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Republican chairman of the senate homeland security committee said he almost canceled the committee hearing when he saw that image. >> i didn't have time to have a picture blown up. we've all seen it, of oscar alberto martinez ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter, valeria. i realize tragedies occur all over this country, all over the world. i don't want to see another picture like that on the u.s. bord border. i hope that picture alone will catalyze this congress, this senate, this committee to do something. >> here with me to share the reporting and insights, katherine lucy with "the wall st...

You can see the father who tried to put the t-shirt over his daughter to protect her. her arm is around his neck and they're dead this morning. whatever the policy discussion is, they were trying to get into the united states. they died a few feet from the bord border. the question for everyone this morning is how to keep this from happening. how do you protect 23-month-old children who are feet away from the united states? we're going to talk much more about this also as the morning continues. meanwhile, the breaking news. robert mueller's going to testify. robert mueller will talk before con...

Parent would do, he tried to save her, and that according to tanya is when a strong current swept over them both. the salvadoran minister of foreign affairs, encouraging people not to make the trip, don't risk it. this is a story that's played out repeatedly. on the same day the martinez' died, border patrol agents found four other bodies, three children and a 20-year-old woman about an hour west along the rio grande. the senate is expected to vote on that border funding bill after a house version passed last night faced a veto threat from the president. this morning, ron johnson made a plea o...

Migrants that's going to be at a record, they say, if they do get this tariff slapped on to them? >> i think it is a question of whether they can crack down more. they have got a 500 mile border, with guatemala, and they've had a hard time. it's pretty porous right now. they would have to step up the infrastructure and the personnel there to keep these people out. and the other issue is just trying to crack down on these buses, these private bus companies that are transporting the migrants to our southern border. they don't have a handle on it. they have clearly been trying to get a handle on ...

Conservative media, said this was a garbage compromise, it was awful. next day, once they got indication from the president that he was going to sign it, they said sign it but only if you declare a national emergency. the president seems to have accepted their advice. >> he listens very closely to what some of his conservative allies say on television. in talking to white house sources and allies of the president, he certainly has sort of been waffling on the idea of a national emergency, on declaring that. i talked to a white house source a couple of days ago who said i thought he was going t...