women and children arrived in honduras of the first of what is to be a series of expedited. 40 people were flown from new mexico where they were being held. let me bring in a attorney and politico chief political correspondent. thank you for joining. we're expecting to get a live shot from a reporter at the campsite in arizona. but here we are again. the escalation of tension, worry. most of it because congress and some say this administration have not handled it properly. >> right. part of the reason we're seeing the public outcry and the ugly images in populations like california and possibly arizona. the administration has yet to put forward a coherent immigration policy. i think there is now some movement with this new bill being introduced to expedite the removal of children, we'll see a lot of push back from liberals, progressives, and certainly latino advocacy groups. it's never a good idea to rush due process. to do a drive by due process and

say let's wrap it up as quickly as possible. they're talking about 72 hours to make a decision whether the kids can stay or not. you often can't get an appointment at the va in that time. >> those concerned about the treatment of the children whether they're getting due process. the scene in arizona. people from both sides of the issue have shown up at that one site. roger, you have a column up today, and it's your column basically is more gray hairs for obama. you say you argue it's a contradiction with the obama administration's request for 64 billion for the justice department to hire more immigration judges to send the children back quicker. and to hire more asylum lawyers to fight to keep them here. you see a contradiction in the words and actions of this administration. >> yeah, this policy is one that the obama administration did not see coming.

what we're basically seeing is children from honduras being treated like children from mexico are. if you're a mexican child and you get to the border, you're sent back. there was supposed to be a special law that protected children from noncontiguous countries, honduras, guatemala, el salvador so they got special protection. by the tens of thousands they are flooding the system. it's not accidental. it is a mass criminal enterprise to bring people to the united states. i'm not saying the people themselves are criminals. all they're doing is committing misdemeanors. the people collecting thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars to get them to the united states are highly organized and they know how to exploit loopholes in the system. >> and to congressman they are

working on the 2008 law that would provide protection for the children if they fall to what roger is pointing out human trafficking and other key categories, which it appears they do. >> yes. >> they are being sent back in an expedited fashion. >> right. it's difficult. right now generally speaking when you talk about asylum about 7 out of 10 cases are denied. we do it in an expedited manner. it may bes it harder. when you talk about asylum you have to evaluate whether the claims are legitimate. these are people who have been through traumatic situations. there's language difficulties. some of the kids don't speak spanish. you try to rush that with children. and it's really a no win

situation i would say for the obama administration in the short term and the gop in long run. there's a new polling from the washington post that shows 58 percent of americans disapprove of how the obama administration has handled it and 60% of americans disapprove of how the gop handled it. there's no good options for either side. >> let me play what was said on morning joe when asked how quickly congress can work together and get the legislation passed that essentially sends the kids back quicker. let's play it. >> on the house side, we're going to try to do our best to move it quickly. we have to do it before july 31 st, when we take off for our districts. it's important that we work at this. what sort of funding are we looking at. and number two, we have to have a policy change. yesterday i was with secretary johnson. we met with him at the blue dogs, he agrees, and i laid out the outline that the senator and i are working on, he said without looking at the proposed legislation he said, quote, it

looks like we're on the same page y'all are one step ahead. >> before i get your response, let me bring in lauren grimer. she's in oracle where the buss are set to arrive at the campsite. you see people have set the stage there. give me the lay of the land and what you're seeing, lauren. >> reporter: sure. i'm here where dozen was protesters are lining up. they're threatening to block the road preventing bus load of 40 or more migrant children from coming thereupon. we're not sure when the bus is set to arrive. we're told it will be sometime today. it's the largest kickback we've seen in the area. this protesters say they don't want to see a migrant shelter set up here. not far from here, down the road, there's an equally large show of support for the migrant children. folks are wearing white.

they say they have been through enough trauma and the protesters aren't doing them any justice. there's a large presence from the local sheriff's department as well. they say they don't expect to see any conflict between the two groups since they're set up more than a mile apart. back to you. >> lauren, as i understand it, and i need more information from you, if you can provide that. according to the arizona republic, the sheriff paul put out the word. they got word on where the bus was going and how they had time to get there and assemble. >> that's right. we heard from the pinal county sheriff that a whistle blower within the shelter that is currently down here let them know. it's currently a boy's shelter.

it's set up at the sycamore canyon academy set up for troubled youth. right now i think there's about 30 or 40 people there currently. if the migrant children that come in, it would almost double the capacity of the facility as it is now. >> all right, lauren, for the great reporting. roger, when the images came in from california. you saw the emotions from all sides. some people even comparing it, when you first saw young children go into schools in little rock and be met by angry adults when the kids did not understand what was going on. when i see this, i wonder, yes, if people have objections to how this is handled then get if your bus and go to capitol hill where the adults are supposed to be handling the situation as opposed to yelling at a vehicle with a child who doesn't speak your language and as we heard from one individual in california, who actually thought they were from mexico.

>> you're absolutely right, tamron. who are the lawbreakers here. the little children on the bus or the protesters who are blocking the legal actions of the federal government to move children to a federal detention center for their own safety? this is a sad picture of america. it is seen around the world. and, you know, i got to say, none of those protesters look to me as if they were native americans. their ancestors all came from someplace else. what if their ancestors had been blocked from coming here. they wouldn't be calling themselves americans today. we have to have a little sense of understanding, and a little sense of good will and pity for the children. >> and roger's piece, i think in an excellent way, details the crime in honduras what the children face. the crime rate alone.

what they are fleeing so people better understand their circumstances. but back to the proposal they're calling it the humane act. they want to update the 2008 law under which the children if they were the victims of human trafficking and face justification for asylum. they will receive it. the president not ready to embrace the plan. we know according to dallas morning news that the president said he wants congress to grant more latitude in handling migrant children to speed the deportation. >> there's some talk that the house may tie the approval for the president's request to funding to the proposal. that remains to be seen how it plays out. i think the greater danger for the president right now is the ugly pictures of the protests going on. the continuing contentiousness of the immigration debate will make it that much harder for the president to present his claim and proceed with executive action probably in august. and when we look at the

protesters. it's ironic that many of them, you know, are so against illegal immigrati immigration. yet they are interfering with federal law enforcement. which they did in california. which is crime. >> i know one of the other concerns you have regarding some of the money that has been requested by the president, you are concerned that whether or not it would end up in pockets of politicians and other criminals. and not for the needs of the president laid out. >> sure. we're going to send $300 million to honduras, galt mauatemala an salvador and think it's going amount to something. we have to try to get parents and people of children to apply at u.s. embassies for status in the united states as for political status basically. for immunity. that's the only way to control this situation.

the trouble is the vast criminal enterprise that makes it easier to get the children into the country. >> all right. thank you. we'll continue to follow that developing news out of arizona and bring you the latest information from on the ground there. thank you. developing also out the middle east. this new video of israel now retaliating with new air strikes after hamas rejected a proposed truce and fired more rockets into israel. the military wing of hamas called the deal propose by egypt, quote, unacceptable. nbc news correspondent martin fletcher joins us. we know this morning before the new setup retaliations. strikes have been -- benjamin netanyahu said if the deal was rejected by hamas the escalation would continue. >> that's right. i'm sure on both sides it's frightening. there was a sense could bring an

tend the fighting. what happened was the israeli security met at 7:00 local time. israel accepted the ceasefire. then hamas immediately rejected it saying they never had been shown the details of the proposal. most asked them. so there's a strange thing going on among the diplomats and their relationship with hamas. hamas rejected and they continue to fight. 58 rockets have been fired at israel so far today. no the israelis wait the six hour before they responded against the rocket attacks. the israelis were giving the ceasefire time to take hold hoping that barrage of rockets would fade out. in fact, it increased. after a little bit more than six hour, the prime minister's office said they gave the order to the military to respond with full force. that is what the air force has been doing this afternoon here. >> and just quickly i want to

play what secretary of state john kerry who was in vienna said a short time ago regarding hamas and the rejection of this truce. let's play it. >> i cannot condemn strongly enough the actions of hamas in so brazenly firing rockets in multiple numbers in the face of a good will effort to offer a ceasefire in which egypt and israel joined together and the international community strongly supports. >> and, martin, as we know secretary kerry is returning to washington today. this ends all speculation, at least for now, he's immediately going to the middle east. >> yeah. that's right. he was supposed to be going there. with a report going to cairo he'll join the egyptian in the ceasefire process. clearly in the absence of a ceasefire. they decided it's not worthwhile. and the ceasefire was dead

before it began. it was given a chance on this side of the border, at least. israel is responding with full force and the question is what does it mean, quote, with full force? more and more severe from air and the sea. or does it mean a ground invasion is likely? the army, of course, is red.name the border. almost 40,000 reserves have been called up to join the regular army. they're ready to go in. the army is waiting for the green light. the hope was a ceasefire would avoid a ground invasion which would lead to greater loss of life in gaza. 190, i believe the number is. palestinians did already -- israeli ground invasion would make it worse. because of mass rejections of ceasefire makes the ground invasion more likely. >> thank you very much, martin. we'll keep our add up to date. we're continuing to follow the developing situation in arizona. protesters are waiting for a bus of undocumented children.

between 40 and 60 to arrive at the camp where they'll be temporarily housed according to reports. a whistle blower who works at the camp notified some members of the public that these children would be transferred and as a result you now have people from both sides of this debate have now shown up to voice their opinions and believes on what is happening. also this morning, sergeant bow bergdahl is on active duty. what we're learning at the new assignment. a new report said she's refusing to speak with his family. also ahead. >> i'm the daughter of a january ter and i ended up in the united states senate. america is truly a great place. >> freshman senator elizabeth warren gets a rock star welcome. why democrats are turning to warren. plus, oscar pistorius

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welcome back. the army now calls in the, quote, normal soldier. but to many bowe bergdahl is anything but. he's on active duty just six weeks after his release from the taliban. there are lingering questions over why he left his post and investigators have 60 days to

start questioning him. one soldier's mother who believes her son was killed while searching for bergdahl after he left his post, is angry he's returned to duty. >> he should not be free. he should not be resuming a normal military life after what he's done. >> the military said there's no evidence that anyone died while specifically looking for beowe bergdahl when he was missing. colonel jack jacobs is in attitude with you. gabe, let me start with you. what are some of the new details we learned about his assignment and what his day will be like. >> hey, tamron. good morning. military officials aren't saying exactly a lot about what his day-to-day routine will look like. military officials tell nbc chief pentagon correspondent that investigators will be able

to qualify him about the claims that he deserted his outpost in eastern afghanistan in 2009. as for what he'll be doing, military officials say that he'll be able to go off base for the first time without any medical or military escort, and that he will live in army barracks here in the same building as other soldiers. he'll be allowed to carry a weapon, although he probably won't need to do that in his new desk job. he's being treated, they say, like any other soldier at this point. and pentagon source said that as far as the military can tell, he still has not spoken with or seen his parents, tamron. >> gabe, let me get do you hang on and bring in the headline normal soldier being investigated after living in extraordinary situation with the taliban. what do you make of the? >> he's under investigation. there's a major general who is conducting what is called an article 15-6 investigation to

determine whether or not he should be charged. once the investigation is finished, and he probably -- my guess, he probably will be charged with something. a recommendation is made to the commanding general to charge him if he decides to charge him. then the army will conduct what is called an article 32 investigation as the military equivalent of the grand jury procedure, except that the accused has right to counsel and the right to exam witnesses as well. in the meantime, because he hasn't been charged, he's going carry-on as usual. >> with the controversy surrounding the situations and circumstances why he left the base. is that normal that he would be allowed into active duty while the 60 day investigation -- i guess what i'm asking is why not keep him out. do the 60 day investigation and decide whether every reintegrating him in this way into the workplace? >> he's on active duty. he always has been. >> exactly. >> they're giving him a job to do so he can earn the pay.

he's been released from the medical facility and released to this current job. job was to be evaluated and now he's finished being evaluated and integrated now he has a job until such time the army decides what to do with him. respect to carrying a weapon, people don't wander around with loaded weapons. if there's one place where people don't do that, i mean, you can do it in a lot of states. you can't do it on a military post unless you're out of the range and being supervised. and to the extend he can go off post, too, my bet is the criminal investigation division is tailing him. >> there was a tweeted picture of him smiling alongside the terrorist network. it was posted on the twitter account. we don't know the circumstance behind it. we don't know if he was forced to smile all the details. the pentagon calls it 100% propaganda. with it said wall street journal said he refused to speak whiz

pare with his parents. some wonder if he has adjustment issues that need to be worked out down with the relationship with the parents on the forefront of keeping his name in the press so people would not forget him before, again, going alongside men and women who may have strong opinions. you know, they're following the line because they're service and men and women that's what they do. but they're humans. >> i spent a lot of time in combat. i can tell you his case is tremendously unusual. i never saw anything like it. and so somebody like that who does things like that has got problem was one kind or another. it is shocking he wouldn't contact his parents. who knows what the relationship is. and at the end of the day, the army is going to figure out what to do with the guy. it probably won't have anything to do with the relationship of his parents. >> thank you. >> gabe, thank you. i'm sorry we didn't get back to you. we appreciate you sticking around and giving us that information. we're continuing to watch

the developing situation in arizona where protesters are awaiting a bus of about 40 to 60 undocumented children set to arrive at this camp that is normally used to house at-risk teenagers. this will be their temporary home and you see people from both sides now amassed outside of the location. we'll keep you up to date on this latest. also, ahead new legislation would ban suspending even expelling pre-k students in washington, d.c. so you think pre-k students don't get suspended? think again. we have the numbers. it's pretty stunning. it's a problem apparently affecting minority children. i'm going to talk live with the city council member, washington, d.c., who is behind this proposal. we'll tell you why some of the pre-k students are being suspended. here is a look what is happening today, tuesday, july 15th.

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sir, thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me on. >> good morning. so some of the common reasons, as i understand it, these kids are being expelled tantrums, vulgarity, and bathroom mishaps. is that accurate? >> unfortunately, that is the case. i mean, these are young children ages 3 and 4, and last year when we commissioned a study of how many of the students were being expelled and suspended, we were concerned when the study came back last month and showed that in the district of columbia students were expelled for the reasons you stated. we held a hearing on this later this month. when we haeld the hearing, the school system said sometimes it was suspended because the parents were coming in late with the kids or weren't dressed appropriately or other incidents like this. each of these seemed like

problems with the guardian or the parent. and not with the child. and so what we're saying is you've got deal with the kid where the kid is and work with the child so they can be successful in school. >> so in this report, it went on to say young children are not able to connect fully with their misconduct to the suspension. research indicates that removing a young child from school does not teach them appropriate conduct but rather puts them behind. i guess you have a lot of people who have a difficult time reconciling how a professional, a teacher, educator would think that it's appropriate to suspend a 3 or 4-year-old for a bathroom mishap. i know, this legislation tackles that, but is there something else we need to be discussing that goes past legislation to protect the children? >> i think there is. what is going on here is a failure for us to recognize that schools should be a place of comfort, a place of welcoming for students. and not a place where they get

thrown out on a regular basis. instead a place where we can figure out what is going on with the child. what is going on in their lives. and then make sure they can be successful. the question about whether or not the child is properly potty trained or shows up on time or has the right uniform on are questions are relevant here. are they the child's fault? i don't think so. we should embrace the child. not send it down the path. we talk about the school to prison pipeline. that is an example where you suspend the child, you start to ingrain in the child's head they're not worthy or good enough to be in school. that is seriously a big problem in the united states and district of columbia. >> let's talk about the numbers of 18% of preschoolers nationally, african-american 48% of them represent those suspended or expelled from school. how do you deal with that disparity in numbers there? >> it's a great point. and, you know, we did the study

across the entire school system. all the way through seniors in high school and found it was a huge disproportionate impact on african-americans, on latinos, on special needs students. and i can't quite grasp why that is at this point. we're going to study it. part of the bill is require annual collection of the type of data to make sure that we can do the deep dive necessary to see what we're missing. and then fix it. because these children need to be in the schools getting an education so they can become strong, productive members of our community. and not left behind. and, you know, i'll point out when the children are suspended. they are ten time more likely to drop out of high school. that's a huge number. >> what kind of support have you received here? >> tremendous amount. my colleagues there's 13 on the d.c. council. i think just about everybody cosponsored the legislation including the chairman of the committee on education.

hopefully we'll move it forward in the fall as soon as we get back from the summer break. >> all right, david. thank you. we would like to follow up on that as it moves ahead. >> thank you. the conversation continues online. share your thoughts with us on facebook. facebook.com/newsnation. what do you think the legislation proposed to end what is a stunning number of 3 and 4-year-olds expelled from school for tantrums and potty mistakes. disproportionately being a number of african-american. developing now in arizona a group of protesters waiting for buses carrying undocumented chirp. we are waiting for the bus to arrive. they plan to block the bus from going inside. it's transporting the children. most from central america to a facility sycamore canyon academy in oracle. it's supposed to be a temporary housing location for the

children. we'll continue to keep an eye on the situation and bring you the developments. also ahead freshman senator elizabeth warren is hitting the campaign trail for red state democrats and lelectrofieing th crowd. >> i believe in natalie tan nen >> she drew a groud of more than 300 people. why she's a great ally even when the candidates openly disagrees with her on key issues. it's today's first read. tonight yankee fans will watch derek jeter's emotional goodbye in his final all-star appearance. the league will honor baseball's first openly gay player. how he battled years of homophobia in the league that eventually lead to him feeling rejected. he died homeless and today he's finally honored. i'll talk live with the author

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we are following developing news in virginia moments now from now president obama will address the crowd at the highway research center in virginia. his speech will largely be about the economy but the president is expected to press the need for infrastructure spending. the president's approval number sitting in the low 40s his speech lands at an important battleground state for the upcoming midterm elections. and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is getting rock star reception as she hits the road on behalf of fellow democrats across the country. since march she lobbied for senator. she raised over $200,000 who is

looking unseat senator mcconnell. >> i'm here because i believe in democracy. i believe in what we can do together. i believe in natalie tennant, she's going to be your next senator. [ cheers and applause ] >>. >> so the event took place in west virginia's eastern pan handle one of the most progressive areas of the state. she was able to get warren's help in energizing the base despite the fact they disagree on many issues. warren got a number of standing ovations. there were several shouts of 2016 from that crowd. joining me live nbc news reporter kari danza. it's an interesting situation. she brought in senator warren because she needs her help with progressive group there. however, she was clear they have key differences that are important to her home state.

>> that's right. elizabeth warren, on paper, seems like an unlikely candidate to be stumping for senate candidates in kentucky and in west virginia. a big reason for that is that warren is in favor of restrictions on coal production. for allison, natalie tenant in west virginia they have to draw clear lines. saying they disagree with her on that. i like her on other issues. senator warren is from the northeast. she's progressive. she's more to the left than the red state democrats want to be. what warren brings with her is a legacy of fighting big banks and talking about how the system is rigged. what democrats are hoping is that that's a message that resonates across the party to democrats or independents or some republicans in the red states who feel like they're living under a rigged system. between the job problems in their states or other issues they're facing with health care or something else. they want to hear the message of there's a rig the system and there's something out there fighting for me. >> thank you very much.

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>> some guys had contacted the gay disease. they used to call it a gay disease. he was one of the ones that had contact with it. i was like, oh. >> glenn started to cry. he said identify been told you're going to help me. somebody wants to help me. i can't believe somebody wants to help me. joining me now by phone eric sherman, author of "out at home." thank you for your time. >> caller: thank you for having me, tamron. i appreciate it. >> absolutely. eric sherman, you first met glenn burke at yankee stadium in 1978, as i understand it? he was a member of the a's at the time. you got him to sign a program for you. how did you learn more about his story and really to get people around him to open up about something they didn't want to discuss? >> i found out about the story in an inside sports article that

was written by michael smith who was glen's lover in 1982. i was only 16 years old at the time, and i'm thinking this is a huge story. and i was really surprised that it didn't get more publicity. so fast forward to about 1994, and feature stories began to be written in newspapers like the "new york post" "new york times" "l.a. times" about how glen burke was dying of aids. i'm thinking it's a huge story. so i put together a book proposal and i contacted pamela pits, who was one of glenn's care givers through the oakland a's, you know, making sure he was getting meals and taking care of his well being, and she

said, well, there's a long list. 17 other authors and four movie companies are also interested in the rights to glenn's story. feel free to send a book proposal. so i did and about a week later pamela asked me to come out to california. glenn liked my book proposal the most. >> the details of his story just heartbreaking. drugs, crime, homelessness. all of these things he faced and his fa his family believes part of the reason it spiralled out of control was that he was rejected because he was gay. and, you know, his sister is quoted as saying maybe he didn't get a chance to live out his dream. he use to the sleep in his baseball uniform and mom used to have to peel it off him. make sure the other little boys get a chance to live out their dreams. glenn would be very proud. something good has come out of

it in the end. i can barely read that quote without tearing up. you think about the sadness that followed and now major league baseball is giving this player his due. did you thinkdue. did you think that this time would come? >> not like this, no. but i did think with how the attitudes in society have really begun to change, and there's more tolerance now, there's more inclusion and acceptance in our society for homosexuals that -- and, you know, what you have seen in other sports, football and basketball, i got to tell you. i think now with major league baseball stepping up to the plate and making it easier with their announcement today that i would really be surprised if at this time next year we don't have a ballplayer that's come

out. i'd be surprised. >> wow. well, it's a powerful story. sadly, he's not here to feel and hear the praise and maybe even hear from other athletes that his life inspired but his family will be there today. excellent reporting on your part, erik, sticking with the story that you came across as a 16-year-old. we appreciate you joining us. >> my pleasure. >> thanks. up next, a live report from oracle, arizona, where the group of protesters of both sides of the immigration debate are now outside of a facility where some 40 to 60 undocumented children will be temporarily housed. they're from central america. one half of the group out there plans to block that bus. we'll have the very latest on the developments out of arizona.

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