing. You know, arizona has kind of been ground zero on this immigration issue for a long time. The tucson sector timely aft fi years and years of programs to try to change and stem the tide there we were able to do it and the tuck so sector hasnt been as busy on the border region as it has been in the past, but then all of a sudden, because we have some of the infrastructure there thats not being utilized and we have these unaccompanied minors shipped from texas, and so were right in the middle of it again, and arizonians are saying when do we get a break here . So yes, its really impacting the state. The president is asking congress for 3. 7 billion to deal with this crisis. When you look at the president s request, what do you think . Well, my problem with it is 1. 8 billion of it, so the bulk of it, when you remove the Fire Suppression funds, thats about 600 million, the vast majority of it is goes to hhs, which has no role at the border at all. In fact, its only charged with taking these children and warehousing them and then settling them throughout the country, and so anybody looking at this document from the president would say were keeping the status quo. Were going to continue to take these kids and warehouse them and then settle them around the country. Thats exactly the wrong message to send to those in Central America to those parents, to those families, to the cartels and others, because it tells them, keep doing what youre doing. Well keep doing what were doing, and thats just the wrong message. So your concern and the concern of many republicans is that these children will be absorbed, that they wont be deported. But i also wonder, is there some tension as well in the Republican Party . There are a lot of folks on the bord border or borders from border states and they know in the short term something has to be done, even if you dont like president obamas proposal, this say cries sis, something needs be done. Then you have budget hawks, youre in the unique situation of being in both karpcamps. How do you deal with that divide, maybe not 1. 8 billion to hhs but this is going to cost money, right . It is and i dont think anybody believes that this isnt an emergency and it doesnt require some additional spending. The question is, are we going to solve the problem with it . Theres a great corollary here. Couple of years ago we had a big influx of brazilians, socalled other than mexicans coming across the Mexican Border into the u. S. It was a big, big problem, and the way we solved it is actually we had a program to repatriate those brazilians back to brazil, to hold them, detain them and do that and in 30 days the problem was cut in half. In 60 days, the problem was cut by 90 . We need a similar focus here, and we just havent got that from the president yet. But many people, senator, look at that and they say youre just setting up a revolving door and if you apply it here its on a much grander scale and thats not realistic. Would we really be where we are if congress had gotten its act together and been able to shepherd Immigration Reform through both chambers . Oh, i do think the situation would be better, had congress moved or had the house moved like the senate did. I was one of the authors of the senate bill. I believe that Immigration Reform, i agree with the president there. We need to do it. I hope the house acts, but having said that, weve got an immediate crisis that needs to be addressed, and were not going to stem the tide of these unaccompanied minors coming until there are planeloads of children and their families being returned to honduras, el salvador and guatemala. Thats the bottom line. Very complicated situation. Complicated even more by politics in an election year. Thanks for joining us, senator jeff flake, appreciate it. Thank you. As 80,000 children could cross the border into the u. S. This year alone without their parents, the Obama Administration is saying they are desperate to escape the poverty and the violence plaguing their home countries, specifically the Central American nations of guatemala, honduras and el salvador. You heard us talking about those nations. Cnn has gone directly to the region to show you exactly what this journey is like. Alina machado is along the u. S. mexico borer it. We begin with gary tuchman on the border between guatemala and mexico where the trip begins for many of these children for just over 1. Reporter this is the suchiate rougher which separates mexico from guatemala. Were in the westernmost part of the country, across the river the southernmost part of mexico and you could see throughout this river, there are rafts of people who are trying to get across the border and doing it very easily. This is very unlike the border going into the United States. We have to be secret about it. I want to give you a look here to give you an idea of how open this is. There are police here. There are police all over here, and no one minds that people are going across the river from here in guatemala into mexico. You could see this family of three, a mother, father, and their little boy, they told me a short time ago theyre getting ready to go on the rafts, made of the huge inner tubes and getting ready to go across from here in guatemala into mexico, hoping also to get into the United States. This river is actough from sunrise to sunset, and in addition to all the police being here, not caring that people are crossing from here in guatemala to mexico, whats amazing is about a mile in this direction is the official border station. The official border station is right down there. Even though the Border Patrol people from guatemala and mexico work over there, they dont seem to care. This is an active business and the going rate for crossing is the equivalent of 1. 30. And this is the family we just met, the little child and his parents, the man in the red shirt with the stick hes the pilot of this raft and the guy who just got 1. 30. It upcally they go into mexico, there are taxis and vans and also bicycle taxis on the other side which will take them in a lot of cases to a nearby city of mexican tapachula, they stay in shelters and figure out where to go from there. It is a long way to tapachula, mexico, the southern part to the United States. It could take them weeks to get there, if they get there successfully. Thats an open question. The police are not only friendly here, theyre encouraging us to go for a ride on one of the rafts. Go into mexico, so we are. This is our skipper, luko. We paid him 1. 30 to go on the raft. Is this a fun job . Fun. Reporter easy . Easy job. Reporter you like taking people into mexico . Sure. Reporter people leave guatemala, paluko takes them to mexico, if they succeed they end up in the United States. In rio grande you cant do it in front of cops but here with paluko you can do it in front of everybody. Paluko is taking us into mexico. Unlike most of the people on this river, were going to head back into guatemala and spend the next couple of hours watching people continue to cross this river heading north. Gary tuchman, cnn. That was gary tuchman reporting. Were going to go to the u. S. mexico border where Alina Machado is standing by. Different difference situation there, but a very different situation where where you are, alina. Reporter anywhere you pretty much go in the mcgowan, texas, area, you will see a strong presence by the Border Patrol. Right here we found this surveillance stand were told is manned 24 7. Right now there is a Border Patrol agent in there and hes going to be there for serl hours keeping an eye on the border looking for people who may be crossing and just so you get a sense of where we are, you see that road right behind me, that road that goes down there, that goes to a dam, but if you walk over here with me, you see a river. Thats the rio grande river, and on the other side of that river where you see what appears to be a park, that is mexico. Now we know that thousands of undocumented, unaccompanied children are going to be coming to the u. S. , are expected to be coming to the u. S. This year, and many of them are going to be coming through this area, and they end up at a shelter, a Catholic Charity shelter for a very brief period of time, sometimes just to get a shower, a change of clothes, and we stopped by that shelter yesterday, and we got a good sense of whats going on there. Theres a lot of volunteers. Theres also a mobile clinic that is providing some health care to these children and adults who are crossing into the u. S. The most common complaint they say they are seeing are coldlike symptoms and also dehydration. Take a listen to what the owner of that mobile clinic has to say. We have no knowledge of where theyre coming from, at the Detention Center area. Weve seen sometimes where lets say 30 come in a bus, which is a shuttle bus from the city, and well see lets say 80 , and then theres times where the same number come by and well see 25 . Reporter of people who are sick. It vauries a lot. Reporter we did ask the owner how long does he think that is sustainable, the fact hes providing these services for these immigrants. He says they are prepared to provide these services as long as needed. He also says theyre relying on volunteer doctors and nurses to help get these people the care they need, and just to be clear, just so you have an idea of how often these border crossings are happening, we know theyre happening but we have not seen anybody actually crossing the border in the time that weve been here in the the mission, texas, area, but brianna, this situation is still happening. Alina machado for us on whats really the front line of this story. Well dive deeper later this hour. The governor of texas telling the president that he needs to go ahead and act on the growing border crisis, but president obama is facing down angry republicans for doing just that. Im getting sued right now by mr. Bain ear parentally for going ahead and acting instead of going through congress. Dont wait for me to take executive actions when you have the capacity right now to go ahead and get something done. And well be talking with our politic Political Panel about the mixed messages ahead. 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Its still not clear if hes spoke on it his family. In france, police say they foiled a terror plot aimed at the eiffel tower, the louvre and a Nuclear Power plant. They uncovered this plot decoding messages between an algerian man living in Southern France and al qaeda. The suspect was arrested a month before heading back to algeria for training on how to carry out attacks. And they are in, the 2014 emmy nominations were announced last hour. Proud to say cnn received nine, count em, nine. Hbo leading all of the nominees and here to break it down is our entertainment correspondent nischelle turner. This is a big morning. What was your takeaway here . Theres loi ta lot of takeaw. Number one there were a couple big omissions and i hate to start with who didnt get in but the fact that homeland was not nominated for best series even though the last season was critically mixed, the reviews of it. The fact it didnt get a nomination is a big omission and claire danes did get nominated for best actress in a dra, and ma