to reality, musk is hoping a device can help everyday life. >> they are testing and implanting chips in humans, and in 2015 there was somebody paralyzed through a car accident, and he was able to fist bump president obama at the time. and there's a question now where this technology could go and safety, and we reached out for comment but have not heard back. >> it's like a big device, and not a little computer chip that i was envisioning. >> yeah. that's going to do it for us today. thank you for joining us. i will see you back here tomorrow, same time same place. josé diaz-balart picks up our

coverage right now. good morning, it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 9:00 a.m. pacific. house republicans taking the first step to remove homeland security alejandro mayorkas over his handle of the border crisis. overseas, new details on a potential hostage deal that could pause the fighting in gaza. plus, what we are learning about the three soldiers killed in a drone strike in jordan. back here in the u.s., something like a sci-fi movie. his company has successfully implanted a chip in a human brain, and we will tell you the reasons why. ♪ ♪ we begin with the battle over the border, as the house makes a historic move against the cabinet official overseeing border security. right now the house homeland

security committee is debating articles of impeachment over secretary alejandro mayorkas. this is the first time it has happened to a cabinet secretary in nearly 100 years. the articles accuse mayorkas of a willful unfollowing of the law. >> refusal to follow the law and a breach of public trust. neither of the impeachment charges the committee will consider today are a high crime or misdemeanor in article 2 of the constitution. no serious person believes they are. >> this comes as a bipartisan group of senators are set to release the text of a bill that would give the president more authority to address the growing humanitarian crisis at the

border. it has not been released as of yet, but there's already plenty of opposition including from donald trump and republicans. joining us, julia ainsley, and david noriega in eagle pass, texas,and "usa today" washington bureau chief. what is happening as of right now? >> they are going back and forth, josé, republicans and democrats giving their opening statements. you played a chunk from the top democrat on the panel, and you see the line of thought the democrats are putting forward, that this is a political stunt and nothing more than a sham. they are saying while republicans are pursuing this impeachment of alejandro mayorkas, he's been negotiating a bipartisan deal to try and fix some of the issues republicans are impeaching mayorkas for, and

this is what congress is trying to fix to make sure the administration has all of the proper authorities moving forward. nonetheless, i want you to take a listen to what mark green, the chairman of the committee had to say in backing up and standing behind the effort. watch. >> today is a great day. we have not approached this day or this process lightly. secretary mayorkas' actions have forced our hand. we cannot allow the border crisis to continue, for criminals to waltz in undeterred, and he cannot remain in office. >> this will be an all-day hearing. we expect it to go for hours and hours as members make their case as why they are pushing this forward, and once the committee processes the two committee articles it will head to the house for a full floor vote, and speaker johnson said that's

something he wants to do soon. that said, though, it will all but likely die in the democratic-controlled senate where they will probably acquit mayorkas because they do not believe he did anything wrong resulting in a impeachment, a historic one at that. >> what are they saying he didn't do or did do to warrant the impeachment? >> willfully neglected the laws of the land. what mayorkas is saying is that he carried out the exact laws. there's a way that this administration constructed its whole border policy, and so that's what they have been carrying out. they actually increased the bar to apply for asylum after the end of the covid-19 restrictions in may, but because of shear numbers, and this happened time and time again, when the borders

get so high, no matter what policy you have in place, you have to release people so you don't get overcrowded, and the same thing happened in 2019 under the trump administration. they are saying and putting this on mayorkas, that the idea of catch and release is unique to mayorkas, and they were doing that in the bush administration and obama administration and again under trump, because you can't detain people indefinitely, especially now that you have people coming from places that are less likely to take the migrants back, and they can't keep them indefinitely detained. they are running out of space. if you are listening to the opening statements julie just pointed to, you could start to think about a bill that there is being negotiated in the senate right now that would answer a lot of the problems, but instead it's all being pointed at the secretary. >> yeah, and i mean, there's the underlying fact that never in

the history of the united states have so many people come into the country requesting asylum as has happened in the month of december. more than 300,000. susan, what is the political strategy behind impeaching mayorkas? >> i think it's a strategy of distraction. you know, there's these serious bipartisan talks going on in the senate, and that's pretty much a rarity, and that has been undercut and instead we have what amounts to an unprecedented in more than a century use of impeachment against a cabinet official so that republicans can attack what is happening on the border. we heard from former president trump the reason he came out against the bipartisan bill in the senate is because then republicans would own some of the problem at the border, so he pretty much directly acknowledged that, and an effort to reap the benefits without

dealing with the problem. >> there's the issue of politics, and david, there's the issue of the facts on the ground, and you are at eagle pass. men, women and children who have made the most difficult journey imaginable, to try and reach the united states and ask for asylum. what are you seeing on the ground there, david? >> reporter: yeah, josé, so we talk about this as a crisis on the border, but it's really much bigger than that, right? across the globe, in particularly, what the families say, the people that migrate with their children, they are leaving situations that are unattainable, like intense violence like ecuador. where i am standing in eagle pass, this is an entrance to

shelby park. this is the park that the state of texas shutdown recently in order to prevent those families from turning themselves in to the border patrol. the river, the border between mexico and the united states is about 100 yards that way. that's where texas has installed razor wire, shipping containers and buoys and all these measures to prevent families from crossing into the united states. nevertheless, they have been arriving in record numbers. yesterday there was a moment with a 4-year-old migrant girl almost drowned in the river and had to be rescued by the authorities. no matter what policies are in place, here on the ground at the state level or federal level, they are limited in the actual affect they can have here on the ground. >> it's so difficult to talk

about root causes, and i am glad you mentioned the root causes in venezuela, where people have been leaving that country because of the dictatorship, and haiti is a country where there is essentially no governing government. julie, what have we learned about what could be in the bipartisan senate deal? >> josé, i want to be clear, because even overnight since our latest reporting on what is in the deal, things still changed. discussions are still influx despite negotiators telling us they want to release text as soon as possible, potentially tomorrow, and they have in the proposals about what would make it easier to enforce law, and that's potentially shutting the

border down. 5,000 daily avenue over a 7-day period would automatically trig a shutdown of the border, and the border could not reopen until they show that decreasing below 75% of the number that caused the border to close. if we are seeing the border numbers we have been seeing, the ones julia pointed out for months now, the border could be closed for months if this law was in place, and let's say, in november, and it would not be able to open. they are going to put a cap on the days of the year in which they can use this authority at the border. they are raising the credible fear standard, making it more difficult for migrants to apply for asylum. they sound conservative, and

that's because they are, and these are also the same provisions that republicans, including speaker johnson, who i just heard from in a press conference a couple minutes ago saying they are just not going far enough, and if the senate can get it together and if they come out with it soon and vote on it and process it and bring it over to the house, will speaker johnson put it on the floor or refuse to do that based on the calls from the former president telling him that biden can do that on his own. >> trump continues to put pressure on republicans not to support any deal coming out of the senate saying on social media it would make republicans look bad. is the former president suggesting washington do nothing so he could benefit politically from it? >> that does seem to be the implication of the tweet. let's not lose sight of the ground president biden has moved

on in this issue, and we know it doesn't include a path of citizenship for dreamers, but they could push back asylum seekers. these are provisions that president biden would not have accepted at the beginning of his term, and there are provisions that would give him trouble with some in his democratic base. yet the administration now sees the situation at the border as a crisis both in reality and politically that they are willing to accept it, if the republicans will go along, which, josé, now seems unlikely. >> it does seem unlikely in the least. julia, in the next couple of days i want to speak with you more in depth about what this bipartisan group out of the senate would include. it seems it's focused on the destruction of the system of asylum in the united states giving the president the

authority to shutdown the border if the numbers get to a certain number. it seems as though that gives them the number controlled by the cartels, how many they want to let in on a daily basis. i want to ask you about new exclusive reporting about what homeland security officials on biden's assertion that he can shutdown the border. >> those things fit well together, because current and former dhs officials worry that when you post the numbers the cartel will send exactly that many to the border and will still overwhelm certain areas of the border like where david is today, and places where they think they can get more migrants across, and unless mexico agrees to take more migrants, you will have chaos and overcrowding at the border, and it will look like at the end of the covid

restrictions. even with the restrictions in place, we were at record numbers with the migrants crossing because mexico got overwhelmed. anything you hear about in blocking migrants from coming, you have to think about what does mexico think about this? they have said they have not agreed to any numbers yet. it's going to be a matter of seeing if this really becomes pen to paper and if it goes into law how would they effectuate a bill like this, and you could see a lot of chaos along the border and cartels knowing how to overwhelm the system by bringing as many migrants to where the law just breaks. >> they have shown they know how to do that well.

>> thank you all so very much for being with us this morning. moments ago, by the way, while leaving the white house president biden made his decision on how to respond to the deadly drone attack that killed three u.s. service members on sunday. the pentagon identified the three soldiers as 46-year-old sergeant william jerome rivers of carrollton, georgia, and kennedy sanders of waycross, georgia, and 23-year-old specialists, breonna alexsondria moffett of savannah, georgia. there you see their pictures. take just a moment to look at these people that gave their lives representing the united states of america. joining us now is nbc's monica alba. what is the latest from the white house? >> it's significant what the president did just tell reporters there, which is that he has made his decision on how

the u.s. will respond to this. remember what secretary blinken said just yesterday is that this may come in multiple phases and may happen over a prolonged timeline as well. it may not be an obvious thing initially and it may take time, but the president was clear that it would be a response and it would be something that would be notable and known once it does happen. he was also asked by reporters there if he specifically holds iran accountable for the deaths and injuries of these service members, and he said, look, ultimately the weapons used by the iranian-backed militias were supplied by iran, and he left it at that saying while repeating something, we have heard from the administration the last couple of days, which is the u.s. does not seek conflict or war with iran, and when pressed if there might be potential retaliation with any kind of strikes from the u.s. inside

iran, the u.s. said clearly, again, they don't want to see this escalate to something further, but they were the ones that always said if u.s. troops were to die as a result of one of these attacks, and we should point out there have been more than 160 since the israel and hamas war started, there would have to be something more significant. the president is always reachable by his national security team, and it's notable he met with some of his top advisers and the defense secretary yesterday at the white house to talk about and review a menu of options. it seems he has decided what to do and we have to wait and see when that will take place. he will be monitoring that and can do that when he is traveling like he will be for the remainder of today. josé? >> monica alba in washington. thank you. up next, we are days away from south carolina's democratic primary on saturday.

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request a free quote today. 19 past the hour. this saturday democrats in south carolina will head to the polls and stake the change of the primary bid. the president headed to south carolina to rally voters at a church along with congressman clyburn, and he turned his attention to donald trump. >> i didn't come here to tell you who to vote for. i came here to tell you who you must not vote for. there are forces at work that are attempting to turn the clock back.

>> joining us now, democratic congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. great seeing you, as always. i appreciate your time. a new piece detailed the frustration young black voters feel with the biden administration, after you were so critical to helping him win these votes in 2020, quote, interviews at students at two historically black colleges show a separation of what the students say is important to their lives and what older officials believe ought to be important. biden wants to talk about broadband and the students want to talk about civilian deaths in gaza. how does the prepare address this gap, or do you believe there's a gap to begin with? >> thank you very much for having me. no question about there is a difference in the approach of younger people than those of us who are older, and when it comes

to politics, we older people, almost 90% of our time is spent on substance. younger people are more into style. what we have got here is a classic example of some people selecting the style of the candidate over the substance of the candidate. joe biden has substancely delivered for the american people, and you see it in every number. the fastest growing economy in the world after covid-19. i would say to young people, as i have been saying, look, think about your futures. think about which one of these campaigns offer you a better future. is it the one that speaks the loudest, calling names, dealing in style, or is it the one

substantively delivering jobs, eliminating your student loan debt. we had another guy that tried to get rid of the program, and joe biden has forgiven $136 billion in student loan debt for 3.7 million people, and almost a billion of that right there in south carolina. so we have to decide whether or not we want substance or style. >> so i was struck by your comments at the second congregation you spoke at where you see i am not here to tell you who to vote for but i am here to tell you who you must vote against. is this the democratic presidential campaign motto which is let's not focus on the president as much as who the person who is trying to become president once again is? >> well, people that want style.

i want to tell them what style gets them, a full page ad in the "new york times" against five young people of color who were proven to be innocent. in that ad he called for the death penalty. style gets them that sort of thing, and we want substance. i want young people to focus on what is real in their families, in their futures, and even with their friends, in their communities. focus on who is bringing broadband accessible broadband in your communities. sit the guy that put the program in place or the guy who for four years promised you infrastructure and did not spend one time on infrastructure? my whole thing is, look at who is delivering in a substantive way. why is black unemployment at its

lowest point in over 40 years? why is it that we have health care being delivered at its cheapest point in all of these years? why is it that insulin is being capped at $35 a month when it was going through the roof when this guy left office. we just got to get young people to think more about their own futures and the families they wish to build and the communities they wish to live in and not worry about what is on social media and what people are misrepresenting to them each and every day. we know that to be the case. we just got to get young people to really focus on that part of their lives. >> congressman, i want to ask you about something the republicans have been focusing on a lot. last week's republican primary in new hampshire we saw immigration come in as voters'

second most important issue. in iowa we saw that as being the number one issue for republican voters there. how much of a political situation do you think this could be complicating things for the president? >> immigration has been a big, big issue in this country for as long as i can remember. it's continuing to be that. this president, if my memory serves well, the first bill he sent to the congress was a deal about this issue. he has now endorsed the republican plan for getting rid of this as an issue, however, his opponent, 45, wants to keep it as an issue. he's putting pressure on his republican friends in the house not to vote for a bill that everybody says is the best immigration border issue that

has been on the docket ever. why is it that he wants to do chaotic politics as the former governor haley said or community building as joe biden wants to do. >> congressman clyburn, it's always a pleasure to see you. i thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. now to breaking news from capitol hill. six sources familiar with the investigation tell bunch bowl news cofounder, jake sherman, the justice department is conducting a criminal probe into missouri congresswoman cori bush for misspending. >> here's what our colleagues

were able to report overnight. the house sergeant in arms, josé, was served with a grand jury subpoena yesterday. the house clerk read this aloud on the house floor feet away from me when they talked about a democratic lawmakers use of hiring private security, and jake sherman is reporting according to his six sources that that democratic lawmaker is cori bush, and she married her security guard last year, and this was somebody on her payroll in the years prior to her wedding, and she's the target of the investigation. republican leaders in the house, including this morning a couple moments ago refused to touch this issue and are leaving this clearly in the stands of the

justice department. cori bush's office has refused to engage with us but we will bring you the latest as soon as we have it, josé. >> thank you. up next, another state considers removing former president trump from the primary ballot. plus, what is being called an unprecedented raid at a hospital in gaza. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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hamas says its studying a deal that could release the remaining hostages in gaza, and the framework was reached yesterday. meanwhile, israeli forces carried out a raid at a hospital and it shows israeli forces disguised as staff sweeping through the hospital. hospitals officials called the raid unprecedented. joining us now is matt bradley in tel aviv, and a former arab and israeli negotiator at the state department. what have we learned about the raid by israeli forces? >> what we are hearing from the idf is one was a hamas official

and the others were members of a member of jihad, and this is a group that is sort of compiling different militant groups. hamas, of course, and palestinian jihad are both based in the gaza strip and this was in the west bank, and it was a city on its own, and it's an island of its own governance, and it's not falling under the palestinian authority or hamas or palestinian jihad. this hospital kind of abutted a refugee camp. we are talking about idf soldiers, and intelligence agents dressed as hospital employees. a lot of the israeli media say

it's like a popular cereal here, an attack where they dress up and infiltrate and doing their own operations using these sorts of methods, and these are israeli officials, israeli fighters dressed up as medical workers, people who would normally be by the laws of war sort of not necessarily seen as combatants, and yet they were. this just goes to follow the kind of controversy we are seeing in the gaza trip where defense forces have been surrounding hospitals, and we are seeing that just now in the southern part of the gaza strip. hospitals are supposed to be off limits. that's why it's seen as such an unprecedented operation and one that will certainly bring more scrutiny, heaping, even more scrutiny on the israeli force

officials. >> and they did capture somebody, just could be clear? >> yes. yes. they killed three people. >> where do the efforts to reach a deal on the hostages stand? >> we have not heard much about it in the last 24 hours, except hamas received the offer, and it was a meeting involving four different countries, and the head of the cia from the united states and his counterparts from egypt and qatar, and they came up with the proposal and gave it to hamas, and the israelis are considering it themselves, and there still could be changes from the israeli side as well. the ball is really in hamas's court. they have been making clear since the last negotiation that freed more than 100 hostages that they will not release

anymore of these hostages until israeli exceeds to a permanent and final cease-fire ending their encourage into the gaza strip, and israel ruled that out. six of the hostages are americans, josé. >> appreciate it, matt. i want to get your reaction, aaron, about the hospital. what do you think about that? >> no surprise, frankly. hamas' popularity according to reliable pollsters has tripled in the wake of october 7th on the west bank, and the israelis have been operating, and there are armed groups forming, and some angry young men in refugee camps, and some affiliated with

hamas and some not. it's no surprise the israelis are trying to identify, capture and or kill hamas leadership in gaza. that's a full-time effort there for them. no surprise they are operating in the west bank in an effort to do that there as well and preempt -- and for political reasons it's important that these israelis are able to stop the terrorists attack, and as far as operating within hospitals, the israelis have been doing that under much debate and controversy in gaza as well. an undercover operation. and the show that previews much of the operating styles israeli is operating in. >> matt touched on that, about a

possible hostage deal. matt bradley put it that way succinct, when you have hamas saying there will be no hostage deal unless there's a permanent cease-fire, and israel saying there will be no permanent cease-fire until the war has been won. how do you reconcile those two positions? do you think there's a possibility of an agreement to get some of the hostages out? >> i do. from my experience in the middle east negotiations, they have two speeds, slow and slower. we are nowhere near on the cusp of a significant break through on this, but there's compromise based on the nature of the proposal. based on what i understand, there will be a six-week pause, in which some of the hostages, elderly -- there's an infant, maybe a child still among those

hostages, and maybe a few civilians. that would be the first phase. then the next phase, if both sides respect the arrangement, the next phase would involve the release of female prisoners, members of the idf, the israeli defense forces, and then perhaps a final phase where both the bodies of the dead israelis, the hostages that were took on october 7th to trade, and there's estimated 20 or 30 of the 136 that remain. i do not believe, however, that a, this will end the war. number two, hamas will not release the israeli defense force hostages that they have, the soldiers, because it's their last insurance card.

it's in hamas' interest to drag this out, hoping that a international program that has been he said on the israelis will mount and the israelis at some point will be forced to agree to something to end the hostilities. we are months away to anything we would describe as an end to the war in gaza. i do think there will be a phased and staged releases at least for some of the hostages, in exchange for palestinian prisoners. >> thank you so much. appreciate seeing you. >> pleasure. it's day four in the trial of a mother involved in her son's school shooting. you're watching "josé

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board is meeting to consider whether to ban former president donald trump from the state's primary ballot over his role in the january 6 insurrection. it comes days before the nation's supreme court will hear arguments over colorado's highest court barring trump from the ballot there. joining us with more is garrett haake. good morning. another state could soon bar trump from their ballot. how concerned are those in trump's circle about this? >> reporter: they are not especially concerned right now in trump world. i will tell you why. they have seen a number of these other states that are viewing these 14th amendment questions, which this is in illinois, and ruling in donald trump's favor. massachusetts's highest court rules he could stay on the ballot. they believe it will come down to the supreme court making one decision on the case they will hear next week which deals with colorado. a decision that will hold for all of the states. there are more than a dozen still remaining dealing with these questions of ballot access

for donald trump. the supreme court, they believe, will make a decision that will affect all of the decisions and one decision up or down or whether donald trump remains on the ballot. they say he was never convicted or charged with insurrection. they think that will hold before the supreme court and he will be able to stay on the ballot. they argue all of the cases vigorously. this hearing in illinois has been going on for 30 minutes, focused purely on the trump case. in illinois, it's a board of elections. it would take a majority vote to remove donald trump from the ballot in the state, which votes in the middle of march. the trump team views these as almost preseason games leading up to what the supreme court decides to do after that oral arguments they will hear next week. >> garrett haake, thank you so very much. coming up, elon musk says a chip has been successfully implanted inside of a human

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57 past the hour. we are following surprising news from elon musk this morning. the tech billionaire says his brain science startup company has implanted a device in a human for the first time. it's a product he says could allow people to control almost any external device just by thinking. we have more on this. i'm thinking, this is a wild story. what do we know? >> yeah. i feel like this is something we should talk about in 50 years or 100 years. the patient, they are recovering well. we don't have a lot of details around the individual or the procedure itself. he says the initial tests are promising.

we are talking about a product that he titd telepathy. it's for people with quadriplegia. they have said it would be implanted with a robot. this is something approved by the fda for clinical trials last year. they are recruiting people to participate. the clinical tests could take six years. we are far down the line from commercialization. it's one of a handful of companies and researchers testing these brain chips implanting them into humans. a brain chip in 2016 helped someone who had been paralyzed from a car accident fist bump president obama. this is advancing research. it's been going on for a number of years. there's a lot of excitement around these technologies. there's also some question and concern around potential safety

regulation, the data regulation of your brain data. also around where does this technology go next? we reached out to neuralink but have not heard back. >> thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. reach me on social media @jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the middle east on edge as president biden says he has decided how to retaliate for that deadly attack that killed three u.s. soldiers at a u.s. base in jordan, while the president also saying he does not want a wider war.