ceasefire in which egypt and israel joined together and the international community strongly supports the idea of a ceasefire. the need, the compelling need of a ceasefire. sent back n. a policy switch today, the first wave of undocumented women and children are sent back to honduras. the first to be sent back home after the white house pledged the speed up the deportation process. >> beginning this week we're sending family unites back to central america so the message is we'll send you back. will that stop the thousands of undocumented children risking their lives to enter the u.s.? a new group arriving just today in arizona. coming up, msnbc will join us on the humanitarian crisis at the border. the polar express sweeps through the midwest with record cold temperatures ahead of tonight's all-star game in minneapolis. matt lauer is feeling the deep

freeze for a completely different reason. and good day. i'm andrea mitch knell washington. not only is there no ceasefire in the mideast but the rocket fire increased. hamas called the agreement unacceptable. the death toll is nearing 200 people on the palestinian side, mostly civilians. joining me with the latest, martin flecher from tel aviv and from gaza, ayman mohadine. martin, there was a split in the cabinet we understand but they did accept the ceasefire and

then there was no acceptance of hamas so the rocket fire continuing both sides. what happened today? >> reporter: that's right. there was a security cabinet meeting in israel 7:00 local time. the cabinet was split 6-2 in favor of agreeing to the ceasefire and israel did accept the ceasefire which was supposed to go into effect two hours later at 9:00 in the morning and what happened was that hamas immediately rejected the ceasefire. israel said, yes. hamas said, no. hamas continued rocketing israel. about 80 rockets fired at israel today. in fact, two minutes ago just while getting ready to go on on air, there was a rocket and intercepted by an iron dome missile. the hamas continuing the fire at israel. israel then waited for about six hours. they gave about -- time of about six hours waiting for hamas rockets to stop being fired. hoping that maybe it was just

the last gasp effort by hamas before agreeing to a ceasefire. when it was clear hamas would not agree and increasing the rate of rocket fire, israel after six hours gave the order to the army and the air force to begin their operation. we'll have to wait and see what it means. does that mean more intense bombardment of air and sea or a ground invasion? that's the question here today. >> what about the public opinion in israel? because so far, this hasn't worked militarily. they have not been managed to wipe out the rocket fire coming from gaza. how was the divided between stronger or halting? >> reporter: i would say there's -- from the people -- many people i have been speaking to, there's a large -- there's a

large majority who want to finish with hamas now. do whatever it takes. there's -- i think there's great, you know, sadness on the loss of life in gaza and the wounded children that's on tv here all the time. but everybody keeps saying the same thing. what choice do we have? remember, this is the third round of fighting between hamas and israel in five years. each time, rockets fired from gaza and each time israel mobilizing reserving, once they went in 2009 to try to finish this. three weeks of bitter fighting in '09 and then two years ago the israel caught about 50,000 reserves and did not go in but the people here are united in the -- by saying we need to stop it. stop hamas. the question is, can that be done by brute force or by negotiations? so those who believe in negotiations were dealt a severe blow today when israel said, okay, we agree to a ceasefire and hamas, no.

we'll keep fighting. israel is divided along the lines but united in the need to stop those rocket fires, not only today but in the future, long-term future. >> and as we have been talking, ayman, there was more rocket fire just a few moments ago behind you. tell me what's happening in hamas as we speak. >> reporter: absolutely. i mean, i'm not quite sure if you can see off in the distance behind my shoulder, two palestinian rockets fired from gaza in the direction of israel took off as a result of those explosions launched from the site and been like that throughout the course of the day. no indication of a ceasefire from the palestinian perspective that their rockets have been fired throughout the course of the day since the ceasefire was supposed the come in effect. from a palestinian perspective, they rejected that ceasefire pretty much as soon as it was announced the egyptians had an initiative and clear why they're

rejecting that ceasefire and throughout the course of the early morning, the rocket fire has continued. now, throughout the day we have also heard from some of the two senior most palestinian leaders here speaking on behalf of the factions of hamas and islamic jihad and articulated that the ceasefire failed to address the comprehensive issues they were going after. not just about cessation of hostiles they want to deal with the siege of gaza, having that lifted and more importantly the problems they have been suffering from in terms of isolation. because they didn't deal with the issues off the gate, they decided to reject it. >> i have to tell you. i was just on the phone with some people, top officials in cairo strongly critical of hamas. now, obviously, egypt and israel work ogen the same side of the issue and egyptian authorities

very different, of course, from the muslim brotherhood and president morsi as you know was in charge in 2012 brokering this and strongly critical of hamas rejecting the ceasefire saying it's the people of gaza to suffer because of this, from the egyptian perspective. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely. there's no love lost between the egyptian government that is now under the helm of the president, a former military general and hamas which is considered really as an offshoot of the muslim brotherhood. one of the key issues is that the egyptian government, the current egyptian government has felt that the muslim brotherhood and hamas are extremely close. they share a similar ideologies and that i mean that hamas is to some extent a hostile entity to the current situation in egypt. they're not coming to the defense of hamas in the same way as the past to try to get the israelis to stop its assault on the gaza strip so there's no

doubt that the egyptian government is notes a closely supporting if you will hamas as the previous government of morsi which was obviously very pro-hamas government in the sense it interfered very quickly to try to get both sides to restraint and even offered guarantees. we weren't seeing the type of guarantees from the government. they say they acted within this initiative to try and preserve the loss of innocent life but certainly not out of political allegiance to support or protect hamas from the bombardment and pressure it is under now. >> briefly, is there any sense among the people you talk to, those who have taken refuge in u.n. schools that you showed so dramatically last night, any sense that they are not happy with the hamas leadership or does hamas have support for this continuing exchange of rocket fire? >> reporter: no. there's no doubt that the popularity of hamas has waned

definitely over the years. it has lost a tremendous amount of support from when it was elected in 2006 in democratic elections. talking to ordinary palestinians, there is a tremendous amount of disappointment with hamas, a tremendous amount of disagreement about the way they carry the domestic affairs inside the gaza strip and at the end of the day speaking to palestinians about the larger struggle and that is what they always fall back to, the larger struggle they're a people still under occupation, still besieged in the gaza strip, the first point of grievance with israel before hamas and no doubt about it. hamas is not by any way, shape or form popular in the gaza strip but this is a struggle the way palestinians see it and describe it as an exostential fight and that's how they see the latest chapter of this violence. >> our thanks to you both. thank you both so much. now joined by the ambassador to

the united states. we have heard from both sides now, ambassador. this is -- what is the end here? israel has protected its citizens with iron dome. by the same token in terms of the international community, israel's coming under fire because of the casualties that the palestinians are suffering. >> we have seen strong support of the international community. i was at the white house yesterday, andrea, for a dinner. israel has over 1 1/2 million muslim citizens and i heard the president condemn the rocket attacks against israel in that forum in the strongest possible terms, calling them inexcusable. we have had condemnations of chancellor merkel, prime minister cameron, from prime minister harper because everybody understands what they would demand, what their publics demand if the country would be in bomb shelters. over 200 million americans in bomb shelters.

i think there's support for israel to defend itself and support will grow because today as reporters said, israel agreed to a ceasefire. the prime minister acted with leadership and responsibility. he brought it to a vote in the cabinet. there was a contentious meeting but he agreed to the egyptian proposal for a ceasefire at 9:00. israel waited hours for hamas to agree and in those hours they were firing dozens of rockets at israel and israel said we have to protect the civilians and now engaged once again in this confrontation. >> what were the exchanges like at the dinner at the white house last night? you had all of the ambassadors of arab nations, persian gulf states, as well. did you find any open hostility? were there any conversations along the margins about this -- >> when they're off air, people can be very friendly, very open. obviously, the political issue is something that concerns all those people who were there but there were no problems

yesterday. i just thought for the president to do that in that forum i think shows you what he thinks about these rocket attacks against israel and deeply appreciate it. >> again, though, where does this go? do you think that a ceasefire will be possible? if egypt can't broker it, who can? >> very good question. we have a situation of egypt backed the ceasefire and international community and the arab league supported the ceasefire. you have hamas against the world opposing the ceasefire and firing the rockets at israel's civili civilians. i think today it's well past 100 rockets. at israel's civilians. >> 200 dead palestinians and that's what a lot of people are seeing, here as well as around the world. >> every single innocent who's killed in a war that's a tragedy but we have to draw the distinction between the deliberate targeting of innocents which is what hamas does, trying to kill as many

israelis as possible. we have the iron dome -- so now we have a rocket attack as we're speaking. a red alert app on the phone. another one coming in. >> which israelis have on the phone. >> when a siren goes uf in israel, people in the area where the siren goes off, runs for cover. if you download it, it takes 15 seconds. the time the people have to run for cover when an incoming rocket is coming or a mortar. it tells you where it's coming. but the iron dome system and it gives me an opportunity to thank the united states of america, strong bipartisan support in congress for this system. strong support from the president. it's actually provided protection and it's also provided protection to the palestinians because people don't understand this. if all of those rockets landing at israel, the demands on the government to take stronger action and fast tore get to the missile batteries is much greater. we have three quarters of our country rushing to bomb

shelters. completely unacceptable and the ones to be blamed for the use of human shields of placing missile batteries next to schools, hospitals, mosques, hamas. they're responsible for the deaths. we do everything to avoid the civilian casualties. they do everything to put them in harm's way. >> let me briefly ask you about iran because david sanger in "the new york times" reported after an interview that there is a new iranian proposal to have some enrichment and put limits on it and postpone the eventual development of the nuclear program. secretary kerry said there's still very wide gaps and diplomacy is better than the alternative and no deal until there's a deal. what is your take on the negotiations? >> we know what iran wants. to develop a nuclear weapon. >> they say they don't. >> they can say anything they want. they have said a lot of things over the years.

foremost sponsor of terror in the world. they have invested over $50 billion in developing this nuclear program, apparently they don't want. building icbm rockets and only purpose is to carry nuclear warheads. putting underground enrichment facilities. i mean, this is ridiculous. it's a joke. what we hope is that the international community will stand very firm to not leave iran with a nuclear weapons capability. to not remove the sanctions, leave them essentially with their nauk clear weapons capability intact, parked a few months or longer away from getting nuclear weapons in the future. that would be a terrible mistake for the world. we hope the international community will stand firm. >> and finally, what zarif said and to david gregory is why shouldn't they develop a nuclear program? it's, of course, israel has a nuclear program and reportedly nuclear weapons, as well. >> look. israel doesn't threaten other countries with annihilation. the government of iran threatens

israel with annihilation. we do not threaten anybody. that's the difference between us and iran and we should never forget it. >> ambassador, thank you very much. >> thank you. and much more ahead. including the latest on the border crisis. protesters are ready in place to greet the next wave of undocumented children arriving in arizona today. msnbc joining us coming up. [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!"

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protesters in or call, arizona, are awaiting the arrival of undocumented children today, a day after the obama administration took a hard line and a turn in the border battle sending a planeful of depor tees back to honduras. the first lady of honduras greeted the mothers and children

monday getting off the plane. what some are calling the murder capital of the world because of the danger and the violence there. it is a sign of the u.s. effort, though, to stem the immigration tide. the host of the new show on msnbc joins us from miami. congratulations. the interview yesterday which we aired part of and all of the work you are doing and great to have you as part of the daytime team here. >> thanks. >> and continuing on telemundo. what do you think about this policy now that homeland security put in effect of beginning to immediately turn people around at the border? >> yeah. i'm not sure it's a new policy. it's something the white house is really grappling with for sometime. this crisis is not really new. it may be new for the headlines but it's been going on for months and some say years a enthe fact is that the white house is trying to walk that tight rope between giving these children an opportunity to

express themselves and really kind of examine their cases, but also the desire to return those who would not qualify to stay under any current law. and so, this is the first of what i believe is going to be many such trips, airplanes from the united states over to central america. and what we're seeing in honduras is really a photo-op of the first lady of that country receiving these people when really nothing is done and has been happening to help the plight of these people in honduras. you said it. probably one of the most dangerous cities on the planet a. cent, you know, honduras continues not really doing anything about it. >> you had this interview with a young woman you called maria to protect her identity and i wanted to play a little bit of that as you translated for her, her fears, her aspirations and the pain she's going through. let's watch. >> translator: the only thing i would beg is please give me a chance to stay here. so i can fulfill my dreams.

so i can take care of my family. and a lot of kids are dying on the way. they drown. they're murdered. others are -- horrible things happen to them and they arrive here, they're coming here because they need to be here to build a better future for their families. >> you know this better than anyone. these children are coming many to be reunited with parents here, slips of paper with their mother or their father's address and contact numbers. >> just last week, andrea, we had the story of a 11-year-old guatemalan kid whose body found on the border trying to cross. just couldn't make it anymore and he died and sown into the pants is a telephone number. his older brother in chicago. and that older brother we talked to him and just says, you know, my dream was to have my brother come over and be with us because

being in guatemala was a life that was certain to end in death at an early age because of the problems of these cartels and the gangs that are really, really it's a very serious problem for these three central american countries. you know? >> well, and why don't honduras and costa rica and guatemala crack down on the cartels? is it corruption? why doesn't mexico stop them from going through? >> this is the key question. key question. you know, yesterday, government official in mexico said that they were going to plan to shut down passengers boarding this train that goes from the south of mexico towards the north. they call it the beast, the train of death. literally hundreds if not thousands of people jump on to this train that is transporting natural gas, et cetera, to the north and, you know, everybody knows it's happening. and yet, the government says

they'll work on trying to shut that train. there you see the images. this is people falling from that train every day. they're losing their limbs. they're dying. being crushed by the train every day. in central america, you know, el salvador with a truce with the guerrillas. sorry with the -- my spanish and english get sometimes mixed up. they're having with the gangs. the government has made a truce with the gangs and honduras is so violent. i don't know what the solution is but clearly they're not able to handle it. >> jose, nobody knows this better than you. you're bringing the interviews to our audiences and we're really so grateful. thanks for joining us today. >> thank you. >> tune in every weekday at 10:00 eastern to watch jose on his new show right here on msnbc. to the failed attempt at a ceasefire between israel and hamas, at monday's dinner,

president obama highlighted the turmoil facing both sides of this violent struggle, the struggle that's resumed in earnest this morning. >> we've been very clear that israel has the right to defend itself against what i consider to be inexcusable attacks from hamas. at the same time, on top of the humanitarian crisis in gaza, the death and injury of palestinian civilians is a tragedy and emphasized the need to protect civilians regardless of who they are and where they live. >> executive director at the jerusalem fund for education, community and development and joins me now. thank you very much for being with us. we heard from israel's ambassador. we heard what's happening in the field from our own reporters. why won't hamas agree to a ceasefire? >> well, let me just say, first, andrea, i have a phone here and

unfortunately it doesn't have an app. >> you don't have air defenses? >> we obviously don't have the means to protect palestinians from one of the most massive military forces in the world. which you rightly pointed out is a nuclear power. so, this is all taking place in a confined space where an overwhelmingly civilian population, half of which are children, 80% of whom are already refugees are forced into flight once again with really nowhere to flee. when it comes to the question of a ceasefire, look. hamas last week said that they wanted a ceasefire and offered terms. those terms were completely rejected. the conversation that's going on now really needs to be about getting a ceasefire that works, one that takes into consideration the dramatic imbalance of power between both sides and ensure that is there is a mechanism built in it for

redress that is different than rockets because when the israelis violate the ceasefire, the palestinians have no way of holding them accountable because they are so much weaker than the israelis. however, when it comes to the other way around, the israelis are easily able to hold the palestinians accountable. so the question is, who's going to hold the israelis into account when they violate the ceasefire? one of the biggest challenges to the ceasefire is when the rockets stop, the siege does not stop. the occupation does not stop. the continued detention and firing on palestinian fishermen by the israeli navy does not stop. the firing into farming areas in gaza does not stop. so this is not really a ceasefire if only one side is holding their fire. >> their argument would be that hamas is rocketing large population centers in israel. they're protected by the iron dome. the dense population in gaza is being hit with return fire and

that it's hamas' policy to bury these munitions in civilian centers, near schools, near mosques, and has been criticized by international observers for using their own population as human shields. >> again, there is a context to all of this. and i understand how many problems all of this brings about for the civilian population. that's very clear. it is not lost on palestinians in hamas or otherwise because they're pulling their children, their wives out of the rubble every day. so they understand the cost of all of this. but yes. we have a very powerful state and a nonstate actor. but the underlying reality here is that the israelis have denied palestinian statehood for decades on end. you cannot deny them statehood and then object to the fact that they're not acting like a state or acting as a nonstate actor when they don't have the means. i'm sure that palestinians would certainly prefer to have

precision-guided missiles and f-16s and the kind of defense establishment that an independent, sovereign state would have to defend itself but the reality is they don't have that. >> but given the fact -- >> prime reason is -- >> negotiations collapsed and both sides were blamed by the collapse, blamed by the united states, blamed by others. so aside from that negotiation which martin and secretary kerry were criticized for spending so much time on, aside from that, what about this confulgration? arab league called for it. oe others in your camp called for it. what can you do to stop the rocket fire on both sides? >> there needs to be an immediate ceasefire. yesterday before -- >> what are the terms, though? >> the terms are there has to be a genuine end to fire from both sides. previous ceasefires have been about how big this prison cell is going to be.

how many nautical miles off the coast can fishermen can go. how many fence inside the fence will farmers go? what palestinians are saying is terms of the ceasefire cannot be only about how big the prison cell is supposed to be but rather that palestinians shouldn't have to be confined to a prison cell at all. the siege should come to an end and palestinians should have the kind of rights to free movement and travel and the other rights this people all around the world would expect. >> thank you very much for being with us. our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible war. >> thanks for having me. >> and human crisis. facing a biggest challenge in more than 50 years of history, the peace corpse is getting a major makeover. the organization founded by president kennedy in 1961 and first led by sergeant striver sends thousands of american volunteers to more than 65 countries to serve communities in need for two years. but it's seen a sharp drop in

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and for more now on the immigration impasse inside the beltway border, texas lawmakers senator cornyn and congressman kuar have a bill for the surge of doundocumented mil eed immig. joining me is bill kristol. let's talk about the attempts to do something before congress goes home for the august so-called -- i guess it's recess or vacation or work, work sessions at home. but don't they have to do something? we saw that senator cornyn and henry trying today to come up with something to have a bipartisan solution. >> hi, andrea. i think the members of congress like you to call it a well-deserved break from the strenuous break. >> what have you they done so

far. >> working at least two and a half days a week, you know? i don't know that the legislation goes anywhere but i think the house passes legislation in a week to do what the bill does and amending the 2008 law to allow the u.s. to send back the people to central america after appropriate quick adjudication and hearing. i think the house will appropriate some money for that purpose, not quite the amount that president obama wants and they'll pay for it taking money from elsewhere in the budget so i think the house republicans want to move on this and i think the failure really is the president's in the sense he said two weeks ago we have to amend the law. the system is broken. and then he sends up an appropriation bill with no change in the law and backed off under pressure from amnesty advocates. i think the house republicans probably pass with democratic support a bill to amend the law and provide money. >> the 2008 law was a george w. bush law. it was a voice vote. it was not controversial and it was anti-trafficking law.

>> right. it wasn't intended to be used for this. it was a well-intentioned thing but as we know it's sometimes a perverse consequence and the president said that the law needs to be amended and what they'll do and significant as you said at the beginning of the segment not just senator cornyn saying the law has to be amended but a democrat of texas and could be a resolution to this quickly but i don't believe republicans simply give the president a lot of money with no change to the law. >> one of the problems, though, is also that they don't have enough judges and the justice department announced 40 new immigration judges. they have to be trained. that takes quite sometime. 40 is a drop in the bucket i'm told by border experts. they need far more people to process these applications because there are some who are legitimate refugees and need to be accommodated under those provisions given the violence in honduras and costa rica and

guatema guatemala. >> yes. i agree with you. but again, this is, you know, the president submitted a budget that didn't call for more of the judges and i do think, look, he again well intentioned way to be nice to the children already here, great publicity and amnesty, hundreds of thousands of children who were here, it had the affect and the conservatives were right about this. if you have an amnesty, it is a magnet and parents in -- >> it is not really an amnesty. for kids here their whole lives more than seven years and then go to college or join the military. >> well, no. but he's also not deporting any kids i think already here and not saying that's a bad policy but grown up and realize these things have consequences and then there's also all the talk of liberalization of immigration policies, led to what -- anyway, led to the situation we face and has to be dealt with and not just throwing money at it but changing the legal structure making the situation so

unfortunate. >> why wouldn't the house going back several steps now take up the senate bill and at least have a debate and floor vote on the senate broader immigration bill? isn't that in the republican party's best interest going forward to have some kind of action on immigration? >> that's in the republican party's interest but not the senate bill. i don't see why the house should yield to the senate on this and no one thinks anything of the bill to do anything about this situation. in fact, i think honestly the senate bill made the situation worse and generally sent the signal if you get over here, may take a few years and then you're amnesty'd and i think everyone in the liberal media and people in the conservative media ridiculed that. it is true. and you really have to be careful i think for that reason about sending a signal that illegal immigrants ultimately will have safe passage and safe harbor here.

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edge over terri lin land and nearly a fifth is undecided. that is wide open. joining us now chris cillizza and jean cummings. welcome to both. mark -- mark? chris. >> that's okay. i'll answer to whatever. >> i was thinking of mark murray and done the polling analysis for us, deputy political director. but chris cillizza, what is your read on the polling so far on these two races? >> well, look, if you're a democrat you have to be somewhat heartened. neither of the races colorado or michigan are sort of a prime pick-up opportunities for republicans. they're not louisiana, arkansas, alaska, south dakota, montana. so there are a number of seats out there that i think are looking better for republicans but looking at firewalls in terms of democrats keeping republicans from those six seats they need, colorado is certainly

a state that could be one. i think mark udall, 48-41. good number for him. cory gardner has a base in the state. it would suggest i think, andrea, that you don't have democratic incumbents in such deep trouble whether because of the environment or because they weren't paying attention that they're just not going to make it back. mark udall appears as though he has native strength and won't be dragged down by what we think is not a great environment for democrats nationally. >> what about the overall picture, the president and the white house and the difficulties on different fronts? is that dragging down democrat candidates? >> it definitely is. the president's popularity numbers quite low and that when someone goes in to cast their vote, do they want things to stay the same or do they want change? well, the way things are right now, most voters probably opt

for change and that makes many of these democratic incoupkucum weaker and some of them vulnerable. as chris said, when you look at colorado, i think the republicans saw that as a map stretch trying to bring some new races into play. but if the democrats have to worry about colorado in november, then north carolina, louisiana and arkansas are probably already gone. >> and chris cillizza, while foreign policy doesn't drive a lot of domestic votes the immigration crisis, the border crisis certainly could and will. >> yeah. i think what you're seeing is sort of this broad conversation about competence. the nbc/"wall street journal" poll i thought was telling. large numbers of people saying they didn't think that obama could do the job, not up to the job for which he was elected. that's dangerous territory. i think the immigration problems of the border i think the va, the irs, all of these things

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