cal perry, nbc news. >>> new york city mayor bill de blasio was actually in texas yesterday, will be a guest on "morning joe" in just a little while. >>> attorney general jeff sessions is pulling back from his harsh stance on illegal immigration. in an interview with the christian broadcasting network last night sessions did a complete about face on his highly criticized and now fractured zero tolerance policy. take a listen to this. >> it hasn't been good and the american people don't like the idea that we are separating families. we never really intended to do that. what we intended to do was to make sure that adults who bring children into the country are charged with the crime they have committed. instead of giving that special group of adults immunity from prosecution, which is what in effect we were doing. so i think it's the right thing, we will work our way through it and try to do it in the most compassionate way possible. >> so sessions may be claiming the policy didn't intend to separate families, but, in fact, his own words are now working against him. watch this. >> i ha

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democrat bill de blasio wants to reserve 20% of the seats to low-income students with scores below theff. he calls the current test, quote, a road block to justice, progress and academic excellence, de blasio want to elite schools to better reflect new york city public schools which are 70% black and latino. let us know what you think about that idea? and if you can believe it, today marks president trump's 500th day in office and as the president bushes forward on agenda, democrats continue to oppose him pretty much around every corner. so after a year of success in the white house why won't democrats get on board, here now to debate that radio talk show host gina and democratic strategists chuck rocha, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. heather: love it when you can join us. let's right off the bat look at successes, president trump's establishments so far in the first 500 days, the economy, we just got the new numbers, 3.8% unemployment, it is what, an 18-year low, historic tax cuts, ramped up fight against isis, release of prisoners and the summit with kim jong

bill de blasio says more than 350 children have come through one facility alone. most of them are still there, including a 9 month old. cameras from new york 1 news caught five girls brought to a foster agency after midnight on wednesday. de blasio is wondering how this happened without the city government having been made aware. >> what is happening here? how is it possible that none of us knew there were 239 kids in our city? how is the federal government holding back that information from the people of the city? and holding back the health that these kids need. this is traumatic process. the mental health issues alone. they made clear are very real and painful. >> new york governor cuomo sharing the outrage and calling this a dark stain on the history of our nation. saying you cannot unabuse more than 2,300 children separated from the parents. the administration family and separation policy has already done harm to those children used as pawns in the president's political agenda. protesters expressing anger overnight at laguardia airport. out west, immigration

identifican con el genero masculino o femenino, tendran la opcion de sus certificados.el alcalde bill de blasiofue cuando los padres de los estudiantes que murieron en el tiroteo recibieron el diploma de sus hijos.como fue el caso de los padres de joaquin oliver,, aqui los emotivos momentos.. [aplausos] carolina: nuestra reportera acompaÑÓ a familia de joaquÍn oliver desde el trayecto de su preparandose, en el auto y hasta que llegan hasta este lugar. reportera: ellos veÍan cÓmo todos entraban y su hijo no estaba. fue el momento mÁs duro tras lo pasado el 14 de febrero porque este era un momento que esperaba con muchas ansias su hijo. lo que esperaba que ella le dijera Él lo dejo escrito. carlos: hoy hubo nuevo ancio en la lucha. reportera: han anunciado mas rchadesde el 15 de junio. las movilizaciones comienzan en chicago e irÁn a diferentes estados. las jornadas se denominan " marchas por la paz". carolina: un momento muy emotivo sobre todo porque dices que cuando entras a la casa estÁ el cuarto de joaquÍn que se ha convertido, en un santuario para la familia. reportera: es increÍble la canti

and mayor bill de blasio visiting children in harlem. llenas is reporting live from east harlem with more on the mayor's visit. high, bryan. >> we're waiting for the mayor to come out of the family center here in east harlem. we're expecting him to make some remarks. governor cuomo said some 100 children, aany as 300 children, have been placed throughout ten shelters here in the state of new york. they have traveled here and been separated from their parents at the border more than 1,000 miles away. bill de blasio came in about a half an hour ago into the center. he said he has no words for what this kind of act is and he promised to do more about it, this is video from spectrum news new york 1. it shows five young girls being brought into the center here in east harlem at 12:45 a.m. this is a foster center that places children with families, a woman said they were not children being separated by their families. an hour later, they were escorted out with their heads covered with a jacket. the ceo tells gothamist website that his shelters

mayor bill de blasio, thank you.e let us know, will you, if you get into the scepter. >>> i have to jump into breaking news out of the supreme court, but i appreciate your time. they just issued a ruling on internet sales tax. it could matter to you. this brought to the high court. joe johns with more. >> hey, poppy, i know you're interested. it affects just about anybody who shops online quite frankly. they allow states to compel retailers to collect out-of-state tax from out-of-state online vendors. so what that means, a lot of people when they shop online may be under the impression they're not paying sales tax. the fact of the matter is this is a huge business, perhaps $100 billion over the next ten years that the states would have lost if the courts had ruled the other way. some say between 80% and 90% of the top online vendors already collect this tax. nonetheless, the importance of it is now the online vendors and others who are out of state and reportedly don't have brick and mortar buildings or people workin

my opponent would've left it up to bill de blasio. can you imagine that? i couldn't allow that to happen. >> what you mean -- michael: it would've been up to bill de blasio to put that money back in. i didn't trust him to do it. immigration, aut bill will be on the floor of the house next week. in your careers, i am going to start with mr. grimm. you have supported a pathway to citizenship. you have both told us on the record multiple times. you talked about a solution for the dreamers. what is your position now? if you go by the rhetoric on the campaign trail, you would think that neither of you would support any type of pathway to citizenship. michael: i'll list.doc or was the leverage. when we were negotiating in congress, the dreamers was the leverage to get all the things we need done. time, on your show, i was saying, build the fence. that was before president trump was even running for office. now it would be, build the wall. order security was always the top priority. combined with fencing and all of the things that go with it from technology. more

my opponent would've left it up to bill de blasio. can you imagine that? to make the right decision for the safety of this city. i couldn't allow that to happen. > what you mean -- michael: it would've been up to bill de blasio to put that money back in. i didn't trust him to do it. >> go back to the records here. i'm thinking about immigration reform. it's going to be on the floor of the house next week. both of you, in your careers, i am going to start with mr. grimm. have supported a pathway to citizenship. you told us both on the record multiple times. and you both talked about a solution for the dreamers. what is your position now? if you go by the rhetoric on the campaign trail, you would think that neither of you would support any type of pathway to citizenship. >> ok. i've been very consistent. if you go back and we've had discussions ourselves. i always thought daca was the leverage. when we were negotiating in congress, the dreamers was the leverage to get all the things we need done. at that time, on your show, i believe, i was saying build a fen

mayor bill de blasio said the children were moved to the foster in the dead of night and many arrived with lice, bed bugs, and chicken pox. and this morning a crowd protested the arrival of planes bringing unaccompanied immigrant children to the area. >>> for many dreaming of a better life in the u.s., their journey starts in central america. omar villafranca takes a look at life in el salvador and what's causing so many people to make the dangerous trek north. >> reporter: i'm standing about 1,500 miles way from the u.s. border in el salvador just outside of the capital city and here the people we've been talking to in these neighborhoods are telling us they understand why people would risk it all just to try to get to the u.s. border. el salvador is one o the poorest countries in the world. people here also tell us so much of the exodus across the u.s. border has to do with violence. 60,000 el salvadoreans double the police force are in gangs and under the age of 19. although the overall murder rate has consistently declined since 2015, it, too, remains one of the highest in the wor

new york city mayor bill de blasio said the federal government never told him they were sending separated children to his city. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: mayors from across the country, including de blasio, descending upon that tent city in torreal, texas, demanding families be reunited immediately. >> people are demanding a change and it cannot be ignored. if it won't happen in washington, we will make it happen. >> reporter: on capitol hill. >> the bill is not passed. >> reporter: the latest immigration reform bill failed to pass. >> congress has been paralyzed on the issue of immigration for more than a generation. president trump has not been able to break that logjam. >> reporter: inside the u.s. capitol, dozens of young children protesting in silence, wrapped in those same mylar blankets seen in those detention centers. while most agree children shouldn't suffer, some like cattle rancher roberto escobar in texas say something must be done to address illegal immigration. >> they come in here illegally. and we, the taxpayers, wind up footing the bill for ever

we saw the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio, and the mayor of austin actually walked across the bridge to mexico to get aetter look at the tent city before returning a couple hours later. of course theseids in this tent city behind me are caught in a very strange loophole. they're not covered by the initial policy of separation, and they're notte ped by the new ecutive order. so it's unclear what's going to happen to them and how they will be reunitith their families. there is of course this reporting that the department of defense is going to step in and t to house some of these kids. the concern is that we're not going to know where they are or what's going on. we don't have access to these sites. we certainly won't have access mto u.s.itary bases across the country. cal perry, nbc nxas, torino, >>> parts ofex southwest have been hit the hardest by heavy rain this week. emergency workers hcue r a number of people from submerged vehicles and flooded homes alonl the coast. and texas governor greg abbott has issued a disaster declaration for at least six counties devastated by th

/mexico border, the mayor of new york city, democrat, bill de blasio.>> i saw something un-american. i saw you are government taking kids from their parents and not letting any of us know what is going on. what's so interesting, when you go there, it is literally a remote location, government facility where no one is allowed access. it should be eerie to democrats and republicans alike. elected officials are not allowed in. i will tell you, on the silver lining, the outcry, which has been profoundly bipartisan. i was down there with a group of 20 mayors, republicans and democrats alike. they said it is broken and we need a different approach to immigration. i see a silver lining in that people are coming forward in moral outrage. >> yeah. >> wanting to see american values and how we approach immigration and want to see american values in how we approach these kids. also, no one took debate. the president did the executive order with the big signature. he thought that would be the smoke screen. no one took the bait. they said, this isn't over until they

mayor bill de blasio says he only found out from the media that the children were even in new york city. who are these children how many are they where are they. what is happening here how is it possible that none of us knew there were two hundred thirty nine kids right here in our own city how is the federal government holding back that information for the people of this city and holding back the help of these kids could be. a major lack of federal help many residents are doing what they can kenny taylor has traveled across the city hoping to donate food or money. i'm going to cry i've been hearing about this for the last forty eight hours three days and it's heartbreaking. i mean. some very upset i am upset subsetting situation you know i mean if this is the united states you know that this could be happening in this day and age i feel that it's horrible and i know like children are really a threat side i don't know why they're being separated families are now allowed to reunite but new york authorities say the federal government hasn't told them how it plans to make that happen one o

so little in the past twenty four hours a new york mayor in a sense has got involved as well bill de blasio pointing out that some children had actually been sent to new york and he didn't know anything about it to be put in foster accommodation i mean first of all how surprising is it that there isn't even coordination at that level but secondly if we're going to try and be a bit optimistic do you think that now that there is so much attention from so many agencies and the public that maybe this process will be a little bit if not easier or more likely to to leave a positive results. that's a very good question the amount of public outcry that has been present since this policy was made clear and revealed is it is quite something and had everything to do with the issuing of this executive order but there's wink between public outcry and actually being able to piece together which child belongs where and where their parents are may be a hurdle that public opinion can't necessarily solve or even address as forcefully and effectively as it as it did the actual separation of the parents and ch

bill de blasio announcing the new policy. >> under the new policy new yorkers with no prior record willa summons instead of an arrest for smoking marijuana publicly. heather: changes come after critics accused nypd of targeting minority for low-level marijuana crimes. to canada now, the second country in the world to fully legalize marijuana and the senate passing a landmark bill paving paving the way for recreational cannabis to be legally bought and sold in september, canadians 18 year's or old other would be able to grow 4 plants. uruguay the only country to legalize recreational marijuana. back in this country, indiana state police sergeant stephen willis going viral for pulling over a slow poke in the slow lane, some call to be given nobel peace prize. good morning, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> good morning, thank you for having me. heather: what do you think about that, the nobel peace prize of what you did? >> i don't know if i'm worthy of that. to me it's kind of funny. it's entertaining for me to look at the responses. heather: in terms of responses, you pu

bill de blasio visited the border.esterday he visited this center and this is what he said. >> how is it possible there were 239 kids in our own city? how is the federal government holding back that information from the people of the city? there's no question they're getting support here. the bottom line is they should have never been taken from their parents. >> governor andrew cuomo says his frustration is he has no idea where he's kids are or directly how much kids there are. that's because the state agencies are under federal going orders. da da dana. >> dana: bryan, how will these kids be reunited with their parents? >> since 2012, we've had thousands of unaccompanied minors and has overwhelmed the borders. the average stay for the minors in these shelters is 57 days and reunited with a family member or sponsor deemed worthy of that. now we know that hhs says that it's still very early and they don't know how these kids will be united. this is a differentsituati these children, the 2,300 plus separated at the bord

also joining the table we have back with us the mayor of new york city, democrat bill de blasio, we'vever the weekend as we all want to understand more about the plight of these children, some that have come our way in new york city. have you been able to see them? >> i saw some of the kids last week, a group of kids primarily from guatemala who were in a classroom in east harlem and there were about 30 or 40 kids. and now what we have learned in the course of the last few days is there's around 300 kids in new york city. no word on when they'll be reunited with their families. >> that's remarkable. 300 children. they've all come up from -- were they flown up from the boarder? >> some were flown up, some were put on a bus with a civilian escort -- >> who's not allowed to touch them. >> and they've gone 2,000 miles. >> a lot of them don't even speak spanish. >> well, the escorts i can't speak to but the kids don't speak english and they are in the middle of something they don't understand. here's what one of the folks who is helping them here in new york said to me. it was very poignant

he along with new york's mayor bill de blasio and eric garcitte and hoping to gain access. they're worried about the more than 2,000 kids. one mayor commented that kids are not poker chips and washington needs to their act together before this situation breaks up more families. trace? >> jeff paul live for it in tornillo, texas. we mentioned the president critical of mexico today. let's go to mexico with william la jeunesse live with mo >> this is america's door step, the busiest port of entry in the country. people come from around the world to ask for asylum or upthe fence. as for the separation policy, the women we spoke with said absolutely not. if they knew that their children would be taken away from them if they crossed the border that they wouldn't do it. agents say given time it may have been a deterrent. it's a moot point now. but as for the zero tolerance policy, everybody gets prosecuted. they know it's going to be a black mark on their record and spends time in jail but they'll take the risk to get to america. that brings up the point about shelter space. that

bill de blasio, you mentioned, saying more than 200 in new york state.d that statement from an hhs spokesperson today. there was no plan a short time after that. we got a direct stramt that a director of communication saying essentially that spokesperson that we got that statement from had misspoken. that the agency is, quote, awaiting further guidance on the matter and that reunification is ultimately the goal here. but basically, what that states is that there's no plan here. it is a situation where many people are flying by the seat of their pants. that's the sentiment if we're getting from immigration activists on the ground in mcallen, texas. it would be very difficult to reunite these families. especially some of the younger children. we were outside one of those so-called tenner age shelters today. we spoke with one immigration activist who. that these chin, younger than 10 years old, they're being housed there. some of them would be impossible to get information to be reunited with family members. a congressman who toured that facility said he sa

mayor bill de blasio said, we already know of 293 kids put on planes and sent to new york city. it is quite likely that many of these kids will end up there just because it is a matter of resources. >> mayor, they're hiding these kids. i've been to detention centers just outside of austin where they hold these kids and they let you talk to them. they're hiding this. they know it is wrong. any american that thinks about it for a second knows it is wrong for us to put kids in tent jails in the desert for no reason other than a political ploy. >> that's actually a city council member from austin, texas. julia, get to our big question which is how are the kids already separated going to be reunited? it's almost been 24 hours since they signed that executive order. they've been drafting it for the majority of yesterday. is there now plan? >> i wish i could tell through is a plan. but it seems like at this point they're still conflicting, not just on the children but on other issues as well. the way this would have worked before the executive order yesterday is that if a parent went t

in the wake of this, major bill de blasio weheld a news conference. this center has 239 kids they are processing who have been separated from their parents. this number 2,000 across the nation might be really low. the estimates here in the city or the state are 100 to 300. if there's 239 alone in center then makes sense there's more. we're not getting information from the federal government. >> what you're reporting goes to, erica, is two things. one, apart from the moral policy demention of this if policy is local and people thinks of this as only at the border, this shows how wrong that is. if young people are being effectively orphaned by these trump orders that has years of consequence not only for them but every part of america that has to deal with it. reading from the new york times reporting how the young people may appear in the moments on camera, if times show it warp these attachments of children that they long for, that they need and lifelong risk for cardiovascular disease. the earlier they're out, the better. put that in a confection for

meanwhile, in new york city, mayor bill de blasio is under fire for saying tuesday that new w york police department pls to end marijuana arrests for some people, but continue arresting some new yorkers who have past arrests s or convictions. in response to m mayor de blas's announcement about new policies for marijuanana arrests, vocal-y and the drug policy alliance released a statement saying -- "it's frustrating that as the new york state health department moves toward legalization, the city is continuing its shameful history of racist marijuana enforcement." activists and community members will gather today at noon on the steps of city hall to protest the new marijuana policy. in yemen, there are reports that -- a u.s.-backed saudi-led coalition have seized the airport in the crucial port city of hodeidah. hundreds of fighters have been killed and thousands of civilians have been forced to flee their homes since the u.s.-backed, saudi-led coalition launched an all-out offensive against hodeidah week ago. international groups have warned the u.s.-backed offensive to seize hodeida will

bill de blasio has also called to abolish i.c.e. as is seven democrats in the house.s is gaining steam. but no one advocating for this is not thinking about the effect of abolishing i.c.e. as we speak, millions of people want to enter the country. the entire city of tijuana, mexico, is filled with tens of thousands of asylum seekers from all over the world, central america, africa andas from the united states. everywhere, and those deported from the united states. to that effect, tijuana is not a pleasant place to live. what will happen when word gets out that nobody in any country on the globe has anything to fear from our immigration authorities? if you can make it past our p border patrol and get a tourist visa, you overstay and never be deported. once people know that, how many people will move here illegally every year? 1 million? 5 million? 10 million? who knows? how many might be criminals or extremists or future welfareon recipients? we don't know that either.en but we know it won't be long if that happens for dozens of u.s. cities to look like what tijuana lo

new york state on a state level and bill de blasio didn't know where the kids were going and what their path would be. take us inside. >>. >> there's about 700 kids in new york state according to the governor. they're still trying to figure out where they are and the conditions. we came here to children's v village. we were let in here because the staff wants us to know the kids here are safe and in a good place. they arrived in terrible condition. emotionally traumatized, emotionally devastated, unsure of what was going -- what they were going to find. missing their pashrents. some of the kids are crying all day, all night. these are children we're talking about who are very scarred. also in a physical sense, the mayor of new york said some of the kids arrived with lice and chickenpox. some were victims of gang violence along the way. this is the end, here is the end of a 20, 30-day or longer journey to get from guatemala, somewhere through mexico to the united states. again, this is a safe, comfortable place. it's a residential care center for foster kids. so it's a place of refuge to

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new york city mayor bill de blasio later confirmed today in a press conference outside the facility that there were, in fact, 239 girls being held inside there, the youngest, 9 months old. held alone, away from their parents. but, again, that reporter from that new york 1 story, which is how we learned that 239 of these little girls are being held alone in east harlem, he thanked his confidential sources for the tip. right? that that's where the girls were. the tip that led to those images and that footage and that report inging, and now that attention and confirmation from public officials. and then there's "the new york times" as well granting anonymity to some unidentified source who nevertheless took steps to get the public one of the first pictures of this kid not yet 1-year-old, who has already been alone for a month. and a month is a long time when your life is 11 months long so far. but this stuff is going to get out. right? you can't do this kind of thing quietly. you can't take, literally, thousands of kids forcibly away from their parents, including babies, and not have the co

i can't stop thinking about what happened to those kids where are they today, bill de blasio said on air on nbc, 2300 of them are here in new york city. we continue to ask multiple times a day. >> let's go to the map of all the states. they are now spread out over 13 states that we know of. i talked to a former national security official who said that -- and the only analogy here is in tracking people released. when you look at people we deport, they don't leave with sim cards. >> right. >> the idea we're going to take children from these 13 states and reconnect them with their parents who have been deported -- and you have to assume a lot of them left, not conditions they have a forwarding address. >> not only do they not have a forwarding address. we're not talking about people that are walking away with bags of cash. these are some poor people coming from desperate situations and don't have money to hire high-priced attorneys much less any attorney to start calling up the united states and say, hey, do you know where my kids are? they're given a piece of paper which we were hand i

that's according to new york city mayor bill de blasio. said many need significant mental health services. mayor de blasio demanded more information from the trump administration. >> come clean with the truth. who are these children? how many are they? where are they? what is happening here? how is it possible that none of us knew there were 239 kids right here in our own city? >> i'm back with the panel. and as much as i'm sure president trump wants this issue to go away with the signing of the executive order, there's still 2,300 kids out there that have yet to be put back with their parents. we've heard stories about s parents being deported and their kids are still here in the united states. this mess isn't going away any time soon. >> yeah, and there's a much larger group of children who came here without any parents, unaccompanied, that get shoved through the system, dropped off in cities in homes of finding relatives, and nobody knows where they are. we can talk about ending the immediate separation crisis, but these people have to

mayor bill de blasio initiated this with the announcement of new york city secure.is what he said. our streets are already the safest of any big city in the country and now we're bringing that same commitment to bringing new yorkers into cyber space. new yorkers manage so much of their lives online. we'll ensure we're applying the best protection efforts to help new yorkers defend themselves online. keeping with the mayor's vision, nyc secure is built own fundamentals. one cyber security is a public safety issue. we must work on behalf of all new yorkers. too often the only people and businesses that are deferred are either those who can pay or have deep technology knowledge. two, we believe cyber security does not need to come at the cost of public privacy and, therefore, we're building solutions that are technically provable to respect user privacy. so, with nyc secure what are we doing? increasing public aware ne. we're committed to promoting city wide awareness of cyber threats. we will educate new yorkers on cyber hygiene and literacy. this will begin in earnes

. >> standing right there in this studio, bill de blasio, he was saying, the mayor of new york, there 239 kids sent from south texas here to this city, to east harlem, in shelters and were only caught because somebody put that on new york one in the middle of the night. the fact you can take kids away from their parents and disperse them not only 2,000 miles away but to 13 different states, i think reportedly, there are 17 different states with these shelters, 100 potential different shelters, and not really have a way to -- i mean, you can track your fedex package down to the second and know where it is and we don't know where 2,000 young human beings are in this country and if their parents will ever see them again? i think that it's a despicable state of affairs when it comes to how this was all handled. >> jacob, thank you very much. thanks for the reporting. jacob soboroff reporting from new york. you can watch his special date line report, the dividing line tomorrow night on nbc at 7:00 eastern time. >>> dinner plans next. why white house senior adviser stephen miller's restaura

we're going to see bill de blasio from new york, the mayor of los angeles, and also the mayor of miami. the amazing thing about this is they're going to come right here, which is as close as they can get to this camp as well. i spoke to the president person who's organizing this trip, i asked if there's any chance we can go on the tour. she says they've been told they have to wait two weeks. >> that's what i don't understand. they've been told they have to wait two weeks. this is my quick plea. first lady melania trump, first daughter ivanka trump, you have access to go down to those tent cities. i just left texas. saddest thing for me was leaving there, never having seen one single child. i didn't get to tour a detention center. you say that you care about this. this is your central focus. ivanka, you have said you're a fierce advocate for the advancement of women and girls. you have to actually do it. this is your opportunity. you sent a tweet yesterday, pardon me, a nonsense tweet congratulating your father for his swift action and now you said it's congress' turn. congress does nee

just this past summer, mayor bill de blasio set up a commission to look at public art , monuments, and markers. he gave 90 days to do that. it was an impossible task that was set up. to his credit, he wanted to do something. at the same time, he immediately started talking about removing certain markers on columbus circle. that immediately caused a media -- furor. in the process of those meetings it became clear whether those monuments state or not, there was a deeper issue the city was not addressing. a number of us began pointing that out. mustre talking about how we had a larger context of how the city talked about itself, that actually these free-floating discussions with did not have anything to anchor. out of that, the co-chair, darren walker, asked a few of us to serve in the organization. i will be happy to talk about that. house want to say i will be starting a new position at records in newark and i have been asked to look at wars of america monument, which is right in the downtown square of downtown new york. many of you know he was the sculptor of mt. rushmore. there is a l