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In the meantime, funeral services today for a 9/11 first responder and former detective. this is luis alvarez before and after he was diagnosed with cancer. he died shortly after delivering dramatic testimony before congress that may have helped secure federal funding for other heroes of the attacks. a report on that ahead. look at those pictures. plus, democrats escalating their pressure on the rank and file in the border patrol after a new watchdog report warns about conditions at migrant facilities. but others say the democrats are going too far. we will speak to the vice president of the n...

Longer offer bond hearings to asylum seekers but would keep them in custody as a part of the trump administration's crack down on illegal crossings, as the inspector general for the department of homeland security warnings of dangerous overcrowding at migrant facilities in texas. these images coming from a new report by government investigators who made unannounced inspections at five border patrol facilities and two ports of entry in the rio grande valley region of texas. this was during the week of june 10th. investigators finding children at the facilities did not have access to showers, an...

Inspector general's report laid out in stark detail unsanitary conditions at the cbp's migrant facilities. spotlighting the conditions even more today, the american academy of pediatrics put out these images. they are drawings made by children recently released from cbp custody depicting themselves in cages. now the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, is calling for the acting cbp chief to be fired. this just ten days before house democrats want him to testify before the oversight committee. so the big questions remain what happens next and what is going to fix this crisis. joining me now is...

Concerns. one called the situation a ticking time bomb. children at three of the five border patrol facilities were visited and had no access to showers. two facilities had not provided children access to hot meals. tonight a new cnn poll shows nearly three-quarters of americans say the situation at the southern border with mexico is a crisis. a number of house democrats toured migrant facilities in texas yesterday in florida. today they and party leaders are speaking out about the conditions and about the white house's response. >> we came today to say we will shut this down if we have to. an...

Critical in the post-debate push. and if it's wednesday, it's "meet the press daily." good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. we begin with the growing outrage over the trump administration's handling of the migrant crisis at the southern border. scrutiny which just elicited this response from the president moments ago. he said that if undocumented immigrants are unhappy with the conditions, they shouldn't come. this afternoon he also painted the government's migrant facilities as, quote, far better and safer than the conditions those migrants fled. he rushed to the def...