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the u.s. as children, enrolled in college or the military as they grew up, but who president trump derides as hardened criminals. >> the plain fact of the matter is that the daca students i know and have met with are students that have grown up in the united states, they know all of the united states as home. they may not even speak the language of their country of origin. the notion that they would be subject to deportation is just wrong. haley's choice. a day before the first public impeachment hearings, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley sides with the president, defending his fitness to lead in an interview with savannah guthrie today. >> any question about his truthfulness, his ability to tell the truth? >> savannah, i talked to him multiple times and when i had issues, he always heard me out. i never had any concern whether he could handle the job, ever.
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iron man. jimmy carter recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain after falls. i asked him about recuperation just weeks ago. how did you have the resilience and strength, to be why, for showing up for habitat off falling and injuring yourself? >> i always put habitat first. we haven't missed a habitat project in 36 years. so i didn't want to miss this one. this would have been special for us. good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in new york with breaking news on the most anticipated supreme court case in this term. the justices holding the future of 800,000 immigrants in their hands after hearing oral arguments on daca. president obama created the program by executive order in 2012 to protect undocumented young adults who came to the united states as children, some as infants, from being deported
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as long as they were enrolled in school or graduated or are in the military or have been honorably discharged. it's being challenged by the trump administration. now appealing lower court rulings that upheld the program. [ crowd chanting ] today daca backers are demonstrating at the court and around the country, demonstrating their support for the program, hoping that one of the five conservative justices in the conservative majority will vote to save the program. nbc's pete williams is at the court for this hitting hearing. any hints which way this might go, pete? >> reporter: not really, andrea. let me set the scene here, this is an unusually huge crowd, first street between the supreme court and the capitol has actually been shut down to accommodate all the extra demonstrators who, as i think you might hear in the background, are still engine
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ethical ethically talking about this case. you're right, the question is is there one of the court's conservatives willing to side with daca supporters. daca's defenders say when president trump wanted to shut it down, he didn't do it straightforwardly. he didn't own the decision. he didn't come out and say, i don't want to give daca protection to these children anymore. instead attorney general jeff sessions issued a one-page memo saying daca is illegal. daca's defenders say they can't do that, daca is not illegal, and that kind of move has to be reviewed by the courts. the trump administration it, in to stop it, and the courts have
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no authority to rule here. that's the issue, andrea, are there five justices of the supreme court who will say, yeah, the trump administration had the authority to shut it down and we can't review it, we have no say in this. i think there are four of the court's liberals who would disagree with that. four of the conservative justices would be willing to agree with the administration. the question is what about that ninth justice, in this case chief justice john roberts, where will he go? frankly, i don't know. in the last term, on the census case, it was chief justice roberts who arguably had the deciding vote and he said, when the administration wants to do something like, in that case, add a citizenship question to the census, it has to say why it wants to do this and give a reason to the court. if john roberts votes like that in this case, that would be a
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fifth vote in favor of daca. the decision will probably come in the spring and that means daca will again be an issue in the presidential campaign pete williams, a really fascinating case. thank you so much for all your insights. we are less than 24 hours away from must-see tv from capitol hill, the first public impeachment hearings. we'll hear from veteran diplomats. they've testified in private, now we'll hear their stories. bill taylor, george kent, veteran diplomats, former ambassadors, talking about the white house's shadow diplomacy. the first round of questioning will be 90 minutes equally divided between democratic and republican staff counsels, their lawyers, followed by direct questioning from the full house intelligence committee members, very sharply divided. of course this all starts at 10:00 eastern. it will be live right here on msnbc. the president's republican supporters are circling the wagons including his former
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ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, defending her former boss in a headline-making interview coordinated with the release of her new book "with all due respect." this is with savannah guthrie on "today." >> impeachment is literally the worst punishment you can do to a public official and here you have a situation where there was no investigation and the aid flowed as it was supposed. when you look at that situation, it's hard to see where impeachment would qualify for that. >> can i stop you right there? because with all due respect, to borrow a phrase, that doesn't seem like much of a defense of the president, that he might have tried to do those things but it didn't work out so it's all okay. >> impeachment is serious. it's the most serious thing you can say do to a president. the other side of this is, we are less than a year away from the election. instead, let the people decide. >> let's stick only to the undisputed facts. i have the transcript of the call in question, that the white house itself released. this is not in any controversy.
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let's talk about that and that alone. the president has said this was a perfect call. do you think this was a perfect call? >> in his mind he thinks it's a perfect call. >> what do you think? >> i think it's never a good practice for us to ask a foreign country to investigate an american, it's just not a good practice. having said that, there's no insistence on that call. there are no demands on that call. it is a conversation between two presidents that's casual in nature. >> there's a lot to break down there. joining me flour kristen welker, staying with us we're joined by berit berger, michael crowley, and stanley fried now with the atlantic council. welcome, all. kristen, you follow the president every day, every minute of the day, every second of every minute of the day. let's just face it, in that conversation, even according to the transcript that the white
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house -- partial transcript that the white house released, it was very clear what the pressure was on in terms of the new elected president of ukraine. this was not an equal matchup. the president was saying do me a favor, he was making it very clear what he wanted. and the fact is that in that conversation where they were at the united nations where they met face-to-face, he said, oh, i wasn't pressured. he's facing the guy who has the $400 million in weapons that he needs to face vladimir putin. >> that's right, and i think that savannah did a good job of talking about the backdrop to frankly every conversation that would take place between a president and the leader of ukraine and in this instance president trump and president zelensky, which is this question of military aid, ukraine needs it from the united states. and so to try to decouple it from any conversation doesn't work. she pressed nikki haley on that. you heard nikki haley express that she wasn't comfortable with the way that phone call played
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out but she tried to put the focus on the fact that there was no explicit tit for tat in that phone call laid out explicitly by president trump. that echoes republican talking points that were distributed overnight, our colleague geoff bennett was able to obtain those talking points. nikki haley made note of the fact that, as you say, the president of ukraine indicates he didn't feel pressured and that ultimately the aid was given. but democrats are going to point to the fact that a number of these officials who will testify in public starting tomorrow are going to say that they weren't comfortable and that they did feel as though aid was being held up, and a white house visit also, in exchange for investigating the bidens. >> nikki haley was ignoring the fact that at the time of that phone call, the aid had not been given, it was released after the whistle-blower. the legal point here is also
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that you don't have to either withhold or receive the aid, it isn't the issue of what happened afterwards, it's the pressure, it's the, quote, extortion, as democrats would say. >> that's right, andrea. and as we all know, in the legal system, you don't actually have to have a completed crime for a crime to have been committed. you can attempt to commit a crime or you can conspire with other people to have committed a crime, all of which would satisfy a legal standard. for nikki haley to say there was nothing wrong here because the aid was ultimately delivered sort of misses the point. if there was some sort of effort to hold aid back to get damaging information on your political opponents, the damage is already done. >> michael crowley, mick mulvaney is no longer filing suit, he's basically been kicked out of the suit because john kupperman of the nsc and john bolton didn't want him in the
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suit because he has an entirely different legal case. they have national security arguments. he was the desired as the head of the office of management and budget to withhold the money. >> yeah, i don't think anyone completely understands what mulvaney was up to here. and it doesn't help with a sense that people have had in the last few weeks that mulvaney doesn't necessarily, shall we say, the way you might like to see a white house chief of staff have it. going back to that press conference he had a few weeks ago in which he sort of casually, freely admitted that the president was seeking a quid pro quo with ukraine and, you know, just to kind of be a head smacker for a lot of trump allies who couldn't understand why he was doing that. he also appears to be feuding with the white house counsel, pat cipollone. so mulvaney, who still retains
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this title of acting chief of staff, whose relationship with the president is up and down at best, i think continues to appear like a figure who does not have the kind of razor-sharp control of the situation that, you know, many past white house chiefs of staff are known for, known for really having things well-locked-down and being highly organized. with mulvaney it's just another example here of a certain amount of confusion and even, i think, critics would say an air of incompetence. >> dan fried, you know these former diplomats. for them to step forward, putting their decades of service on the line to try to set the record straight, they're going to be under attack from the republicans. tell us your expectations, william taylor, george kent. >> these are courageous public servants who are putting country first. they're stepping up because
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their oath of office, to the constitution, requires them to do so. and i applaud them. they're showing courage. they're not going to be under attack. they're already under attack. the president of the united states threatened ambassador yovanovitch to a foreign leader in that phone call. you can read it. and she stepped up and is holding her position. i think they're doing the country proud as well as themselves. >> tell me the reaction, i have certainly heard it, you hear it probably more viscerally than i do, from your former colleagues inside the state department, to the fact that secretary of state mike pompeo did not come to her defense. he was listening to that call, belatedly acknowledging that. he did not defend her then, on the call, after the call, publicly. that's what led to mike mckinley quitting in protest and being willing to testify. >> i regret that the secretary
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of state has behaved in a partisan fashion throughout this episode. he didn't defend his people and he also didn't defend the president who is being manipulated by polluted information, corrupt information, either from ukrainians through rudy giuliani, or ultimately the russians through rudy giuliani. it's the secretary of state's job to stand above partisanship and look after the national interest. and it distresses me to see the secretary of state backing away from his duties. >> i want to share with everyone an excerpt from a transcript released last night from catherine croft, the question from her private interview was, what was the concern about the russian reaction? her answer was, that russia
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would react negatively about the provision of javelins to the ukraine. she's a defense witness, pentagon witness. croft: i can broadly say all of the policy agencies were in support. question: you mean in support of providing the javelins? croft: correct. this was the key offensive weapon that the trump administration is claiming went well beyond the obama administration, it's true, the obama administration, dan, did nonlethal weapons. but this pentagon witness makes it very clear that mick mulvaney was concerned about what vladimir putin's reacting would be to ukraine getting the weapons it needed to defend itself against putin. >> well, the trump administration made the correct call to go beyond the obama administration and provide the weapons to the ukrainians. they were right. and so when the president,
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through mick mulvaney, seals to suspend sending those weapons, he's abandoning his own administration's policy for the sake of his private interests. that's the heart of the problem. he's supposed to look after the american interest first. remember that phrase? and instead, he's abandoning his own policy about which he and other administration spokesmen have boasted, throwing it over the side so he can pursue his partisanship. that's wrong. >> and a former secretary of state, conndi rice, talking abot the "perfect" call that the president calls perfect, she says, quote, i don't like the president mentioning an american citizen to a foreign leader, that's out of bounds.
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michael crowley, that's unlike nikki haley. >> that's right. that's right. even that is somewhat qualified, you know, it could have been stronger, i think. but stronger than haley. and, you know, i think she's at least grappling with it more directly. i mean, haley just doesn't want to seem to want to engage with the underlying facts here. she was focusing on -- i mean, she reduced the call to a casual conversation between two presidents. i don't know what that means or why that in some way is exculpatory of president trump. she was almost kind of seemed to be saying, look, this isn't that big a deal. that's trying to stay on the right side of the republican base now, clearly. >> clearly another run for office in her future, she at least thinks. thank you all so very much. very good news this morning from atlanta, at least so far, so good, president jimmy carter
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resting comfortably after surgery on his brain following a series of falls. the hospital says there were no complications from the surgery. the 95-year-old former president will remain in the hospital for as long as is needed for observation. carter, the oldest living former president, has fallen at least three times this year and he's also a cancer survivor. we wish him well and his wife rosalyn. coming up, loose lips. former national security adviser john bolton reportedly slamming ivanka trump and jared kushner. and later, fake it until you make it. how one woman completely fabricated her resume to get a job with the trump state department, including a fake "time" magazine cover. she got hired anyway. incredible. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." rea mitchell reports. unpredictable crohn's symptoms following you?
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former national security adviser john bolton, still a potential wild card in the impeachment proceedings, not agreeing to testify yet. but privately it seems he was venting to a group of wealthy investors at a miami speech last week. according to many people who heard his remarks and talked to nbc news exclusively, bolton speaking to hedge fund managers at a morgan stanley conference, took issue with the president's grasp on foreign policy especially turkey's president erdogan and the role business interests may play in that relationship. erdogan is meeting with the president at the white house tomorrow, we should note. joining me now, nbc news correspondent cara lee and msnbc political analyst elise jordan. tell me about your story because it seems bolton let a lot of cats out of the bag when he was talking to the hedge fund
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managers. >> that's right, stephanie ruhle and i are reporting that bolton was at this conference to give the keynote speech. this was billed as something that was off the record where he could speak candidly and according to the people in the room, he really did. he talked about turkey, which he said, andrea, was the most frustrating policy decision by the president that he had seen. he really was -- didn't understand it, he said no one was aligned with the president on turkey among his team. and he suggested there must be some business or personal reason for the approach that the president was taking in turkey, perhaps more interestingly, or equally as interesting, he was asked, you know, what happens, it's 2021, president trump wins a second term, he's unleashed, what does he do? and he took that opportunity to take a stab at the president's son-in-law and daughter, ivanka trump and jared kushner, where he surmised they would try to get the president to rewrite his legacy and convince him to
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nominate a liberal like laurence tribe, who is a harvard president and a critic of president trump, to the supreme court, and he also criticized senator rand paul of kentucky, a republican, who has as isolationist view on foreign policy and said trump could go full isolationist and pull out of nato and other things. lastly, more broadly speaking, bolton, according to people who heard his speech, really took issue with the way the president approached foreign policy, saying that it's not like real estate deals, you can't lose one and then move on to the next. he expressed concern about the president's approach as a transactional kind of negotiator on foreign policy, that that was going to hurt u.s. -- the u.s. over the long term, that there needed to be a consistency and also an understanding of the interconnectedness of america's relationships with other countries across the globe. bolton, we should say, declined to comment for this story but we
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spoke to a number of people in the room who heard his words firsthand. >> it's amazing, elise, because, i mean, you worked with john bolton, you know that he had different kinds of relationships, let's say, with the state department and with the white house, leading up to being appointed as u.n. ambassador, never confirmed but he served as a recess appointment. he worked with him at the nsc, he seemed to have been very forthcoming with the morgan stanley people. >> i would not want to mess with john bolton, period, especially in a bureaucratic infight and especially in this war that's seeping into the press. something i found interesting about carol and stephanie's reporting was that bolton really teased what's going to be in his book. he sounded very forthright. what he said was, i don't think we should downplay it all, it
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was simply jaw dropping to have the former national security adviser accuse the president of having business interests that influence his foreign policy decisions, is simply jaw-dropping. i think the fact that he teased that there is going to be so much more to come is really laying the groundwork for what is going to be a messy obstacle for the trump administration. >> and carol, as i remember, you traveled with him to turkey at a very critical time. >> i did, yes. >> and had some extraordinary reporting on that trip where he got himself on the wrong side of erdogan just before he arrived in turkey. so he has a real axe to grind also against erdogan who is coming tomorrow for this big meeting at the white house. >> yeah, that's right, andrea, he really -- we traveled last -- i think it was april -- january of 2019, went to israel and turkey, it was november, remember, it was the wake of the president's first announcement that he was withdrawing all troops from syria after speaking with erdogan on the phone.
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when we were in ankara, you know, president erdogan just pulled back on a meeting with john bolton and john bolton said that was just fine with him and he's always been someone who's tougher on this issue than clearly the president is. >> carol lee, another exclusive story, and elise jordan. carol lee and stephanie ruhle breaking that story. thank you so much. coming up, another exclusive from nbc.com, catch me if you can. this exclusive report on how a senior state department official got a top job with a highly embellished resume. make fitness routine with pure protein. high protein. low sugar. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good! high protein.
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assistant secretary. on her resume she falsely claimed to be a harvard business school alum, said she addressed both democratic and republican national republicans, and that she had testified before congress. it said she had featured on "time magazine"'s cover. none that have is true. in a 2017 video posted on her nonprofit's website, she's asked about the cover. >> here are you on "time magazine," congratulations. tell me about this cover and how this came to be. >> we started using drone technology in disaster response. that was when the whole talk of how is technology being used to save lives in disaster response areas being used. i suppose i brought some attention to that. >> i guess she did. in fact that cover was a fake. a "time magazine" spokesperson tells nbc news the cover is just not authentic. joining me now with the inside scoop, dan de luce, global
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affairs reporter for nbc's investigation unit. dan, how did she manage to pull this off? >> that's an excellent question. she tried to leverage her ngo, linking the world, and she presented herself as a globe trotting hue mmanitarianhumanit. there's one key detail, she had one key friend or contact, the undersecretary at the state department, a lifelong friend of mike pompeo, the secretary of state, a west point classmate of his. he did attend a fundraiser for her ngo in dallas and donated more than $5,000. that was the one connection we found to the trump administration, because she doesn't have a record of being involved with the trump political campaign. >> and she was -- i guess
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congress started asking questions about her, someone at the state department perhaps tipped her off. she was originally being considered for a more senior job at usaid, overseeing usaid in asia, shareholders like a billion-dollar budget. tell me how that could be possible. >> that's right, so before she got her current job, she was nominated for this very top senior job at u.s. agency for international development, overseeing all their work across asia, which is involving more than a billion dollars, a large number of staff, a very senior, responsible position. and she was up for senate confirmation. and then in the meantime, she was appointed to her current job as this deputy assistant secretary in the state department, overseeing a stabilization operation, which is a six-figure salary, also a serious job. then for some reason, they've never explained publicly, in september the nomination for the
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usaid job was withdrawn without explanation. but that happened after the senate committee staff had asked for more details, more documents involving her professional experience and her nonprofit. >> now, you have a couple of other wonderful details here that she also on her bio says she's a graduate of an army work college program, it was actually a four doct-day seminar that an could have attended. what is her status now, is she still there or has she been moved aside? >> there's been no comment from the state department. she's still on the job. some of these details that are misleading and apparently false are still on her official biography on the state department website right now as we speak. so as far as with he know, she's still on the job. >> maybe somebody on capitol hill would ask a couple of questions about that because we don't seem to be getting questions answered at the state department these days.
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of abuse of power involving the president's dealings with ukraine. republicans are making their counterargument, saying that what the president did does not rise to an impeachable offense. committee members will hear first from bill taylor, top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, and george kent, a high level state department official. both have raised questions about the trump administration, the president, pressuring ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. illinois democratic congressman mike quigley serves on the intelligence committee and joins me now. congressman, thank you for joining us. what do you think about how the democrats have arranged this, to mitigate an attempt to turn this into a circus? >> i think the dancing bears will enter somewhere in the second act of all this. but our job is to facilitate really i think some of the cream of our diplomatic corps, afford them an opportunity to speak
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truth to power and tell an extraordinary story of how the president of the united states abused his power and took a very, very weakened ukrainian state and extorted them for political gain. i think you'll find their testimony to be clear, compelling, and extraordinarily convincing. >> the republican counterargument, which we heard most recently from nikki haley in an interview with savannah guthrie this morning on the "today" show, was that while the military aid got there, they got the weapons, so therefore, no harm, no foul. >> yeah, their defense has changed and often been contradictory. if there was nothing wrong with it, why did they try to hide it? if there was nothing wrong with it, why did they try so hard not to have anybody testify, why have they obstructed this investigation? article 3 of the nixon impeachment articles listed four times in which president nixon
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obstructed the investigation. if you look last week, there were four times in one day in which the president, through his associates, instructed people not to testify and answer lawful subpoenas from congress. if it wasn't such a big deal, why did they try so hard to hide it and keep the truth from the american people? and then of course they go after the whistle-blower and they go after anything but what the president did. >> what do you do if they decide to name the whistle-blower in open, live testimony? >> umm, that would be the most disgusting thing i would have seen in my, what, 40 years in politics. and i come from chicago politics. look, to put someone's life at risk for political gain? i don't get these folks. if they were investigating an arson, would they arrest the person who pulled the fire alarm? that's all the whistle-blower did. they pulled the fire alarm.
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we have found the smoke, we have found the fire. leave this person alone. they're also putting extraordinary chilling impact on the whistle-blower system. while that is important in a democracy, in the intelligence world, in a democracy, the whistle-blower system is absolutely critical, because if we don't have it working, two things happen. leaks, which weaken us, attack our sources and methods, and also bad things go unnoticed and unpunished. that can't happen in our open system. >> and why are the democrats objecting to their demand that hunter biden, for instance, be one of their witnesses? >> yeah, cause the testimony is taking place in the nation's capit capital, not area 51. if they want to go after debunked conspiracy theories, they can go there. but that's how this all began, with them trying to force an ally to go after a sham
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investigation. we can't let them continue to here. if they want to bring witnesses to prove or disprove the case as it is charged, that's absolutely fine. but the conspiracy theories are for a different place. >> how much of a setback is it for you not to get mick mulvaney? according to catherine croft's testimony, he made it explicit that they didn't want to give the javelin planes because it upset russia, that gets back to the whole putin connection. and you're not going to get john bolton, not in time to get this done by this year. >> i trust the american people to figure this out. if the president had anybody who could contradict what's been alleged so far, they would have been there already, they would be there bright and early tomorrow morning to rebut this. what we heard from mr. mulvaney was the fact that he made what seemingly was an admission to this. and if mr. bolton thought that
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rudy giuliani was indeed a hand grenade and that this was a drug deal and that he, with righteous indignation ended a meeting, then come tell the american people. if this is about him protecting his future in the republican party, then shame on him. >> mike quigley, member of the intelligence committee, obviously part of the impeachment inquiry. we'll be watching tomorrow. and of course thanks very much for joining us today. >> any time, thank you. >> you bet. coming up, american dreamers. the story of one young immigrant who went from south central l.a. to harvard law and could now potentially face deportation. his case is at the heart of today's supreme court argument. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. nly on mc it's tough to quit smoking cold turkey.
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in 2016 mitchell was chosen as class speaker upon graduating from university of california at berkeley and described growing up one documented parents and their work to make sure he and his siblings could get an education. >> they managed to raise four children on a monthly budget of next to nothing in a country that did not seem to want them. we livedffigraffiti-covered neighborhood in south central los angeles. yet they made it home. my papa -- [ speaking in spanish ] home. you both mean more to me than you will ever know. >> his parents were in the front row when he got emotional and . thanking them. i'm joined now by california attorney general becerra who is leading one of the cases before the court today. good to see you again. talk to me about the importance
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of the dreamers and what is at stake in this argument. >> it is all about the american dream and american values. you've come to this country, you have to live in the shadow, you have to prove that you are worthy of staying here and that is what these dreamers have done, whether graduating there harvard or becoming a doctor. it is proving that this is your home. and that is why the dreamers have so much support across the country. makes no difference, liberal, conservative, pretty much every poll you take in america says that the dreamers should get to stay. >> there was bipartisan support for this, an initial deal in 2017 with the white house with the president. and then it all bad over the wall when he was saying that he wouldn't do it unless the wall was funded but democrats wouldn't do that. how do we get it back on track? >> it is a cruel punishment for people who have had to exist in
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the shadows and to be held hostage for something unrelated to their plight. but that is politics. we hope that the supreme court will give us a good decision that proves that the program is not only legal but valuable. and that the trump administration recognizes it is time to stop playing political football with the dreamers and give them a chance to call this home. >> the president is tweeting out things like they are hardened criminals. how do you rebut that? >> we heard that when he first decided to run where he would try to characterize people and try to sway the american people by using these descriptions. it is not true. most of the dreamers are willing to come out of the shadows. their motto is undocumented and unafraid, they come out and publicly express who they are and their status. because they have a story to tell. and i think that it is the kind of story that every generation of immigrants has told. and every generation has then
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proven that they are the reason why this country is the place that everyone wants to come. and so it will continue this way. and most of these immigrants will tell you, it is tough to have to exist? t in the hshadows but they will overcome this as well. >> now that they have come out of the shadow, they twrrusted wt they were afforded under the obama administration and then the reversal in policy how much at risk are they if they go the other way? you know the numbers on the supreme court. this will defend on what chief justice roberts decides do. >> and you hit on something very important. all of these people, they trusted our government. they did what the government asked. come forward, reveal yourself. and your family members. and they proof that had they could pass background checks,
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they proved that they would pay taxes, they proved that they would become successful citizens. and now to have that yanked were a, there is a concept in the law called detrimental reliance. when you do something that ends up being debt fridatri up being debt fridatmental to y because you relied on representations from someone else, that is wrong. and so that is a krcritical element of this case. it is never right to pull the rug out from under anyone. it is even worse if the federal government is the one trying to do that. >> california attorney general becerra, thank you very much for being with us. of course we'll be watching this case. and coming up, unfinished business, how the wife of the late elijah cummings is hoping to pick up the work of her late husband. ate husband. billions of mouths.
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this was a man of utmost integrity. do you hear me? he cared about our democracy. he cared about our planet. he cared about our community. he wanted to make sure that we left a society worthy of our children. >> as the democrats gear up for the first public impeachment hearing tomorrow, one voice will be missing and that is of course elijah cummings.
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the congressman's widow maya rockeymoore-cummings announced last night that she is going to run to fill his seat. >> i've been on this path fighting for our democracy, fighting for health care, educati education. he wanted me to continue this fight and i will run the race and prayerfully win. >> she is also the maryland democratic chair. rocky more keymoore-cummings al she will be getting preventive double mastectomy surgery on f y thursday. he'll a we'll all be of course wishing
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her well. the democratic primary is february 4 followed by an april 28th special election where the democrat will be heavily favored. that does it for today. remember follow the show online on facebook and twitter. and here is stephanie ruhle. you broke that great story about john bolton. >> thank you so much. it is tuesday, november 12. coming up, the fate of the dreamers hangs in the balance as the supreme court hears the trump administration's case for ending the program. we'll be speaking with one dreamer who is a plaintiff in the case. and we have brand new 2020 polling. we'll tell you who is leading in the all-important state of iowa right now. plus new exclusive reporting on how a senior trump official faked her resume and "time" magazine cover. what we know about this woman and why she has been
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