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back with me is joaquin castro on capitol hill.essman you of course represent texas which has been dealing with the hurricane and many dreamers getting involved in rescuing their fellow residents of the united states. your view of this issue now that we know the president's plan, which is to claim basically credit for ending the dreamer's program, while asking the congress and you to do something about it. >> yeah, i think that it's a tragedy for the country, certainly devastating to the lives of 800 young, bright, hard working people, who really are integrated into every facet of american society and the economy, these are folks in the military, that are teachers in our schools, folks who are working in every sector we can imagine. so it's going to be a blow to the county thrry also. >> there's been a lot of talk about law and order and punishment, and it's a difficult issue, being a humanitarian doesn't mean that you have open borders. let me show you these overhead shots of these large protest gathering. here's what the top pros

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let's bring in democratic congressman joaquin castro. the house intelligence and foreign affairs committee. here's what he had to say on the north korea nuclear threat last month. >> you're dealing with a nuclear state. the only question is when they press that button, how far can the missiles go and will they hit their targets? because of that, we have to approach this in a sane and sober way. >> and congressman cass -- castro, we heard what you said before the break there. about what north korea might be capable of doing and what we have to watch out for. you know they had this overnight nuclear test. you have seen the pictures of kim jong-un with what looks like a miniaturized nuclear weapon on an icbm. >> that's right. if the reports are to be believed, it's quite possible they've achieved the capability to send a missile to the mainland united states. at this point, anybody advocating for military action against north korea is advocating for action against a nuclear power who has made threats against the united states. i think the b

hillary clinton, joaquin castro are just some of the people weighing in. getting rid of dacs is something he promised. he vowed to eliminate the program when he took office. >> if he ends the program, what are the next steps? >> it won't take effect for six months to give congress time to pass legislation to replace it, molette. that's the latest that we have as far as information on the daca program. back to you. >> all right. we'll keep our ian it. thanks, adam. >>> the fires at a chemical plant near houston are out. they were set intentionally to speed up the cleanup process after harvey. the company that owns the plant said it was only a matter of time before the exploded. meanwhile, thousands who live in southeast texas haven't even been able to start cleaning up. a lot aren't allowed into their homes because the floods are too dangerous. jacob rascon has more on what's next. >> reporter: neighborhood after neighborhood still underwater. mandatory evacuations for 4600 homes. after their owners thought they had escaped the worst. >> it's sad. i feel sa

and then joaquin and next is joaquin castro. thank you to my colleagues in the senate and the house were fighting on behalf of dreamers today. let's be clear about something. america is blessed to have these 800,000 young people in our nation. this is their home. it's the only home that many of them have ever known and is president obama said they are just as american as any of us except in one way at-bats on paper. our challenge in congress is to make sure that one difference is no longer. the dreamers that are here i want to say a message to you all first thank you for your courage thank you for standing up when times were tough. thank you for fighting for your families. know that we are going to fight like hell so that you can stay here and the reason we have gotten to this point, the reason there was a daca, the reason mccain "close to comprehensive immigration reform was because of the incredible youth movement 10, 12 years ago and all the energy and passion that went into it. i will tell you what there are many people in c

hillary clinton, joaquin castro and kamala harris weighed in.n some republicans are calling to keep the program. bob trump better prepare for the civil rights fight of his administration. the dream act is now a national emergency. defend daca. that's the latest from the live desk. back to you in the studio. > >>> ♪ harry connick junior, one of the latest who join the harvey relief effort. he length his voice and a helping hand near houston. he helped to unload donated supplies. he decided to get involved because this storm reminds him of so much that happened in new orleans during katrina. >> the cost to rebuild after harvey could end up being more than hurricanes katrina and sandy combined. this is what it looks like along many streets where the floodwaters have receded. there's trash everywhere. in fact, thousands of pounds of it just piled up and there's only going to be more in the coming months. we want to check in now with sarah rosario who is live in houston. what's happening rights now, sarah? >> reporter: yeah. chris and molette, we're

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i just spoke to joaquin castro, he called the conversation with susan rice very informative. >> reporterms that there are a lot of questions there in that particular session of how the issue of unmasking, but that is really not going to be the focus on the senate side. not for the senate judiciary committee or the senate intelligence committee. of course now the home of this first time, the first time that donald trump jr. will actually answer questions about that june 2016 trump tower meeting with russian operatives, paul mana fo manafort and jared kushner. some senior members of the intelligence committee will attend, but one top senator on that committee, dianne feinstein said if he does not appear publicly, the committee is prepared to subpoena him. >> there's an interview scheduled, i'm not sure exactly where it is, but it is a staff interview. >> reporter: will there be committee members going? >> i can't comment on that, but the process that we have decided on, if a committee member wants to go and drop in, that's fine, but these are staff interviews and staff is not to be interru

joaquin castro joins me. i appreciate your time. you heard evan perez reporting here, leading our show. from where your investigation is tonight, is it possible that the crimes that we're going to be talking about here are limited to money laundering and tax fraud? >> sure. you know, the house investigation of which i'm part is of course separate from robert mueller's investigation, but it's totally possible that there are money laundering issues here and he's following the money because there may have been crimes committed. >> at this point, from your investigation, do you have any evidence, any evidence of links, that any of this linked directly right now to the president of the united states? whether we're talking financial fraud or collusion, is there anything from your investigation right now that goes directly to the president? >> well, because obviously a lot of this is classified, i can't directly answer your question. but i'll just say that there are many troubling things that we found. >> do you think robert mueller has tr

going to decide on this maybe, probably punt it to congress who spoke pretty well on quitter by joaquin castromembers of congress over the past five years who said daca should have been legislatively, here's your chance. just a reminder to those who don't know, president obama signed dama through an executive -- signed dakotas through an executive order. now the chance for congress to step in. is this a situation where president trump is using this as like a political football, a negotiating tactic to say, hey, you're going to defend dakotas? i'll let you do that. but i want my wall. >> that's interesting. he definitely paints himself as king of negotiations. i not what's very interesting is we've -- i think what's very interesting is we've seen president trump make decisions meant to reverse whatever president barack obama has done. even in the clip we saw when he's expressing the difficulty he said of this issue, i think it highlights how unfamiliar he has been with this. this is not something he has a lot of experience working on. he's made it very clear that he does want to do what's in th

joining me now is jonathan swann, carol lee, a reporter with nbc news and democrat congressman joaquin castro of texas, sits on the house intelligence committee. congressman, i want you to start tonight. you're a politician. you know how politicians behave. how is trump behaving right now, yelling in every direction, tweeting in every direction, getting up at dawn. is mueller getting to him with these demands? is facebook getting to him with the acknowledgment that the russians were running dirty ads in the campaign to help him? >> well he's obviously a politician right now who is very agitated and disdushturbed and see him respond with the same thing whenever he feels the heat so to speak. he deflects, usually tries to go back to crooked hillary or talk about somebody else. and then the second thing that he try to do is undercut the credibility of the people investigating him. you saw him do that with james comey. and the investigation itself. and today's tweet exactly those >> it's funny -- it's not funny, a little sick funny. but he seems to go back to the same redundant language about the