american crisis, american cross roads. new protests over undocumented child immigrants. in the nation's capitol, the president meets with top stakeholders to map out the answers. we'll introduce you to four young men who came to this country and transformed their underwater dream. a six-state solution. that's the california dream of one silicon valley billionaire. voters may get their say. he'll join us to make the case on wednesday, 16th of july. good morning. we begin with developing news this morning on the possible lawsuit speaker john boehner and house republicans are mounting against the president. right now the house rules committee taking the first step

toward that suit. let's go to nbc on capitol hill. good morning. republicans are calling a few legal experts for their opinions today. what are we expecting? >> well, jose. this is the sort of opening saga if you will, into the procedural process for john boehner's lawsuit against president obama to move through the house of representatives. what you're seeing today is the house rules committee trying to decide the rules of debate about how the lawsuit would move forward. today will be a opening gamete of political posturing. yul see republicans call witnesses favorable to their side. they're going testify it's executive overreach by president obama in terms of the executive actions he's issued. you'll see democratic witnesses say no, the president was within his right to move forward in the way he did legally. it's nothing more than a partisan political stunt. that's what you'll see today. this sort of opening, grand opening of the john boehner lawsuit against president obama which will take from this point on ward many years to go through the court system.

two to three years minimum from conversations i've had with legal experts. >> thank you for being with us. our first focus today immigration where the border isn't the only great divide. the influx of thousand was central american children is tearing communities apart as they figure out way to deal with the solution. the new video is into nbc news from the border. one local texas official stops a small group of women and children who crossed into the united states. some took rafts across the river and they're headed to houston and los angeles. these are smaller groups than the one he's seen before. he thinks maybe the message to not make the dangerous journey is working. >> some have heard. i know, there's been word put out in mexico. some are trying to hide. for the most part, especially with the women and small children it's hard to run. >> in los angeles the mayor of california's largest city said

he's willing to help shelter some of the unaccompanied mine e minors and reached out to the health and human services secretary to do so. >> these are children. as a father, who are we as americans if we don't step forward and say the kids who are isolated, alone, maybe are doing the right thing. maybe made mistakes. forget that, first. let's get them someplace safe and secure. let's get them legal representations which is what the country has stood for. on the east coast martin o'malley doesn't want children heading his way. at least in the one specific town where it's being proposed. he's worried about them being harassed. the building where they want to house the children has been vandalized. someone saying these messages you see on your screens. and yet another protest yesterday 300 people lining the streets in arizona even my split over a plan to house at least 40 young people at the facility in

town. >> i really don't understand why people allow their fears to rule them like this. >> after all they've been through, central america, all the way to come over here. it is fair. >> we've got a virus that is decimating three countries there. are we going to be seeing something like that coming into pinal county? >> i welcome you with open arms if you come legally. >> joining me now is a lawmaker front and center in the debate. illinois democratic representati representative thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> we're speaking in our careers now. you're one of the few people in d.c. who gets outside of washington and talks to people on the frontlines of the debate. you're meeting with the president today. what will you tell him? >> we'll tell the president of the united states today that hispanic caucus unanimously

adopted a position that, look, we're for supporting you and your petition to getting additional funds. we think the children should have court hearings quickly. all right. and there are petitions for asylums or other relief should be heard quickly by the system. we are going support you in that. we want to send a clear message to the children, don't come to america. most of you will not prevail in your asylum claims. and simply will be deported from the united states. don't go through the dangers for nothing and let's figure out -- we're begin to give the president some other alternatives. but what we want to do it quickly. we don't want to circumvent the existing rules that are in place to protect the children and give them they day in court. let's get them judges and get the courtrooms. let's get the stuff set up so the kids can get their day in court. but let's not take away legal

rights that the kids have to a lawyer and to their day in court. >> congressman, the house could act even this week on a bipartisan bill that would change the 2008 law that deals with specifically with children that come from the border that aren't from mexico. what do you think of that? >> well, jose. i have to say henry and i have worked closely on immigration issues. but there's a parting of the waters here, clearly. what the members of the hispanic congressional caucus will tell the president it's not just a way forward. because what my friend does is he expedites the removal and removes protections for the children so they can have -- look, a border patrol agent should not be the person that determines whether a child has a valid petition for asylum and -- >> why not? >> because they're not trained to do that. they're not trained to do that. that's why reasonable men and women in calmer times, jose, in

2008 and 2007 and back in 2002, when it was introduced the legislation that created the department of homeland security. we said when children come unaccompanied to the country, we need to put special protections in place for them. border agents are there. their whole design and mentality is keep people out. let me put it this way. the mexican children are treated differently. less than 5% of all mexican children are determined by the border patrol to have a petition for asylum. it's been shown that about six out of ten of the mexican children are never asked about a fear of persecution. most can't speak spanish. there's a reason for doing this. they're not equipped to do it. >> one of your colleagues wrote a letter last week worried about the kids carrying, among other diseases e boll will. >> it's incredible. it's the old argument.

they use it against immigrants when they came to ellis island. they used it against my mom and dad when they arrived from puerto rico. you can check. they're bringing diseases. look, the fact is that hundreds of thousands of american travel to honduras, travel to el salvad salvador. it's a good issue to raise on the other end. let's say one thing, all the kids are screened. that's why you need the money so they have proper medical screening. both for our safety and theirs. >> congressman, quickly, what would you say to the people, listen, it's not our problem. deport them. if they want to come, come legally. >> i believe in american exceptional ism. i think it's the strongest, most powerful nation in the world. when children -- the first thing we do is protect them and sort things out with the children.

that is america. if you look, right now, jose, syria. we've got like 2 million refugees between turkey and jordan. what do we do? we provide funds. we tell them good job for standing up to those who flee assad. all i'm trying to say around the world i want us to set the standards how we treat children. we're leaders of the world. this is our hemisphere. and the central american countries we should be investing there. instead of spending money in iraq where they hate us, we should spend in our own hemisphere. >> you have a meeting with at the president at 3:15. we want to hear how it goes. we'll report tomorrow. >> thank you, jose. congratulations. >> thank you. this morning we have new numbers about how backed up our immigration court system is. more than 100,000 juvenile immigration cases filed since 2005 more than 40,000 of the cases still pending.

almost half of those cases were filed this year alone. same study out of syracuse university found almost half the kids don't appear with representation. a program director for americans for immigrant justices children legal project, represents many of the kids joins us live. thank you for being with us. what does it take to get kids represented? >> definitely funding is a big issue. the vast majority of the children are unable to secure representativation because they don't have the necessary resources to do that. so we rely on legal services organizations for americans for justice and pro bono attorneys. the need is far greater than the resources we have right now. >> and so, michelle, how has this wave of unaccompanied kids crossing the border made your job more difficult? >> it's challenging these days. it's very long days and it's heartbreaking when you meet

children day and day out. we screened over 1600 children last year in miami at americans for immigrant justice. this year we're almost meeting the number and it's only july. it's concerning that we're talking about kick them out and is sending them away without giving them a meaningful opportunity. when you hear the stories they tell you i fear for my life. i have no home to go back to. we need to be careful about how we process and treat the children going forward. >> michelle, we heard from one such person this monday with maria on the show. i invite you to go online and check out the interview. thank you for being with us and for what you're doing. >> thank you. coming up later. he is the multimillionaire venture capitalist who this morning one step closer is splitting california into six separate states. you heard. it he'll join us later in the hour from the golden state. after the break, there is something about hillary.

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a massive typhoon. let's zoom through today's top stories. a massive typhoon killed 12 people. the capital was spared.

it forced evacuations causing damage and leaving thousands without power. tony blare is in cairo today to breathe new life into a fa failed ceasefire. israel assumed attacks on palestinian after hamas rejected the ceasefire. israel is trying to warn residents the small cloud you see there. those are leaflets warning of impeding air strikes. israel has been targeting the homes of senior hamas readers. president obama and german chancellor spoke on the phone for the first time since germany expelled the cia station chief. amid spying accusations they talked about how to improve intelligence, cooperation going forward, and discussed ukraine and nuclear talks with iran. while on the subject of spy games. russia will reportedly reopen its spy base in cuba, which was

primarily used to spy on the u.s. during the cold war. it was set up in 1964 after the cuban missile crisis. it was once the soviet union's largest base outside the territory. the base is just 155 miles from the u.s. coast. cuba claimed it shut down the plant in 2001 to save money, and because of the u.s. pressure following september 11th. russian president putin finalized a deal during the visit to havana last week. he met with fidel castro and agreed to write off 90% of the debt dating back to the soviet era. hillary clinton made the rounds. and there was one critical stop she was missing the daily show. stewart tried a different way to get the former first lady to admit she's running for president. a career aptitude test. where he asked if she liked working from a home office. perhaps one without any corners. >> let me ask the you the final

question. do you enjoy constant nonstop criticism? >> enjoy is probably the wrong word. >> expect? >> expect. survive. >> sure. >> live through. it just sort of comes with the territory. >> it does come with the territory. it sound like, if i may, you have for president. >> i want to bring in host ofs in msnbc reid report. >> congratulations, i enjoy the show. >> thank you. thanks so much. how do you think hillary clinton did? >> i think she did well. hillary clinton has to reinvent herself and reintroduce herself to the audience and get a younger audience. she had a great time. i think she had fun with the question. she was relaxed. i think she did pretty well. >> she has done so many appearances. is that dilute the impact of her

message. so many people listening after she's been on so much? >> that's where you get to the that said portion of the conversation. i think she did well. she's been out there a lot. as you know, she's done a lot of -- obviously for the book. she's doing a book tour. she's doing a lot of media. you have the ready for hillary clinton shadow campaign that pushed her out there. there's an argument that could be made she's oversaturated this far out from when she was announced. on the other side, maybe the thinking is she'll saturate the media so much with her presence that any kind of knocks on her will lose the steam and lose impact. >> i want to talk about your generation of generation series. you're airing a piece today with congressman joaquin castro. >> the castro brothers are one of the rising stars in the democratic party. obviously latino, very important, mexican-american. and joaquin's twin brother has

the same career profile the first mexican-american hispanic mayor of san antonio, texas and hud secretary. he has the same trajectory. his hud secretary. his brother joaquin -- we had them interview each other and talk about their parallels in their families. and the importance in both of their cases of latino citizens. latino-americans asserting themselves and actually making the number of latinos in this country mean something politically. that's something that hasn't happened particularly in texas. i think it's 38% of eligible latino voters participate in elections. >> right. absolutely. finally, we have to talk about the heat. the city is reeling from lebr lebron's decision. >> dade is still wade county. i think it's hugely important.

as you know, lebron brought two rings home to miami. he did a great thing. even though he did take south beach. it's a different city. >> thank you for saying that! that was the thing i think annoyed people is south beach. that's where you party. that's not where you play. i think he's having left. chris bosch has to be happy. he has a huge contract that he probably wouldn't have gotten. resigning wade the team is still together. the heat will be fine. they'll be fine. >> let's go to a game together and doubting the heat future to rest. >> we're going have to put the doubters to the side. i'll do that. we'll catch a game. >> thank you so much. catch the reid report here weekdays. it's a david and goliath story. a high school team took on a

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so let me quickly introduce you to tracy lee. there is her vibrant twitter page. she's the digital producer for the show. she's one member of my staff that is combing through your questions and comments and making sure we hear what you have to say. on day three, three questions i'm honored you asked. the first one is, a followup to the interview yesterday on the california drought. any major projects going on in california? there's a lot of sunshine. in fact, there is. there's a solar-driven plant in the central valley called water fx. it's the only one of the kind in the country. the plant turns irrigation runoff into pure fied water cheap. we're getting many questions about immigration. what is mexico doing on their side of the border. great question. not much. yesterday they announced the creation of a commissioner from more my grants in charge of identifying those crossing the southern border of mexico. not necessarily stopping them.

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here on this heated debate on immigration we're having and border crisis. a new documently will premier on msnbc this sunday. as we mentioned earlier it's being called one of the most significant documentaries since "waiting for superman." it follows fourteens from phoenix that entered a robotics competition. inspite the odds, they were competing against college kids and they won defeating m.i.t. >> they were yelling and

screaming and clapping. we didn't know how to react. i almost got knocked down. >> that was my version of -- >> of course we were excited. i don't remember walking to the stage because, you know, just floating, i think. it was almost like it didn't happen. >> it did happen. let's bring in three of the winning team members in that documentary. we're joined by alrealorenz, lu and christian. >> thank you. the competition was ten years ago. how does it feel to see your story in this documentary? >> hjose it's pretty unbelievabe seeing myself on the screen and knowing our story is getting out there and motivating people change politics or motivate

themselves to get a higher education just like this. >> louiuis, it shows fixing a lk at the last second. let's take a look. >> we noticed water in the case. >> we're telling it to move forward and it's going sideways. >> i'm thinking, oh my god. >> oh, [ bleep ]. >> we're out the competition. we were all having problems. >> my requested was a tampon. it was a do or die situation. >> so don't even know if ma gooifr would have been able to take up that one. after having to go to the pharmacy and buy it yourself? >> it wasn't so much intimidating. i think it was more we didn't know who we were competing. i didn't know who m.i.t. was. it didn't make a difference. it was competing against colleges i didn't know who they

were >> and, you know, in a documentary that i saw last night. i find just lovely. you know, you are working against the clock. you know you don't have the money. just tell us about what -- first of all, why is your machine called stinky? >> when we put together, we had to glue it together in one session because it was all one piece, basically, that was supposed to hold all the wiring inside. we couldn't just glue one side and not worry about the rest of it. if we didn't get it together at once, we might forget to glue something and water could leak inside and sink us. so we decided to glue it all together at once. the glue we were using stunk up the room a lot. that's why it ended up being called stinky. >> at the end of the documentary, you are reunited with a team ten years ago, you

know, you beat m.i.t. and one of the guys said i'm the guy who designed the apple headphones. every time you see one of the white apple headphones. that's me designing it. all the guy at m.i.t. who had dreams and fulfilled them. and you probably had bigger dream and the odds were against you, you have taken another root because of the lack of documents. tell me what you're up to and what your dreams still are. >> i'm working. i'm living out my dream. i wanted to be a chef and i'm still, you know, learning from a lot of cooks at the restaurant. my dream is to be opening up a restaurant. it's something i've always had a passion for. and cooking my mexican heritage food, basically. >> what about the other? what about the other two gentleman. >> currently i'm working at eight hour job. so i'm, like, the off weekends or stuff like that, sometimes,

when we get a few calls for catering we do catering business we do. so i've been cooking with that right now. >> and do you ever think, gosh, if i had been lucky enough to be born in the states and had my documents, maybe i would be in a different position right now. do you think that or i know you are so accomplished at what you're doing right now. do you think, gosh, i wish had i been fortunate enough to be born here and how i my life would have been different? >> the opportunity afforded to us would have been different and our lives wouldn't be this way. i doubt we would get this much attention if we had been legal residents at the time we competed or won. the story didn't get picked up until one of the writers realized we were undocumented. that's what really got attention to the story. it wasn't so much that we were from an underperforming school that happened to be the topic at

the time. underprivileged schools doing, you know, very well. which our school has been. we hope it can be a mold for other educational institutions. >> just one more question. there are a lot of people that are debating this crisis at the border. we're seeing and a lot of people are saying, look, it's not my problem. you guys, you know, didn't use the right route to get here and so you should be deported. when you see the kids, do you -- what do you see when you see these kids crossing the border? >> that's a very interesting question. because in a lot of way it is reflects some of our thoughts on why we entered the competition in the first place. we're in arizona, the ocean doesn't concern arizona, right? even though we're not the ocean, the waters themselves are something we rely on specifically because we're in the desert. and a lot of states that have a say in the immigration policy and the u.s. have a lot of responsibility and a lot of copability. and the reason behind the

issues, even if they're not a border state. thank you. thank you for being with me today. and do me a favor, folks, if you can catch "underwater dreams". this sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. it's an interesting experience you'll have. right now on msnbc.com, we en invite to check out an article. she'll be answering your questions online. i want to get you to some developing news out of the middle east that subpoena hag now. moments ago four children's were killed in an air strike launched by israel. swefed this video from gaza moments ago. nbc ayman mojadidi joins us on the phone from gaza. what is happening? >> caller: good morning. this afternoon we witnessed a scene of utter chaos at the gaza hospital. before the hospital scene, we

were at our hotel, which is right next to the gaza sea port. about 4:00 p.m. local time, there was two loud thumps that appeared to be israel naval that targeted the sea port. we realized it was a group of young children that were struck in a hut that caught on fire. as a result of that, four kids were killed. four children were killed. we're still ascertaining more details as to the identity and ages of the four, but at least three others were injured. we followed the family -- actually, aen ambulance. the scene of complete chaos and emotional scene for the parents of the young boy. the mother, who arrived a the hospital, not sure whether her son was one of the victims, was told by another relative that he, in fact, had died. it was a showing that surprised a lot of people here.

a lot of foreign journalists that were at the hotel didn't see or had not seen any type of activity that would suggest palestinian rocket firing or any military activity that resulted in military shellings. according to the eye witnesses there, it was at least seven children that were -- four killed and three injured. >> the israelis made a point of warning civilian areas they're about to attack. did it happen as well? >> absolutely not. there was no warning given in this particular incident. the incident that happened in the presence of several international journalist was in broad daylight. there warnings given. the warnings given are evacuating the house. in case, we didn't hear the soundexplosion.

we heard two incident loud thumps. consistent with those naval shellings we've heard in the past. we've heard it several times because of the fact our position, our hotel position was next to the sea. so we heard naval shellings. this time around it seemed consistent with the sound. there's no warning or no indication that a warning had been isn't sent in that directi >> ayman mojadidi, thank you very much. a shooting inside a busy las vegas mall lees one person injured. it happened last night after a fight started in the food court of the fashion show strip mall near the strip. investigators believe it may be gang-related. one man was shot in the shoulder. the woman ran into the shooter. >> i look at the gun, dropped the drink, smacked him with my pur purse, took the gun and took off running. the gunshot off in that

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it certainly an off beat proposal. split california into six completely separate states. you might call it california dreaming. tim draper dropped off the first batch of 1.3 million signatures at the elections offices in sacramento yesterday. and once the signatures get verified it will be a ballot measure if the people of california vote on it come 2016. tim draper joins me now. how are you, tim? >> terrific. thank you for having me on the show. >> thank you. you spend a lot of money, of your own money, trying to make it happen. one opinion writer says it makes zero sense. why split california? >> well, i think it makes zero sense to leave california the way it is. 40 years ago california was an

amazing place and it had an amazing government. we were first in education, we had great economy, a lot of jobs. everything was going great. fast forward 40 years, we're now 47th in k-12 education, we have huge unemployment, 20% of the population is living below the poverty line. california is not -- the government just isn't working. and there have been great people in government doing great things, and doing the best they can for california, but it just isn't working. we have huge exodus on jobs, we're ranked 50th out of 50 as the worst state to do business in. and so it needs a chance. it needs a change and it needs a new opportunity. it's still a beautiful place to live, but it really needs better

governance. and it gives us a refresh and a chance to start fresh and it gets us closer to our government. we have really lost touch with sacramento. they've lost touch with us. >> so let me ask you. why not spend that boat load of cash trying to get the crumby people out of office and putting good people in office. and stream lining the government on the state and local, you know, fields >>well, i would argue we have had great people in office. we've had extraordinary people in office. it just is not governable. it's very difficult to manage something where you're a state of 38 million people who have varying interests. all over the state. you know, how do you manage a group in san diego who thinks one thing about immigration reform and people in silicon valley think an entirely different thing.

it's difficult to manage all that have. it makes more sense to break into six states, allow everybody to refresh and let people start anew and build their own constitutions and their own ways of doing things and cut out the baggage that made this incredible decline over the last 40 years. during the last 40 years singapore has gone from $100 per capita to $40,000 per capita. if you have a good -- >> tim -- >> you can make great things happen. >> you talk about baggage. splitting up california some estimates make the silicon valley the richest state in the country and the central valley would become the poorest. how does that help anybody or how does that create jobs? >> what you're talking about is the current regime. the current regime has made it so that people in central valley are the poorest. that makes no sense. all of these manufacturing jobs that are leaving the state could

easily come and be grabbed in central california. right now california is doing nothing to keep those jobs in california. so central california could be a mecca for manufacturing jobs. for new jobs. all the jobs that are leaving l.a., all the jobs that are leaving san francisco. >> tim, quick, i'm running out of time. are you going run for anything in the future? >> no. never. >> all right. thank you very much. i appreciate your being with us today. thank you so much. coming up, while the state is one, still. we'll tell you five things about california with a little bit of marriage advice on the side. it's important news. we'll be right back.

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