National emergency, Officials Say a Record Number of families are seeking asylum in the u. S. This is truly an emergency. Is the real crisis on the border a humanitarian once . Will hurd responsibilitids in m poll position. A new candidate goes all in on fighting climate change. It is our only chance for longterm survive. Governor jay inslee joins us. Welcome, im in austin, texas, live at the south by southwest festival, where tonight we will be moderating town has with three candidates. Much of the field is here, as is almost part of the field. Texas native beto orourke who dodged questions yesterday. One candidate not here, joe biden. A brandnew cnn shows biden leading the pack with senator Bernie Sanders behind this key early moment comes as the democratic house, at least, is showing signs of Division Following congresswoman ilhan omars controversial comments. And the resolution giving President Trump exactly what he wants, dissension in the democratic ranks. With me is candidate from right here in texas, former hud secretary jewel han castro. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Let me start right there with the comments from ilhan omar. She has previously accused hypnotizing the world and suggested that support is all about the benjamins and most recently she criticized lawmakers as potential having, quote, a liegeance to a foreign country. Im glad she apologized. I dont believe that shes, you know, in her area an anticementianticemen antisemite, somehow Dominating Industries or politics with money. Im glad she is apologized. Im also glad that the house is condemning bigotry. We have seen a rise in antisemitism in the last couple years, and seen a rise in antimuslim hate, hate directed at others. I do think its fair, whether the country is israel or a european country or latinamerican country, for people to criticize or to pick apart the policy that the United States is taking toward that country, but it should be done i think in a constructive way and not in a way that gives rise to old tropes. You suggested you support the House Resolution which condemned antisemitism and other bigotry as well. Some democrats felt that resolution was watered down by not focusing on congresswoman omar as confidence. Congressman ted deutsche, who is jewish, voiced that concern. Take a listen. Why are we unable to singularly concement andemn antisemitism . It feels like we can only do you think House Democrats water it had down, do you think it was a bit of a copout . I dont think so. I think there was a lot of talk about antisemitism, the rise of it. I think, you know, the vast majority of people in the Democratic Party recognize that antisemitism in the United States and also in places like europe has been on the rise and we need to combat that. I think also probably that this was impacted by the fact that representative omar apologized for this, and said she should have said it differently. My hope is that, you know, a part from this resolution, that were going to take action in this country to make sure that antisemitism and other types of bigotry are not given sustenance, and we have to recognize that we have a president , who is dividing americans along a lot of these lines. I would like to see us united in trying to offer a more difficult, positive and inclusive vision for this country. This is also dividing democrats on the trail. You said there needs to be reparationses to compensate for years of slavery and discrimination. Take a listen to Bernie Sanders, one of your campaign rivals when it was pointed out that you and Elizabeth Warren support some form of reparations. What do they mean . Im not sure that anyone is very clear. What i have just said is that i think we must do everything that we can to address the massive level of disparity that exists in this country. E. So what do you mean . What i said was that ive long believed that this country should address slavery, the original sin of slavery, including by looking at reparatio reparations. If im president , then im going to appoint a commission other task force to determine the best way to do that. Theres a tremendous amount of disagreement on how we would do that, but let me Say Something about senator sanders response there. He was also asked this question in 2016. What he said on the view the other day, i think, he didnt think the best way to address this was for the United States to write a check. To my mind that may or may not be the best way to address it. However, its interesting to me that when it comes to medicare for all, health care, you know the response has we need to write a big check, that when it comes to tuitionfree or debtfree college, the answer has been we need to write a big check. So if the issue is compensating descendants of slaves, i dont think the argue about writing a big check ought to be the argument you make if youre making the argument that a big check needs to be written for a whole bunch of other stuff. If under the constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldnt you compensate people who actually were property. Interesting. The Border Patrol says its the number of families apprehended is up more than 300 from last year. You have slammed President Trump for his immigration policy. What do you think needs to be done to deter all these families coming in seeking asylum, or do you think they should be allow to do come in and seek asylasyl . Somebody has a right to seek asylum. Jake, this is a very important moment. Youll remember that last year the administration said that they were taking little children away from their parents because they wanted to deter other families from coming. They want if we were cruel enough just to take these children away from their families, that would show all these other families that they shouldnt come to the United States. Instead of deterring these families, we see more families coming. This is exhibit a in the grand failure of this administration on immigration. So when people ask, what is the problem . One of the problems is this administration has taken the wrong path. I think what we need to do in the long run really is to engage these northern triangle countries, honduras, el salvador, guatemala, and figure out a way to work with them so people can find safety and prosperity there instead of knocking on the doorstep of the United States. In the meantime we ought to follow International Law in our practice, which is to allow them to seek asylum when they present themselves. I nour you are only at 1 . Is that where im at . I dont even make the cutoff when you put the graphic on. Take it down to 1 , jake, all right . What do you need to do to get that number up . Your favorability has gone up a bit. What do you need to do to get out of the Single Digits . My favorability the last month and a half, got up to six points. Im articulating a strong vision to make this country the most pros russ nation on its. I can tell in iowa im going to gain traction. As you know if we look at any president ial cycle, oftentimes its people who have started off at 3 , 1 , 2 , including donald trump that can win the nomination. So it is a long road, a long journey. Good luck on the trail, secretary. Thank you. The only republican lawmakers to represent a district on the mexican border. Congressman will hurd is next. The brandnew poll numbers that sets the pate in the president ial race. Another 2020 contender is here. Stay with us. Your allergy pills . Most pills dont finish the job because they dont relieve nasal congestion. Flonase sensimist is different. It relieves all your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Its more complete allergy relief. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist helps block six key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. And six is greater than one. Flonase sensimist. To take care of yourself. 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Tonight three candidates will take questions from and this weeks the senate could vote against the declaration of a national emergency. Joining me is the only lawmakers to represent a Congressional District on the border. Congressman will hurt, thank you for being here. I think were the only two people at south by southwest wearing ties, just for the record. Im sorry to force you to wear a tie. You know theres new numbers showing the number of apprehensions has almost doubled since last year, and more and more of them are families. Is this a crisis . We are absolutely dealing with a problem. I think the president become focused on Border Security is the important. We had 67 billion worth of illegal narcotics coming into the country. Ive save this sing 2002, building a 30foothigh structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective. Guess what . The president agrees. What we should be doing is focussing on technology, manpower, physical barriers where it makes sense. We have 654 miles of physical border. This bill has 88 more miles of physical border going in the rio grande area. You dont have a problem with that . I voted for 220 billion of funding. You have 40 in your districts . About. I have about 820 miles of the border. So ultimately the issue with the use of the word emergency that givers the president certain powers that i believe is goes against what our constitution has said. Congress, back before i was alive, gave this authority up, that they have the power of the purse to the executive branch in times of an emergency. I think we need to claw that back. Many republicans were very critical of the declaration, but only 13 house republicans, including you, voted against the declaration of the national emergency. Why . Why such a disparity between those who talk about the constitution, and actually putting their money where their mouth is. Heres why i voted for it. I have multiple military bases in my district. Theres a plan to take about 4 billion away from construction at our military bases. In del rio, which is on the border, producing more pilots than any other facility in the United States. There are projects there that take care of the men and women that keep us safe, that would be impacted. We have, what, six months, seven months left in the fiscal year we had a bill that funded Border Security. Weve done 220 billi 220 billioe last year. We need to be focusing on things like fixing asylum. Asylum is being abused. Thats why youre seeing an influx of families. Were at south by southwest talking about technology. We should be using more technology. You can put what i call a smart wall along the border on all 2,000 miles in less than a year and gain operational control of the border, which means you know everything thats going back and forth across the border. You voted also for the resolution in the house condemning antisemitism and hate more broadly. Youre the only black republican in the house, nearly two deserts of your colleagues voted against the resolution. A lot of them said it was watered down, but you voted for it. Why were you wrong . I dont think they were wrong. I voted for it, because you shouldnt hate people, end of story. We learned that in kindergarten. I think many of my colleagues was lodging their being upset it was watered down, it wasnt narrow. Had republicans done that, the entire Democratic Caucus would have gotten gone crazy and goej upset about that. To be fair, i mean, your caucus, the Republican Caucus tolerated a lot of insanely bigoted comments from steve king. Yeah, but under new leadership, one of the first things that Kevin Mccarthy did, as soon as they happen, he censured him, took him off his committee. The gentlewoman from minnesota is constituent on the Foreign Affairs committee. This was similar remarks. You know, we shouldnt hate people. This is 2019. The fact that the democrats tripped up this week dealing with a resolution on condemning antisemitism is absolutely crazy. We should have been talking about how are we going to make sure wee competitive in 5g against china . How do we make sure were working on Artificial Intelligence . Instead were getting caught up by comments that we should have learned in kind e eergartenkind. Youre here to talk about a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. Youre a former cia officer, on the house intelligence committee. Explain why the American People should be concerned. What threat does Artificial Intelligence pose . Its the future. Vladimir putin said whoever masters ai will master the world. I think thats the only thing we agree on. We are learning how to grow more crops with less water, with less land, with less energy. We all know about autonomous driving cars. If we dont lead on this, china will, and that will impact our jobs. We have to make sure our young people are ready for the future. Thats one of the things were working on up here. These are one of the issues ill be talking about here. Lastly, you have a famous our infamous, depending on your point of view, friendship with former congressman beto orourke who ran for Senate Last Year and lost. If he were to run for president , who would you vote for between beto orourke and donald trump . My plan is to vote for the republican nominee. So President Trump over beto orourke . More likely donald trump will be the candidate. Im pulling unless beto orourke decides to congressman will hurd, thank you for being here. We appreciate it. Our next guest is building a campaign on a single issue, one that President Trump says doesnt exist. Governor jay inslee joins us, next. 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