This week on Face the Nation: Extreme heat continues to smash records around the world, and tactics being taken by Texas officials at the border to deter migrants come under scrutiny.
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KAMALA HARRIS : They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not have it. And we will not have it. Finally, the facts surrounding gender-affirming care with the head of the organization that sets the guidelines for treatment, Dr. Marci Bowers.The excruciating heat and severe weather continues here in Washington, and more than 75 million Americans are under a hot weather watch today.MARK STRASSMANN : Phoenix wilting in the valley of the sunstroke, dehydration, dizziness, delirium, no surprise, given today's forecast, a record 24th straight day with temperatures hitting 110 degrees or more.
MARK STRASSMANN: Officially, extreme heat kills roughly 700 people a year. But experts like Dr. Chris Tedeschi, a Columbia University emergency physician, believe the actual death toll is much higher.DR. CHRISTOPHER TEDESCHI: At some point, your body's not made to function in these temperatures. It just doesn't work.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The public service, your power grid operator there in Arizona, told us they're marking seven days in a row of the highest customer electricity use ever. So that's a lot of strain, and we're not even into August. Is this sustainable?We build for extreme temperatures in the summer, so that we've made infrastructure investments that help us get out of these challenges. But this summer has -- has set some tough records.
We even have tactics where we can go out with I.V.s that have been cooled, and that can cool people from the inside, which can save lives. We know that it is going to get hotter and that we need to worry about long-term drought. So we plan ahead. We have a very successful project with our community college where people can get a six-week certificate in semiconductors.MAYOR KATE GALLEGO: That's produced hundreds of graduates so far, but we know we have to turn it up, so that we can deliver not just for Arizona but for the world.And we're joined now by Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales, who's in San Diego, California.
But what -- what I'm seeing is people are getting injured along the border. People are drowning certainly in that river. I would much rather see not one person step foot in that river vice having to go -- vice going through these obstacles and other -- other areas. He said troopers were ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the river, to deny water to migrants in this extreme heat. He said, a pregnant woman who was in the midst of a miscarriage had to be cut out of razor wire she was ensnared in.REPRESENTATIVE TONY GONZALES: It's not acceptable. It's not acceptable. And it hasn't been acceptable for two years. If this was important to President Biden, I'm happy to host him in Eagle Pass and show him everything.
To me, Congress has to solve this because we've been waiting on a president for decades to solve this, and it's not going to be solved. That's why I introduced the HIRE Act. What the HIRE Act does is, it focuses on legal immigration. I'm a proponent of legal immigration. Right now, nine out of 10 people that come over illegally do not qualify for asylum.
In my eyes, in the 118th Congress, what can get done is something along these lines. We -- you know, immigration reform has for so long been focused on the fringes, focus on border security or a pathway to citizenship.MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. It's very, very, very narrow. And it's very, very focused on seasonal workers and extending for a very short period of time, which -- I understand your broader efforts.
I would much rather partner with the administration or anyone on legal immigration. There's no talk of legal immigration. There's no talk of increasing legal pathways. It's only what happens when people are here illegally. I also want to ask you about other bipartisan efforts you have undertaken for school safety and around guns. Uvalde is in your district. And you championed the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which was put in place after the Uvalde massacre.
Vice President Kamala Harris, as you know, is taking aim at this Florida guideline, in terms of new educational standards, a component of which says -- and I'm quoting --"Slaves developed skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit." And, from listening and watching his comments, he's obviously uncomfortable. The second part of this is, this is why -- one of the reasons I'm running, Margaret. We're arguing about these issues, these smaller issues, when we have got big issues in our country, like runaway inflation that continues to hurt families, like an educational system.
And so I think people see this as politically. And I'm talking about, Margaret, we're dividing our country into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces.FORMER GOVERNOR FORMER GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: And politicians are pitting them against each other to create conflict. And that's not going to make the country bigger, better, stronger, or freer.
And we return now to our conversation with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is, of course, a presidential candidate, or vying for the Republican nomination. And I would say one thing on the gun charge. I mean, this is a case where Democrats yell and scream for more new gun laws in the country, yet you hear no Democrat yelling about the fact that Hunter Biden intentionally lied on his gun permit application, mishandled the gun after he received it with a false permit application and faces absolutely no penalty.FORMER GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: Guess what, the guy who sponsored that law was his father, Senator Joe Biden.
Now, I - I want to see what evidence the - the special counsel has before I make that decision. I think that's the wise thing to do. But, please, for folks -- I'm disappointed in Tim that he would be sitting out there saying, it's really not the president's responsibility. The president invited them there.FORMER GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: The president lied to them and told them the election was stolen.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK. And, lastly, the Republican National Committee is urging the former president to appear on the debate stage. I know you will be there.FORMER GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: Absolutely. We should - we should discuss, Margaret, why he said he was going to repeal and replace Obamacare and couldn't get it done when he had a Republican Congress. We should discuss why he promised to build a wall across the entire border and completed 52 miles of new wall in four years.
PHIL MURPHY: Obviously , parents are the existential reality in the upbringing of any child, without question. I don't deny that for one second. But let's not violate the constitutional and civil rights of precious young folks, in many cases, who are coming to grips with life and - as they -- as they grow up and grow older. Let's be respectful of that. Let's be all in this together as opposed to this us versus them, this demonizing.
Secondly, this will worsen pollution in New Jersey. Congestion pricing, the MTA in New York City has admitted it, this is a financial fix more than it is an environmental fix. And the loser here, right now, are New Jersey commuters and New Jersey communities. And I will not let that stand. MARGARET BRENNAN: That was -- that was an interesting turnback to Chris Christie on that. I'll give you that.
PHIL MURPHY: I mean, this is a classic us versus them playbook that they, unfortunately, the other party too often than not wheels out. And it's, frankly, offensive. She is an icon. She is an icon in the south Asian community, in the African American community, among millions of women in this country. I, frankly, think it's offensive and I think, at the end of the day, it's a losing strategy.
MARCI BOWERS: Surgery really is not done under the age of 18, except in severe cases, usually top surgery for trans masculine persons. And even that is rare. I think the estimates are something like 57 surgeries under the age of 18 were done for trans individuals. How much research is there into the effects of puberty blockers and hormones treatments of people in this age group.
MARCI BOWERS: Well, the point of that is that, first of all, that - that what was leaked apparently was the - the draft guidelines, which we were going to consider younger age groupings. But -- but the important point is that care is individualized. And so age isn't really the issue. Generally it's adulthood. And -- except in severe cases. And, you know, again, a draft guideline needs -- gets input from around the world with available science that - that provides input and consensus.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Ukraine where the Russians have staged unrelenting attacks on the port city of Odessa. Our Charlie D'Agata filed this report from the region.
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