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You mentioned are meeting in nevada also today and they think this is a great issue for them, whats happened in the last couple of weeks seeing all these families separated. they think that the republicans and the president will take the blame for it so they were happy that he was coming there and they could highlight this issue. so, you know, what we heard from the president just now, if youve heard him on the campaign trail, its not unusual for him to talk about immigration. actually thats at ...

Lets bring in republican political consultant michael singleton as well as peter emerson who worked in three democratic administrations. thank you both for being here. im sure youll be able to unite some of them but when you think about infants and younger kids. who dont really have phone

Potentially a cohesive platform if one exists. >> i will say that the pressure has been on president trump and his administration to fix this problem. if the problem gets fixed, you know, weve heard some democrats say, well, the problem isnt really family separation. its the fact that children are being detained at all and if they do move the goalpost that could give president trump and his republican allies an opening to say now youre changing the subject and really this is something, you know,...

At this point and wait until after the midterms to see, you know, if they get more seats and then pursue immigration. however, i think with the presss narrative of everything thats happening at the border and the urgency of the matter, i think its important that the president and republicans, you know, in order to perform well in the midterms really work on thisration matter immediately because weve seen that other administrations have tried to solve this problem, but its been put on the back bu...

Them out over the course of the last 20-plus years of failed border policy in the united states spanning democratic and republican administrations thats culminated in a place where donald trump is putting little children in detention centers and stealing them away from their parents. >> what is the gap in your view having looked at the human toll between reasonably secure borders, which a lot of people want, and what is currently being called zero tolerance enforcement? >> the way that donald tr...

Jacob soboroff was one of the first reporters covering this forcible separation of children and babies from their patients at the border. he spent months reporting for us from the border. he also got inside those texas detention centers and has a special report on all of this new airing this weekend on nbc dateline. jacob joins me now. what can you tell us, sir? >> ari, it was one of the most harrowing experiences of my entire life. honestly one of the most disgusting, despicable things ive ever...

Colleagues, we dont work for trump. they work for the american people. were a separate and co-equal branch of government. we have to do it in a unified cooperation. >> george will hits on that point is that you have republicans in congress who are subservient to the president. theyre not going up against him. theyre bending when he says to do one thing or another. george will saying this is something that always happens in administrations. does it feel different to you as a member of congress, d...

On the part of the president. and just political -- >> sand meanwhile the whole question is despite the fact that he signed this executive order yesterday, we still dont know how these families are going it be reunited. and phil mudd, you were in government for -- >> for ever. >> for a while. and just ive never been in government but ive covered it enough, administrations in congress and elsewhere, to know when you have this kind of policy change, it takes months and months and months to get it ...

Sending individuals to face criminal charges, then the zero tolerance policy is now partial tolerance policy. adults with no children may still be prosecuted and there are cases where individuals may be prosecuted, but what created this crisis and lets be clear, the trump administration created this crisis. the decision to go after parents of children with these criminal charges which had not been done in prior administrations. thus separate families en masse. for now, this could change anytime,...

Was they were going to exempt families unlike previous administrations. they were going to prosecute and that is why you have the separations. you mentioned more than 2,300 children. that is one figure we have had for the month long stretch that we know of here. those children were sent to hhs and i think this is still remarkable. i want to emphasize. i think americans picture when the policy was put in place, someone was standing with a date -- with a data base tracking the children. the kids a...