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Under that shadow begins their undocumented life, like the millions who have already made this journey. kyung lah, cnn, tacoma, washington. >> kyung just introduced us to one family making the journey up from guatemala into the u.s. and they are hardly alone. since last october 57,000 children alone without their parents made it across the border. most are coming from central america, guatemala, as well as el salvador and honduras. the purple dots on the map are towns where people are coming from, trying to escape a cycle of poverty and violence. the bigger dot the more the people there are le...

These children would really be a fundamental change in both our domestic and international commitments. i think that we should reflect as a nation on the history of these laws, their importance to our image as being the beacon really of democracy and freedom of the world. so i'm dishearten eed at the notion these children who are approaching our country seeking protection may be pretermated from even asking for our help. >> that will be part of the debate that we hear in washington. jonathan ryan, thank you so much. great insight. >> thank you. as the thousands of undocumented children wait ...

Children coming alone across our borders? >> i think quite simply the reason is that things have gotten worse in central america. children, people in general but above all children don't usually voluntarily seek to leave their homes. these are children being pushed out in large numbers because they have been victims of abuse in their homes, in the towns and cities where they live at the hands of drug car tells and criminals. for them it is a situation of leave or die quite frankly. >> the numbers that we are talking about here are staggering. in the past eight months 47,000 children have been ...

should be taken. >> the idea that you shouldn't have gotten him out because he might have been a bad guy -- >> this principle of leave no man or no woman behind is one i stand by. >> regardless of the circumstances we still get an american soldier back if he is held in captivity. period. >> days after the decision to swap five former taliban commanders for america's only prisoner of war the questions and controversy are growing. today nbc news has learned the army is prepared to launch a full inquiry into the conduct and circumstances surrounding the capture of sergeant bowe bergdahl...

Good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let's start with this. president obama and his republican opponents are about to go over niagra falls in a barrel, but nobody knows for shush how bad it's going to be. will the economy smash on the rocks below? will the stock market plunge a thousand points and keep on dropping? will the world money watchers see the u.s. drowning in its own dysfunction? or will obama and the dead-end opposition it faces be saved by the public's horribly low expectations of what they can do? what will prove stronger for obama and boehner? the barrels they're ridin...