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To come here, looking for port of entry and to seek asylum, when you see those shots of tear gas and you see women running with kids with no shoes on, it pulls at the heartstrings, as it should. geraldo rivera yesterday, on "the five," made an impassioned defense on the part of people he calls economic refugees. that they are coming here for a better life, for a job. a speed when he knows, though, that the enumeration of things that qualify for asylum do not include you being poor. >> jessica: he does understand that, but he also understands that we are a nation of immigrants and that we do --...

Remarkable. >> nancy pelosi intends to be speaker of the house, but on friday, those intentions hit another speed bump when nine democrats from the moderate problem solvers caucus said they can't support her at this time because she has not made changes they say will help break gridlock in congress. if not her, then who? they suffered a major blow this week when their preferred candidate, congressman marsha fudge of ohio cut a deal with a subcommittee. she then threw her support behind pelosi. in a weekend letter, she called for unity ahead of a caucus vote on wednesday. i thank so many of you...

She is vote-counting. and everybody knows, when she comes to your door and says "how are you when to vote? are you way to vote for me? remember what i did." she is personally going to whip and she does that really well. it's hard to run against that. marcia fudge has talked with the support he/she has gone, but can you count the votes? you go get votes and know that you've got them based on those conversations? that takes years to build a pretty made one of the reasons why she and the president couldt something done. it does feel a little bit disingenuous for the party of women to not support ...

The chief attack on them, if not one of the main attacks on them was if you elect this democrat, nancy pelosi would be speaker. a lot of them distanced themselves from her and are they going to be able to perhaps vote yes or vote no in the caucus vote, where she will easily get a majority and maybe vote a different way on the floor? are they going to be able to splooit slice that? jason crowe, abigail spanbanger, they've made a promise to their districts. >> we want women in charge just not this woman in charge, i like that. back to president trump, it was interesting to say he wants nancy pel...

To be that person. she's not in the race at this moment. there's a lot of steps include going to the caucus vote. she could try to beat her on the floor. i think that would be unlikely. a bunch of us are feet from here. new members keep coming out of office sounding open to supporting pelosi and we wait for this letter. there's rumors that a letter of about 18 members who will not vote for pelosi will come out. it looks like they face planting into rock and they're not releasing this letter. she's cycling through the democratic caucus appearing to, if not lock up votes, convince people she's a...