him through ohio and pennsylvania the race is heating up >>> plus, brand new reporting from our jacob soboroff along the u.s.-mexico border and the president's promise to build the wall it's thursday, october 1st "early today" starts right now >>> good morning, i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. breaking overnight congress and the white house missed a midnight deadline to provide much-needed federal relief funding to the struggling airline industry talks are expected to continue, today. but late last night, american airlines said it will furlough 19,000 employees while united is laying off 13,000 both airlines say they will reverse that decision, if a deal is reached nbc's tom costello is at reagan national airport with more >> reporter: pilots, flight attendants, ticket counter, and ramp workers, united flight attendant amanda has already received a furlough notice. >> how are you going to make it if you are furloughed and presumably without a paycheck? >> i'm going to be in unemployment line like so many other people. >> the airlines promised to preserve jobs through september, in

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i want to turn to nbc news jacob soboroff covering this story from the start.this new reporting about what the trump administration was or was not telling the federal agency in charge of these kids' care. >> reporter: hallie, that agency is health and human services which we know at this point was responsible for the care and custody of the thousands of kids that were systematically taken away, tortured in the words of physicians for human rights, by the trump administration from their parents. what this report does, it lays out underlying documents we have reported previously. one is that story about the 37 kids made to wait in vans overnight for hours in order to be reunion fied with their parents. the head of i.c.e. and tom fitzgerald, the data analyst for health and human services, it was the disaster we saw with our own eyes. this lays out the documentation behind it in this new report. >> what are we learning from it this morning, jacob? >> i think what we're learning is exactly what we've been talking about over the course of the last two years, three ye

and nbc news correspondent jacob soboroff. y." jacob, my friend, i'm going to go to you first. this report describes government prosecutors reacting -- and this is prosecutors -- reacting over to this policy with alarm saying one government prosecutor wrote to his superiors, we have now heard of us taking breastfeeding defendant moms away from their infants. i did not believe this until i looked at the duty log. we can believe it because we've been following your reporting on this. what's your reaction to this report? i will note, by the way, jeff sessions is the former mentor and former boss of stephen miller. >> there's no doubt, joy, that what i saw at the time with my own eyes what physicians for human rights now calls the torture of 5,500 people according to the u.n. definition, was exactly what was playing out. and that what we were told at the time were lies. and they know exactly what they were doing. jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, in particular rod rosenstein, you know, i'm sorry to say, a hero to many in the resistanc

. >> reporter: 21 days and counting morgan chesky, nbc news, dallas >> reporter: i'm jacob soboroff in california where 21 million mail-in ballots are on their way to voters. and tonight there's controversy over drop-off locations set up by the republican party. the state gop in the process of installing unofficial ballot boxes in at least three counties they're labeled "official ballot drop-off box" or "ballot drop-off box." like the one in this photo posted by a republican campaign worker which was later deleted. >> we have security concerns about these fake drop boxes. >> reporter: california secretary of state alex padilla, a democrat, says they're not only unauthorized but also illegal. >> these boxes were mislabeled as official if voters are misled to surrendering their ballots to this drop box, no security guarantee, no guarantee that their ballot will actually end up at the county and be counted >> reporter: the democratic attorney general now demanding the state gop remove them immediately the party says it will continue collecting votes, writing in a statement, "state law all

nbc's jacob soboroff has been on this story since the beginning, and he spoke with a father deportedo honduras and his 8-year-old son, staying with family in california, over zoom earlier this week. they don't know when or if they'll be reunited. >> reporter: you have a birthday coming up? >> yeah. >> reporter: how old are you going to be? >> nine. >> reporter: what do you think you're going to get or what do you want to get, buddy? >> my dad. >> reporter: that would be a nice president, huh, bud? >> that's part of the reason why we don't talk often because it's very complicated. >> translator: it's very painful. that's part of the reason why he doesn't talk to his brother as often, because they both start crying and then i want to cry as well. >> translator: you suffer through every day and i would like many people to know everything we go through. especially right now. because there's a pandemic. it is very difficult. >> joining our conversation is jacob soboroff, who as i said, has been reporting on this story since the beginning for us. he's also written a best-selling book about

joining me now, nbc's jacob soboroff.ort on this, he wrote separated, inside an american tragedy. good morning. thank you for getting up to early to be with us. i have to you have about this pilot program. 303 families were separated. those separated included 11 children under the age of 1. 22 who were 1. and 28 who were 2 years old. i don't even -- i don't know what to say about this. you know much more about this than most us do and you knew it ahead of time. what was the point of this? >> to inflict torture in the words of physicians for human rights on these families so that they wouldn't come to the united states in the future, families like them wouldn't come to the united states in the future. obviously the administration has long disputed that, but now more than ever both from the memo from this draft doj inspector general report that we obtained at nbc news and the bombshell reporteding from t reporting from earlier in the week, it makes clearer than ever before they knew exact kwla they were doing. not only did

. >> jacob soboroff and i did a swamp series about dark money and the way it influences congress. the way it influences supreme court judges and federal court judges. talk to me about the federalist society and the judicial crisis watch and what their goals are and who they influence. >> just looking at the magnitude, this is one organization, the federalist society, upon judge barrett's confirmation have placed five justices on the supreme court. they came through the same network, same vetting process. they were put forward by the same people. this isn't a conspiracy theory. it's happening in the open. they don't deny any of it. we don't know who is paying for this. we don't know what their ultimate aims are. we can intuit them based on the corporate angle. the impact has been enormous. president trump has put 56 appellate court judges on the bench, 48 have come through the federalist society. >> who is leonard leo, the man behind the federalist society? >> formerly. we reported this in 2018. there are a lot of operatives in d.c. he has been remarkably successful raising over $2

i new story that jacob soboroff and julia ainsley broke.545 of the migrant children, 2/3 of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program. they were deported before their parents could be reunited with them. that's probably a lowball number of the kids who are missing. i wonder just your reaction, congresswoman, to this story, and does this wind up playing somehow in the campaign? donald trump's also been making a big show of getting, you know, increased or at least flat support from last time with latino voters, and i think with women, this is also a story that's got to play. >> yes, and i think part of the play was black voters really is to disencourage people from voting, especially black men, but i think in terms of the latino community and other communities -- i mean, i think people around the country were absolutely outraged at what they did to these families, and i think that number of 500 is very low. and just think about that for a minute. we took these kids away and we don't necessarily know where the

let's bring in jacob soboroff, the author of the book "separated inside an american tragedy."od morning. i was thinking about you in that question -- when that question was asked about thinking about julia ainsley as well. you two have reported so deeply on this over the last couple of years. you have been down to see the facilities. help us sort through what the president said there. >> well, the president lied last night like he's lead about the separation policy all along. the separation policy was a uniquely trumpian policy and put forward by the administration in a way that the administration had never done before. it was torture, it was government sanctioned child abuse, according to the american society of pediatrics. he invited the reporters down to see the facilities where they were so well taken care of, i was one of the reporters. what i saw was not that at all. i saw children sitting on concrete floors, covered with by mylar blankets, supervised by security contractors in a watchtower. it was -- it makes me sick. as i said last night every single time i recall it a

my friends katy tur and jacob soboroff are going to be particularly excited this morning, i think. there was one concerning moment as starting third baseman justin turner was pulled from the game over what was later revealed to be a positive coronavirus test. the lab doing the test informed major league baseball that turner's test from monday came back inclusive. samples from tuesday arrived and showed up positive. the league immediately called the dodgers and said to pull turner. the 35-year-old did return with his wife an hour after the game, sitting for a team photo, lowering a mask he otherwise wore throughout the celebration. turn earp said he felt great and was experiencing no symptoms, he was the first player since the games began to be flagged for the coronavirus. let's go to bill karins for a check of the weather on this wednesday morning. bill, good morning. >> good morning, kasie. unfortunately, i've got horrendous need for folks on the gulf coast. zeta has zens intensified. we're expecting a category 2 hurricane to hit new orleans. that's a huge headline. the hurricane

my colleague, jacob soboroff, spoke to a young migrant boy who's still separated from his father.is week and next week, i want you to take this with you to the ballot box or to the mailbox or however you might be voting. >> you have a birthday coming up? >> yeah. >> how old are you going to be? >> nine. >> what do you think you're going to get or what do you want to get, buddy? >> my dad. >> you want to get your dad for your birthday. that would be a nice present, huh, bud? >> yeah. >> what do you want for your birthday? my dad. remember that little boy. remember how you feel when you hear that. image if that were your child. remember humanity. your family and basic decency at the ballot. we've got more show from asheville, north carolina, next. i'll speak to jamie harrison, the man trying to unseat senator linds lindsey graham in south carolina. karine jean-pierre is kamala harris's campaign chief of staff and biden's senior adviser as we head into the final stretch of the election. o the final stretcf the election (vo) 5g just got real. iphone 12 and iphone 12 pro are here on ve

coming up in the next hour, i will speak to jacob soboroff, who is nbc's resident expert on all things border about where trump's efforts stand after four years in office. >>> coming up next, protecting your vote this election season, i want to know what your voting experience has been like. many of you have sent me your stories to velshi.com. here's one of the ones that caught my attention. mina says, my mother is 96. she's been a progressive and always advocated for social justice. like me, she's following this election despite a language barrier, but i keep her informed. we always vote absentee in the barrier, california, but this year she insisted on putting her ballot into the drop box herself to make sure her vote is not going to be tampered with. she said, quote, i think this will be my last attempt to save democracy, end quote. keep mailing me your voting experience to mystory@velshi.com. alright, everyone, we made it. my job is to help new homeowners who have turned into their parents. i'm having a big lunch and then just a snack for dinner. so we're using a speakerphone in th

the questions especially prompted by jacob soboroff, julie ainsley and others about the separated families at the border, biden offering concrete steps beyond his broader immigration policy for taking and addressing that issue head on, craig. >> all right, mike memoli there for us in coconut creek. thank you. monica alba there in tampa, thank you as well. this morning, the number of coronavirus infections and hospital stays are ticking up to astounding new levels. here are the latest facts on the pandemic. 80,000 new cases reported wednesday. that's another record high. the third time in a week that we've set a new single day record. the most cases in the last week have come from the state of illinois. the number of patients being treated in hospitals has climbed 46% from a month ago, and that is raising fears that more hospitals across the country could soon reach capacity. but there is some encouraging news when it comes to treatment this morning. regeneron says its antibody cocktail trial is showing a significant reduction in medical visits in patients with covid-19. this is the same ex

nbc's jacob soboroff literally wrote the book on this titled "separated". i recommend it.'ve been following this story closer than anyone i know. talk to us about what you heard last night. >> well, i have to say the first thing i heard was our colleague kristen welker doing a spectacular job, asking about the signature campaign issue of donald trump's first run for president. what i heard was the president lie in response to those questions. he said the children were well taken care of. he talked about inviting reporters to see the conditions. i was one of the reporters. you were with me. i went inside where 250,000 square foot former walmart. central processing station. the children inside cages. these are children that are going to be traumatized psychologically for life. according to the american academy for pediatrics what the trump administration did was government sanctioned child abuse. according to for physicians for human rights, it was torture, and for the president to suggest these were coyotes bringing parents. the 546 parents not located were not the parents

because he was name checked, let's bring jacob soboroff. he's written the seminal book on this policy. jacob, what we're talking about in terms of our visceral reactions of that moment in the debate, help us put that in context in terms of the facts here. i was very struck by the president saying at that moment in the debate, this is the way he phrased it. he said, we're trying very hard to find parents for these kids. is the president right about that? is the trump administration doing that? >> no. and i'll go with that first, rachel. the 545 kids that we reported and everyone reported this week from a court filing that are still separated, those are parents of children, the government literally cannot find them. they were warned they would not be able to find them. these families have been separated for over three years in some instances. they are literally going door to door in central america in order to try to locate them. kristin asked a very pointed question i think two or three times, which was do you have a plan to reunite them. the

joining us now msnbc correspondent jacob soboroff and author of "the new york times" bestseller "separatedorget when president trump said to you and joe he was going to deport millions of people. the truth of the matter is, he will not even come close to deporting the amount of undocumented immigrants than president obama d did because of a lack of cooperation local law enforcement, including places like right here in los angeles. lo take a look at this. the week before donald trump's inauguration i did a series on his major campaign promises and visited tijuana, mexico. how long had you lived in the united states? >> 29 years. >> reporter: how long have you been in mexico? >> three weeks. >> reporter: so what did you do? you got caught. what did you do? >> i got deported four months ago. it was a misdemeanor, drinking in public. >> reporter: the people i met in tijuana had been deported by president obama who back then held the record for the most deportations by a president. more than 3 1/2 years later it looks as if he still with when you compare president obama's first term to presiden