What we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian kaes lace. And cold shoulder, the white house brushes off its own Administration Report on Global Warming, despite the findings that Climate Change is intensi y intensifying and without policy changes will cause massive challenges to the countrys health and economy. Climate change is loading the dice for more extreme and destructive weather events in the future. We are already feeling the impacts. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. U. S. Border agents use tear gas to repell mexican migrants at the border. The president is threatening to close the southern border this morning. He claims with no evidence, what he calls stone cold criminals. This after a weekend tweet from the president suggesting he was going to change u. S. Policy. A proposal of questionable legality. Mexican Officials Say no agreement has been reached, as thousands of people, including many children remain in limbo. A shocking 60 minutes report about the shocking policy about separating children from their parents. Joining me now, gadi schwartz, allen gomez and phil rutger and kimberly atkins. Welcome all. First to you, gadi, what is happening there today. Well, today looks like another day of very high tension here along the border, in particular here, where we are at the caravan, im going to show you the lay of the land here, over there, thats the border, you see that fence in the background, then you see there are Police Officers all over this area. In fact, Something Big is about to go down, and it appears you have police here. These buses were sounded by these large buses. There are more buses down the street, all of these buses were surrounded by police. Now the police are taking this defensive stance all the way around the caravan. Im going to take you down here and show you where the caravan is. It looks like this is something that is putting this neighborhood on lockdown. We were talking just a little while ago, to a woman who lived here, she said that she was taking her kid to school. And the schools have been told they will not be in session today. Were going to get in this car fast, and were going to drive down [ speaking spanish ] its just a quick short drive. Im going to show you where the 5,000 plus members of the caravan are congregating. Its going to be a very tense situation. Whatever happens here, weve asked authorities here whats going to happen, it looks like theres an operation underway, they have said nothing, we have heard rumors that there may be an attempt to go inside of the shelter and possibly try to remove some of the people that were involved in yesterdays incident at the border. Were going to go right around these cars and theres going to be a large group of people youre going to see. This is the outskirts of the caravan. Walk this way with me. This right here is the outside of the caravan. We have police that are lining up all the way around here. And then youve got outside here, its mostly men. Many from honduras, guatemala, el salvador, inside there are a lot more families, the majority of this caravan appears to be men. Theyre standing here in line, theyve been in line for food every day. They get food every day, twice a day here. The kacaravan has grown in size. Its going to be up to mexican authorities to determine who was involved in the incident yesterday that happened at the border. There were rocks thrown at the border, mexican authorities have been reviewing Surveillance Video and videotape to try to determine who was involved. There are so many people out here, many people here trying to claim asylum and waiting for their chance to go to the border and wait will other people growing extremely frustrated. Andrea . Thanks, gadi for setting the stage for us. Allen go he m gomez, lets tak about the policy, mexico would keep people on the mexican side of the border until they get asylums processed. That would be a big change in policy and law. There was push back from mexican officials. What is your understanding of where it stands right now. They were definitely in ongoing negotiations, to fry to figure out a way to house these migrants in mexico, while they wait to apply for asylum. But this could be very interesting, december 1st is when the new administration comes in. And hes struck a decent tone with President Trump ever since wing his election, but he won his election based on being the antitrump candidate. So were starting to see the first signs of him fighting back and pushing back against that. Underlying all of this, is the fact that all those migrants we saw, the big, big mass of people there at that port of entry where theyre trying to get in, the u. S. Can process fewer than 100 people a day. We just got off the call with the cdp commissioner a little while ago. For all this manpower going down to the border, all the military, the Additional Border patrol agents, they have not done a similar effort to speed up or increase the number of asylum applications they can process each day. The mass of migrants in tijuana is going to continue to swell, and our ability to process them and relieve that pressure has stayed static at fewer than 100 a day. We saw this as well, allen, and all the rest of us. We saw this after the separation of children from their parents policy was initiated. And all of our reporting was, there was a slow walking of processing at the border, despite the aclu and other groups arguing for more judges, nothing was done, to the contrary, it was almost a deliberate stockpiling of people at that side of the border in terrible conditions. Phil rutger, the administrations policy here has been so questionable, the most recent indictment of it really was 60 minutes last night, with a draft Inspector General report from dhs, saying there had been an initial unauthorized and unrevealed separation of children from parents decision put into effect six months earlier, and that some of these kids are taken without according to one whistle kbloeer who quit from the civil rights division, saying that he quit because they put the policy into effect, Jeff Sessions so eager to do that, without any procedure for tracking these families and uniting them. Clearly you see the white house and sessions when he was the attorney general, trying to implement policy. Hes very adamant with his team, he wants these borders to be secure. He does not want these migrants to cross into the United States, and he uses language like he used on twitter today, calling them criminals without any evidence. Many of them are family members trying to seek asylum here peacefully. You see right now, Kirstejn Nielsen who is fighting to save her job and save her standing with the president , trying to be as tough as possible and stretch the boundaries of what is legal in executing the president s policy. Perhaps chief of staff kelly as well, who was in charge of dhs when that initial unauthorized and unannounced separation of children and parents was approved. What about the law here . First of all, saying the rules of engagement are that force can be used to protect border agents. How is that possible under pentagon rules under u. S. Law, as well as keeping people who deserve asylum adjudications on the mexican side. That puts both this decision to authorizing the use of force by folks in the military, and any potential deal that is struck with mexico. Both on shaky legal ground. The federal law prohibits members of the military from acting in a Law Enforcement capacity on u. S. Soil, did seems by any measure, thats exactly what is being ordered here. There are some exceptions, but they would have to prove that. With respect to keeping migrants out of the United States. As their asylum claims are processed, that too under federal law, theyre allowed to be in the United States, present in the United States regardless of how they enter while those asylum claims are being processed. The president would need congress to make those things happen. I want to play a little bit of munoz who dealt with this issue under obama. This is what she had to say on 60 minutes. They issued an order without consulting with the agencies who were responsible for carrying out that order. We take better care of peoples effects when we seasoned them to jail than we took care of the children who we took from their parents. And thats because these decisions were clearly made at the top and pushed down to the agencies without thinking through the ramifications. So i dont know if theres a political impact or fallout from this as well. You had instances where one of the families interviewed on 60 minutes as weve been reporting on the border, the moms when they are reunited, if theyre reunited and some still are not. Find that these toddlers, these infants dont respond to their own parents. Its a horrible humanitarian crisis and it has been from the beginning of the family separation policy. And you have parts of the government right now trying to respond, trying to correct this in some way. But its clearly not working. You clearly continue to have families struggling that are torn apart, and its a real problem at the border. And the president is so adamant in hammering his sort of ideological agenda on immigration that its created problems inside the government. To say nothing of the demonizing of all of this by calling them a caravan and describing them based on no observable facts. No middle easterners without any evidence of that. 500 murderers in the midst, et cetera. Yes. Thanks so much. Coming up, rough seas, tensions rising, as russia seizes ukrainian ships. A live report from moscow coming up here on Andrea Mitchell reports next. A wealth of information. A wealth of perspective. A wealth of opportunities. Thats the clarity you get from fidelity wealth management. Straightforward advice, tailored recommendations, taxefficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth. Fidelity wealth management. To help you grow and protect your wealth. I was thinking. D clot could there be another around the corner . Or could it turn out differently . I wanted to help protect myself. My doctor recommended eliquis. Eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot. Almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didnt experience another. 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We know what happened, but were not sure why it happened. This was a plans a planned provocation by ukraine. It was plartly to gain the wests attention before the g 20 summit and also a matter of internal politics. Hes behind in the polls in march. Hes suggesting theyve played the security card, creating military hysteria as lavrov says. He has asked for martial law to be declared, that would delay those elections, you could say there is some merit in that claim, there is enough doubt, thats what sergei is trying to do on the other hand president putin has plenty of reasons to engineer Something Like this. The g20 is coming up, he may want to test President Trump who you will remember accused president obama of letting russia invade crimea. President putin may also want to establish a de facto sea border at the straight effectively cutting ukraine off. Certainly harming its economy. Each side is blaming the other, i suppose whats ahead is, what will President Trump say, what will he do about this, there are already calls for economic sanctions against russia, and is it over . This is president putins spokesman. This is a dangerous situation, and nato has warned of the dangers of escalation, and just in the last few minutes, nikki haley warning russia against escalating this any further. Andrea . Thanks to you and nikki haley, heres part of what she had to say. We call on russia to respect its International Obligations and not obstruct or harass ukraines transit. And to deescalate the tensions its created. As President Trump said many times, the United States would almost a normal relationship with russia. Outlaw actions like this one continue to make that impossible. Her statement was the first from the u. S. Side. Canada immediately came out criticizing this overnight. But the u. S. Was silent until this u. N. Security council meeting, so the president has not been speaking out about this at all. Thats certainly right. Also the eu spoke out, which is not surprising given the stronger diplomatic role they played. And in fairness, nato did. But yes, silence in the white house, which is pretty distressing, given that we have a powder keg, its a powder keg that weve had in Armed Conflict since 2014 on land. This is moving toward a strategically important area of cross border maritime as well. What do you think putins up to. Given the fact that he and the president have a planned summit this coming saturday. Plus meetings at the g20 in argentina. Putin clearly has more problem in ukraine. An effort to expand russian influence. And make sure nato does not move toward ukraine. I dont want to necessarily attribute this maritime conflict to a strategic move by putin. Quite often weve seen these sorts of tactical interactions go bad, it may not be something putin planned. I think obviously with the president and putin, weve seen some fast interactions going back to helsinki, this is a problem in ukraine, which predated President Trump, clearly i would say his lack of push back on putin in places like helsinki, that may come back and it may be biting him now, and it will, of course, come up again with another opportunity at the g20. And critics have said that the president s embrace of the saudis in the face of their own intelligence assessment and putin in the face of the intelligence conclusions about the 2016 election, all these feeds into how totalitarian leaders can defy the United States with impunity. President trump inherited this problem from president obama. Undoubtedly. The willingness to stand back when authoritarian regimes either internally or in their neighborhoods are very, very aggressive in ways that undermine international order, undermine international interests, the president has repeatedly been willing to stand back and say, we have other interests and im just fine with that, thats deeply problematic, we also have to remember, the president s criticism constantly of fake news, also helps give putin some maneuvering room, lavrovs statements are laughable about honoring international law, in light of rauch russias repeated disregard of international law. And ukraines territorial integrity. When you get in a world where no one is speaking about facts, and that becomes acceptable, it allows countries like russia to push those boundaries even further. We will be watching at the u. N. , its great to hear nikki haleys speech, but russia has a veto on the security council, so there will be no action on the security council. Remember, nikki haleys almost out the door as well. She has i think in many instances, been a critical voice of measured thoughtfulness at the u. S. , shell be leaving that post, and we still have no idea whos going to take her chair. That is one of the things thats pending. Michael, great to see you. Great to see you. And coming up, lockup, former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos reports to prison today. All the latest on the Mueller Investigation right here. I just got my ancestrydna results 74 italian. And i found out that im from the big toe of that sexy italian boot so this Holiday Season its ancestrydna per tutti order your kit now at ancestry. Com than rheumatoid arthritis. Before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. Xeljanz xr is a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. It can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. 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