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border of syria to keep one a number of refugees. >> attorney general eric holder is resigning later this hour. president obama will make the formal announcement, we will bring that to you live, of course. holder is the country's first african-american attorney general. randall pinkston joins us life now. let's talk about the timing of holder's resignation, was this a surprise? >> welt e certainly, it is a surprise to the public, but apparently we have learned that holder has been discussing this for some time. as long ago as this past february, he talked about it in a magazine article. he apparently had a health issue. they checked his heart, it was okay, but it gave him a scare, and also caused him to reflect on

the fact that he had a teenager son that he wanted to spend more time with, and of course, it's a very high stress job, the job of attorney general. so yes, it is a surprise to the public, but not so much a surprise to people inside the white house who have been talking to holder per several weeks about his manages. >> so randall, tell us more about the legacy, eric holder leaves behind. >> well, first and foremost, president obama made history as the chief executive of the country, appointed the first african-american as the chief law enforcement officer. one of the longest tenured attorney generals. he has praised by democrats, of course, but he is also received a lot of criticism, from conservatives. principally over the so called fast and furious.

>> yes. >> weapons illegal weapons operation, where holder was accused of covering up possible involvement of one of his departments. and whether a weapon has been used. a lot of back and forth, of the congressional committees about that. but he also has another legacy that deals with civil rights, of course he took issue with states that tried to pass laws limiting the ability of people to vote. he is advocated for former felon whose have served their time, to be allowed to vote. he also told the justice department. very controversy move, one of many controversy moves that he made. i want to ask you about the legacy, about race, but generally speaking what are your thoughts on

the news today. >> well, the timing as randall reports not a surprise at all. >> right. >> to white house insiders and even to those of us -- >> i did know it was coming holder met, had a long meeting with president obama over the labor day weekend. if president obama does not make this replacement by desks he will be the third longest serving. >> really. >> attorney general in u.s. history. and there's a chance they won't finalize that. >> that's a tough job for six years. >> i think it is the hardest job in the administration, i have said that before. >> well, you aren't really working for the president. you are working for the u.s. people. he is the people's attorney general, and as randall reported that comes with a lot of

controversy. he has been acclaimed by liberals, i think he is the most liberal voice in the administration, and you take it on the chin sometimes when you take those tough positions. >> oh, can we get to that in a moment, what are some of the misses? fast and furious. >> that's probably the biggest miss, or one of them, the only attorney general held in contempt by congress in american history. was you can say that was largely political. political led house, held him in contempt. >> that was about not turning over documents and congress. >> a subpoena. >> right. >> for documents and -- >> reeledded to a failed policy on the arizona border. >> yeah. >> and he -- you know he stuck by his position, so yeah, he was held in contempt, and i think in terms of legacy, will that really be a part of it? probably not. because legacy is something you look at 30 years out. i have to mention,

because it is something i have followed now since shortly after never. january thereafter. is guantanamo bay. because the president said he would close it. the new attorney general won't be able to do it either. >> as much as it is about the president. >> problems with relocating the people who are there. and that's a problem for the attorney general. >> whoever that may be. >> eric holder has been up front and center, saying we can prosecute them in the united states. >> absolutely. >> and ran into problems in congress. so on race. >> fantastic record. >> talk to me about that. >> fantastic record, he

has been courageous on race. and he says that we as a nation are not courageous. in fact using the word coward. not only when speaking with black audience, but speaking inning general. >> can i read that. >> please. >> this was february 18th 2009. >> black history month. >> and things racial, we have always been and continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. think it's work and example, this department of justice as long as i am here, must and will lead the nation to the new birth of freedom. so long ago promised, by our greatest president. >> this is an attorney general our greatest president, return referring to abraham lincoln, who is rooted in his personal experience, as a blackman, and who is not afraid to talk about it. and he keep as picture of robert kennedy.

>> in his office. >> in his office. our attorney general under his brother, john kennedy, and he sees that as his vision for leadership wanting to be an attorney general progressive not just liberal. even though he is a prosecutor by training and in that office, is working with defense attorneys to reform the ways in which we prosecute and sentence criminal defendants in this country. >> i hope you don't have any plans for the next oh 50 minutes or so, because we aren't letting you out of the building all right. >> i am right here. i will heard some live action from washington, d.c. >> and that news conference begins in about 4:30, the announcement from the president, of course, we will bring it to you live as it happens. the fbi, believes it has now identified the isil fighter who killed two american journalists and one british aid worker. now videos drew

international outrage, as you know, and spark add national debate over the ability to strike u.s. interests. were all killed by a masked man with a british accent. well, these comments come at a crucial time, obviously president was here with world leaders. among them, david cameron who spoke just yesterday about the shock that his nation feels and the concern about this home grown terrorism, and the fact that he did have a british accent. he spoke with his beat reporters thinks they think they have identified who this individual is, that murdered james foley. the murder of james foley. he didn't say whether he believed this individual was responsible for the act of murdering these individuals he didn't name the individual at least not to reporters.

and on the subject of foreign fighters he esmated as we have heard before, about 100 americans have either gone to syria, are in syria, have gone and come back. >> we have heard that number. iraq's prime minister has said his government has uncovered a possible isil plot to attack subways. >> people are obviously on pins and needings this news about the khorasan group. speaking to a small group of reporters here in new york, who says that they plan, they, the terrorist plan to have attacks in the metros of paris and the u.s. and from the details i have received yes e, it looks credible, that got everybody scrambling. white house officials say he didn't bring this up

meeting with the president they had, they know of no such plot. well, the pentagon has been questioned about the start of the air strikes in iraq, and the fact that the iraqi security forces seem to be having a difficult time hanging on to it's own territory. want to key up a piece of sound here from the press secretary. and get your thoughts on it. >> the sanctuary that they have in syria is a hub. sort of a headquarters if you will, and so the targets we have been hitting are getting at those command and control capabilitiens that they have enjoys inside syria, so how do you know that you are having an effects? well, it may take a little while, but we will know when they have to change their operations. we will know when we can see they no longer are flowing quite as freely across that worder, we will know when we have

evidence that it's harder for them to recruit or train, or they just aren't doing as much training. >> so split these hairs for us, are these air strikes degrading ice similar in iraq. >> they are still arecessing that, and you can can see the strength, for example, in the flood of refugees that is resulting in the gains they are making there. the phrase that he was using was tooth and tail, so in iraq they are going after the tooth, in other words the tip of the spear, the weaponry, for isil that is carrying the fight. the tail, the supply, how they are providing revenue for themselves and most significantly, today, allied air strikes including members of the arab air coalition, hitting oil production inside syria, that revenue said to be as muffins are $2 million. >> mike, good to see you, thank you. strikes have not stopped isil from trying to expand it's territory.

fighters are closing in on the city. inless than a week, at least 150,000 syrians have fled from that city aid is struggling to keep up, nick shiver reports from the border. >> in the closest city to the syrian border, children line-up for what is become a precious rare commodity. a plate of foot. the turkish red crescent hands out soup and rice. each is syrian, each is desperate. >> more than 100,000 syrians arrived here four days ago, they brought almost nothing with them. this one tray has to feed seven people. >> what is your life like here. >> does this look like enough food, he says angrily? >> what can we do? >> he and his family,

fled brutality. a group posted video taking over the hometown. with the help of heavy weapons they say captures almost 200 they are killing children and young men, there's nothing they are not doing. they are pretty much living and sleeping wherever they can. >> he brought uh only herself and her five-year-old son. there are no showers here. >> that's her mother and her aunt, with the month's old cousin. >> we left so we can save our children's lives. to save our children from

ooppression, our men are back home fighting, they are fighting in the face of the enemy. >> he is one of those fighters. we met him as he answered turkey to bring supplies to his family, tomorrow he will go back to fight. he says it is nowhere near enough to reverse the momentum. >> the strikes aren't near us, they struck far away in the places where there's a lot of fighting there are no strikes. >> as we film syria through the barbed wire we heard the distance sound of fighting. as a dust storm arrive, the group of refugees takes she woulder underneath blankets. the situation is getting worse by the day, is there any indication that

more aid is on the way? in a country that has already taken nearly 1 million refugees and begin 150,000 in one go, 48 hours 72 hours no country would be able to actually give them what they needed. deliver the medicine that these people left with money, they brought nothing. at least from the perspective, he has already spent $3.5 billion over the last three years trying to deal with them. that means people sleep on the floor for as long as they will be here that's the difference.

they are hoping to go back, was as you heard that man right there, the u.s. air strikes are not going to push them back. have a long wait and they probably won't get much more help, the occasional food handouts and sleeping on the floor with mattresses. >> is there hope, you mentioned that the curds are returning many of the men are returning to fight, is there a hope that eventually a belief that eventually the u.s. air strikes will help? will be of assistance in this fight. >> tony, you and i have talked about various refugees who from syria on three different borders or turkey, and almost all of them are cynical. the reason you hear hope from these groups is it is early, we just got here.

i have met refugees up the road, they have been here 2 1/2 years. the level of hope is very low. the level of cynicism is very high. they have been asking for help for three years. they haven't gotten it, they believe the air strikes are a step in the right direction. but almost to a person, you will hear them say that they need to hit the regime. which is the enemy of the kurdss up here. simply on air strikes enough against isil fighters. against headquarters that are accurate enough, and informed enough, to hit the right spots. they just need to be phil mickelson more. >> nick for us from the turkey syria border, appreciate it, thank you. >> iraq says it has taken back two villages from isil, but government

troops say location will be necessary to retake isil strong holds the city of zumar is under siege by kurdish force whose say only strikes will dislodge isil. we travel through no man's land, neither side has control of this road, but the battle to push back is evident. armored cars struck by air strikes black flags painted on check points. this graffiti reads property of the islamic state. >> and this is where they were pushed back to. the school, the long yellow building is now the main base. but they are hiding in houses all over the town. the kurdish forces did fight their way into the center, but soon retreated back to this forward position on the outskirts. >> when we entered zuma to take control, one of

the terrorist drove towards us, he had a car painted. we shot at him was he blew himself up, killing 18 people, and injurying 33 more. it was a huge bomb. the explosion went 50 feet in the air. >> there were less than 200 fighters. but the push more garcia doesn't know how to deal with the tactics. sick vehicles drove up this road to try to attack the position. the commander says now that the 20,000 residents have fled, there is no reason are why air strikes cannot help him take the town. anyone there is an isil supporter, so i ask the u.s. to rethink it's strategy, and make zuma a target.

which is being completely flattened by u.s. fighter jets in the air attacks or by retreating fighters who have led improvised explosive devices in the buildings and blown them up. many americans were killed in this town, after the u.s. invasion of 2003. it was previously an al quaida strong hold. they are now looking to the u.s. led campaign to raze zuma to the ground too. >> diplomates have been ordered to leave the embassy in yemen, the department says the move ois temporary, and that a majority of workers are staying at the compound. officials fear the security situation is only getting worse, the capitol was overrun by rebels over the weekend, and there are fears violence could reignite between the government and tribesman. still to come.

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sharply since the newest i-phones hit the markets. the device has had growing pains. first came videoing showing the i-phone plus may bend. have you seen those? then apple withdrew it's, i operating system software update right after it was released. that happened on wednesday. users complained that they couldn't make calls and that some security fishes were disabled. okay, attorney general eric holder is stepping down, we are waiting a formal announcement from the president any moment. it is scheduled to happen, david schuster, dell walters, why -- what is that? dell walters. with me right now. let's take a moment and talk about first of all, the timing of this. can i just set up my man by saying this is the man you have known for years. >> tell me about him, the eric holder that we don't know, that we haven't

gotten to flow over the years as he has been working as u.s. attorney general. >> i was thinking about this, and i have known eric since the days of the drug wars back in the late 198's, you are talk about his legacy, and one that you are forgetting that is very important to eric holder which that he is an african-american male father, with a son. and how will history regard him, i would argue the two most important people in his life, are his wife and his son. how will his son regard the actions he has taken. so when you see these hearings on capitol hill. >> coming in now. >> yes. >> and -- yes. >> and they said as you point out, dell, that ins in reported earlier, his son was one of the major reasons he wanted to resign now, so he can spend time with him. >> he becomes an adult. >> and eric being 61, and i say eric, because we

are friends, being 61, he dates baaing to that generation that lived through martin luther king, and robert f kennedy, and john f kennedy, so his life was shaped by the civil rights movement, and as a result, that's how he sees. >> let's take you to the state dining room now. >> this generation of americans. falls the full burden of proving to the world, that we really mean it when we say all men are created free and equal. >> the law. one of the longest serving. other the summer he came to me and said that he thought six years was a good run. like me he married up. and i know brook, and

maya, and buddy are excited to get their dad back. so this is bittersweet. but with his typical dedication, he has agreed to stay on as attorney general until i nominate a successor. which means he will have a chance to add to a proud career of public service, one that began nearly 40 years ago as a young prosecutor in the department that he now runs. he was there for 12 years taking on political corruption, until president ragan named him to the bench as a later. later president clinton called him back, so all told he has served under six presidents of both parties. including a several day stint as acting attorney general at the start of george w bush's first term. and through it all, he has shown a deep and abiding fill deadty to

one of our most cherished ideals and that is equal justice under the law. as younger men, eric and i both studies law, and i chose him to serve attorney general, because he believes as i do, that justice is not just an accused tract theory. it is a living and breathing principle. it is about how our laws interact with our daily lives. it is about whether we can make an honest living whether we can provide for our families. whether we feel safe in our own communities and welcomen in our own country, the words that the founders set to paper, apply to every single one of us. and not just some that's why i made him america's lawyer, the people's lawyer. that comes with a big portfolio, from counter

terrorism, to civil rights public corruption to white collar crime. and alongside the incredible men and women of the justice department, men and women that i promise you he is proud of and will deeply miss, eric has done a superb job. he has worked side by side with our intelligence community, to keep us safe. from terrorist attacks and to counter violent extremism. on his watch, courts have prosecuted hundreds of terror cases proving that the world's finest justice system and fully capable of cliffing justice for the word's most wanted. he has rooted out corruption and fight violent crime. the fbi carried out the largest mafia take down in history. he has worked closely with state and law enforcement officers to mixture they have the resources to get the job done, and managinged funds to make sure that when budgets tooken a

hit, thousands of cops were able to stay on the beet nationwide. he has help save guard our markets from manipulation. since 2009 the justice department has brought more than 60 cases against financial institutions. and won symptom of the largest settlements in history. for practices related to the financial crisis. recovering $85 billion much of it returned to ordinary americans who are badly hurt. he has worked passionately to make sure our criminal justice system, remains the best in the world. he knows that too many outdated policies in matter how well intentioned perp pitch waited the cycle in too many communities. so eric reworked mandatory minimums, and promoted alternatives to incarceration. thanks to his efforts, since i took office, the

overall crime rate, and the overall incarceration rate have gone down by about 10%. that's the first time they have declined together at the same time, in more than 40 years. eric's proud ohs achievement may be reinvigorated and restoring the core mission to what he called the conscious of the building and that's the civil rights division. he has been relentless against attacks on the voting rights act. because no citizen including our service members should have to jump through hoops to exercise their most fundamental right. he is challenged discriminatory state laws that not only risked harassment of citizens and legal immigrants but actually made it harder for law enforcement to do it's job. under his watch, the department has brought a record number of oprosecutions for human trafficking and hate crimes. no one in america should be afraid to walk down the street because of the color of their skin, the love in their heart, the faith they practice, or

the disabilities that theyly with. he has advanced the cause of justice for native americans working closely with their communities. and several years ago, he remember mended we stop defending the defense of marriage act. five decision that was vindicated by the supreme court, and opened the door to federal recognition of same sex marriage, and federal benefits for same sex couples. pretty good track record. eric's father was an immigrant, only to be refuse service at lunch counters in the nation he defended. he and his wife raised their son to believe this promise was real. that son grew up to become attorney general of the united states. and that's something, and that's why he has worked so hard, for decades to open up the promise of this country to more strifing and dreaming

kids like him. to make sure those words life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are made real for all of us. so soon they will be a bit freer to pursue more happiness. of their own, and thanks to his efforts so will more americans. regardless of race, religion, gender or creed. center i will orientation or disability, will receive fair and equal treatment under the law, i just want to say thank you, eric. thank you to the men and women of the justice department who work day in and out for the american people. we could note be more grateful if everything you have done, for the administration and me, but for our country. [applause]

thank you. [applause] i come this this moment with very mixed emotions. proud of what the men and the women of the department of justice have accomplishinged and at the same time very sad that i will not be a formal part of the great things that this department and this president will accomplish over the next two. i want to thank you many president for the opportunity that you gave me to serve, and for giving me the greatest honor of my professional

life. we have been great colleagues but the beyonds between us are much deeper than that, in good times and bad, in things personal, and in things professional, you have been there for me. i am proud to call you my friend. i am also grateful for the support you have given me, as we have made real the visions that you and i have always shares. i often think of those early talks about our belief we may help to craft a more perfect union. work remains to be done, but our list of accomplishments is real. over the last six years our administration, your administration, has made historic gains in realizing the principles of the founding documents and fought to protect the most sacred of american rights. the right to vote. we have begun to realize the promise of equality for our lgbt brothers and

sisters, and their families. we have begun to significantly reform our criminal justice system, and reconnect those that bravely serve with the communities that they protect. question have kept faith with our belief in the power of the greatest judicial system the world has ever known, to fairly and effectively rejude kate any cases that are are brought before it. including those that involve the security of the nation. we have taken steps to protect the environment, by which commercial enterprises operate. and we have held accountable those that would harm the people, through the misuse of economic or political power uh. i have loved the department of justice, ever since as a young wow, i watched robert kennedy prove during the civil rights movement, how can department can and must always be a force for that which is

right. i hope i have done honor to the faith you have placed in me, and to to legacy of those that have served before me. i woulds also like to thank the vice president, unwaiverring support, and a shared vision of what america can and should be. i want to recognize my good friend, valerie jared. whom i have been fortunate to work with from the beginning of what started as an improbable effort by a young senator from illinois. who we will both write to belief would achieve greatness. i have the opportunity to serving in your cabben net, and work with a white house chief of staff, white house staff, ably led by dennis mcdonough. it has done much to make real the promise of our democracy.

and each of the men and women i have come to know will be life long friends. whatever my accomplishments they could not have been achieved would the love support and guidance of two people who are are not with me today, my parents, nurtured me, in my accomplished brother william, and made us believe in the value of individual effort, and the greatness of this nation. my time in public service, which now comes to an end, would not have been possible without the sacrifices too often unfair, made by the best three kid as father could ask for. thank you maya, brook, and thank you, buddy. and finally, i want to thank the woman who sacrificed the most, and allowed me to follow my dreams. she is the foundation of all that our family is, and the basis of all that i have become. my wife sharon is the unsung hero, and she is

my life partner. thank you for all that you have done, i love you. in the months aheadly leave the department of justice, but i will never leave the work. ly continue to serve, and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to it's founding ideals. i want to thank the dedicated public services for their tire less work over the past six years for the efforts they will continue and for the progress that they made and that will outlast us all. i want to thank you you all, for joining me in a journey that moves in another direction, but will always be guided by the pursuit of justice, and aimed at the north star. thank you. [applause]

i bet you the president say something along the lines of you got through it. and dell, it was -- it was an emotional people, particularly near the end there, as we come back to our set here in new york. dell walters joins me, jamie floyd as well. let me start with you, dell, because you have known this man for how long? 20 years. and i can tell you right now what is going through his mind is how fast it went. this is a man you see him as the attorney general, but he is a man that almost missed it. janet reno didn't step aside. >> yeah. >> so he thought that history had passed him by, the opportunity to be the first african-american attorney general, and then he bet on a long shot, a guy with a strange name, as he referred to himself with the big ears that was running in iowa and nobody knew who barack obama was, because he is supposed to lose to hillary clinton. so he bet on the right party. he won, and then he got

the seat, and he is looking back and saying wow,en that went by very fast, but you heard that emotion, and that is because -- >> he was fighting it through a lot of the people, but it really started to come to the surface when he was talking about his late parents. >> he wanted to make sure that he upheld the honor of the office, but also wanted to make sure he did the right thing as a husband, and also a father. because that was very important to him. >> as we have discussed earlier -- >> yeah. >> this is a man who brought to this office his personal history. as an african-american, this isn't a person that left that at the door each day. >> right. >> when he went to work. this was very much a reason for his being in office, i think the being a prosecutor, for being a public servant. >> he could have uh made a lot of money in private practice, but he choose not to, he wanted to do what he did. >> in things racial, we have always been and

continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cow uh wards. cowards. >> you all remember that. >> we can raise so many incidents that have happened in the last six years since he has been in office, but this most recent ferguson, the president chooses to send the attorney general as his -- >> you have to remember, when washington, d.c. streets were called the mean streets and the killing fields. he walked that walk, he was there when young black men were being gunned down and also being incarcerated. and he made promises to the people of that city, that things were going to be different, if he ever got where he got. >> he really was -- he worked his way up from a line prosecutor, going all the way up to deputy attorney general, he was somebodien who had the confidence can and the trust and the respect of other people at the justice department. he wasn't a long time friend of the man who became president, he was

somebody who had paid his dues and then oh by the way, during the right campaign extended that vision. gay marriage, also of course voting rights. but as the president pointed out, he chose to mention human traffic canning has been a part of what i think holder will hope will be his legacy. so he has tried to have a broad vision. >> so much by the book, his nickname was boy scott, among those of us that knew uh him. he never wanted anybody to do inning -- that history would regard as being wrong. or illegal. >> he was the juan that got a phone call by the guy named jackie bennett. who needed to call the justice department, and say we are going to run a wiretap on a young womaned name monica lue winski. and there's eric holder he goes out uh, takes the

call, he says yes, you are operating under the right authority, because the following statute you have the approval, doesn't tell a soul. doesn't tell his family friends nobody, and is to this day not willing reporters who cover that era not willing to talk about what happened. because he feels like that would be inappropriate, because that was something that according -- >> the things you remember. >> the man is inflapble, the day i saw uh him was the day before the pay tray yous story broke. and invest a green room. and there were three onus the room. general pa tray use eric holder and myself. and there was not any indication that that was about to break. and he gave aerial want speech, right on the heels of his remarks. incredible, calm, and cool, and as you say, unflappable. >> he did break the law

once. at the kennedy center. >> this is a good story. >> we were at show boat, and we are in the presidential box. i am the anchor in washington, almost as if on cue, we look around and they had the president's eminems and the cups and the napkins. and it was almost like we both realized we may never be here again. >> right. >> and we stole everything in the suit. we walked out looking line the micheline man, in case he is looking. >> that is probably a high crime, or something. >> yeah. >> under the statue of limitations beyond the window. all right. >> many & m. >> exactly. >> dell, thank you. >> never would have known you eight all that chocolate. >> for all these years. >> david stay with me, but jamie, thank you, appreciate it.

holder's tenure has been marked by does uhens of scrimmages. david has more on that for us. >> eric holder has never been a wall flower and his clashes with republicans in congress have been memorable the last few year es the biggest fireworks came between the attorney general and house republican are over congressional investigations into a justice department program known as fast and furious. this was all about gun lobby -- >> so we have been trying to get to the bottom of fast and furious where people died at least a couple hundred mexicans died and we can't get the information to get to the bottom of that so i don't need lectures from you about contempt. >> and i don't need lectures from you either. >> am the same hearing he seemed to threaten the congressman, watch this. sir, i have read what your department promised. and it is inadequate, and i realize that contempt is not a big deal to our

attorney general but it is important that we have proper oversight. >> you don't want to go there, buddy. >> i don't want to go there. >> no. >> he said to the congressman, you don't want to go there, buddy. >> holder tangled with republican congressman, the chair of the house oversight committee. >> i am sure they must have been a good reason why only the two and from parts were provided. >> yes, you didn't want us to see the details. mr. attorney general -- >> no. >> and knowing the two and from. >> i am not going to stop otalking now characterized something as something -- >> mr. chairman. >> would you inform the witness. >> is two consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of congress. it is unacceptable, and it is shameful. >> a lot of courage courage to say members of congress right in front of you.

will not any farewell parties. as the political world is looking back at his confrontations, a lot of people today are are looking forward and considering who may be nominated as holder's replacement, as attorney general. former homeland security. she is currently serving as the president of california system. administration officials former white house council, the president considered her exceptionally smart, and she is already held the third ranking position at the department of justice. and the discussion will include u.s. solicitor general donald. he previously served as a deputy attorney general at the justice department. there's been a lot of talk about minnesota democratic senator amy clover shaw. she would have the easiest time getting confirmed before her election in 2006. she served as a minnesota county prosecutor. the president will decide on his nomination choice

sometime in the next few weeks. >> those are some hot skirmishes. appreciate it. david schuster with us. the u.s. is cracked down on highn't froms crossing the border, is now mexico has too, the fall out is next. ncredible journey

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that the mexicaneeing and authorities are doing almost nightly raids and they are resting a lot of migrants which is a very controversial policy here in mexico. >> there's no escaping the sweltering heat e. the dangerous freight train carries tens of thousands of people, mostly from central america, north to the united states every year. but these days newer and fewer are riding the rails. the mexican government is cracking down on migrants.

jesus tries to comfort his pregnant wife, tired from traveling they finally cross the mexican border. now they are worried they might get deported. >> it is getting hotter to go north. we heard that police raided last night and arrests dozens. they filled 24 vans full of people, they even took some migrants that are camped out in the courtyard of the church. a few hours later, sources descend on the same spot where they had been waiting to board the train. panic broke out, and some tries to jump to the back of the train to escape the police. eights from the migration office, as well as federal police have all come here, and they are doing a raid, and they are looking for migrants. now many of those they believe have gotten off the train, and are now hiding in these bushes. >> mexico has deported more than 30,000 people in the last few months.

it's the first time in nearly a decade such raids are happening. not just here, but throughout the entire country. it is all part of a new federal program aimed at stopping illegal migration to the united states. but human rights groups say the government is putting the migrants at greater risk. >> when you talk immigration policy, you force them to take more dangerous routs. more vulnerable to organized crime. >> every day, more my grants are choosing to walk hundreds of kilometers instead of boarding. following the tracks into an open field, and to an uncertain future. so while this policy is a factor that has probably contributed to the number of migrants or the fewer number, if you will, that are traveling we understand that it is something that will push

these people even deeper, and perhaps even more vulnerable to organized crime. appreciate it, joining us from mexico city, rachel, thank you. very quickly here, baseball super star derek jeter his final bronx home game may be stopped short, the yankees long time captain is supposed to take the field tonight for the last game, but there are showers in the forecast, and it could be rained out. inside story is next.

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