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Emergency funding to beef up the boarder, crack down on immigrant smugglers and counter who officials call a campaign of misinformation by the smugglers promising central american kids who come here can stay. michelle is at the white house and joins us with reaction to the plan. the white house made emergency requests for more funding and requests for power for the homeland security to try to deal with the crisis. tell us the details. >> this money, obviously, is like what republicans are calling a band-aid. it is reactive but there is some proactive piece to that, as well, working with centra...

Of is facts, what to do about all these kids. tonight as we lay out the new white house plan for dealing with it, we're going to focus on the politics. but we want to focus on helping you see past the problem itself. today the administration asked congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to beef up the border, crack down on immigrant smugglers and counter what officials call a campaign of misinformation by those smugglers who have been promising that central american kids who come here can stay. michelle kosinski joins us. the white house made a ask for more funding and power for the hom...

First the border. here is what white house spokesman josh earnest said today about why we are seeing such a huge influx of illegals? >> so much of what we are seeing on the southern border is the result of a deliberate, misinformation campaign that is propagated by criminal cindy cats in central america. that miss information is causing some people who are in a rather desperate situation to risk their lives to come to the united states border expecting that they will be able to stay in this country. that is simply not true. >> your thoughts on that? >> hi, eric. >> hi geraldo. >> nice to see y...

one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? >> with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. but the real fight is with mitt romney and it is anything but nice. there is enough journalists swar...

80 miles north of the border, drug cartels control some of that territory. they say these drug cartels, these immigrant smugglers are more violent than ever, and they need laws like this to show that the arizona is serious about enforcing immigration law and taking back some of this frort from the smugglers who now control it. >> okay, cnn's casey wian for us in san francisco. good to see you. you know, we're fighting one another over this. maybe we should get to a larger question here. why hasn't the federal government passed comprehensive immigration reform? let's bring in juan carlos lope...