if kevin mccarthy thought when

the speaker's gavel was tough, wait until he finds out what is ahead as he tries to rule the gop caucus and get things done. >> it's positive, not negative. it's not weakening kevin mccarthy, it's providing a speaker with the tools he needs for republicans to go to the mat for the american people. >> for us as democrats, it is a blessing for us that they can't govern. all of those things that we

were afraid of as the american people injuring, i don't see a lot of the harm being able to come to the people simply because their caucus is not together. >> in a few minutes, i will be talking to minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar. mccarthy threatened to strip representative omar of her committee assignments in his effort to gain power. we're going to ask her whether she has gotten word if that will happen. we are going to start with that breaking news out of brazil for you. supporters of jair bolsonaro stormed congress. the supreme court and the presidential palace in the nation's capital of brasilia. this happens one week after his rival left -- he was sworn in as president but. for all of us who watched the events of january 6th here in the united states at our capital, these scenes may look very familiar. these sites show off the key differences. congress in brazil is not in

session right now. president silver is not into -- the former president that the supporters are fighting for has already left the country. president bolsonaro is currently staying in florida. we continue to follow the breaking developments and give you updates there out of brazil. in the last hour, we have also been watching this. president biden landed in el paso, texas for the first visit to the southern border since he has been president. gabe gutierrez is in el paso. mike normally is in mexico city. the president's head in there later today. gabe, i'm going to start with you. we have been following not only what the president has been doing, just landed within the last hour. in addition to that, the people that would be affected by the policy that he might be suggesting when he is there on the border. what are you hearing? >> that's right, richard. just a short time ago as you

saw on msnbc, the president landed in el paso, visiting the border for the first time since taking office as president. he was greeted by local officials including greg abbott. he said that he handed president biden a letter pointing out the failures of the administration. however, the biden administration is trying to highlight its recent enforcement here along the border which it says has reduced the number of illegal border crossings here in el paso by 70% since mid december. i want to show you where i am at right now, sacred heart church. you can see that there have been in there are a number of people still here who have been camping out for some time, some longer than others. they have been camping out in very cold temperatures outside of the church. that functions as a shelter. last week, according to video obtained by msnbc, migrants were arrested here by federal officials.

just this morning, we saw a few being arrested, unclear on what charges, by local officials here. i also spoke with a former city councilman here in el paso. she had some choice words for the biden administration. take a listen to what her message for president biden was. >> i am born and raised in el paso. i have lived here 37 going on 38 years. my parents are migrants. my husband is a migrant. i'm a first generation latina. i have never seen this before. this is unprecedented for the city of el paso. it is something that we are not used to, having people sleeping on our streets like this. it's something very sad to see. >> again, the president touched down here just a short time ago. he is expected to be in the city for several hours and expected to tour a migrant processing facility as well as a port of entry here in el paso. again, his administration says

that it has been taking steps in order to discourage migrants like these from coming to the u.s. without applying for asylum through the proper channels. richard? >> gabe, thank you for that. over to mike. the president has a series of potential touch boards and messages he could give in el paso before he heads to mexico city tomorrow for what is called the three amigos gathering. that has been going on for many years. will they be amigos when it comes to immigration? there are so many different parts. >> richard, it's good to be with you. it's interesting how the white house has finally choreographed this visit by the president since taking office. one of the explanations for why this is the right moment is that it is on his way here to mexico city for that north american leader summit. part of what the white house is trying to underscore here is that this immigration issue has

become one of the most polarizing in america right now. it's much more complicated and nuanced than our politics often lend itself to. he is going to the border today to try to underscore what his administration is trying to do. remember the policies he announced earlier this week to again expand that parole program to include additional countries to try to provide additional legal pathways for some of those migrants to come here legally but also to surge additional resources for enforcement. as you mentioned, he is going to be working here in mexico city. it has been a product of his relationship with the president here, andrés manuel lópez. president biden has agreed to taken 30,000 additional migrants that the u.s. is going to expel back across the border under title 42. one of the points that the administration has repeatedly made is, one, there is a failure on congress is barr to modernize immigration laws.

the white house points out of the president introduced his own legislation on day one. this is a broader challenge beyond the u.s. borders, dealing with, as they often put it, the root causes of migration. the president in coming here to meet with the president of mexico, the prime minister of canada to both understand steps that each leader has previously announced, including at the summit of the americas in june. biden hosted a broader gathering of more than three dozen leaders from the hemisphere. they are continuing to take additional steps to try to deal with those reasons. one of the reasons that was delivered this week is to not come to the border. there are pathways that are available. there are other steps that nations are trying to take to try to reduce the pressure on the u.s. mexico border here but also the president is going to be underscoring repeatedly including today that this is a problem that he needs republicans to partner with him on. in that respect, it's interesting, that choreography. he's making this visit when democrats --

now that republicans are in power in the house, he really wants to set up that contrast and challenge house republicans to work with him on a broader set of policies as well here. >> gabe, as we think about the choreography, there are the real people on the ground that you have been speaking with throughout this afternoon. those migrants who are crossing the border, the president has in the live pictures. we're watching him to see whether he makes it to a point where he speaks with migrants or not. he is at what we understand to be the bridge of america. he's going to tour the facilities after he has this walk around with officers there. another piece of information you and i were talking about is how governor abbott had met the president when he came down from air force one and he handed some papers or a paper to the president. we understand based on a release from the governor that he had a 14 point --

this is what i have done as governor of texas. i want to let you know this, mister president. this is what we understand so far. tell us about that choreography and the real people that you have been speaking with. to they want to see him come and talk to them? >> well, certainly. on that point about governor abbott giving the letter to biden, not a surprise. if he's going to greet the president for his constituents, for his supporters, the governor's trying to make clear that he is telling it like it is, released how he sees it, to president biden, that he has done a lot for the order, at least according to abbott. he advocates that that is not the case, that governor abbott and his republican supporters have wanted to have chaos in some way at the border here so they could score political points. what i want to point out, richard, is that the migrants who we have been talking to

here, very few of them have any knowledge of politics at all. it's heartbreaking to see some of the journeys they have gone through over the last coming months regardless of the political optics here, how you may feel about this politically. many of these migrants have come here in utter desperation. we spoke with one family just over there a short time ago. they said they came from venezuela. they were desperate to come here to the united states and work. that's a story we have heard over and over again as the immigration debate plays out. richard, what is a little different now is that we are seeing some of these migrants from nicaragua. recall a few months ago that the biden administration put forth a plan, a parole plan in a limited way which let certain migrants able to apply for parole if they applied properly for asylum outside of the united states first. they would be allowed to be let in. several of the migrants we have spoken with here took that to mean, perhaps incorrectly, that the borders were open.

they would just be able to come here and stay in the united states, that biden was offering them amnesty. that illustrates, richard, something that we often hear when it comes to migrants and the misinformation that floats to their home countries, either through social media or what they hear from social media or smugglers themselves. many of the smugglers exploit migrants and feed them disinformation, give them false hope. and urge them to come here, which is why you see a variety of reasons for that. one of the most heartbreaking things i have seen today, richard, is that i have spoken to several of these migrants and they do tell you that they actually saw that president biden is going to visit this church. they are desperate to see him, to perhaps give him some sort of message on why they came here. it's highly unlikely that the president will come here. it goes to show you these

migrants are available that biden's landing in el paso. they are urging him to counter. they might never get to see him, but they are begging him for some pathway to be able to stay in this country. some of them are applying for asylum. others i have spoken to have not properly applied for asylum. they came into this country undocumented and they are in complete limbo. they don't know where else to go. at the center of this political debate, at the center of this humanitarian crisis are men, women, and children that simply don't know where their next move is. richard? >> sometimes we don't quite understand that reality. thank you for your reporting there as always. gabe gutierrez on the border. we appreciate that. mike memoli in mexico city. this was as the president was joining us live on the border. it's his first visit to the border as president of the united states. as he makes it to mexico city for the meetings with the

leaders of both mexico and canada, what has been called the gathering of the three amigos. immigration will certainly be one of their topics as mike memoli was telling us, and not an easy or straightforward set of issues related to that policy. we will continue to watch the president on the border. i want to bring in as we do that congresswoman ilhan omar, a democrat for minnesota. so great to have you here on what we are watching right now. we saw some sort of demonstration a little bit earlier if you are watching with us from the officers to the president of some procedures. i'm not sure exactly what that was. i want to get your response about why you think this is important that president biden make this trip now and what you might hope for him to do as he is there. >> thank you for having me. i think it is really important for the president to visit the

border. there obviously is a crisis both with the migrants who are fleeing crises in their own countries and that are being met with a crisis. we know that our immigration system has been broken for a really long time. these are people who are putting their hopes and dreams as they cross the border in a country that historically has welcomed immigrants. i do hope that the president gets the opportunity to have a conversation with these people and understand that we are -- what has led them to take this unprecedented level of danger in seeking safety here in the united states. i do hope that he has productive conversations with republicans in the border area with the governor of texas and the texas republican delegation. about what it means for him to

solve the crisis in the immigration system that we are seeing that as a result of this kind of demonstration. >> something you know so well here, representative, is the difficulty when it comes to legislation, specifically getting all sides together on this very important topic of immigration here in the united states. when that doesn't happen, sometimes it comes from the white house. title 42 is one of those issues that the president could move on. the so-called muslim ban where executive action was taken inconsistency would the -- the purpose of the constitution. do you want more executive action when it comes from president president biden? >> the president ran on a

promise to undo the unconstitutional, harmful, and immoral policies of trump. i would put title 42 in that category. i am pleased with the fact that he is offering some parole solutions for some of these migrants. we have to remember that people seeking asylum, that is in line with international law. it certainly is in line with our moral obligation to do the right thing here. i do hope that the president uses his authority to get things done on behalf of the american people. republicans want to continue to use the crisis at the border as a political pawn. i think that the president can take leadership and get everyone to the table to try to

find -- i am an immigrant myself. i emigrated to the united states under refugee asylum status. i was someone who crossed a border into a country that my family fled -- we cross the border into kenya to seek refuge. canyons welcomed us with open arms. there were solutions to the problems we were facing. we did feel safe and secure. if countries like kenya can figure out how to care for those who are fleeing the devastation, i certainly hope that the united states can as well and be the example that it has been for generations. >> we will see how that works out. the president continues his visit. we will go back to el paso if he does happen to come to the microphone. for now, we will move away from that live picture that we were watching. i want to also continue with the conversation that you were

talking about if we're going to get something done on immigration reform. people are working together in the capital, specifically in congress. to that note, with a new speaker, it appears that one of the things that is going to be happening that would not be consistent without idea is that the new speaker, kevin mccarthy, promises to kick you off of committee assignments over comments you have made in the past. have you heard anything in terms of being removed from committees? >> i have not. it's my understanding that we obviously have to get the rules package done. hopefully, monday when we reconvene, that will be on top of the agenda. the front caucuses, our caucus and their conference, are going to make appointments to committees and we will go from there.

i do have to say for a speaker that has faced historic humiliation that had gotten elected after 15 rounds surpassing a record that was set pre civil war, there is an opportunity here as he has said to not do things in the way in which it has been done before. i think it would be hypocritical for him to remove the first african born subcommittee on africa on the foreign -- i've had the opportunity to not only represent my constituents but the voice of so many people who have never had a voice on the foreign affairs committee. >> representative mattis gaetz was getting a lot of folks confronting him on both sides of the aisle during the entire

process of 15 votes. one of them, maybe not hello, was with you. there is the picture that you are so aware of at the moment. he was talking to a lot of different representatives during the 15 votes. during this moment, what was he saying to you? >> i have to say that photo was a whole mood. >> of course. >> we certainly, we've got the opportunity in those long for days to have conversations to get an insight on what some of the holdouts on the republican side in regards to the speaker vote were thinking about, the things they were negotiating for and how ultimately the vote will shake out. one of the conversations matt and i had was about what it would take for him to actually cast a yes vote for mccarthy. he said that would not happen.

it certainly did not happen. >> was he saying that? did he give you a list of things? was he saying, we have everything right now, we're just holding out? was there any sort of specificity that you can share with us? >> he certainly was going through the list of the things. some seemed like they were already on the table and negotiated for before we even got there. he certainly did not seem like there was more on a list that would actually get him to vote yes. we certainly discussed some of the things on the list. if the rules package comes to fruition, what would that mean for those of us in the minority? obviously, cuts to the pentagon budget, exciting for folks like me who have been putting up amendments to do so. i think the churches style

committee that they are thinking about, if there have been any violations of first amendment rights of americans. we will see if republicans are able to actually be able to get anything done. if the last four days are a testament of what we are to see, it is probably going to be more chaos. >> you know, well there was a record on the right, if you will, in terms of numbers of votes, there was also a record on the left in terms of unanimity. that within itself is something you and i should dig in on in our next conversation. that means a different potential congress on each side of the aisle. sorry? >> i said certainly. >> absolutely.

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[laughter] thank you, thank you very much. >> [inaudible] [inaudible] >> okay, president biden discussing what i think we heard, which is, how long have you been on the job? the officer said how long she has been there. president biden, if you're just joining us at 3:30 eastern, just about 3:29, the president of the united states on the border for the first time as president, certainly not his first visit in his political career. he will then go on to mexico city for what will be a meeting

of the leaders of canada, the united states, and mexico and immigration being one of the topics along with trade and others. i want to bring in cristobal alex. he has served as a senior adviser on the biden campaign and is also the president of latino victory product. as you and i have been watching this, very essential to see the steps that they have chosen from the white house where they are going to go. as we watch them from a journalistic perspective as well as those who are in the emigration community, the migrant community who are watching what the president will do, this is so important. this is the first visit. it is symbolic in terms of what he may or may not do in the next two years. help us out with that since you are a former biden administration official. what might he be doing? he doesn't have a lot of time. he might have a year to do anything related to immigration with a mixed congress.

>> that's exactly the right question. i will say as i watch this, you are exactly right. the steps that he is taking are literally on the ground there. his first stop as you saw was at the americas. you can see the painting of el paso behind me. el paso is right there, just a few feet -- connected by ports of entry including the stop of the president was at. there is an important juxtaposition there. we can see the president trying to introduce comprehensive negation reform. the person standing behind him right there in the white shirt is secretary mayorkas, the first latino ever to hold a position of secretary of the department of homeland security. before that, mayorkas worked under the obama biden administration as the author to put forth the daca, the dreamer protections.

you can see the kind of people the president is surrounding himself with, including the congressman to his right who was a very important leader on the border as well. symbolically, that is important, especially when you compare to his predecessor. remember that el paso is no stranger to this immigration debate. donald trump used el paso and test it out is child separation policy there. do you remember how cruel that was? they literally ripped babies from the arms of their mother's on the border. donald trump went back to el paso to get a big speech filled with language like hispanic invasion, words that were echoed by a mass shooter. he -- one of the worst hate crimes in modern history, killing 23 latinos and immigrants. there's a lot of symbolism here. i can only imagine how it is to have the most powerful leader of the world coming to the city to say, i'm here to help, we're going to fix this. we need help from republicans

to do that. >> guess what? we have help from the republicans. we have the former house speaker paul ryan. it's almost like he teed that up. where are we at in terms of the members of congress from the right. they might be watching this, those who were stopping. who are you watching in this new congress? >> immigration, and all my years of politics, it's probably the most difficult issue politically to resolve. the irony is that there is probably a bipartisan middle ground about what we should be doing in our immigration laws, some kind of a liberalizing who can come in but stronger border security. the problem is it is just so dominated by those loud voices. the extremes on both sides are just dominating the conversation so much that it is difficult to do anything.

i'm glad joe biden is finally down at the border. republicans are extremely animated about this issue. i think it creates a bit of a blind spot for democrats. look at any poll. immigration ranks as one of the top issues for republicans. it almost doesn't register for democrats. there is a weird mismatch. i think joe biden is probably trying to come in and demonstrate that he is taking this seriously. he knows a new house republican congress is coming in. he needs to be able to show that he is on top of it. i don't know if that is going to satisfy them. they are looking at what is happening over the last five years. they're going to be impeaching the -- this is a preview of one of the issues that is going to be front and center for a while. >> the energy from the right has been from the reagan

republicans. let's move together, brandon. who has that right -- boehner energy that says, this is good for the country, let's work on this? let's do this. >> it's really hard. as you said, we have tried this a few times. we walked up to being able to pull this off. anytime we did it, we got backed by the far-right. there was a serious effort which took place in the boehner era. amidst it, we had to pull back. if you recall, eric -- he lost his primary. he was the majority leader at the time. people blamed that on him being involved in a push for immigration reform. ever since, it's been very difficult. i think we have very low expectations for this congress being able to come together and work on anything in a bipartisan way. there is just not the interest on the right, certainly, to work with democrats on this issue. it makes it really tough to

find modern common ground. >> one of the other issues that are right in the face of this topic is that the economy as it slows and as all three of us know, when the economy slows, this is not a topic that necessarily does well. cristobal, are you expecting more than that for the president? i was just talking with representative ilhan omar about how into the past only one administration to go, we remember when the former president had the muslim ban. he was executive action to affect immigration policy. should this president, based on what congress will be in the next two years, enact more executive action to be able to get this very issue salt? >> ultimately, i think that is going to have to happen. as we just heard, the republicans, they don't have it together. they don't have a real urgency to actually solve this problem

outside of making political stunts and using this as a wedge to increase their majority in the house or elsewhere. i do think we are need to -- democrats take back the house and can actually get to work on this. an example of that is the final days of the last year when we were negotiating the omnibus bill. the biden administration asked for -- you to think that with republicans talking about how important security is and they would have gotten along with that but they came back with about half of that. they are really short changing the order. i would appeal to them, perhaps, as christians or however you want to do it. i remember when jill biden traveled. she crossed the border to feed migrants christmas dinner. there are things that can bring folks together. maybe there is some appeal to republicans on those grounds that will result in that.

to your economic point,, the biden ministration has gun such a good job -- we have regained all of the jobs that we lost in the pandemic and lost another -- for us to remain competitive, the statistics show that we had about three unhappily more immigrant workers. maybe that will help with our republican friends. >> brandon, the governor of texas, greg abbott, gave us this, what we believe to be as a copy of a letter. i have it here. he gave it to president biden when he landed on air force one. a lists 14 bullet points of what the state of texas has done related to immigration. is that a model that we should be looking for? that would affect the ideas of comprehensive immigration reform. which states might you be watching, brendan? >> i think you have to have states take action.

look, i think it's a very fair criticism that this administration is not taking the border issue seriously. this is an incredibly complicated large-scale humanitarian crisis. i don't want to say they completely ignored it, but it is not getting the attention or scale of the problem that exists. states and locality -- people living under bridges have been forced to step in and take action. i don't think that is a good and comprehensive solution, each state pulling together -- this is a federal problem that requires a federal solution. there can be common ground to find resources towards this. that's the best we could hope for. i have very low expectations. i think we have to solve the pictures we are seeing on our screen. it is something you should never see in this country. that's going to require sending a lot of resources and a lot of

attention. i assure you the new congress is going to make sure there is a lot of attention on this issue. i think there's a bit of a turning of the page for joe biden to put that focus on it. i bet he is worried about blow back from the left. he was there at the obama white house when they tried to be tough on immigration. they set records for deportation. what ended up happening was they got blow back from activists in the immigration space who thought that they were being too aggressive. it's a really difficult issue no matter which side you are on. i think we can't just except that this is how things work. >> brandon, crystal ball, thank you both so much. we're going to stay on this picture as well as this story. i understand that he is just moving from the bridge of the americas -- he's going to move toward the migrant services center in the area. we don't know. it's not expected.

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americans were calling the events of january 6th. supporters of the former president there, jair bolsonaro, storming their congress, the supreme court, and the presidential palace in the nation's capital of brasilia. this comes exactly one week after his rival, leftist lula de silva, was sworn in as the new president. protesters have invaded all through buildings, some calling for military information to restore bolsonaro to power. two important notes now -- the congress of brazil is not in session. president silva is also not in the presidential palace. he's in são paulo. worsen our oh -- he is not in the country. he's currently staying in florida. we will continue to watch this breaking news story out of brazil. protesters are storming government buildings in the capital. to kevin mccarthy, officially the speaker of the house, but he did not exactly get his way throughout the voting process as you may have heard.

it was only after he made a number of concessions to a group of house gop holdouts who unilaterally refused to back him. mccarthy secured the votes that he needed after he gave into those concessions. the so-called maga squad included republicans like matt gaetz and lauren boebert. their influence over the party during this whole process became very clear throughout the chaotic events last week. joining us now is molly ball, national political correspondent for time magazine and author of pelosi. a lot of things going on here. when we look at what happened, your take on the speakership debacle and what it means since you wrote on pelosi? what does it mean for the democrats? >> oh, interesting. well, for the republicans and mccarthy, in the near term, they have to come back tomorrow, monday, and vote on the rules package we could see it fall apart again as soon as a day

from now. it is not really clear whether the votes are there for that rules package. all of the members of the republican congress, not all of them are clear on what's in it, what concessions are made, whether they are willing to go along with this. for the democrats, you know, we saw a powerful show of unity. i think we saw a caucus which is united behind their new leader hakeem jeffries. some of the concessions that mccarthy made to the right to quote unquote democratized the house could empower individual members on the democratic side to have more autonomy and push for more things. it's interesting to see if they feel empowered, the so-called squad of the left as well, to try to utilize some of the tools which will now be available. >> that's an interesting point you bring up. it might not be those on the far right who are rejecting the rules package. it might be the moderates, the ones who say, wait i, didn't see those rules. what are these concessions we are giving? that's a reality. >> exactly. this morning on some of the sunday shows, you had some of

those members, people like nancy mace, people like tony gonzalez, saying they plan to vote against the rules package or they're not sure if they're going to vote for it. i think that's a really open question. we talk about the chaos that we saw over the past week or figuring the chaos to come for this republican majority in the house. it could be sooner rather than later that those chaos lands right on the doorstep of kevin mccarthy. >> you're pretty good at estimating what might be possible. in june, you published a very precious article about the maga squad and the growing influence over the gop, how they, woke, spent the past year building their power and they are now preparing to wield it. he's going to have to go through them if he wants to be speaker. he's not getting their votes without meeting their demands. you wrote, now that we have seen what happened, what might be next for the maga squad and its group on the -- you have intimated what might

happen in the future. we're going to go through the same debate about what is going to happen and who is going to be their leader. >> well we have seen over the past week, they were saying these things out in the open, members like matt gates. kevin mccarthy either did not take them seriously or did not think he would neither votes, what we saw play out as that he needed to take seriously their demands and that they really have been studying. they've been starting procedural rules and all those things so they're ready to exert their leverage. they were studying the squad of the left. they were studying all of the tactics and procedures. we saw them put those to work over the past week's worth of votes. they are ready to keep doing this. kevin mccarthy is going to be operating with a sort of sort of damocles hanging over his head. whether it is all of these other concessions, they are going to be using this as a enforce the terms of the agreement.

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new york, the new england patriots are being hosted in their first game since tomorrow hamlin went into cardiac arrest during a game last monday. the players gathered at midfield before the game to carry tributes to hamlin and mitt a raucous ovation from the

crowd. one event that is. hamlin posted this photo from the hospital just before the game, sending his support to his team as he continues to recover. get this one -- on the very first play of the game, the bills scored an electrifying touchdown, returning to opening kickoff 96 yards. the bills currently lead the pass in the fourth quarter. damar hamlin's collapses reigniting a long-standing debate among parents about the safety of football for the children, whether or not to allow their children to play the sport. as today reporter daniela kaplan more reports, most -- hamlin's health battle is shining a broader spotlight on the difficult decisions parents make about letting their kids play football. danielle joins us right now. as you reported, parents have concerns about their kids playing football. that is nothing new. how is this igniting the very discussion and what parents might be deciding to do as they head into the beginning of what it will be -- >> thank you so much for having

me. as you mentioned, this is an ongoing discussion with parents. scenes such a horrific injury happened -- again, they don't know if it's because of how he got hit or if he had pre-existing conditions which led to his cardiac arrest, but when you see someone collapse on the field like that, when you see cpr being administered, parents are scared. they are worried. i think this is reinvigorating the conversation. it makes parents take pause and think about, it is a sport that i want my child to play? as you mentioned, it's mostly head and spinal injuries. parents are concerned. they are concerned with, how can i talk to my child about this? how can i voice my concerns but not tell them a straight-up no? as parents, when you tell a child no, that's the one thing they're going to want to do more than anything else. >> you have all sorts of different desegregated groups talking about this. there are some national associations talking about implementing some policy around it. we talk about the ncaa. we could talk about the nfl as

well. where is the most energy right now? >> i think it's twofold i. think it is the physical aspect of it but another thing that a lot of parents told me is the cultural influence in general. they don't know if they feel comfortable with their child playing a sport that culturally has a lot of toxic masculinity in, talking about sexual assault, domestic violence. we see that on the field in college ball and in the nfl, obviously. it was a really nuanced conversation not just about the safety on the field but also, what it is going to do to my child off the field, the social implications of what kind of lessons they are going to learn, both positive and negative? >> in your reporting, i'm looking at this. you mentioned a medical study on traumatic brain injuries in children. [inaudible] >> right, so -- the saudi found that they are

decreasing in young men. they are increasing and young women. the study found they think one of the reasons why it is decreasing in men's because we are having these conversations about football. how can we best protect young players? they are playing a very combative sport. we don't really know how to have that conversation when it comes to other sports that female athletes are playing, like soccer and softball. it's an ongoing conversation that parents need to have across the board in any sport they are playing where there is going to be contact. >> what are some of the sports we don't realize we should be watching? >> when i talked to the cardiologist he said, looked, what happened to the specific player, where they think might have happened -- again, they're not sure if this is because he was hit at a really vulnerable time. this can happen to hockey players, this can happen to baseball players, of hockey or baseball to the chest. that is a very vulnerable moment on your heart is beating. it could cause potentially the same thing. there are ongoing conversations

about how we can keep players safe. >> danielle campoamor, thank you so much for giving us the update on the latest on this important issue for families. thank you. >> thank you. >> major health care news this weekend. an fda has granted accelerated approval for a new alzheimer's drug factories early stages of the disease. it doesn't come without risks. nbc's kristen dahlgren has that for us. >> the fda giving the drug the greenlight after it appeared to slow cognitive decline in some early stage alzheimer's patients in spite of some potential risks. >> it was very clear evidence that knocking down amyloid fairly aggressively can slow cognitive decline if starting early enough. >> a clinical style found cognitive -- people given leqembi versus placebo's over an 18 month period. john enrolled in the trial after the lawyer and father of two was diagnosed with alzheimer's at just 57.

>> i didn't know how long i had before john was going to forget my name or my face or what the kids -- >> well he don't know if he was initially given the drug or placebo, his cognitive decline stopped. since september, john has been getting the medicine in twice monthly infusions. >> you're going to get a few more decent moments. you might be able to plan a year out at some point. that is everything. >> the drug is not without risk. some 13% of patients developed brain swelling and bleeds. three patients died. it is unclear what caused the deaths. researchers do you advise more studies on the drug's safety. it may not be covered for medicare patients. the approval also comes just days after congress blasted the fda for its handling of another alzheimer's drug by the same manufacturer. tonight, for the domeck family,

the risks are more than rewards. >> to be able to play golf, read books -- >> still facing a devastating disease, but doing it with hope. kristen dahlgren, nbc news. >> kristen, thank you for that report. we continue to follow to breaking news stories for you at this hour. president biden is visiting the southern border. he's at the migratory center in el paso, texas, right now. you can see when he first arrived in el paso. this video is from earlier. we will bring you the live pictures of the president. if he comes to the microphone, we will have it right here for you on msnbc. we are following a breaking story out of brazil. supporters of former president bolsonaro are storming the national congress today, which is not in session right now. we are bringing you the latest on that breaking story as well right here on msnbc. that wraps it up for me this hour. i'm richard louis in for yasmin of us again. simone starts right now. simone >>