Potential options, but the president has asked the department of agriculture to come back with some specifics that well announce to you shortly. I have two for you. First on syria, we talked about the idea of the possible military option being a deterrent. Last year we heard something similar from the president. He called the chemical attack something that cant be tolerated. Is the white house worried assad is making a mockery of President Trumps threats . Not at all. Our concern is about the fact that the assad regime has taken an outrageous action against civilians. Our focus is on responding to that. I wanted to focus up on something last week, specifically your comments citing the l. A. Times article when asked, i think by john, about the president s remarks at the event last week that didnt back up the president s claims. You actually last fall admonished reporters to make sure we hold ourselves to a High Standard of accuracy of does the president also need to be held to that same
A politician. And thats because politicians, people elected to Public Office, by definition, they have one very special thing that they can use as a get out of jail free card. They have a thing that other people dont have that they can trade to prosecutors to keep themselves out of jail when they get caught for serious crimes. The thing that Public Office holders can offer that nobody else can offer is they can offer to resign, and that will be a significant offer to most prosecutors. I mean, if you drive a bus for a living or if you sell lawn mowers, if you get caught doing something really illegal and you get charged with a serious crime, prosecutors are going to assume youre going to lose your job because theyre going to convict you and lock you up in jail. That will just be a little externally at this to your case. But if you hold political office, even if you are potentially on the hook for very, very serious crimes, its pretty much accepted practice its in the u. S. Attorneys man
To resign. And that will be a significant offer to most prosecutors. I mean, if you drive a bus for a living or if you sell lawnmowers, if you get caught doing something really illegal and you get charged with a serious crime, prosecutors are just going to assume that youre going to lose your job because theyre going to convict you and lock you up in jail that will just be a little externality to your case. But if you hold political office, even if you are potentially on the hook for very, very serious crimes, its pretty much accepted practice. Its in the u. S. Attorneys manual that prosecutors may very well be persuaded to make the charges against you go away, to make your potential jail sentence go away, if you just agree that you will resign your Public Office. It happens all the time. Thats what happened to the mayor of nashville, tennessee, just a few weeks ago. Plea deal. She plead guilty to a felony, but she got no jail time. She got unsupervised probation. How did she get such
Just let people quote pour into the nation. We want to solve family separation. I dont want children taken away from parents. And when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away. Thats not good. We want to end the border crisis by finally giving us the legal authorities and the resources to detain and remove illegal immigrant families all together and bring them back to their country. Bill so today we have team fox coverage. Jeff paul is live in texas. Congressman peter king live on the hill with reaction there. Lets start at the white house with kevin corke from the north lawn. Is there concern at the white house they could lose this p. R. Battle . They acknowledge it is not a good look given the publics perception but they also believe that americans can balance the need for compassion with also wanting fairness and a Legal Immigration law that would help people come here the right way. The way millions of others have co
4 00 a. M. On the east east coast. The separation of children at the u. S. Border is happening. Kritd tikinhumane, but the white house says it is not their fault. But the facts show 2,000 children have been separated from their parents and that is just mid april through may, this according to the department of homeland security. The increase in family separations the result of the Trump Administrations zero tolerance policy where adults Face Criminal Charges for entering the United States illegally. U. S. President blamed the democrats. The children, the children can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and immediately. The democrats forced that law upon our nation. I hate it. I hate to see separation of parents and children. But democrats did not force the practice on anyone. This increase of family separations occurred after the Trump Administration decided to prosecute all offenders. Their aim there, to send a message hoping it would deter families from entering the United States i