. my anchor producer, it's her last day. she's moving to the weekends. she's the best i've had. we're going to miss you, tori. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> thank you, craig melvin. fireworks, the tanks roll into washington ahead of the president's 4th of july spectacular as the price tag soars for past celebrations, and the military tells residents not to be alarmed. for the president, this is really a show of not just military might, but optics. we're going to of course have fireworks. there's a lot of other flashy events. but the real question is, a, how much will this cost, and b, does

this turn into more of a campaign rally? >> coming up, dc mayor muriel bowser right here and 15-term congresswoman eleanor will be here. descend on iowa with exactly seven months to go before the caucuses as joe biden's front-runner status is in question after last week's debate. >> former vice president joe biden's support tumbling to 22%. down 8 points from the last poll three weeks ago. >> and standing room only. shocking new images from the dhs inspector general of migrants crammed into small holding cells without sufficient food or sanitation. and now today, pediatricians releasing these drawings. they say the children made showing themselves in cages. >> good public policy is crafted when people are able to see with their own eyes, hear with their own ears and speak to people,

whether it be agents or whether it be people in detention. >> and now the acting dhs secretary orders an investigation into border protection officers' facebook attacks against members of congress, including congresswoman veronica es co bar who will join us this hour. >> and good day, everyone. this is a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" here in washington, where military and government officials are scam bling to try to make president trump's vision of a 4th of july military spectacle a reality. the elaborate event is proving to be a logistical nightmare. according to the "washington post," the park service is diverting nearly $2.5 million fees for the parade. that is only a fraction of the cost that the cost will face. by comparison, former park service deputy director tells the post the entire 4th of july celebration on the mall

typically costs the agency only about $2 million. they're slamming the president for turning the nonpartisan public celebration sbroo a presidential speech for which the republican national committee was the only group given vip tickets. president trump tweeting today it will be the show of a lifetime. joining me now is washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser and eleanor. welcome to both of you. >> mad am mayor, first of all, what is the logistical chal ek or the district? >> well for us and the congresswoman and i both are proud to be the seat of the federal government and the 700,000 wag that support federal events each other all year long. and we also celebrate the nation's 4th of july celebration. so for us, changes to the way the events have traditionally happened mean our police force has to change. we have to communicate to the

thousands of people who come down to the national mall each and every year how to be safe. those are the basic logistics. we have the added element of the air show and its impacts on air travel to washington that we had the park service confirm earlier in the week. so those are a number of the things that we're worried about. it's going to be a hot day. we could have some tough weather. and so the message that we're sending everyone is to plan ahead and be safe. >> and one of the things that the president tweeted today was the cost of our great salute to america tomorrow will be very little compared to what it is worth. we own the planes, we have the pilots, the airport is right next door, all we need is the fuel. we own the tanks. fireworks are donated by two of the greats. nice, exclamation point. your comment? >> well, we don't think that the park service -- we have a lot of needs for the park service right here in washington, d.c.,

federal land, and the land adjacent to our neighborhood. so we want the federal government to focus on making sure that those parks are great for people, that their fountains work. they not all do. that their hours support what people want. so there are a lot of costs. i know that that number just came out. we don't know what our total local costs will be. if we have extraordinary police costs, for example, we will seek that reimbursement from the federal government. if there are demonstrations and protests that sprout up around these activities, those are additional police costs as well. so we don't know what our total costs are yet. >> and congresswoman, the pentagon officials have also been asked to participate to be there on the mall on the stage in front of the lincoln memorial for what is the first presidential address on july 4th i believe since harry true man during war time. what about that? a lot of the vice chairs are

coming, the abing defense secretary, mark esper. what about concerns among some of the military that this is politicizing and -- politicizing the military, which is not supposed to be politicized? >> indeed. we started with politicizing the entire event. now we're going to worry going to be vounlded by military officials and all that you might expect maybe at a military event. the president first tried veterans day and got chased away pr that by his own pentagon who indicated how much it would cost to repair the city's streets after these tanks roll down them. now he is on the mall. there are only two real events in our country which have never been politicized. one is veterans day. he couldn't politicize that so

here we comes for july 4th. there's a neighborhood parade and i'll be there just walking down the streets. there will be no signs saying vote for me. he won't have a sign saying anything either. but the president has announced that he's running for office. he has got to be scoop lis as to how he handles himself, particularly at events that are not campaign events. he has converted this into a campaign event for all purposes. already i am calling upon the interior proposal yarts to make sure that the district gets paid. he said we own the planes, et cetera. he didn't mention security costs. imagine what the costs will be for a president to be on the mall. leave aside the other security costs with people on the mall. insert into that the president and dozens of other type level public officials and you can see the costs to the federal

government will be immense. and of course the city will be providing with its own police some additional security. >> mad am mayor, the congresswoman has already posted that the city has not been repaid 7.3 million of the costs from the trump inaugural. >> right. and that's unusual. sometimes in years past if the inauguration costs go over the budget, and the president's budget always has the cost pretty low and we've always been reimbursed for any of the cost. >> we know that they raised some $40 million or more -- >> $100 million for inauguration costs. so we will continue to work with the congress. we will continue to seek the reimbursement and our request to the federal government and expect that it will be worked out. >> what about traffic? having been down on the mall for past july 4ths, my favorite

holiday, it's very difficult to get everybody moved out, whatever metro does. >> we're asking people not to drive, to use the metro. and metro does a very good job of getting thousands of people out very quickly. the other thing that's different about this event, andrea, is that there's a second location and there's also a second location for fireworks. so we're asking people to expect more street closures. but i also agree with the congresswoman's sentiment that this has been a nonpartisan fun family event where people come from all walks of life and all points of this region in the world to celebrate the fireworks. so we hope that the president will stick to that and not turn it into that, and we hope, too, that we never see the spec accountle of our military force being on display as a show of

force to our own women. >> thank you very much. i know you've got a lot of work to do in the next 48 hours and we hope for a safe and happy 4th for all of us. and i know i'll be seeing you at the parade. >> i'll be there. >> i'll see both of you tomorrow. >> of course. >> we'll all be waving our flags. >> at this hour a jury in california the deliberating on the sentencing for decorated eddie gallagher who was found guilty of one count of wrongfully posing for photos. he had been accused of killing an iraqi prisoners during his deployment in 2017. in a dramatic turn, though, a fellow seal medic confessed under immunity that it was he, not gallagher, that killed the iraqi fighter. gallagher's legal team is claiming victory. the navy chief and his wife spoke right after the verdict was handed down.

>> i'm happy and thankful. thank god for my legal team and my wife. >> i feel like we're finally vindicated after being terrorized. >> steve part sob has been following the story. thanks so much for joining us from san diego. sentencing today. what do we expect? >> well, andrea, you probably know better than most that a military trial moves different than a civil trial. the jury moved right into deliberations for sentencing almost immediately after the verdict was read last night. so they've already been dealing and listening to witnesses, four defense witnesses were called last night. they're going to roll right into deliberations this morning. they're in there right now with the defense team as we speak deliberating over sentencing for that one charge. i want to say this and we've said it many times before, gallagher acquitted of six of the seven charges that he was facing, obviously murder,

attempted murder, sbim intimidation of witnesses. he's bns cleared of all of that. but the one charge is serious to the gallagher family. we're talking about posing for the unaugt rised photo. that is a serious misconduct charge. it could carry not a sentence of being discharged but some serious penalties and a reduction of rank. so you're looking at not only the rank reduction, but pension often bits, retirement benefits, health benefits. salary. all of that is at risk with the jury as we speak. that would be a huge blow obviously to the gallagher family. the maximum penalty could be four months. but obviously looking at the time that he's already served in pretrial holding, that's likely not to happen. it is likely he will walk out of here with his family. but again, those benefits and that rank is up for discussion as we speak, as this trial moves along. obviously, speaking to the defense as they were making their way in, they're extremely

confident after last night. everybody on his defense team seems to take a posturing that we're confident about what's going to happen today as they move forward. the gallaghers as well, thanking president trump for the tweet this morning as they made their way into the courtroom. back to you. >> thanks to steve patterson and just to recap, the president who had floated the idea of a pardon before hand, before there was some brush back from some of the military, tweeted today congratulations to navy seal eddie gallagher, his wonderful wife and family. you have been through much together. glad i could help. we will of course stay on top of this all day. and coming up, barbecues and barn storming, democrats are flocking to iowa for the 4th of july as the race gets tighter. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc which led to the discovery that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up.

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well we're exactly seven months away from the first real test for 2020 democrats, iowa. the iowa caucus. no surprise, candidates are flocking to iowa for independence day campaigning, including former vice president joe biden, senator kamala harris, snar bernie sanders, who will attending five parades. meanwhile a new poll shows joe biden still leading the pack of democrats, followed by senator sanders, warren and harris. other post-debate polls show biden dropping further. joining me is charlie msnbc

contributor ruth marcus, washington editorial page editor. columnist and msnbc contributor, nbc news correspondent, and eugene robbins, and charlie, i'm going to go to you first while i clear my throat. charlie? this is jean robinson. quick question. these new numbers out of iowa, particularly there's an iowa poll today that seems to show -- seem to show senator harris moving up, senator biden off a bit. what do you make of what's happening? >> well, it is interesting that there's a little bit of con dra

diktry information coming. it's a very fluid situation. there's no question about it. but i do think we're starting to see that this race is basically coming down to the big four. it's coming down to biden, bernie, harris and warren, with mayor pete out there as a possible wild card here. what we don't know is, is really how serious the damage to joe biden has been, whether he can recover from it. this is the problem with being a front-runner. the target is on your back. those numbers always seemed a little bit inflated, a little bit soft. but i have to say that if you're joe biden, you have to be a little bit reassured by the "washington post" poll showing that he has 50% of the vote if you add together first and second choices. that's got to be a little bit reassuring to him. >> and heidi, when you look at these other polls, the polls are all over the lot. but the fact is that he is still

being viewed with some nervousness by a lot of democrats because of the way he performed on that debate stage. >> it was a shaky performance. and let's say that it probably cannot be repeated without there being a more lasting damage. that said, we've all been through several campaigns, several debate seasons where we've seen poll numbers swing very wildly. and if you dig into underneath these top-line numbers, you do see some promising signs for biden in that dem graphically he still has very solid support among older americans because those are the people who vote, and he also has still the majority african-american support. these are the critical determinants in any primary. however, if he repeats that performance and he has this time elizabeth warren, you know, with other issues -- >> if she's on the same stage. >> yeah, the bankruptcy reform, i think the damage will be more

lasting. >> he's just posted $21.5 million, which is a respectable number. ruth, at the same time, kamala harris moving up in these polls. i mean, this was a break through moment for her. she was unclear on the medicare question, even though it was a repeated question that had been given the first night as lefter holt in moderating the debate precisely said. so she has to prove herself being a long distance runner. >> she has to prove herself, but i think heidi is right, the former vice president needs to prove himself even in this short distance. senator harris did have this bobble with the answer on the health care. it was a particularly surprising bobble given that she had bobbled that same question before. that said, she did herself more good than pretty much any debate participant that i can recall,

and inflicted some damage on senator biden. you know, he's holding in the polls, but there's a lot of pressure on him for later this month. and i think how that -- how the computer shuffles the contestants this time around is going to be more important than ever, because you identified some really interesting areas of difference between him and senator warren. and so she could potentially prosecute, to use that word, the case can against him in the same way senator harris did. >> i want to ask you, you wrote a column yesterday pointing out that this is a democratic primary, and for all those who think that there needs to be a more centrist candidate and bemoaning the fact that the party is moving to the left and more progressive issues on medicare and immigrant rights in terms of health care came out of that debate, that democrats need to be energized and as much as republicans and -- well, democrats want never trumpers to

come to them, but they also have to worry about never democrats. >> exactly. >> i'm paraphrasing your column. >> this is a democratic primary process. so yes, they sound like democrats and they sound like -- >> shocking. >> it's shocking, i know. but they're going to enunciate the principles the party has stood for for a long time like universal health care. that's not new that democrats want that. there's a shift and a discussion about how you get there, what do you call it. do you call it medicare for all? but the basic goal has been there for a long time and it's still there and it's like that on other issues like gun control and other things. and a lot of the never trumper republicans, many of whom are my friends, i was just reminding that the democratic candidate is not going to sound like a never trump republican. it's going to sound like a democrat. >> that's a fair and important point, but doesn't it make you a little bit nervous when you have all of the candidates on the

stage in the second debate raising their hand when they're asked a question about paying for health care for undocumented migrants as part of medicare for all? that just seems like -- to me like a general election gift. >> completely ending private health insurance. even in the democrat primary they don't pole high. >> that was for illegal immigrants. that was a deer in the headlights question. >> it was. one of those deer might be the nominee. >> well, those deer are going to have some explaining to do. but what do you do? are you saying no, are you saying no, just turn them away and let them die in the street? you can't say that in the first democratic debate. >> charlie, what do you say to eugene's supposition that we don't know what this realignment really means? we don't know that centrist candidates are more acceptable to the independents and the leaning democrats in a general election? >> yeah, i would like to have a longer conversation with you

because i don't want to democrats to sound like republicans. i want them to sound like democrats who actually win elections, and all of these issues can be winning issues. but issues like, for example, abolishing private insurance or mandatory gun buybacks or decriminalized illegal immigration. even jay johnson is in the post today, obama's homeland security secretary, he's in the "washington post" saying that is tantamount to open borders. each one of these issues can be successful in the general election, but not if they go this far. so, you know, never-trumpers like me, what we're basically saying is maybe it's not a good idea to necessarily charge directly into the machine guns. many of the positions you saw on the stage are significantly to the left of what the obama administration took. so again, there's ways to win and blow it, and i think that every once in a while we need to raise the hand and say make sure

you look outside of the blue bubble if you really, really want to beat donald trump. >> that spoken by a man outside the blue bubble there in wisconsin. i want to bring up a subject of our friend and colleague at "the new york times" writing today that after nominating the first woman in history that had a presidential ticket, nearly six months after, a wave of women, and a record number of women ran for president, the party still finds itself grappling with the strangely enduring question of the electability of women. >> we're going to be asking this question until a woman gets elected. so i see this as an evolution. first it was a woman who is running, isn't that amazing. it's like a zoo animal. and wen we have a woman who is the front-runner and then the nominee and she lost. now we have an election that's quite fascinating where it's not one loan zoo animal or even one loan front-runner, but a number of significant totally

legitimate to be taken seriously women. >> to take them seriously, let me just point out that vanity fair has a spread with some wonderful pictures -- i'm sorry, it's in vogue. vogue's profile on the women running with the wonderful pictures of these women, iconic pictures. >> some day this is not going to be a curiosity. it's going to be a normal fact of life. we're not quite there yet. every election we get a little bit further. >> lisa and i covered, along with andrea, the hillary clinton campaign and we discussed it afterwards, we absolutely saw misogyny on the campaign trail, but it was very hard to separate that out from anti-clinton, decades worth of anti-clinton sentiment in the country. so if you just took a pure example of a woman who had risen to power and gotten the nomination and isolated that and had a discussion about whether we're ready to elect a woman, that would have been a clearer

test case because we're always grappling with that question of the legacy of the clint nts as well. >> you never get a clear test case on gender or on issues, for that matter. it's candidate versus candidate when you get to the general election and that's how people vote. >> we're going to have to leave it there and with apologies to anna winter. it was vogue. i should have known that. >> beautiful photos. >> thank you charlie, outside the blue bubble, thanks to all. and who run the world? the women of team usa heading to the world cup final, yes. and 15-year-old tennis fe nom coco gauff taking the court at wimbledon again today. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. (vo) parents have a way of imagining the worst...

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call it an all-american sweep, the u.s. women winning the world cup final in dramatic fashion and a new teenage star taking the court. the u.s. soccer team heading to the world cup finals after a heart-stopping 2-1 victory over england, despite the absence of their star forward, megan

rapinoe who was sidelined due to a hamstring injury, they said. >> i do expect to be healthy for the final. i had a good session today and i'm feeling better every day. it was nothing too serious, but with such short time between the games i just wasn't able to go. >> and topping off their world cup star power, the team's home jersey now has become the best selling soccer jersey ever on nike's website. >> plus off her wimbledon debut, teen sensation corey coco gauff will be tested today when she plays her second round watch on the grass courts after meeting another one of her heros today. 37 year old great roger fed rer plays tomorrow. >> with the best assignment of everyone at nbc, it's great to see you. >> so great to see you, too. the energy here at wimbledon is absolutely electric. i'll tell you, from everybody we've talked to, people walking

into the gates, even the taxi driver. they're all talking about one player, and that is 15 year old coco gauff. she is absolutely taking tennis by storm. in fact, when you watch her dominate on the courts, it's really easy to forget that she's only 15 years old. consider this. this time last week around this time she was taking a science test in class and now she is playing on the biggest stage in the world in tennis. so we're waiting for her to take the court later this afternoon. she's up next on court number 2. but of course this comes after that stunning win on monday against tennis great venous william. now, consider this, by the time coco was born in 2004, venus had already won wimbledon twice. this is who she was up against on monday. she said this is somebody who is one of her i'dles, she was just absolutely stunned to get a chance to meet her. but she says when she's on the court she's only focused on one thing and that's dominating her match. >> she certainly seem to have a great set of nerves.

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speaking out about a secretary facebook group of current and former border patrol agents who made what he calls disturbing and in excusable posts, including jokes about the deaths of migrants and about throwing burritos at latino members of congress who visited a detention city. >> i have directed an immediate investigation and any employee found to have compromised the law enforcement's trust. they do not represent the men and women of border patrol or dhs. congresswoman veronica escobar was one of the women targeted m the post. she also toured two texas detention centers monday. congresswoman, thank you very much. first of all, your reaction to these posts and whether the dhs is taking strong enough action against it? >> andrea, thank you for having me on. i really appreciate it. and i'm glad to hear that secretary mcaleenan has dunchd an investigation. it needs to be thoroughly

investigated. you have not just threats made against members of congress, which to be perfectly candid with you, many of us unfortunately have to deal with this on a regular basis. but to me what is far more troubling, profoundly troubling, is the way that these agents view migrants, the way they view children, the mock ery, a dehumanization. i am very frightened that these agents have access to these vulnerable people. they should not be near a badge or gun. they need to be fired. >> i want to also share with you these terrible pictures that we've been seeing that were released by the inspector general. and these photos taken by government inspectors showing the crowding, the overcrowding. let me go through a couple of them with you. we see these detainees pressing notes to the windows marking the days that they've spent in

custody. the door on this facility says capacity is 41. according to inspectors who were there, there were 88 men. then you have a photo of a woman wearing a mask pressing her hands up against the dplas. these trying to communicate with the inspectors. and on the cell designed for women, it's holding adult men. you can see men there. and then another photo showing a wide shot of the overclouding. you can see people packed into the holding area. it's an incredible amount. we have another photo that she released showing overcrowded families, some wearing those blankets because that's all they had. and finally a photo of women crowded in and laying on the ground at border patrol. i don't know what u.s. members of congress can do. these were scheduled inspections, so they were able to possibly clean things up examine diminish the population,

despite what we're seeing there, there were pictures there where there was no way to sit down, no less lie down. >> right, right. you know, without an ability for us to be able to just show up as members of congress unannounced, many of my colleagues who i brought to el paso, and this week marked our tenth congressional delegation visit since i've been in congress. but without an ability for us to just show up unannounced, om f us are wondering what are the conditions like when we're not here. and so i'll give you an example of something that happened last week. when the story broke about the clint facility with children, that same day my district team tried to get into the facility, wanted to go visit on the day that the story broke. that was a week ago today. their visit was punted to the next day. and when they arrived the next day, about 200 kids had been moved.

so they did not see -- they were not able to see the same conditions that the lawyers had seen. then we learned that the day after our visit, the kids were moved back. so it's critically important that members of congress be given the authority to drop in unannounced so that we can see for ourselves. it's also critically important that without local border patrol sector chiefs creating some kind of standard, it means that congress is going to have to step in and create some humanitarian standards. we tried to do that with the house supplemental bill. and i'll tell you those standards didn't go as far as many of us wanted them to. but we wanted a bill that would pass in the senate. and unfortunately, senator mcconnell would not allow for that, would not allow for a debate on those standards, on what we've seen, what we've heard, protections to be put into the bill. we have to keep trying. i've asked for field hearings

here in el paso. el paso is the center of the universe of many of trump's abhorrent policies. not just the detention that you've seen, the horrible inhumane conditions, what many of us believe is child abuse, but the misery doesn't end when they leave detention. many of these families are now being sent to mexico under the migrant protection protocol program. vulnerable populations and people. reassisted recently with a woman, a migrant from central america who was sent back after she left horrific detention conditions. she was sent to mexico to await the adjudication of her asylum hearing. she was kidnapped and brutally gang raped. and this is what our country is doing to people who are fleeing violence and poverty and

persecution. they are finding extreme misery at the hands of the american government. >> congresswoman veronica escobar, is you so much. and i want to point out that the head of the american pediatrician has sent out these photos of these children in cages. >> thank you so much for what you're doing and we'll talk again soon, i hope. >> thank you. >> and coming up, ultimatum, iran's president making new threats about increasing uranium enrichment with his country is not offered relief. the deadline is sunday. stay with us. no matter what i wore, i worried someone might see

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and you'll say, "he broke his pelvis or whatever, now back to my creamy heinz mayonnaise". heinz mayonnaise, unforgettably creamy. iran's president rouhani today warning that he's going to take the next dramatic step toward creating nuclear fuel that could be weaponized if the u.s. does not start easing sanctions by saun. joining me is jeff mason, white house correspondent and john begans, former speech writer, now with a new book, white house warriors, how the national security counsel transformed the american way of war.

congratulations on the book. >> rouhani today making this threat. we don't know if he will carry it out. but it is alarming, the inspectors say that after 15 months of complying they've broken out of the you have got a tough national security adviser who has been criticized for running the agency and other things. how does that play into your research? >> this is for the first time in a long time, the national security adviser made the decision to downgrade the process, make it harder for opinions to get through the white house and the oval office and agree information to get there. it becomes critical in moments escalating tensions with iran. that puts us in a lot of risk.

>> senior officials telling me that bolton is actually despite the criticism from the president himself is closer to where the president stands particularly on the north korean policy and that it is the state department in particular from top negotiators there who's talking about a step by step process which is not what the president envisions with kim jong-un. >> well, yeah, that's interesting. there has certainly been a lot of reports of divides between national security adviser and the president big hot button issues. about what iran said today as it puts pressure not only on the white house to respond but it puts pressure on the europeans because the europeans were trying very hard to keep iran in that nuclear agreement despite the fact that president trump removed the united states agreement over a year ago. so we'll have to see how they respond to that. it really raises the pressure on them to either help iran or

suffering so much the sanctions president trump put on or come around iran's plans and ideas and putting pressure on them. >> embracing muhammad ben salman and particularly vladimir putin. does it matter what the national security adviser does when you got a president who follows his own rules. >> there is been disagreements between presidents and security advisers or any bosses. who makes it hard to rally allies on iran and rally the government to do what the president wants oconn north kor or anything else. he sorts of undermine his policies and making sure it turns out the right way he wants

it. >> the big discussion on the book. >> "white house warriors." >> thank you john and jeff. up next is honoring our american heroes. stay with us on msnbc. stay with. [ giggling ] let's play dress-up.

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>> rahema ellis is in queens, new york for the service. such an emotional subject and watching him testify, before that was so painful. should not have been necessary. >> reporter: he also thought it was his duty to go ahead to do what he did of his dying days. here the streets are quiet and filled with nypd blue uniform and firefighters as people came to remember him. there was an nypd helicopter flight over, bag pipes played in his honor. as you point out, this man was catapuled into the spotlight. he was at his weakness and provided his powerful voice urging congress providing for first responders. he died 18 days after his

appearance at capitol hill. one of the things his sister said as she talked about her brother today. she said a friend of his, a another officer said her brother was the quietest man but in the end he made the most noise and he just encouraged everyone to do the right thing. she was comforted that he knew before he died that congress must unanimously passed the bill and pass it onto the senate. now it is up to mitch mcconnell to see what he's going to do. he says he's going to take some time. >> thank you, let's hope mcconnell is watching today. thank you all, as this 4th of july, we are celebrating america, that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." here is ali velshi from "velshi & ruhle." >> hello everyone, the crisis at

the border, we got new details about how children are being treated and u.s. custody would be considered as abuse if it happens at home. plus, president trump says he's cutting prescription drug prices. thousands are skyrocketing. we'll dig into the numbers for you. military tanks have arrived on the national mall for the president trump's 4th of july celebration. we'll look at the costs and concerns from the pentagon. today president trump is insi insisting his fight for addi adding -- the news reports about department of commerce dropping its quest to citizenship question on the census is incorrect. wilbur ross who says 24 hours ago this. "the census burr rhee has started the process of