oh, honey! oh! here, have some of ours. oh! hebrew national. a hot dog you can trust. good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. this is "newsnation." just a few hours president obama will make a high profile visit to texas. the frontline to mesh's immigration crisis. the white house maintains the president will not visit the border but he'll come face to face with one of the harsh critics on the issue. texas republican governor rick perry. after the flap about meeting at the arnt, governor perry accepted a white house invitation to attend a round table along with religious and community leaders in the dallas area this afternoon. >> i think that despite all of the differences that exist when

it comes to policy between governor perry and this administration, there should be a level at which we can agree that it's important for this humanitarian situation to be addressed. >> the president's strip to texas comes a day after he asked congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to deal with the crisis. here is house speaker john bainer in the past hour. the president's request it's all about continuing deal with the problem. we've got to do something about sealing the border and ending this problem so that we can begin to move on with the bigger question of immigration reform. now the senate homeland security committee is holding a hearing on the border crisis. witnesses including fema administration and border patrol commissioners have testified about the government's response to the flood of immigrants. nbc mark potter has been reporting on the immigration battle for years now. he joins us live from alongside the u.s.-mexico border and nbc

peter alexander in dallas waiting the president's arrival. peter within, i would like to start with you. the white house sticking to the guns that the president will not need to visit the border that the meeting will serve its purpose. >> reporter: i think what the white house believes its actions speak louder than any photoopen visit to the border on this issue right now. it's going to be a last minute meeting that the white house added to the schedule. rick perry said no to a handshake at the airport wanted to have a more thoughtful discussion. said he'll be in attendance with the meeting. don't be surprised if president obama and rick perry have a pull aside. they goat meet on the sideline of the meetings likely after ward for a short period of time. the white house said they are on top of this. we heard from one of the top president advisers saying there

are cabinet level heads. the $3.7 billion request is part of the solution to the situation. but as you have noted right now the entire situation is fraught with political implicatiomplica. harry reid, the democrat from nevada saying that this emergency spending money would not need to be offset. it's just that. emergency spending money. some republicans, key republicans from the states along the border cornyn, the senator from this state, john cornyn saying basically too many of the kids don't show up in court. that remains a significant problem. and jeff flake, the senator from arizona saying among other things that too much of the money, in fact the bulk of the money, $1.8 would be spent on caring for the unaccompanied children. they largely insist the problem that need to be fixed is sealing the boarder before they deal with all these other impacts. >> and to the, again the white house response to this request

for the president to show up at the border by some. their stance is the president is well aware of what is happening there. he's looking at concrete ideas, specific actions that can be taken. it's interesting, peter, i think a lot of people and supporters of the president are wondering why this administration is not hitting harder on the republicans in the house who held up legislation for more than a year that passed in the senate focussing in on border security. >> reporter: i think that's right. for a long time i think the white house was convinced that house republicans were the ones who were taking the blame for their, i guess, failure to act on the bipartisan senate bill that would be a comprehensive, expensive bill they believe would have helped deal with the issue. the white house thought it's a republican issue. clearly right now the latest crisis is being viewed is one on the white house president obama's lap himself. central american, this flood of undocumented children. as we've been reporting, mark

potter is going to talk to in a moment. three years ago, as he witnessed, roughly 4,000 undocumented children now it's closer to 40,000. a lot of ways, this is viewed people think the white house and this president independently needed do more about awhile back. why not ask for more money several months ago. >> thank you very much. let's bring in mark potter. he covered the immigration issue along the border for many years now. mark, i want to play a little bit of this meeting that took place in dallas yesterday. people there some telling county commissioners what they think of the plan to bring some 2,000 people from the border to north texas. let me play this meeting. >> citizens cannot be forced into allowing undocumented kids from central america to be housed in my community. >> you just took -- and started

to do what you wanted to do with this. >> it's not only a moral, ungodly, unkind, untexan, unforgivable. we will be judged. >> so, mark. that's a mix of emotions there. you have a lot of people who for whatever reason have this information in their minds they believe is accurate that these children will be dropped at their doors and somehow individually they will be responsible here. it's a part of the fear, honestly, that exists with some people when you talk about immigration. >> yeah. there is that fear. in some ways it's based on the numbers. if you consider them. tens of thousands of children have come to this country illegally in the last couple of years. 2,000, according to government numbers, have been sent back. so most do stay here. there's a real problem with what to do with these children. and it's all the agencies are wrestling with it.

the white house has made a strong statement that many will be deported in these groups that are coming in here. the children, what to do with the children. it's a huge issue that affects everyone. it's going to be dependent on what the court says. you can make the pronouncements you want. they have to go through the proceedings. i want to tell you about the scene here. this is a county park, this is where many of the people, tamron, have been flooding through. the whole zone here is the hot zone as defined by the border patrol. between mccall laal and mission texas. this is the rio grand. this is a low water dam people have been flooding in here. talking to agents the last couple of days. they're seeing a slight drop in the number of people coming in over the last few days. maybe down from 12 to 1300 a day in the rio grand valley to 1,000. they bounce up-and-down. they're not calling it a trend by any stretch. they're watching it with

interest. they're talking to the people coming across see if they have been hearing the warnings coming from the united states. any of the psa put out by the united states urging them not to come to the country and warning many will be deported. they're waiting to see if any of the message is being received by the people coming across. one of the things you hear in terms of the frustration. people feel they have been screaming for several years about this problem building and they were not being heard and that's why so many of them want the president to come here to see for himself what is going on. not a photo-op but study it and see the distance between the river and mexico. that's what they're worried about. he's hearing about it but not seeing it. they wish he would do that. >> mark, thank you very much. let me bring in sheila jackson-lee. a member of the house judiciary and homeland security committee

and visited boarder to get a first hahand look at the crisis. let he start off asking you. fellow congressman is criticizing the president saying he's 500 miles from the border and it makes that worse and could have taken air force one. you've seen it firsthand. do you believe it's the right decision by the administration and the president? >> first of all, good morning. thank you for having me this morning. i came back from riding on rio grand watching the border patrol do an excellent job and watching the terrain at the united states at the area location. i think it's important for the united states, the american people to be told the truth. we owe them, we have an obligation to be transparent. it's important for them to know that the border folks are working hard. they love their communities. they're not all fence people. it's a public lands. there's a lot of issues there.

i understand and em pathetic about my friend on the border wanting the american people and the leader of this country to be able to engage. what i will say about the president is that he is engaged. i have no doubt that as the president works through this crisis that his focus is now to deal with the crisis and explain to the american people that the white house will make an appropriate determination to have the opportunity to see firsthand. but there is no need to stop your work, which is important to do, getting this emergency supplemental passed. declaring this a short term emergency as it relates to the humanitarian crisis for the children. by the way, the united nations just declared these children deserve international protections. a bulk of them have been human trafficked along with human smuggling and forced to leave their country by the violence of drug cartels and the violence of

countries in countries like hondur honduras. tamron, you have the chief of police convicted, indicted rather for murder. this is truly a situation where people are escaping children -- children are escaping children for their lives. peter alexander covered the white house for a few years. said there was a conventional wisdom that republicans would take the heat for not acting on immigration reform. this bill has sat there for a year. talks have been hit a roadblock and not looking at any comprehensive immigration reform as many anticipated a couple of years ago. but now the focus on the president's reaction rather than house republicans who refuse to move >>well, visual is a powerful. people love children as much as there may be concern and a lot of emotions. i can tell you your heart wrenches when you see the children. if i might, looking at a 3-year-old in diapers, looking at literally talking to a little

girl through the glass jail and tears rolling down her eyes and my whisk p whispering words, we were speaking two different languages that we care about you. these are painful pictures. there's no doubt that the hammer of absolute incompetence can be attributable to a congress, republican lead, and particularly the house that had a senate pass immigration bill since the last year that hasn't been yet move in the house of representatives. or let's make it easy. my subcommittee passed a bipartisan border security bill that was out touted by border security last year as well. that bill has not been brought to the floor by speaker boehner. my colleagues and i will ask for the bill to be on the floor. that's not a visual. but i will tell you the crux of

the problem is that there is not a structure of immigration reform. ly put that alongside the fact that these children do come under a law. the administration is adhering to the law. the secretary of homeland security issed a herring to the law and secretary of health and human services. that law is if the children are determined to have been trafficked or have an assume lum claim, they have a process to go through. what do we need to do? we need the emergency supplemental. we need to ramp up the judges and court and i.c.e. officers and border security. really, we've got to explain to the american people that only when there is this kind of, if you will, this kind of sacrifice to ride on trains, holding on to each other. taking a thousand mile journey, you know that people are in crisis. we all should be em pathetic to that. >> congressman sheila

jackson-lee. thank you for joining me today. i appreciate it. thank you. we care about our communities as well. and more extreme weather is expected to pound parts of the midwest and northeast today. hours after severe storms left at least five people dead. 100 children were in an outdoor pavilion when a fast-moving storm possibly a tornado hit. eight children were injured. one killed as they scrambled for cover. four people were also killed including a mother and her daughter when another storm ripped through central new york state. national weather service teams are on the ground now assessing the damage. with more on the storm's expected today in the midwest as they scramble to deal with the threat. let's go to nbc ron mott in clarksville, missouri. the mississippi river is cre cresting. >> reporter: it's merely an inconvenience here. back east some terrible stuff that happened. and further to the south in alabama and mississippi they're

expecting severe weather. the good news here the river is cresting. you see the dark outline that's where the highest point of the water reached us. it's going away. because the river crested doesn't mean the story is over. this water is begin to be on the street at least a week. they're expecting 7 to 1 days before all this water gets out into the mississippi back into flood stage which is 25 feet. we peeked at 35 feet. nobody got water into the businesses or their homes, we're told. this is merely just an inconvenience for the folks who have businesses here. they've been closed. by the time the road is open again and tourists are flowing back in, it could be three weeks that so. places are closed. this is their bread and butter. they'll feel it for sure. the community and business owners here on first street and some of the side streets. that's the good news the water stopped rising. it's going eventually go out. they have at least two weeks to with the mess here. >> all right, ron. thank you very much. coming up the israeli army

is intensifying. ayman mog zee -- mojadidi is live. sarah palin calls to impeach president obama over his handling of immigration. a republican candidate is now backing up her calls to oust the president. quite a combo. i'll talk about it with nbc senior political editor mark murray. and george clone any takes on a popular newspaper tab lit. he's fighting back saying his family was put in danger after the report. and join our conversation online. you can find my team@"newsnation." you can find me at facebook, twitter, and instagram. avo: waves don't care what age you are.

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welcome back the israeli army is intensifying attacks and signaling the possibility of all out war. officials say they attacked more than 160 sites today alone bringing the total number of strikes by air and sea to 400 since yesterday. medical sources in gaza say at least 35 palestinians have been kill eed including several children. militants in gaza are continuing to fire rockets deep into israeli territory. it mashes the heaviest fighting since both sides since 2012. ayman mojadidi is live. you have been reporting on it several days. to your point you made earlier, it could be an uptick in the next few days to all out war.

is there any hope that this tension could quail down before it flairs o s up again? >> reporter: well, if you have to base it on the rhetoric that is coming out of the officials on both sides, that is the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu who told his nation that it could be a long and tough fight and from the hamas's political leader, it doesn't seem that there is any wiggle room right now. we know that turkish mediation is involved. they are trying to negotiate a ceasefire. through there seems to be more anger and violence than a chance for ceasefire. hamas has been clear about what will bring an end to the conflict. in order for there to be a ceasefire put in place, israel must release some of the detainees, particularly the hamas detainees it arrested in connection with with the kidnapping and killing of the three israeli teens last week.

israel went on a campaign in the west bank and arrested hundreds of people that had nothing to do with it and have not charged them. for their part, the israeli government said the only way there's going to be a return is if the palestinian factions stop firing rockets into southern israel. i can tell you from being here in sell avooif. they have gone all here in and jerusal jerusalem. there's concern that they are reaching deeper and farther into israel. palestinians say as a result of the first day of air strikes, that death toll has gone up to 41 palestinians killed and more than 300 injured. >> as we understand it, the team there with you, i believe they're reporting within the last hour a house was hit in an israeli air strike in an area south of the gaza strip. two children and two women were killed. this according to palestinian medical sources, ayman? >> that's correct. the strategy that has now emerged after the first day of this fighting, according to palestinian sources on the ground is that the israeli

military is targeting the homes belonging to the senior leaders of the military wings of the palestinian fankss including hamas and islamic jihad. one struck the family home of one the senior leaders. his family was inside. he was not inside, as i understand it. it was a similar operation that happened yesterday killing seven members of one family. it seems while most of the military commanders are on the run or at least in hiding, not necessarily at their homes, their families are staying behind. they're the ones that are feeling the brunt of most the air strikes so far. >> all right ayman mojadidi live. what a worker at the national institute of health discovered inside a closet that has the fbi investigating. it's one of the things we thought you would want to know. a lot of buzz surrounding the espn body issue. showing texas ranger slugger prince fielder. he said you do not have to look like an underarmor mannequin to be an athlete. it's our "newsnation" gut check.

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welcome back. now a hollywood a lister who is accusing a popular newspaper tabloid of putting his team if dangerer. george common any is take over claim that the fiancè's mother is against the upcoming marriage. nbc has more. >> from his very first words he unleashes the wrath of his anger. i want to speak the irresponsibility of monday's daily mail report. published in usa today he's firing back at the u.k.'s daily mail for a report that quotes unnamed sources as saying that his fiancè's mother opposing the wedding for religious reasons. the report saying the mom of common any's fiancè is not so impressed with her daughter's choice and instead wanted her to marry within their strict lebanese religious sect.

clooney fired back writing the daily mail printed a completely fabricated story about my fia e fiancè's mother opposing our marriage for religious reasons. it says her mother has been telling half of beirut she's against the wedding. none is true. she hasn't been beirut since we've been dating. she's no way against the marriage. the daily mail said the wedding will not be a wedding. and risks being cast out of the community and several women have been murdered for not abiding by strict rules. clooney said the report creates larger more damaging implications saying the irresponsibility in this day and age to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. it's not the first time the star has taken on the tabloids. issuing a public campaign after the death of princess dianna. >> the same magazine television shows and papers that use their

pages creating the news, causing altercations and filming them. you must be exsill rated. you have bought and paid for one of the greatest news stories of the year. >> this morning the message is more personal but just as passion natd writing when they put my family and friends in harm's way they cross beyond just a laughable tabloid. they must be so very proud. >> this morning the daily mail released a statement saying, quote, the mail online story was not a fabrication but supplied in good faith by a trusted freelance journalist. we only became aware of his concerns this morning and have launched a full investigation. however, we accept mr. clooney's assurance that the story is inaccurate and apologize to him, misamal, and her mother for nidis stress caused. right now democrats are fast tracking a bill to override the supreme court's hobby lobby

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he's the worst. he's overstepping his bounds. i think that, yes, he should face the repercussions. whether that's impeachment. but as a u.s. governor, absolutely. as a u.s. senator we have to push that issue. we can't be silent on things like that. >> the campaign released a statement yesterday saying, quote, if any president oversteps their bounds there are procedures in place for congress and the american people to hold him or her accountable. impeachment is strong word not to be thrown around lightly. while at the same time someone is throwing around the word. sarah palin working her way into the headlines calling for the president's impeachment posting a video on facebook. >> it's time to impeach. on behalf of the american workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we have a memtly oppose any politician, on

the left or right in hesitate voting for articles of impeachment. the many impeachable offenses of president obama can no longer be ignored. joining me live now senior political editor mark murray. there are some who make the case that sarah palin should be ignored. when you look at joni ernst it's hard to ignore. >> you shouldn't throw around the term impeachment lightly. whether it was joni or sarah palin in the facebook message how lightly it's been thrown around. it reflects the right's visceral anger, hatred, pick your word for president obama. it does have some costs and it could backfire. we saw it backfire in 1998 when they impeached bill clinton over the lewinski affair.

and republicans didn't do very well. there's one reason why a lot of house republican leaders right-hand turn talking about impeachment. they realize if there's going to be something to rile up the democratic base, having an impeachment proceedings against president obama would do the trick. >> there are still some aftershocks regarding hobby lobby. in the past hour, senator patty murray discussed the legislation she would like to propose. let me play this. >> we saw the supreme court and ceos and corporations across the america the green light to deny legally mandated health care coverage for their employees. women across the country are outraged. they are demanding a change and today by introducing this new legislation with a strong coalition behind us, we are here to be their voice. >> so, mark, the senate democrats want to fast track the legislation. it would override the supreme court's decision in the hobby lobby case that cosponsored by

patty murray. it would compel for profit employers to cover the full range of contraception for their employees as required by the affordable care act here. this leading into the midterm elections and the impact it can have. >> we discussed how democrats think contraception is a winning issue for them. it's no surprise why they're doing it after the supreme court's hobby lobby decision. it's interesting to note one of the cosponsors to the patty murray legislation happens to be mark udall, a democrat from colorado is in a competitive senate race. democrats think it plays well in a state like colorado. some other places, i think it's a open question how much it plays in states like arkansas, north carolina, louisiana. but we will see. >> mark, thank you very much for the roundup today. the head of the california highway patrol is responding to growing outrage over an office caught on video repeatedly punching a woman on the los angeles freeway. he met privately with local

civil rights activists yesterday and promised a speedy investigation into the beating of 51-year-old marlene. commissioner farrell said by law he could not release the name of the patrol officer who has been reassigned to desk duty. in an interview in politics nation, the daughter told reverend al sharpton the officer should be prosecuted. >> he betrayed my mom. he beat her on the side of the freeway. not a care in the world. it seemed like he got lost in himself. i don't understand. if you saw someone being a dog like that on the freeway. they would be in jail right now. >> she remains under the care of doctors and dispute police claims she didn't suffer any injuries. joining me is los angeles urban policy round table who met with the commissioner yesterday. it's great to have you on here, earl. when you hear the commissioner say they want to have a fast

investigation into this or speedy investigation how long does it take? >> it could take forever. however, the commissioner did say this. we pressed him on this. we do want the fast track. we want speedy. a speedy investigation. but we also want more than that. we also accountability and traps parent si -- transparency. when you conduct the investigations, we've seen it time and time again. unfortunately for some in law enforcement. when they investigate themselves is delay, delay, delay. somewhere down the line a decision is made almost always. no action. and when that happens, the public doesn't know. so accountability, transparency, and also speed. but at the end of the day there's also got to be an element of justice and fairness. >> absolutely. and, you know, the video surfaced july 1st. it's now july 9th. i'm not saying there shouldn't be due process. it goes to the heart of how long are you and other activists willing to give the department to come up with a reasonable

explanation and action here? >> well, tamron, i specifically mentioned to and said to the commissioner i think a reasonable amount of time is within two weeks. what the commissioner said was weeks. he kept going back to that. so we're going to hold him accountable and we're going to hold his feet to the fire and hold him to the time frame. there are two other checks. we did fall for federal investigation. namely the justice department, the civil rights division. clearly civil rights violations are in play here. we also said something else. we're going to be monitoring every step of the way to see, number one, who is doing the investigation. the timeliness of it, and most importantly what are you going to do. what kinds of pun ishment will there be imposed on the officer. >> your take on the fact because of department procedure and rules. his identity is protected and he

is still on the job on a desk assignment. but nevertheless at work getting a check. >> i have real problems with that. recently the supreme court, the california supreme court overwhelmly by a 6-1 vote stripped away saying police agencies cannot use a cloak of invisibility to hide our protect our seal officers from identification. we already have a supreme court ruling on that. i'm puzzled and perplexed how it could happen when you had the court say unless there's an imminent danger to the person of the officer. there's no evidence shown so far that this officer is in under threat or danger whatsoever physically. it seems to me it's being disenginous. we need to know who the officer is for this reason, tamron. is there a history of misconduct. two, have there been other complaints? what about excessive force.

we need to know his history. it tells us about why it happened and most importantly why it shouldn't have happened. >> all right. thank you so much for your time. we're going to keep our audience up to date on this and speak with you in the coming days and weeks. up next the american who wrote the book on how to survive the bulls. he gets gored himself. he wrote the book on how to survive? okay. it's one of the stories we're following around the "newsnation" today. and our exclusive. i love this series! born in the usa continues with the makers of the tank chair. it's an incredible story behind the chair climbing, self-parking amphibious wheelchair. it's pretty amazing. ♪ [ male announcer ] it takes two hands to eat a manwich. leaving zero hands to save the universe. hold on. it's manwich.

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we're not letting something like that keep us back. still got our whole life ahead of us. we're going to make it happen. >> where were you emotionally when you said it to your family. leave me behind? >> pretty much at my lowest point. so hard being the one that was always setting up want camp and then just being sat there and told to, you know, try to have fun. it's pretty hard. it was pretty hard. >> brad, you got to working and experimenting. you came up with the idea. tell me about the labor that went into creating this amazing wheelchair. >> i was two years and a bunch of beer in a garage. a lot of failures. there was no applied science for it at the time. i was the first one to do it. i had nobody else to go off of. so we were winging it. because of the amount of current that it draws causes fires. we had to make it safe that she could be in it.

i have the luxury of jumping out if something went wrong. she didn't. >> what is your background? you look like a tough dude, but, i mean, going in there and building something like this. that's next level. >> determination has been a -- i don't know. just determination. i just wanted her to be out there again. >> when he first presented, i guess, the final product to you, and said, you know, here you go. what were you thinking? >> it was -- we were at the north rim at the grand canyon, and i was able to go where i wanted to go and not where i was told i had to go. and my girls and i went hiking for the first time. there was no way to put words to it. i still get goose pump bumps.

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