there was something poignant about her. >> yeah. >> you know, i asked -- >> vulnerable i guess. >> 100 people who knew her, was she happy, and two or three said she was happy, and all the others said happyish, proud, you know, reveled in what she achieved, but happy, content, no. >> susan, it's a beautiful book. it's a wonderful book because it's captured all the sides of barbara walters. >> thank you so much. >> and thank you for being here. and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember to follow the show on social media @mitchellreports. you can watch the best of our show anytime on youtube. just go to msnbc.com/andrea. "chris jansing reports" with josé diaz-balart starts now. good day, i'm josé diaz-balart in for chris jansing. political wisdom or wishful

thinking. donald trump using one of his precious few days outside the courtroom to campaign in minnesota ahead of any swing states. so does the former president really think he can win a state that's disappointed republicans for more than five decades? plus, the u.s. is throwing a lifeline to thousands of palestinians at risk of starvation, courtesy of a makeshift effort to get food and fuel into gaza, but getting the supplies there is just step one. workers have to figure out how to get it to the people who need it in the middle of an active war zone. and sentencing for the man convicted of brutally attacking nancy pelosi's husband with a hammer set to start any minute now. why federal prosecutors are pushing for much more than the recommended time behind bars. first, it is a rare weekday away from court for donald trump, who was given the day off to attend his son's high school graduation in florida this morning. later today, the former president is heading to the

midwest where he will be headlining a major political event in minnesota. it's a curious choice of venue given that the state hasn't voted for a republican president in more than 50 years when richard nixon was on the ballot. still, the former president claims he's serious about making a play for it. here's what he told a local st. paul news channel. >> we think we have a really good shot at minnesota where we have great friendships up there. we've done a lot for industry. >> nbc's dasha burns is in st. paul, minnesota, ahead of trump's visit. also with us nbc news senior national politics reporter jonathan allen and john kasich, former republican governor of ohio, now an msnbc political analyst. so dasha, what's the mood there in st. paul? what are we expecting from trump's event? >> reporter: well, look, jose, the trump campaign is bullish on breaking the blue wall. we first reported they were

looking to expand their states to minnesota and to virginia. a couple of weekends ago at that donor retreat in palm beach, we actually got a slide from a presentation they gave to donors saying they feel like they can be competitive in the state. their internal numbers showing that it could be a tight race, that he could potentially according to their pollster win the state of minnesota. now, it's one thing to say that to donors when you're trying to raise money, right? it's another thing to take action on it. and today we are seeing the former president come here to address gop crowd here at lincoln reagan dinner tonight, and he's going to try to make that message clear that he is actually going to play in this state and in the state of virginia as well. john allen is going to talk a little bit more about this, biden campaign not tacking this sitting down. in fact, as we've been standing here just outside of the venue where trump is going to be speaking. there's been a truck that's been driving around reminding the

voters of minnesota that former president trump is taking credit for the overturning of roe versus wade. we also just saw a second billboard truck driving around talking act back in the day when the former president said he wasn't going to come to minnesota ever again if he lost in 2020. the truck says he shouldn't have come back to this state. don't know exactly who's responsible for these yet, jose, but clearly the democrats and folks on the left and the biden campaign not going to take this sitting down. >> so jonathan and, you know, democrats are calling trump's play for minnesota nothing but a head fake. you report that the biden campaign is pushing out top shelf local democratic surrogates today to counter the visit. what is this about? and dasha's saying they're already seeing these trucks and the information. is there any concern for democrats in minnesota? let's be honest! you see the diesel powered

politics there that dasha was talking about with the trucks and those surrogates that are going out, governor tim walz and senator tina smith are going to do some sort of counter programming today to trump. the message we're hearing from democrats in minnesota is a little bit mixed. on the one hand, they say, you know, after 12 straight presidential elections of democratic victories, they think that this is a head fake by trump, and at the same time, we see the evidence of them countering it. we see the evidence of concern. i think the one thing that both sides would agree on is if donald trump wins minnesota, it's an indication that he has probably also won those other key midwest swing states, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, if you want to throw that in there. its it's a rust belt state. governor kasich might disagree with me on whether pennsylvania counts as the midwest. if the republicans were to win

minnesota, that it would be a very bad night for biden. so the democrats feel like they probably will be fine there. >> yeah, i mean, john, where does pennsylvania fit on the big map issue, but also as far as the difficulty for republicans, i mean, that wall that dasha was talking about, it's -- you know, there's a lot of the midwest that is very much part of the fundamental basis of that wall. >> absolutely. >> first of all -- oh, i'm sorry. >> no, go ahead, governor. >> go ahead, john. >> look, what's kind of amusing to me is they're calling this event the lincoln reagan dinner up there in minnesota for the republicans. i'm not sure either lincoln or reagan could get nominated in the environment the republicans operate today. but, look, i as everybody i think i've told and i remind you again, i endorse joe biden. this trip to minnesota or the concern in the battleground state where is trump is losing -- i'm sorry, where trump

is winning in most of these battleground states, the fact that the economy is not turning, the fact that people are saying it's a terrible economy for them, the fact that they have said they don't have any confidence that joe biden can fix it, his public appearances have not been very good, and now they've agreed to two debates, which is out there as you can get. i'm starting to wonder -- i've talked to a lot of democrats, they didn't tell me this, but i'm starting to wonder if there's a real possibility that joe biden will not be the democrat nominee. i'm starting to wonder about it. >> governor, where is this coming from? >> it comes from the fact that i've talked to a lot of people and i see what these numbers are like, jose. i mean, you had a poll -- that sienna poll included last week, not only did they think he couldn't fix the economy and they put trump way ahead of him, but they also said they're not sure he's as competent as trump.

these are really significant numbers, and the public appearances just aren't working, and you know, and then talking about bidenomics all that time and saying, oh, no,everything is great. i'm not out here trying to -- when i look at all these things and this debate coming up the end of june, i don't know how that's going to go. i'm just beginning to wonder, you know. i'm beginning to consider the fact that anything could happen in politics, though. it can turn on a dime. as you know. usually does, but i'm just -- >> no, and you know, your opinion is an important one, and every -- you know, the important is to listen to everybody's concepts, opinions, and thoughts. >> yeah. >> but jonathan, let's talk about these issues because polling and especially, you know, in may for a november election is a snapshot of a snapshot of a snapshot, and

polls have been so, you know, not accurate over the last couple of polling seasons. jonathan, you know, the economy is clearly strong. there are so many issues that right now i think americans are dealing with that may not be reflected on these polls. what do you think, jonathan, are the major issues that both democrats and republicans are having to deal with? >> so a few things here, jose. number one, to your point, polls are snapshots. if public opinion was static there, would be no reason to run political elections. number two, in terms of the issues that we're talking about, look, most american or at least a plurty of americans are worried about the economy. there are good signs about the macro economy. at the same time, a lot of families feel like they're not able, they don't have the purchasing power they used to. when they go out to a restaurant it costs more and their salaries

aren't keeping up. that's a real feeling and it's something that both political parties are going to have to address. i think the economy right now is the number one issue. it is not the only issue. abortion is an issue, and since dobbs has been overturned, we've seen that as a hugely animating issue on the democratic side. the trump tax cuts, whether they're extended or whether they're, you know, allowed to expire, that's another huge issue. i do want to address one thing that the governor said. you know, i hear this a lot. there is absolutely no evidence that anybody other than joe biden would be the democratic nominee. there is nobody ready to step into that. there's no democrat who has the kind of support that joe biden has shown in winning the primary last time and, b, the general election last time. so the idea that the democrats are somehow going to blind closed doors figure out how to substitute a new candidate for joe biden. it's good for cable talk, i guess, but it doesn't reflect the reality, not only of what's

going on within the democratic party right now, but also doesn't reflect the reality of how politics works. that is to say you'd have to find a whole bunch of convention delegates who have pledged themselves to joe biden to pick somebody else. it's just not going to happen. >> yeah, and -- >> let me just say a word, jose. let me say a word to that. i've been in politics. i've run for office. i've held public office. i've been to national conventions. i'm just -- i am just suggesting to you today that there are a significant group of democrats who are alarmed. i know they are because i talk to them. now, i'm just saying to you that the possibility is there. i'm not predicting it's going to happen. i'm just tell you if these polls continue and i agree with jonathan, you know, first of all, the people are going to look in june. they're going to look in september, there's one issue that always matters, one issue. and that's the economy, and people are not confident that biden can fix it. now, i'd suggest that he get a

group of highly respected economists, get them to talk about what he would do in a second term, get the surrogates out there. that's what i think is a better formula for him. but this debate in june, i mean, jose, you know how difficult it's been for him to communicate out there, and now they're going to put him in a debate? it's just odd to me, and i didn't even think they were going to debate. so i'm not saying it's going to happen. i'm saying -- it's not just for cable talk. you asked me how i could come one it, i know politics, and i know how people think. not all of them, not everybody, and i can be wrong. i've been wrong before. i'll be wrong again. maybe. >> i'll tell you something else, as someone who moderated a debate in the last election season, the first democratic primary debate of the democratic season, i think it is always

dangerous to underestimate joe biden in a debate, but that's just from my experience. >> i don't disagree. i don't disagree. i'm not going to disagree. >> i thank you all so much for being with us this afternoon. >> all right, thank you. in 90 seconds when we come back, we're talking about the first round of humanitarian aid that enters gaza via a u.s.-built peer. pier. how do you distribute it in an active war zone? the executive director of doctors without borders united states joins us next. without bod states joins us next since my fatigue and light-headedness would come and go, i figured it wasn't a big deal. then i saw my doctor and found out i have afib, and that means there's about a 5 times greater risk of stroke. symptoms like irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light- headedness can come and go. but if you have afib, the risk of stroke is always there. if you have one or more symptoms, get checked out.

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14 past the hour. today the israeli military announced it recovered the body of three hostages during an overnight operation in rafah. israel says all were killed back on october the 7th while escaping the nova music festival. their bodies were taken into gaza afterwards. israel says that around 100 hostages remain alive in gaza around with the bodies of 30 more. today a new lifeline for gaza, for the first time trucks carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid are now entering the enclave using a massive floating pier built by the united states. here's a picture of it. it's a temporary solution to stave off the threat of famine, which the united nations says has never looked larger there. the sea route is no real substitute for ground deliveries.

the most important crossing has closed for two weeks as the israeli military ramps up its fight there. israel says more troops will join the ground offensive on what it is describing as hamas's final stronghold, caught in the cross hairs, more than a million civilians, most of whom have already been displaced before. more than 630,000 have already fled rafah according to the u.n., crowding into ruined cities where there's little food, water, or shelter. nbc's courtney kube has been reporting on the floating pier. it's always great seeing you. what impact does the u.s. believe this sea route can have? >> well, you're absolutely right when you say that while this does have the capability of bringing a lot of aid to people in gaza, the reality is it's no match for where the trucks that were going across the border into gaza pre-october 7th. so just for perspective, before the war began, there were about 500 aid trucks that would make their way into gaza every single day.

right now that number is dramatically diminished from there. it fluctuates, but it's more in the 200 per day right now. but the pier system itself, once it's up at its full capacity and its full capability, u.s. officials believe they could be delivered somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 trucks a day. that is still a significant amount of aid, but there's still a lot of logistical hurdles that we don't have a lot of clarity on exactly what that's going to -- how that's going to look. one of the major ones is once that aid gets ashore, how and where will it be distributed? now, we know that the world food program through the united nations is supposed to be the one who will be delivering that aid to these people, but we still don't have a clear sense of whether the world food program has all of the clearances that they need and exactly how that will work. that's one of the big questions, but still, once the aid, which is now making its way into gaza, it should have a huge impact on those millions of people who have been suffering there for

months now, jose. >> yeah, and so -- and courtney, tell us about -- because -- so there are no u.s. boots on the ground, but there are u.s. boots on the pier? >> they're closer now than they have been since the war began. that's the reality, but u.s. officials, defense officials here in the pentagon are emphatic that there will be no u.s. boots on the ground. just for perspective here, the pier that we've been showing pictures of from overhead, that's about 500 meters out. there's about three to five miles off the shore from there. there's a dock that's now anchored into the mediterranean. the aid is distributed. it's brought from civilian ships primarily to that dock where u.s. military personnel loaded onto trucks. the trucks are loaded onto smaller boats and those boats make their way to that pier or that causeway where then the military sort of takes a step back, and there's civilians and others who will take it from

there. but there still will be u.s. military personnel who will be driving the boats, who will be on those trucks as they make their way to the causeway putting them closer to what is an active combat zone than we've seen to date, jose. >> courtney kube, thank you so very much. really appreciate it. >> thanks. >> i want to bring in the executive director of doctors without borders united states, avril benoit. it's always great to have your perspective and your voice. i very much appreciate it. i'm just wondering first your reaction to this new pier. >> well, it's a logistical solution to what is a deeply problematic political problem, season it? we have 2,000 trucks that are loaded with humanitarian supplies waiting at the rafah crossing not allowed to get in, and this pier is a work-around, and it just boggles the mind that the united states would rather spend money this way rather than more efficiently to be able to reach people with the aid that is just waiting to be

brought in through the traditional means of regular trucks on the road, so it's a feat of engineering, good photo ops, but this is a failure of politics to have allowed this to be the only recourse. >> and what are -- what would be a more efficient way to bring in more help when what you have on the ground is a reality of a cruel war? >> yeah, it's awful, isn't it? and without a doubt, we need a cease fire. this is one of the things that the humanitarian community has been unanimous about. we need a cease fire to stop the killings and maiming of civilians, but also, to be able to deliver the humanitarian aid that does manage to get in. we know they're huge just from a medical perspective we have 78,000 people estimated to have been wounded, 80% of the hospitals are pretty much out of commission after israeli attacks.

we keep having to evacuate hospitals, move to other areas that are said to be a little safer. we evacuated a hospital in rafah over the last few days, and it's a harrowing, terrifying experience to be delivering aid in this context because we know that nowhere in gaza is really safe. it's definitely not safe for long, and the needs are enormous. so as you have this policy of preventing aid from getting in, the food and water people need, also all the other things, fuel to be able to manage generators, to be able to even transport. right now we've got trucks that are able to, you know, ready with drivers, with supplies, unable to move within gaza because they don't have fuel. this is totally unacceptable, and so if you ask me quite simply what's the solution, it's a cease fire. >> i am just wondering, you know, and clearly there are, you know, calls for israel to do even more to help facilitate

trucks gets in through their side. we've been seeing that some of the trucks have been attacked by some settlers as they're heading towards gaza, but also egypt is there, and could be doing a whole lot more. just wondering, you know, and you were talking about it's a failure of politics, and yet, failures of politics oftentimes include failures to human beings, to men, women, and children who are suffering under this. >> yes, 1.7 million people have lost their homes, and as we know from the international court of justice hearings, that the court implored and ordered israel to stop preventing said from getting in to make sure it was not creating conditions of genocide with the blockages of aid that we've seen consistently, and it's devastating for the people but also just the consistent attacks

on humanitarians, 500 health workers alone have been killed. five of my colleagues from doctors without borders have been killed. attacks, our organization has experienced roughly 20 attacks, even though we always notify where we are, what we're doing, the hospitals are full of patients. they're not command centers for hamas where we're working. we're just overwhelmed and, again, this whole question of the lack of fuel, surgeons who are forced to perform surgery with the light of their cell phones. i mean, this kind of thing should never be happening, and yet, it is, and the united states is funding this and has no interest in being any more complicit than it already is in providing the support and backing for what is happening to the civilians. >> and you know, this all happens as then we see that today the israelis said that they, you know, found the bodies of three young people in rafah

that had been taken from that festival and abused and destroyed on that october 7th massacre that killed more than 1,200 men, women, and children. avril, it's always a pleasure to speak with you. i thank you very much for your time. >> thanks, jose, anytime. hurricane-force winds are tearing through america's fourth largest city, so strong they blew windows out of skyscrapers. we'll go live to texas next to look at the huge swath of damage from a deadly storm. deadly sto. for our digestive health, but less than 10% of us get enough each day. good thing metamucil gummies are an easy way to get prebiotic, plant-based fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccoli. metamucil gummies the easy way to get your daily fiber.

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28 past the hour. parts of houston are still under water, and all schools are closed today after massive storms with hurricane force winds killed at least four people cutting power to more than a million households. pounding rain forced some to seek shelter, stranding hundreds in grocery stores and flooded neighborhood streets. and we're seeing unbelievable images after gusts of up to 100 miles an hour blew windows out of major city skyscrapers, shooting glass onto the streets below. nbc's guad venegas is in houston. guad, what's it looking like? >> reporter: jose, those buildings that had the windows blown out are just down the street here in downtown. this is a club downtown that lost a whole side of it, so this entire wall, the two stories you

can see it was blown to the side, and if we look over to the right, there's a vehicle that was in the parking lot completely destroyed with debris and bricks over it, and there's been other vehicles that were also damaged when the wind came through, when the storm came through here in downtown. authorities here have been clearing the street. we had a lot of debris, a lot of trees, not just here but everywhere in houston. we have some branches left, and they're getting ready to open the street here. one of the main issues, jose, is the power. we know that this morning hundreds of thousands woke up without power. authorities have said that they have transmission lines that have been damaged. i believe it's about seven of those in harris county. this is one of the reasons why people don't have power, and they believe it's going to take some time to fix all of that infrastructure and restore power to a lot of the people in these affected areas, and then they also have to deal with employers who won't be opening their businesses. workers who won't be able to go to work. for today, the mayor of houston

asked owners to allow workers to stay home while they figure out how to move forward. they've also opened cooling centers moving forward. there's going to be days without power. it can get really hot here in houston. fortunately today, it's very cool, so the weather has been helping. we're getting some rain, but this is going to allow authorities to continue with that cleanup and also to continue assessing the damage because we've seen the images of what happened here, downtown, and in other areas. but there's so much damage all across the region that they're still assessing the structures, the roads, and also the number of injuries, jose. >> guad venegas in houston, thank you so very much. any moment now the man convicted of assaulting paul pelosi with a hammer will be sentenced, and federal prosecutors argue that he deserves 40 years in prison instead of the typical 25. david depape was found guilty

after breaking into the home of pelosi fracturing the 82-year-old man's skull in 2022. nbc's steve patterson is reporting on this, and i'm joined by kristy greenberg, a former deputy chief of the sdny criminal division. tell us why prosecutors want to extend the sentence beyond the standard time? >> reporter: jose, this is essentially prosecutors trying to add a terrorism enhancement on top of the sentencing recommendations that were guidelined by the trial. they're saying that not only did david depape knowingly attack paul pelosi, not only was he knowingly trying to kidnap nancy pelosi, in those crimes not only was he knowingly trying to interfere with a public official performing their duties, but he was trying to interfere with the federal government. this was an intimidation tactic used at the inner workings of

the federal government. for the counter to this, you have to go back to november, right? because depape's defense team never argued that he wasn't attacking paul pelosi, that he wasn't trying to kidnap nancy pelosi. they were trying to say that he wasn't trying to interfere with the public official because this is a man that was so deranged and warped by these right wing conspiracy theories that he had a list of people, and he was just literally attacking the first person on that list. so this sentencing recommendation is a slap in the face to that. it is trying to go back so hard in the other direction that he was saying not only was he interfering with a federal official, he is trying to essentially interfere with democracy itself. will it work? we'll know in literally a few minutes, but also important to say that this is one of two trials, right? he still has the state trial where he's facing five charges there, which amounts to life in prison. so this was never about will they throw the book at david depape. this is how hard are they going to throw the book at david depape, and will that mean a

precedent setting situation for something like this happening! we will be learning about this in a short time, so let's keep a very close watch on that. kristy, how unusual is this legal logic here? >> well, these are pretty serious circumstances in terms of not only what we saw on that video, which is horrific, and by the way, he did that -- he used that hammer on mr. pelosi in front of law enforcement. law enforcement did not stop him from committing the attack, which is, again, pretty extreme, but it's his post-arrest statements that prosecutors are citing to to be able to say he really did intend to influence congress. you know, among the things he did was talk about the fact that speaker pelosi is the leader of the pack and that he wanted to break her knee caps so that he would send a message of her in a wheelchair wheeling into congress, and that would potentially influence other members of congress not to follow her. so i think the strength of his

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39 past the hour. we're taking a closer look today at the rise of the number of young people falling for misinformation. a new study finds that gen z is more susceptible to believing misinformation than millennials and baby boomers. nbc's morgan radford has the story. >> misinformation is everywhere. from altered voices at a college football game. >> i hereby resign from my position. >> to ai generated political announcement, but when it comes to spotting it, a recent survey found younger americans performed worse than their older counterparts on a misinformation

test. with generation z scoring worse than any other age group. so what does that mean for this upcoming election? >> and that's an amazing thing. >> we sat down with a group of gen z journalism student skbls roughly half of you get your news from social media. what if i told you that studies have found that gen z is more susceptible to misinformation. >> i believe it. >> gen z grew up with tablets and iphones, we're the facebook, youtube, tiktok twitter generation. >> it's all on the same thing, all on the same platforms, real and fake news, and there's no really differentiating. >> so we decided to put them to our own test. >> so each of you has a card, one side has real, one side has fake. >> showing examples of fake news and real news found on the internet. they spotted several of the

fakes pretty easily. like this ai-generated image of joe biden in military fatigues. >> the guy in the back his face is like very distorted. it just doesn't look natural. >> ready? here we go. >> fake. >> you guys spotted it. >> but others were trickier. >> is this photo of the bidens and the carters real or fake? >> the answer is real. this was actually taken by the white house and what's fascinating about that, it was probably done on a wide angle lens. >> this ai generated image of former president donald trump u fooled half of the group. >> this one is fake. this was an ai generated image that was shared by an -- >> plenty of photos of trump, that doesn't look like him. >> i actually can't make out the name. >> that's another thing, ai tends to really mess up words. >> it's a concern shared by both congress and a new crop of

nonprofit organizations aiming to detect ai generated images ahead of the election, like the nonpartisan group truemedia.org. >> my biggest concern is that when it gets to the fall and even the 48 hours before the election, that we will be flooded with false images showing president biden being rushed to the hospital, showing that there's an active shooter at an election site, and having all these things be false, but be credible. >> but in the end, these students got a passing grade. >> i honestly thought i would fail because it's just so easy to create ai images and ai headlines. >> i think the most important part is to not see stuff like that and kind of move away from that being part of our info stream. >> with one surprising result. >> from doing this test it almost feels like you all aren't so worried about thinking that fake things are real, but instead when you see real things, you're not actually sure

if they aren't fake. am i hearing that correctly? does that sort of skepticism affect the way that you feel about voting at all? >> it makes it a lot harder to think about voting because you have to do a lot of extra work to find out if the things you're seeing are real. >> does it make you say why even engage with the political process? >> there's definitely times we think why bother, if i cannot tell any sort of difference between the two. >> between true and false. >> we only focused on those generation z voting age. those under 18 get their news, and among the findings, more than half of teenagers are getting their news from social medi 60% say they're more likely to get it from celebrities and influencers rather than traditional news organizations. jose. >> morgan radford, thank you

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morning. to an nbc news exclusive. top border patrol officials are facing intense scrutiny, this time for how they're spending their time off the clock. the head of border patrol and another top official are currently being investigated for they ties to a mexican tequila mogul. today, more questions as we have learned that those officials reportedly attended parties hosted by another business involved in cross border trade. joining us now is julia ainsley, homeland security correspondent for nbc news. julia, what exactly is this all about? >> what is at question here is whether or not this man, eduardo garza, who introduced introducer patrol chief, whether or not he was trying to get something in return. his industry does depend on the jobs these people do. this is exactly why we have federal ethics rules in place.

we're learning it wasn't just this one incident at the tequila distillery. garza hosted border patrol three times at his ranch in laredo, including an elaborate dinner for the border patrol sector chiefs in december of last year, and he hosted gloria chavez, the sector chief in guadalajara, new mexico, for a second trip in november of last year. we understand the office of professional responsibility is getting these people, these officials, to go through and make sure they disclose all of this contact and determining if they accepted anything that could be considered a gift and a violation of an ethics policy. >> this is during their timeoff. the question is if there's anything nefarious about hanging out with or going to see tequila distilleries? >> reporter: we don't know if they took time off.

right there, that was a friday afternoon. unless all of these people took vacation at the same time, this very well could have been while they're on the clock being paid for by the taxpayer. it's something we have asked dhs about. also the question of whether or not they could be influenced by a man who hosted them five times to elaborate parties, they had expensive wine, dinner, eight-piece band, also in mexico. if through all of that that might have the appearance of a conflict of interest when it's coming from a man whose business could stand to benefit from that relationship. and any cvp response to this. >> they're saying they have faith in their senior leaders. i will say, jose, the relationship and the tequila started because of the centennial anniversary of the border patrol, and late last night, chief owens did tweet out

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