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Coming up, the department of homeland security now promising changes to protect migrant children after a second child died while in custody of customs and border protection. new reaction from the dhs secretary. first, more of "time" magazine's top photos of the year. this is olympic gold medalist aly raisman confronting larry nassar at his sentencing. he, of course, is the former u.s.a. team gymnastics doctor who is in prison for the rest of his life after pleading guilty to sexual assault charges. raisman, meanwhile, has become an advocate for survivors, arguably the face of survival. you'r...

Whatever it takes to get his border wall. the senate is officially back in session later this afternoon. it's not expected many of those members will attend, basically assuring there won't be any kind of breakthrough. msnbc's mike viqueira is on capitol hill for us. mike, do we know whether there's any negotiating going on perhaps behind the scenes in an effort to end this thing? >> there could be. i mean, the nature behind the scenes is sometimes, sometimes not always, means we're not aware of what's going on. craig, i think a sense this is getting baked in, this is going to last at least unt...

Whether they can twist enough arms and get enough republicans. the whole idea is for republicans to show solidarity and get as many people, if they get to 50 or 51 would be great. if they can get to a number, then they can point the finger pretty clearly at the democrats and say look, we put up all the votes we could to make this thing work and the other side isn't helping us. but if they come up short, five, six, seven, ten republicans vote no, it's a little harder to make the case that they're responsibly governing. >> jen, were you part of the obama administration during the shutdown in 201...

Pretty clearly at the democrats and say, look. we president ut up all the voted to make this thing work and the other side isn't helping us. but if they come up short, five, six, seven, ten republicans vote no, it's a little harder to make the case that they're responsibly governing. >> jen, you were part of the 0 became obama administration during the shutdown in 2013. does a shutdown really work out well for anybody? i'm guessing both sides are hoping the other side gets the blame. >> shutdowns are never great politics, but this would be the fourth shutdown in the last 25 years. republicans ...

Near the way and i feel like crying to get them desperate all our work was for nothing one of. our things today. a lot of land was lost this morning. and i'm just talking about this morning. how are we going to live. if things don't change in the next few days we'll have to make a decision the village in the fields will flood oh let's wait until tomorrow but i don't have much hope. have you. you can see what we're dealing with there but the government isn't helping us or told. them in their protective measures to kill us the authorities can't