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enjoy your weekend. i'll see you next week, same time, same place. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage next. good morning, it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. soon president biden due to speak about the latest jobs report that just blew past all expectations. meantime, the biden administration announcing new deportations while pushing back against criticism over allowing theonstruction of new border wall. the president saying, quote, i had no choice. we'll talk about this with robert garcia of california. and as house republicans jockey to become the next speaker, former president donald trump makes his endorsement. new reporting about trump discussing u.s. nuclear subs with a foreign national after he left the white house.
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we begin this hour with breaking news on the economy. there is new data sugg the american job market remains strong. this morning, the govnmt reported that employers added a whopping 336,000 jobs last month. that's nearly double t 170,000 jobs economists had predicted. the unemployment rate held steady at3.8%. and when you break it down,he hispanic unemployment rate fell 0.3%. while the black unemployment rate rose 0.4%. we're keeping a close eye on the white house where the president is set to speak about this jobs report and national manufacturing. we'll bring you those remarks when they begin. joining us now, dominique chu. what's behind the numbers?
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>> not many people at all were forecasting for this kind of job growth pointed out by the doubling of jobs created over the forecast. what this does suggest is that the u.s. economy is still extremely resilient and that's a good thing. there's a lot to unpack. but the big takeaway from this report, the economy is growing in some ways and not growing as fast in others. which reinforces this idea that we could see either a soft landing with only a mild recession, if any at all in the coming months, now there was robust job growth -- there was that job growth was there, obviously, with the numbers. but it was the wages that gave some people some optimism. they grew but at a less than expected pace. this reinforces this idea that the economy can cool off and inflation can be moderated without a massive loss of jobs or a drop-off in wages. now the percentage of americans participating in the labor force
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remains steady month to month. there's a measure for those who are underemployed, those who are working part-time jobs. that fell slightly over the last month. now, as for where the job creation was, it was leisure and hospitality that led the way with 96,000 jobs. government added 73,000. health care 41,000 jobs, and professional, scientific and technical service gained as well. in addition, the prior two months of job numbers were actually revised upward by a more than combined 119,000 than previously reported. jose, the initial market reaction was negative. interest rates rose, stocks fell, because some believe that this means the federal reserve could have to raise interest rates further and/or keep them higher for longer. but over the last hour or so as you just saw, stocks have gone from deeper losses back towards session highs and the
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tech-heavier nasdaq index is positive on the day now. this tug-of-war over economic headlines and fed policy continues. but for right now, there seems to be some moderation and optimism the american economy is doing okay. >> thank you so much. now to new action by the biden administration about the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. the biden administration reaching a deal with venezuela to begin deporting venezuelan migrants who cross the border and do not have a legal basis to remain in the country. this comes just weeks after the administration granted temporary protected status to about 470,000 venezuelans who arrived in the u.s. before august. it also comes as u.s. customs and border protection says it encountered nearly 10,000 migrants crossing the border on wednesday. most of them were venezuelan.
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new border wall will be in the rio grande valley. the president says his hands are tied. >> the border wall, the money was appropriated for the border wall. i tried to get them to reappropriate -- to redirect that money. they wouldn't in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. i can't stop that. >> do you believe the border wall works? >> no. >> with us now to talk more about this, gabe gutierrez. good morning. the white house has been on offense, insisting there was no option but to do this. >> reporter: good morning. yes, the white house today even and also a spokesman for the department of homeland security stresses that there was a legal requirement to use this money. but the question remains, even though the dhs secretary says yesterday that his comments and that federal register which you read live on the air were taken out of context again, there is
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presently an acute and need to construct barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the u.s. in order to prevent unlawful entries that appears to have made a contradiction with what you just heard the president say there. but, again, the department of homeland security says that that was a legal requirement to waive these laws and to build this extra section of wall which the money was appropriated back in 2019 under the trump administration in congress. take a listen to peter alexander's exchange yesterday with the white house press secretary on this very point. take a listen. >> i want to tell you what the president said and what your colleague asked him. >> a direct contradiction -- >> i hear you. i'm speaking for the president. he has said that he does not believe a border wall is effective. he has said that for some time now. it still remains to be the case. he asked, right, he asked
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congress multiple times, his team has asked congress to reappropriate the funds. they refused to do that. >> reporter: an official says all of this has nothing to do with the mounting pressure that we've seen, jose, from northern cities and democrats in new york, chicago and places like massachusetts as well that have been sounding the alarm asking the federal government to do more. the white house and the department of homeland security stresses that this recent border wall project was first announced back in june and they're trying to make the case that it is not new. still that waiving of environmental laws, jose, in order to fast track this has gotten a lot of attention in many parts of the country and especially in some of those border communities, jose. >> gabe, the white house announced yesterday that they would resume deportations to venezuela after what clearly is an agreement with the venezuelan regime there. >> reporter: yeah. still a lot of questions surrounding that. senior administration officials declined to say what if anything
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negotiations there had been with the maduro government. but just yesterday, there was an announcement of an arrest warrant issued in venezuela for the opposition leader juan guiado who is here in the u.s. no indication that there's any potential connection there. but it raises a lot of questions on what if any talks the u.s. has had with the maduro government. those deportation flights as you said resuming now. and there are also questions about how many exactly there will be. the senior administration official said that they would begin soon, but wouldn't provide many details. jose, as you said, this comes after several weeks, after nearly half a million venezuelans who arrived in this country were given temporary protective status. >> gabe gutierrez at the white house. thank you so much. joining us now by phone, morgan chesky. what are you seeing there and what are people saying about these new developments?
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>> reporter: jose, good morning. reactions are most definitely mixed. it's interesting, for some of the people who live in these border communities, it's taking them back to 2019 for those who were against the construction of this border barrier, this wall, and whenever president biden was elected and he vowed not to extend the wall by another foot, in some communities there was relief. and now their facing this fight yet again, jose. i should mention, as gabe did, the 26 federal laws that were waived in order to move this project along. some of those include environmental laws, those impacting wildlife, endangered species, et cetera, and that is why we're already hearing some of the pushback against this. on the other side, though, however, there are leaders in these communities, jose, that acknowledge that the numbers of migrants they've seen come across the rio grande are
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unsustainable. and they are hopeful -- although they don't know when this new portion would go up -- that it would curb the numbers coming across. at last check, u.s. customs and border protection said on wednesday alone, along the u.s./mexico border, there were more than 8,000 attempts to illegally cross. those are the kind of numbers that they're seeing on a regular basis here, jose. i want you to hear from one local leader who is unconvinced, however, that this will make any significant impact. take a listen. >> i don't think these physical structures are going to stop anything. i think what it's going to do is maybe enrich the cartels by making the crossings even more costly for people to do. people are going to find a way to cross. humanity will find a way. rather than doing a whole-of-government approach, we just have this silence.
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>> reporter: again, this stretch of border wall barrier would be 20 miles in length and would go in star county. that is just to the northwest of where we are here in mcallen. we're headed that way right now and expect to hear from their county judge later today. jose? >> morgan chesky, thank you so much. with us now to continue our conversation, california congressman robert garcia. he sits on the homeland security committee. and he's a member of the biden campaign's national advisory board. it's always a pleasure to see you. thank you for your time. i just like, if you could, to kind of expand on this. the president says very directly, that this is congress forcing his hands on this. is this indeed what we're witnessing? >> i mean it is, first, let's be clear, i agree with many of my colleagues in the house and certainly with the president
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that border walls do not work. they're inhumane. they have not stopped migration into the united states. we've wasted an norms amount of money on a symbol that is not about the humanity about what is actually happening. they don't work and the president has reiterated that point as early as we -- as we saw yesterday. at the same time, we also know this was authorized prior to president biden taking office. congress actually moved forward and funded this before the president asked congress to reallocate the funds. congress chose not to do it. they're moving through something that keeps he's legally required to do. let's be clear, border walls do not work and we should not be constructing more. we're working with the white house on -- to ensure that environmental review that folks that are on the ground are plugged in. we should not be building anymore wall. i know the president is committed to that. >> congressman, you are a member of congress responsible for writing the laws and certainly
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that was a budgetary law, 2019, that really mandated that the president begin to do this. but is there anything in that 2019 law that implies states, orders the president to waive 26 federal laws in order to build this new section of law? >> look, we've talked to the white house about this. dhs and the white house are convinced that they're mandated to build this wall. i think the bigger issue and the broader concern here is that we do not have a -- an immigration policy, a national policy on how we're going to solve the huge challenges that are happening not just here in the u.s., but certainly across central america and south america. the president on day one introduced an immigration policy to the congress when he was in office. there's many bills in congress that republicans in the house choose not to bring up.
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even within our own committee and within homeland security. we have tried to fund additional programs. we tried to fund organizations on the ground. bring in other non-profits. we're trying to expand programs across central and south america where migrants can seek help in their own home countries. but there's -- we need to do a comprehensive plan across the country. it does not exist. the fact that we've not passed major immigration reform in this country since the 1980s is a shame. i'm an immigrant myself. i came here when i was a young kid. i earned citizenship in my 20s. what we're doing in the u.s. right now is shameful. >> it is the responsibility of congress to deal with this issue. something that you very well point out. hasn't been dealt with by the folks on capitol hill since 1986. the u.s. is announcing an agreement with the maduro regime to resume direct deportation flights to venezuela. what's your take on that? >> i think this is -- this is
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part of a broader policy and plan. i think what is really beneficial is the extended opportunity for venezuelans that are here, 400,000 of them plus to actually stay and work and have some type of status here is really, really important. and so the broader plan to address the humanitarian crisis that's happening in venezuela, i think is really positive. and we applaud the president on the expansion of that temporary protected status program. and i also think that we have to start thinking about and rethinking our relationships in central and south america. we have years and years of sanctions and years and years of not really using diplomacy and foreign aid in the appropriate ways and it has led to this moment. we have an opportunity now to move forward, to work within congress to pass broad immigration reform that protects our borders, which democrats are also interested in, but also brings foreign aid, a program that works, supports
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non-profits, brings people in a way that is humane and we should never forget that the folks that are coming here are desperate. they're fleeing extreme conditions and we should be viewing this as a humanitarian opportunity for us to help as a country. congressman robert garcia, i can't thank you enough for being with us. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. coming up, former president donald trump weighs in on the speaker's race. will his endorsement tip the sales? we're back in 60 seconds. the sales? we're back in 60 seconds this is american infrastructure, a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defends these services for everyone who lives here. ♪ when migraine strikes are the tradeoffs of treating worth it? ubrelvy is another option, it quickly eliminates migraine pain. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors.
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endorsement. nbc news spoke with republican voters in michigan about the chaos in the house and several explained why they think it was a good move to oust former speaker kevin mccarthy. >> he can't be stagnant with these liberal policies. we can't. we have to stand up to that and otherwise we're going to lose our country. >> if he was, you know, working a little bit too cozy with the democrats and i'm all for him being voted out. >> joining us now is nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill. also with us is a former congressman from virginia. garrett, what's trump's endorsement mean for the house speaker race? >> reporter: it's hard to say exactly. trump has endorsed kevin mccarthy, never formally got rid of endorsement.
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i think that the fact that trump has endorsed removes one variable from this discussion. and while it might have helped scalise wrap up some of the more maga members more than it helps jordan, i don't think it's settles this one way or another. if your jim jordan, your problem is convincing some of these more moderate members of the conference that you're not going to just run the whole house like the house freedom caucus or like the judiciary committee impeachment inquiry proceedings. you've got to convince them that you're going to protect them in those battleground districts. that's a big issue that trump's endorsement doesn't provide any clarity on. >> yesterday the former president said he would be opening as serving as house speaker, but could he even do all that? >> well, i suppose theoretically he could. but i think that was one of those things that i was never inclined to take seriously. i mean, i think donald trump likes to say yes to things and i
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think he likes to be in the middle of the action politically, especially when the action is about the future of the republican party. i think that was kind of a useful thing for he or his team or his allies here on the hill to float. but the idea that he was going to get the 218 votes to become the speaker of the house is farfetched if we're being clear about it. >> what's your read on what's going on in the republican party on capitol hill? >> i mean, it's a little bit nuts. i'm wondering if mental illness needs to be on the resume now. but i think when you're talking about the leadership race right now, i just want to call attention to the american public. you could have three individuals that all objected to the electors that voted to object after january 6th and the violence that day. also, what you're talking about is, i think people forgotten, jim jordan texted mark meadows
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the night before and forwarded an insane text messages that came from the former d.o.d. ig and a former member of the trump cabinet an overturning the election. so i guess what i'm looking at, we're looking at a gop that has fully embraced conspiratorial thinking. if you have a complete leadership team that objects, it's going to be chilling to people who agree with the rule of law. i think we're in huge trouble if you have a leadership team like that in the gop and in the house. >> yeah, and just last night liz cheney who served on the committee addressed the possibility of jim jordan becoming speaker. take a listen to what she had to say. >> jim jordan knew more about what donald trump had planned for january 6th than any other member of the house of
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representatives. if the republicans decide that jim jordan should be the speaker of the house, there will be -- and, by the way, i don't think that's going to happen. i think he'll lose. but if they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected republicans could be counted onto defend the constitution. >> how do you see this possibly turning out in the house? we're talking about next week. they're supposed to do this wednesday and, you know, thursday process. what do you see going on? >> first, anybody who has been in congress like me, i can tell you this, it's almost impossible to predict what's going to happen in congress. i think we've seen that the last few days. i would have to be privy to the behind-the-door deals that are being made all the time. i think you see a contentious race. bret baier is going to be behind
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the door doing a forum. i think it's going to be an interesting race there. but i do think jordan has the inside track. i agree with liz completely. jim jordan becomes speaker, we've given up the ghost when it comes to any kind of sanity in the caucus. i don't know anybody right now that can fight for him. and i know garrett talked about trump not being elected in the house. he's right. it's also because trump will never take it to motion. i think we know that about trump. we're going to see that jordan has a chance because those districts right now, the people in those districts, representatives are trying to gauge the support that they have now that trump is behind jordan. you're going to see dealmaking starting. knowing how crazy it is, what liz said is completely correct. i think it's a danger. in communications, we know that jim jordan was privy. but i find it amazing that we
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could have a complete republican leadership that denied the election and january 6th. >> this morning, a group of 45 lawmakers wrote a letter to the house republican conference expressing frustration that the fact that the eight gop lawmakers could defy the will of the majority. is this the gop trying to get rid of the motion to vacate. >> reporter: they're trying to make sure that the next speaker is able to lead his or her conference and not be led by 3 or 4% of it. one of those members had a pretty good quote yesterday saying if we don't change the rules, they're changing the driver on the clown car by changer the speaker. you got to give that person a little more leeway. you're not seeing a ton of push back to that so far from any of those eight who had voted to oust kevin mccarthy. you know, especially someone like matt gaetz. the point for him of lowering the threshold to one vote was to get rid of mccarthy or jim
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jordan who he likes. the idea of negotiating around changing the rules a little bit seems to be very much a live ball as these candidates are trying to figure out how to put their coalitions together and get to 18. >> garrett haake on capitol hill, thank you so much for being with us this morning. up next, a stunning new reporting about the nuclear secrets former president trump revealed to a foreign billionaire at mar-a-lago. you're watching jose diaz-balart on msnbc. watching jose diaz-bat on msnbc when you order. -superbowl mvps really do get all the perks? i'm talking about subway mvp. it's a way bigger deal. do you get a trophy for that? i wish. get rewarded like an mvp. join now and get 50% any footlong.
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this morning, new allegations that could shed light on former president trump's handling of government secrets. abc news and the "new york times" cite sources familiar with the matter who say trump revealed information about u.s. nuclear submarines to australian billionaire anthony pratt at mar-a-lago after trump had left the white house. abc, which was first to report the story, said pratt, quote, shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists. both abc news and the "new york times" report the matter was investigated by special counsel jack smith's office. the reporting has not been confirmed by nbc news. and representatives for donald trump, anthony pratt and jack smith have not responded to requests for comment. joining us now, chief
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international analyst and former supreme allied at command. admiral, abc reports that trump allegedly told pratt the number of nuclear warheads u.s. submarines carry and how close they can get to a russian sub without being detected. what makes this so dangerous? >> well, first and foremost, as you point out, it's the tactical information which we know was then spread widely by this australian billionaire who talked to literally dozens of people. so you can imagine the ripple effect and let me tell you something as an admiral, the crown jewel of naval warfare is the ability to get close to their opponents. when someone reveals exactly what our capabilities are, it undermines that tactical advantage. go back and watch the movie runt
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for red october. this is very dangerous material to be in the hands of complete amateurs. and secondly, strategically, when you add this to the endless pile, it feels, of classified material, paper down at mar-a-lago for which president trump has appropriately arranged -- arraigned and facing trial, think about the world. are our allies willing to share the highest-grade intelligence with us. do they want to move forward knowing that it's going to be discussed over cocktails at mar-a-lago? it's disastrous tactically and strategically. >> i mean, admiral, abc also reported some of the ausaln officials, sources said that att told were involved in ongoing negotiations with the
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biden administration for a deal more australia to buy attack subs from the u.s. what's the significance of this? >> well, that's wildly inappropriate from a business perspective. we're in a deep negotiation about the highest-end military technology, and it's my view a very good thing that we're going to work with the australians and our british allies to get nuclear submarine capabilities in the hands of australians. it's a negotiation. you don't want to be revealing what is deep insider information to the counter party with whom you're negotiating. yeah, let's add that to tactical disaster, strategic disaster, and business inappropriate. >> dave, none of this was included in the federal indictment in june. what does it tell you about the scope of jack smith's probe? >> good to be with you.
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i was surprised that he spoke to 45-plus people. what a gossip? that's loose lips. as far as whether or not jack smith is going to seek an indictment for this, i'm not sure. because there's already been one superseding indictment. to go for another one could delay the ultimate trial in this case further and jack smith wants this thing to get going. but i think also the fact that this information, as the admiral said, is so important and sensitive, the doj may not want you to come out in court. this is not about a document. it's about a verbal communication. you would have to discuss it in open court. you have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, that's a violation of the espionage act, the dissemination part. trump has not been charged with dissemination. he's been charged with willful retention of documents. jack smith could charge it. but if he did so, i'm not sure the use is worth the squeeze. it would put perhaps some of our biggest secrets at risk in open
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court. i think they're going to call pratt to the witness stand. i'm not sure they're going to indict trump over this dissemination. >> trump filed a motion to dismiss the washington, d.c., election interference case on presidential immunity grounds. how strong is that? >> it's a terrible argument. he has no chance of winning there. there's nothing the law that gives anyone immunity. because the law does not create a king out of the president. i mean, think about it, donald trump is arguing that he can have immunity for anything he did while he was president and doj has a policy for indicting a president and that donald trump has said that he cannot be impeached for his actions, for any reason. i guess that means, according to trump's lawyers, that he's the king. this is why we left england and
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george iii. i don't think it's going to succeed. he may win by losing because this could go to the supreme court and that's a way for him to try to delay the d.c. case past the election. >> admiral and dave, thank you so much for being with us this morning. up next, the migrant humanitarian crisis is getting more difficult for cities far from the border. why officials are warning that chicago is now approaching a breaking point. plus, an inside look into what really happened when ron desantis sent a flight full of migrants to the island of martha's vineyard. we're going to speak to one of the first people who rushed to help. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve. who do you take it for? and for fast topical pain relief, try alevex.
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40 past the hour. former president trump's civil fraud trial continues this morning in new york city. joining us now from outside the courthouse is lisa rubin. lisa, you've been inside that courtroom. what's the latest today? >> reporter: right now we sort of have a split screen, jose, because the trump defendants are trying to literally pause this trial. they made an application early this morning for a stay of both the trial and enforcement of last week's summary judgment decision. that decision ordered the cancellation of trump's business certificates here in new york.
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something that trump and his papers asking for a stay says would make his continued operation literally impossible and threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of employees. but inside the courtroom we have a former trump comptroller on the stand. and they're taking him through valuations of different properties to show them the trick that is they say amount to fraud. we've talked about golf courses this morning and how the trumps built in the expected sales of units on those golf courses in, some cases, mansions, that they never built, much less sold. >> lisa rubin speaking over trumpet work and you do it so great. thank you, lisa. appreciate it. i want to turn to the record number of migrants crossing into
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the u.s. it's been felt in cities miles away from the southern border. in chicago, more than 25 buses with migrants have arrived over just the last two days. the city's shelters are housing more than 10,000 summer seekers and earlier this week, jb pritzker sent a letter to president biden urging him to send more help to the city. julia ainsley is with us this morning. what's the situation like in chicago? >> i talked to community leaders who say they want to help but they're worried about their resources not only for the migrants but for homeless chicagoness. when housing is scarce and those cold winter months are coming, they're worried they might not have enough space to keep people warmed. it was the housing and shelter they were most worried about. they're predicting the migrants could add onto the 17,000 migrants living in chicago. about 10,000 of which are in the
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shelter system. we saw them packed into the lobbies of police stations, tents and parks. it was a desperate situation all over the city, jose. here's everything we learned. >> reporter: officials warning chicago is approaching a breaking point. migrants lining the lake shore drive. migrant shelters inside o'hare airport a total of 17,000 migrants showing up and officials expect 1,200 per day to keep coming. >> now chicago is building sprawling tent camps to get migrants off the streets of places like this ahead of the cold winter months. >> democratic illinois governor slamming president biden for not doing enough writing the federal government's lack of intervention at the border has created an untenable situation for illinois. the white house saying they've
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accelerated work permits and provided a billion dollars to cities nationwide. >> i don't want them there. >> but protests here are growing. >> to have the government come in and donald trump 300 people right next door to me, it's not fair. >> reporter: this neighborhood is preparing a new shelter to take up to 1,000 more migrants. community leaders tell us they want to help migrants, but they're worried about resources for more chicagoans too. >> i'm concerned because of the low response from the federal and state government. >> reporter: when winter comes, not only will you not have enough room for migrants, but american citizens. >> absolutely. >> reporter: we met these migrants sleeping outside a police station. stephanie tells us she boarded a bus to chicago because she thought they had a refugee camp.
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she said, she's desperate for a job to support her 1-year-old son back in venezuela. >> and dhs has sent an assessment team to chicago to try to work with city leaders to figure out what they can do to get them work authorizations to support themselves at least until their immigration cases are heard and try to get off the streets. >> thank you. that mother with a 1-year-old child back in venezuela out in a tent in chicago. when winter arrives -- thank you very much. it's been more than a year since state officials began sending migrants across the country from the border. men, women and children. one of those was florida governor ron desantis. last september he flew migrants to martha's vineyard without alerting authorities there. msnbc films is releasing a documentary about what happened. here's a preview of the film.
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>> i saw them walking across from the high school to the -- to where the bus stopped. i was confused. i was confused. because i was like, how did you get here and who sent you here? >> we had mom and dad and kids. they kept saying, we're hungry. we haven't eat since breakfast. this was 4:00 in the afternoon. they cried. they're scared that we're going to separate them like it's done before. we see it on the news. and i said, listen, i promise
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you, we're not going to take your kids away. >> someone featured in that clip, a coordinator at martha's vineyard community services. she was one of the first to help migrants. thank you so much for being with us. i want to hear more from you about that day when you all of a sudden with no warning unexpectedly find a group of men, women and children there at the island. take us to that day. what was it like for you. >> thank you for having me. this is a pleasure. it was surreal. it was a situation that i never imagined living. this is a very small island. and when we looked outside and we saw that group of people walking, i was very confused. i, you know, saw on the news what was happening in the different parts of the country. but i never imagined that that
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would be happening here. when i think about now -- to me, it's like, wow, i didn't seem that it really happened. to me it's almost like a dream. surreal. >> and i know that four of that group that arrived are still there. how are they doing? >> they're doing great. when we had the premiere of the documentary that's going to go on air on this sunday, they came as well. it was good to see them. they're working. three guys and one woman. and they love the island. they have a place to live. they're working a little bit because they're still waiting for the working permit. but they're great. they're great. >> and what about the rest of them? where are they? what happened to them? >> they're all over the country.
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when they arrived here, some of them had to be at the immigration office in utah, different parts. right now, i know that we have some in boston. i still get in touch with a couple of them that live in massachusetts. and we actually had a get-together here to celebrate the one year. that was maybe three weeks ago. and almost every one of them came. and it was so good to see they looked happier, healthier. they still struggle with a lot of things, but overall, they look great. >> thank you for being with us. thank you for doing what you do and for having that heart that is so large and is so encompassing. i thank you. >> thank you. i feel really honored that i was here on that day, honestly.
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i think that whatever was intended to be a bad situation, overcame and was a good thing. we embraced them, we love them, and saw americans more than what they initially encountered and they felt supported. and that's what we do. and it's a great feeling. >> it is indeed. thank you. you can watch "martha's vineyard versus desantis" this sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern/7:00 p.m. pacific right here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. up next, what hunter biden's lawyers are asking in a new court filing surrounding the federal gun charges against their client. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. g diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.
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want to bring these charges, and you're right to dismiss -- or you could, rather, dismiss the information that you filed earlier this summer. but, look, we think that the pretrial diversion agreement is completely in effect. it's always been in effect. and our client has been abiding by the terms of the agreement of that. we signed it, you signed it, that's what counts. so, there's no reason for us to go down the path of having these new felony charges that have been brought against their client. you can expect federal prosecutors to disagree with that. clearly they have, by filing these charges. and they're going to point out that the probation officer, the final signature on the document, that that signature was not on there. that's, kind of, the focus of this. they've talked about it in several filings. they've talked about it in open court. it's something we've heard about often. it's something the legal analysts will tell you is something they might try to file, though they're not quite sure the potential success of this. but it's one of two different paths, the other being the constitutionality of one of the
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charges that you can expect ahead of an early november deadline. hunter biden's team to use to challenge this indictment in the first place to see if they can get a dismissal before we get close to trial at all. and we still don't even have a trial date yet, jose. >> tom winter, thank you so very much. overnight, this year's nobel peace prize winner was announced. we'll tell you who it is. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. g diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. i'm 70-ish. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. with this type of plan, you'll know upfront about how much your care costs. which makes planning your financial future easier. so call unitedhealthcare today to learn more about the only plans of their kind with the aarp name. and set yourself and your future self up with an aarp medicare supplement plan from unitedhealthcare. [sneeze] dude you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz
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the death of a young woman after she was detained b the untry's morality police. the chair of the nobel committee said, quote, she is the symbol of what it means to be a freedom fighter in iran. mohammadi's fight has led to arrests, convictions, and 154 lashes. there's good news to tell you about. an honor for a 104-year-old army veteran. west point is recognizing colonel herb as the longest living colonel. he fought in the battle of the bulge, led a unit that freed jewish women, and was one of the first americans that went to vietnam. later colonel herb was assigned to the joint chiefs of staff in washington, where he worked on a top secret project for president dwight d. eisenhower. >> i'm really appreciative of
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these people turning out and recognizing me. i didn't do any great thing except get old. >> a lot more than just get old, colonel herbert stern celebrating his 105th birthday this christmas eve. i'm jose diaz-balart. i'll see you tomorrow night on "nbc nightly news." thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," game on. house members vying to replace kevin mccarthy will do a televised debate next week, defying advice from many republicans not to air the party's infighting in public. job boom. today's jobs report blowing past predictions. the president set to speak any moment. we'll carry it live. and border battle. the influx of migrants overwhelming border communities and northern cities alike. is
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