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palestinians, secretary of state john kerry hashes out a deal to keep afghanistan together, all while dealing with iran's nuclear situation. is the region nearing a tipping point? meantime vice president biden urges governors from both sides to show washington how to get things done but could congress jam highway help they need? we'll talk to the governor from the veep's home state. plus lebron james is going home. just how much could his cleveland comeback boost ohio's economy? and is it more or less than what the gop convention will do? the answer just might surprise you. and a very good morning from washington. it's monday, july 14th, 2014, and this is "the daily rundown." i'm kristen welker in for chuck todd. we begin in the middle east with israel, where it is shruging off calls for a cease-fire. after israel issued weekend warnings, thousands of

palestinians fled the area headed for u.n. shelters. and we now understand that air strikes have begun targeting homes there. across the region israel says it has hit more than 200 targets in the last 24 hours. the military also reported shooting down a drone sent from gaza. the first time that's happened since the conflict began. now, the death toll on the palestinian side has now risen to 172. the death toll on the israeli side remains at 0, although at least 16 israelis have been wounded in rocket attacks. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu says hamas bears responsibility for the civilian death toll among the palestinians. >> here's the difference between us. we're using missile defense to protect our civilians and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles. that's basically the difference. >> the hospitals, mosques, schools were targeted. you cannot target a building, even though if you suspected that a militant is there.

that's a war crime. on the international front there are new attempts under way to stop the fighting of the the arab league and european union are discussing a cease-fire and secretary of state john kerry says the u.s. would act as a broker in peace efforts. on sunday, israel's deputy defense minister went on the radio and seemed to reject a cease-fire out of hand. take a listen. >> with all due respect to the international pressure, i think it would be a mistake to stop now. in fact because we will be in the hands of the hamas until they will decide when the next conflict will be. >> and nbc's martin fletcher has more now from tel aviv. martin. >> reporter: the fight is continuing. israel has launched at least 42 air raids against the palestinian rocket launchers in gaza. the hamas has fired 40 rockets at israel. no damage, no injuries reported here n gaza, the palestinian

residents of the northern gaza where israel is targeting, about 17,000 of those palestinian residents have heeded israeli warnings to leave their homes before the shelling starts. they're now being looked after in schools by the united nations in gaza. israel said it will increase the intensity of its attacks and move not only from this one area of northern gaza but also to other areas. so the intensity of the fighting is increasing. even as -- even as diplomacy is beginning to move into higher gear, the arab league is meeting in cairo today. they're going to try to come up with some kind of truce proposal which they can present to israel and hamas. john kerry, the american secretary of state, is also involved. the european union is involved. everyone is trying to put together some kind of truce proposal, cease-fire proposal that israel and hamas could agree. to the urgency of course for this has been increased by israel's army, which is on standby on the edge of gaza with

about 38,000 reserve who have been called into action to fight alongside the regular army. they're poised to invade gaza. so it's now really a matter -- it's a race between the question of what will come first, a cease-fire proposal that is acceptable to both sides. if there is no such thing, then a ground invasion by israel looks increasingly likely. >> martin fletcher reporting from tel aviv. now we go to nbc's foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin who is reporting from gaza city where people have begun to evacuate their homes. right, ayman? >> reporter: that's correct, kristen, predominantly in the northern part of the gaza strip. there's also some on the eastern part of that border between israel and gaza. we've seen over the course of the last 24 hours really two things unfold and we actually went out there and spoke to residents in the area. it had an erie silence to it. an area that has thousands of

people normally busy this time of the morning turned out to be quiet as thousands made their way to u.n. shelters. others moving in with relatives and friends in parts of the gaza strip where they think it will be safer. but the experience of living through so many of these conflicts the past several years is that the warnings made by the israelis to the palestinians also tend to have a huge psychological impact on the local population here. keep in mind these warnings don't necessarily spell out to the palestinian people where they can be safe. more importantly as many of them go into these u.n. schools and elsewhere, those areas in the past as well have been targeted. there are several cases where they have been deliberately or accidentally targeted by the israeli military and as a result some of those who have taken refuge inside those u.n. schools have been victims. the danger for the palestinian health officials that are here on the ground is the sudden spike of casualties would be overwhelming for them. they wouldn't be able to cope with any large number of

civilian casualties as a result of a ground invasion. >> ayman, thank you for your great reporting as always and stay safe, my friend. joining me now, bobby ghosh, and indera, senior correspondent. i want to start with you. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that israel is ready for anything but also saying it's not clear where this is headed. do you anticipate this a ground invasion is the next step we'll see here? >> remember, this is the first serious outbreak of violence we've seen between israel and hamas since two years ago when there was an eight-day conflict between the two. i do think although israel doesn't want to go all-out with a ground war, i think at this point they are trying to get rid of as much of the hamas arsenal, shall we say, as they can. remember, there is a game-changer which is hamas has now some rockets they didn't have the last time there was conflict between the two sides

and these are long-range rockets that are supposedly syrian made and iranian supplied. so i think we can see the possibility tens of thousands of israelis have been called up as reservists. i do think a ground war is possible. i don't think the israelis are looking for a full-fledged reoccupation of gaza, however. >> bobby, indira points out the fact that hamas has strengthened and weapons with greater capability. comparing what we're seeing now to the violence that broke out there two years ago and what role can the u.s. play in brokering a cease-fire? >> well, it's hard to see a role the u.s. can play while both sides have not yet decided what their end game is. when you have the israeli prime minister saying he's not sure what the end game is and hamas almost never has any sense of what the end game is. what you're seeing that's very different is sort of new higher quality, more dangerous weaponry. there was a report of a drone that the israelis brought down.

i don't think we've seen that before. this may be a fairly primitive drone, but it does point to hamas's growing ambitions as well as their growing arsenal. the other new and sort of potential game-changer here is the general in egypt. for hamas to get its hands on those weapons, a lot of them come through egypt. the egyptians are beginning to crack down harder and harder on the tunnels and shown no interest -- the general is not friendly towards hamas in any way, shape or form, unlike his predecessors, president morsi, so that sort of connection between hamas and israel is a lot looser than it used to be before. >> we'll continue to track that. i want to shift to afghanistan. we have a couple of topics we want to get to. secretary of state john kerry brokered a recount. of course there were allegations of fraud on both sides.

two of the leading candidates accusing each other of voter fraud. this is what secretary of state john kerry had to say about the afghan elections. i want you both to listen and i'm going to get your reaction on the other side. >> with respect to national unity, both candidates have agreed to abide by the results of the audit and that the winner of the election will serve as president and will immediately form a government of national unity. >> indira, the significance of this recount, will the people of afghanistan stand behind this? you heard the secretary say that the two candidates do, but what about the people of afghanistan? >> i think for the moment, yes. i think it is a extremely significant outcome because the audit of eight million votes is no small thing. coming into this we had both candidates rejecting the idea of a coalition government and even rejecting the idea of an audit. so that is big. i do want to say one caveat. i was with john kerry in november of last year when he brokered this agreement with

hamid karzai for the bilateral security agreement and we thought that karzai had agreed to sign that and we all know later down the road that he changed his mind so i want to throw that out there that either of these candidates might change their minds. what the u.s. wants to avoid is the return to war lordism or outbreaks of violence within the country about people upset their candidate hasn't won. >> bobby, what about that, how concerned is the u.s. that one of these candidates might change their minds? of course initially the united states had said both would stand behind the security agreement and that's critical. >> that is critical and the u.s. is very concerned because of course everything is now from the u.s. point of view everything is pointed towards the pullout from afghanistan. and ideally you want some amount of political stability to give you political cover if nothing else while the pullout takes place. the crucial part of kerry's announcement i would submit is not so much the recount but the agreement that the two parties,

winner and loser, will form some sort of coalition government. there have been other reports that suggest they'll work their way towards creating a prime minister position. we're talking about where you have a strong president but also a fairly strong prime minister. if they could pull that off, that could be game-changing for afghanistan. that could be the beginning of political stability there. but the problem as you both have already pointed out is that no bargains in afghanistan ever seem to last very long. every deal is only worth what it is at the moment. and when there are changes on the ground, parties to the deal usually just toss them out the window and that's always been a problem in afghanistan and that's why we have to keep our eyes on it now. >> indira, very quickly, one-word answer, you are traveling to vienna for the talks over iran's nuclear program. do you anticipate they'll get a deal by that july 20th deadline? >> wow, that's the billion dollar question.

but i think that it's going to be very tight. i think we might be looking at an extension but obviously secretary kerry is there today trying to again pull out a deal. >> bobby ghosh, indira thanks to both of you, appreciate it. coming up, the midterm election looming large over our nation's governors. details on their final meeting before most of them face voters this fall with delaware governor jack markel live. and it's a slam dunk for cleveland, that's for sure, but can the return of lebron james have been impact on the entire buckeye state? a look ahead at today's politics planner. at 10:00 a.m. attorney general eric holder will deliver details on a massive $7 billion settlement with citigroup over its handling of subprime loans leading up the mortgage crisis. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that.

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with views of washington at an all-time low the nation's governors gathered this weekend in nashville for their summer meeting where vice president biden urged them to help break partisan gridlock and work towards solutions. take a listen. >> you folks, the democratic and republican governors, are the best hope we have to bringing back an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable. at the end of the day, it's all about trying to find a solution. >> now, one issue where the governors agree, washington should not let the highway trust fund run out of money. they're less sure, though, about how it should be funded. the house and senate are on the

verge of approving a short-term fix but the white house wants a longer term deal and this week the president will launch a major infrastructure funding push. another issue facing the states, the border crisis. that dominated a closed door session between the governors and sylvia matthews burwell. while martin o'malley is attempting to position himself for 2016 he said we are not a country that should send children away and send them back to certain death. other governors expressed concerns about get the resources from the federal government to house children in their states. >> we have a lot of questions that we want answered about the children that are coming. how is it going to be paid for, how much is it going to cost our nation, how long are they going to stay here? if it's that easy for a 6-year-old or 12-year-old coming across the border, who else is coming across the border of the united states. >> we have the resources to

address the immediate situation and i look forward to hearing what the comprehensive plan is. >> with the 2014 elections less than four months away and 36 governor's mansions up for grabs, it's no surprise partisanship was also on display in nashville, so were not-so-veiled 2016 ambitions as bill haslam said you can be in a room where you have six, seven, eight people who are thinking they might run for president in two years. in a sign that he's still not counting himself out, chris christie chimed in on foreign policy, slamming the president on saturday saying israel is not sure that they have america's full support like they used to, saying, quote, i think the unrest you see in the middle east is caused in some measure by the fact that this president has not acted in a decisive, consistent way. joining me now, delaware governor jack markel, a democrat, and the "washington post" chief important dan balz. you were both there this weekend. thanks for being here this morning, we really appreciate

it. dan, i want to start with you. what was the mood like in nashville? this usually marked in spirit bye-bye partisanship in some respect. >> it was a little bit of a bifurcated weekend. on the one hand as the vice president suggested this is an organization that is given to bipartisanship or at least limited partisanship. the governors i think when they're in their private meetings, as the governor can attest better than i, have a great deal of respect for one another across party lines. they talk in common sense ways about what they can do and learn from one another. so you have that atmosphere on the one hand and yet, you know, minutes after the vice president gave his speech to the whole general session, the democratic governors association had a partisan press conference where they slammed the republican governors. so you have a little bit of both and that's the norm in an election year. >> governor markel, one of the more divisive issues this year,

the crisis along the border. talk about the extent to which that dominated the discussions there. there's also a meeting with hhs secretary sylvia matthews matthews burwell. >> i was not in that meeting. we spent most of our time talking about the common core and other education workforce related issues. clearly there's some conversation about what's happening at the border. i know at least certainly from my perspective, the idea that congress could be dithering and not passing the $3.7 billion request from the president doesn't make any sense. this is a huge issue. we need to make sure that we're treating these kids humanely. >> you have expressed an openness to housing some of these undocumented children in your state. can you update us on that? is that something that is actually moving forward? rrnl discussions going on about potentially housing some of them in delaware? >> it's less a state issue but

think of it as a red cross, emergency shelter kind of things. we got a letter asking us to identify any big facilities which may make sense. those really don't apply in delaware, but certainly the faith-based community in delaware could be open to that. i think in the end most of these kids are going to go back and we need to make sure we're doing everything we can so when they go back, they're going back to someplace safe. >> dan, there was a lot of frustration with washington expressed. let me read you -- this is from your interview with colorado's governor, john hickenlooper, who's facing a tough re-election of his own. you dub him the man who hates negative ads. he says what we're doing now is depressing the product category of democracy. people turn off the news, look at the increasing reluctance of young people to vote. i think a lot of that is directly, you can lay it at the feet of these negative campaigns and relentless attack ads. can this type of centrist pitch help not only hickenlooper but

other governors as they fight to hold on to their seats. >> the interesting thing about these gubernatorial races is while there's clearly different ideologies between the democrats and republicans, particularly in the way a lot of them have governed, these are different races than the senate and house races and voters, i think, look at governors and gubernatorial candidates in a different way. what governor hickenlooper is trying to do, i think, is unique. i think almost every other governor who's running for re-election will probably run at least a negative ad or two, to put it mildly. governor hickenlooper has been on a tear about this when he ran four years ago. he did not run any negative ads and he ran this famous ad in which he went into the shower fully clothed and talked about how every time he sees one of those ads he feels he needs to take a shower. he's trying to make a pointing. i think a lot of people agree with him. i don't know that it's something that's going to catch fire around the country. >> governor markell, weigh in on that. how will the frustration in

washington impact some of these races that we're seeing and the fact amongst both your party and the republicans as they try to hold on to these seats? >> first of all, i think governor hickenlooper is definitely on to something. i was proud in both of my gubernatorial campaigns i didn't have to run any negative ads. unfortunately people run them because they work and that's unfortunate. i agree with dan. it's tough to nationalize a governor's race. governors don't get judged based on the quality of our rhetoric. we get judged on whether we're improving the economy, improving schools and being a good steward of taxpayers' money. >> and weigh in, if you would, on 2016. obviously this was ground for a lot of potential 2016 candidates to come out and voice their opinions. does it get in the way at all of the broader goals of what the rga is there to do? >> i did not think it did in this case. some of the people who might run

in 2016 on the republican side were not there, in part because they have their own re-electioning or some of them aren't members of the nga, they're members of the rga. governor christie was there, it was interesting. there was a governors-only luncheon saturday. >> i was just about to bring him up. >> afterwards, he took questions from reporters for 10 or 12 minutes and answered -- you quoted some of it. he was critical of the president on the issue of israel. he was, i thought, somewhat more evasive on some of the questions about immigration, for example. but partly what he was trying to do was say i'm available, i'm not hiding out. i'm here to answer all your questions. >> do you think, governor markell, that it gets in the way of the broader goals? >> i really don't. i think particularly an event like this, when the governors are together, we're focused on very concrete, tangible, common sense issues. how are we going to make schools

in our states better. how are we going to make our economies better. there's really very little politicking on that level. a bunch of these folks apparently are thinking about running but i think they're more focused on the primary. >> the last point i wanted to make is when george w. bush ran for president, he had overwhelming support from the governors, republican governors, and they were an important base for him. it doesn't look as though there is any republican governor, in part because there are so many who are potential candidates, who's going to be able to consolidate that. so we're going to have a different dynamic among the governors, put aside of the rest of the party, as we go to 2016. >> interesting last point to end on. thanks to both of you for being here, appreciate it. up next, yet another twist in the mississippi senate drama. that and more from the 2014 trail. but first, today's tdr 50 trivia question. name the only state that has had four women governors. the first person to tweet the

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be returned to active duty. defense and military sources told nbc the third and final phase of his reintegration program has been completed and he's likely to be assigned to a desk job at ft. sam houston in san antonio pending the outcome of the army's latest investigation into his 2009 disappearance from his outpost in afghanistan. bergdahl will also be questioned directly by military officials investigating his disappearance for the first time. now, officials say once released from the reintegration program, bergdahl will become a regular soldier, free to leave the base whenever he wants. military officials continue to refuse to say whether bergdahl has been in contact with his parents. turning now to the border fight, republicans are signaling that the white house's funding request is too expensive to pass and they plan to demand policy changes. on sunday congressman michael mccall said he wants to pass a bill before the august recess but that any emergency funding

would only run through the end of the fiscal year at the end of september. >> we're not going to write a blank check for over $4 billion. it's going to be a more targeted. we're looking at things like changing the 2008 law. we're looking at things like my border security bill that passed out of my committee, putting that as a provision so that finally we can get this thing done. >> and with democrats suddenly on defense on immigration, republicans, including texas governor rick perry, are trying to take advantage. >> it could have been stopped years ago had the administration listened, had the administration been focused on the border. time after time you see a response from this administration that says, you know what, we're really not that interested in the southern border of the united states. >> i'm happy he didn't demonize the children. but there is a demonization that

goes on. louis gomert from texas who hasn't ever seen an immigrant that he didn't think brings a disease to this country and went on the house floor to compare the invasion of children into our incursion to mexico to seek out poncho via. >> over the weekend maryland became the latest state to say not in my backyard. the federal government has decided not to use a vacant army reserve building to temporarily house undocumented children after state officials objected. >> the bottom line is the community doesn't want it, the representatives from congress don't want it, the department of health and human services shouldn't be looking at it. >> and advocates for immigrants are speaking out. >> i was 13 years old when i migrated to the united states to find my mother who had previously come to the u.s. running away from my father because he used to beat her and abuse her. i think people forget to realize that these children could be their children.

>> nbc's mark potter has been riding along with the border patrol. he joins us from mission, texas. so, mark, what's the latest that you're seeing there? >> hi, kristen. it's clear that the flow continues. it's a steady flow. we saw a lot of people on friday night. we saw some more yesterday. so there's no -- no stop to the flow. but there is a bit of a let-up. what we're noticing is that the numbers are down considerably over three weeks ago. at that time we saw 1400 to 1500 people being apprehended a day in the rio grande area behind me. now the numbers on average is 1,000 a day. we've had 800, even 500 a day so this is definitely a downward movement. now, the question is, is this just a temporary down turn or an actual trend? agents need another week or so to look at the numbers and watch this to see if it is a trend. they have had downturns in the past that have moved back up again so they are waiting to see

what this means, but it is clearly down now. we saw an agent who was here overnight and he said he didn't see a thing at all last night, so that's a story you hear more commonly. you didn't hear that three weeks ago. >> all right, mark potter, thank you so much. and we want to turn now to nbc's luke russert, who is live on capitol hill. luke, the gop buzz word on sunday was that they are looking potentially to approve a targeted package. what specifically does that word mean, targeted? what do you anticipate we're going to see happen? >> the first thing that targeted means is they do not want to go forward on the president's request for over $3.7 billion in a supplemental package for border security to process the legal claims of these undocumented children more quickly. hal rogers, the chairman of the appropriations committee in the house said that was too much money. he said a lot of it was going through the normal appropriations process. so expect by the end of the month i'm told by high level gop

leadership aides you'll see some sort of targeted package which will have large-scale border security provisions, which will be interesting to see. presumably we'll have something to quantify what constitutes border security from the house gop leadership. also integral, the 2008 human trafficking bill, gives them due process in the court system before being sent back. unlike if you're from canada or members, you're immediately just put on a bus. that is something that liberals have not wanted to move on and democrats in the house. nancy pelosi said not unless it was part of a bigger package. so as far as timeline all i'm told is it will happen by august 1st but it will suck up a lot of momentum and energy here in the month of july. >> luke, quickly before you go, just talk about the politics of this, if you would, prior to

this crisis republicans really owned the defeat of immigration reform. but now president obama to some extent owns this border crisis. have the political winds shifted here? what are people saying about that? >> republicans are comfortable to move on this for one reason and that's because in the immediate effect, ahead to the 2014 midterms where they're trying to turn out their base, this helps them out a lot. they also believe it helps them out in red states where they're running against red state democrats. it feeds into this idea that president obama is incompetent. the republicans are hitting him for his competency. that's an argument they're happy to have. however, the party elders realize some 2016, come 2020 you do not want to anger the fastest-growing voting base in the country, which is latinos, by seemingly being inhumane so that's something they have to walk a fine line on. so law and order here but being humane in the future. >> luke russert, as always thank you for your great reporting.

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pueblos behind me. it's a perfect time to revisit the history of these two western states. both were carved out of territory that belonged to spain and then to mexico. in 1863, arizona was created as a territory separate from new mexico, but it would be decades before they were admitted to the union. in 1906 congress stipulated that arizona, which was mostly english-speaking, and new mexico, which was half spanish speaking could join the united states together as a single state. new mexico approved it but arizona rejected it out of concern that fears that its neighbors, spanish-speaking culture would overwhelm its own. it wasn't until 1912 that they were admitted separately, and when it comes to culture, they have traveled different paths as well. today new mexico's population is more than 47% hispanic. the highest rate of any state in the country. but less than 10% of new mexico's population is foreign born, lower than the nationwide average.

new mexico has had six hispanic governors, including the last two democrat bill richardson and republican susannah martinez who's running for re-election. >> new mexico is a shining example of what is possible. that's the new mexico that i believe in and that's the new mexico that we're fighting for. >> in addition, the most recent numbers from the national association of latino elected and appointed officials show hispanics make up 44% of new mexico's state legislature. by contrast, arizona has taken a different path, that's despite the fact that arizona's hispanic population is nearly equal to new mexico's total population of about 2 million people. in arizona, though, they make up just 30% of the entire state. the state legislature is just 20% hispanic and arizona has had just one hispanic governor, democrat raul hector castro who served in the '70s. arizona has been at the forefront of the anti-illegal

immigration push for years. governor jan brewer signed it in 2010 and even though most of it was struck down, she says the current border crisis proves arizona was right to push for a crackdown. take a listen. >> dang it, the federal government has got a job to do. unfortunately in arizona, i got sued by the federal government to do their job and lost. so once again, here we are faced with a lot of unanswered questions. >> and of course we'll have much more on our two tdr 50 states for the rest of the week. coming up next, cleveland, lebron james and the republican convention. how sports and politics are raising the profile of the buckeye state. but first, trivia time. arizona is the only state to have four women governors. rose mofford, jane hall, janet napolitano and jan brewer. and we want to say a big

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lebron james' decision to go back to cleveland is becoming less of a sports story and more of an economic headline. ly brond left cleveland when was reeling economically in the foreclosure crisis. lebron is bringing his two sons back to the city with the third highest poverty rate. lebron's return promises a serious economic boost for both the city and much of northeast ohio. season tickets sold out in the first eight hours after lebron's announcement. the team's ticket office had to reroute the phones to handle the calls. city estimates lebron will bring $48 million into the local

economy. that averages out to $180 per fan. the county executive running for governor said it could be worth more money to northeast ohio in the long run. the executive ed fitzgerald joins me. thank you, i appreciate it. we want to apologize it. we ran some of the wrong video when we were talking about lebron james a little bit earlier in the show. i want to get you to talk about the fact you say actually the republican national convention could bring more money to cleveland than the return of lebron. how do you square that? i know you're having an event to talk about it today. >> yeah. it's hard to calculate some of the numbers, but, you know, our estimate is there the rnc will bring about $200 million. there's the publicity benefit of having the republican convention here. it's one of the biggest kind of infomercials for metro area you can possibly have if you host a

national convention. it's hard to put a complete dollar figure on that. one of the things that is going to happen in 2016 we'll have 50,000 plus visitors and crows and visiting cleveland and sees it's a place with at lot of economic growth. it's not just a sports story. it's about the entire community. they both help and we're grateful we're going have both of them. >> and as i said, it's anticipated that lebron could actually bring $48 million to the economy there. i know, you don't have specific figures, but you believe that the rnc will bring figures that are higher than that, higher than $48 million? for at least the year they're here. the thing about the lebron situation. we don't know how many years he's going to be here. it's only a relatively short commitment. if he's here for the next ten years it may be the case. you have to have a strategy based more than on just the rnc

and basketball player coming back. i think it's going to be successful. because all the infrastructure that we put in which is billions of dollars. it's a new convention center, new hotel, new theater strict that's been completely renovated. it's all those things. and so it's not just one player coming back or one convention. it's building on an infrastructure that we've been working on now for several years. >> and we don't have much time left, but lebron talked about the fact he wants to come back home and help the kids who live there. and we talked about how many of them live below the poverty level. doesn't that have an important impact? >> it does. look, one of the things we focussed on in the county government is investing in things like early childhood education. we became the first county in the country where every child starting kindergarten now has a college savings account that we set up in trust for them. we know we have a lot of work to do when it comes to providing a bright future for the average child in the cleveland area.

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an american crisis. undocumented children now living in community ace cross the country. we're going talk about what washington must do and i will introduce you to a young lady who risked her life to make that desperate journey. no end in sight. more rockets reign over gaza as israeli claim they shot down a drone. a shot fired a in los angeles. and the germans claim the world cup final against the argentina.

i guarantee you'll know our guest in rio by the sound of his voice. it's monday, the 14th of july. good morning and welcome to our first show from miami. thank you for joining me! my 0 years of television news, i've covered it all. and i know it goes beyond the powerbrokers in washington. it's all about the people. all people. impacted by the policies and issues you and i discuss every day. and it's those voices you'll be hearing in this show. our first focus communities and crisis as unaccompanied children continue to flow across the border. it's not just a border issue. the impact is being felt from nebraska, michigan, to oklahoma. many bracing for an influx of immigrant children while washington continues to hit brick walls for real solutions. state governors vice president biden for help as they gathered for the natio