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Lee, she is in texas, she's scheduled to meet with president obama today, she also recently spent some time at the border. again, sheila jackson lee coming up in just a few minutes. israel's military is dramatically escalating its efforts in the gaza strip. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered the move after militants fired a series of missiles toward israel's nuclear plant. ma'am hamas rockets are reaching deeper into the country than ever before. 700 people in gaza were killed by the israeli air strikes. this is the heaviest fighting between israel and the palestinians in the ...

Or trouble breathing. tell your doctor your medical history. and find an arthritis treatment for you. visit celebrex.com and ask your doctor about celebrex. for a body in motion. we have been talking about the situation at the the border, tens of thousands of undocumented folks coming up from central america, many of them children. i want to bring in congresswoman sheila jackson lee, democrat from texas. congresswoman, i understand that you are about to sit down with president obama and talk about this border crisis, the president there traveling in texas. what do you hope to accomplish in t...

Security, he already said, okay, i want to address this and they're saying no, because if he's for it, they're against it. so those are the basic politics that the president's looking at. having said that, i think he misplayed his hand a little bit politically by not going down there. >> and ryan, perhaps it would not appear to be so bad if the president had not scheduled, you know, four fund raisers in texas while all of this is happening. >> right. >> that's our political system. it's dominated by fundraising, you know, morning, noon and night. and it's a shame because if you think about the...

You can't turn them away. they are protected by the law. >> they are providing support services. they are not securing the border. in texas three weeks ago 280 individual, 280 individual, women and children just turned themselves in as one group and said here we are, we are here. given notice to appear, some of them are not going to show up for two years before there is a hearing, then the immigration process is such a long term. it's going to take a long time. do you know that of day in laredo they are releasing 250 individuals at bus stations? 500 individual every day they send them over to ...

Miguel, age 14 that i got to talk to. i have been to the border patrol stations twice. certainly we have to understand this humanitarian crisis we have seen. bill: is it acceptable for him to spend two days in your home state and not go there? >> my personal preference is for him to go down to the border. apparently he made the decision not to go down to the border. he's the president. he can go down to the border. today he's in austin, texas. it's up to the president to go down there. i'm knowing he doesn't make it this time that sometime in the future he can go in. we don't need to have phot...