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Sort of how agress safe stance to take on immigration. thats been sort of an internal backdrop there. theres not total agreement on this policy in these white house meets. >> but what there seemsbe agreement on is we are not going to bwn. show ive been getting text from an administration official wh watching and making their case live via text message about sort of the things that weve been hearing from secretary nielsen and others about why they believe this is something that democrats can get ...

Passing legislation to say you shouldnt be ripping kids out of their mommys arms. >> why does this administration think this policy is good for them? >> i dont know is the short answer, katy. this is not a new problem. this is a problem that weve seen in previous administrations, something that we should have been prepared for. theres alternatives to detention. this is an outcome from a larger problem. we should be working well salvador and nicaragua and honduras addressing some of the root caus...

>> heres the thing. what happens is we as the public, we have to be better about this, we get exhausted from all of the nonsense and the lies. >> i dont get exhausted. we treat people like theyre stupid. my first assignment here was to go out and to go out and embed with the trump voters 100 days after the election, ones who had voted for obama twice. they were really looking for change. i dont think theyre blind, and i dont think theyre dumb. i think theyre growing impatient with the russia inv...

Press. jacob, what is your experience from your own eyes? >> reporter: the children in these facilities, everything theyre going throu extraordinary enough. i just want to reiterate, donald trump is making the case for changing immigration policy. in this instance, the way the detainees are treated here, the processes through which they are going through have existed during previous administrations. but hes denying the fact that its his policies that are subjugating the children in these facilit...

Country you want out there, children -- >> the image i want of this country is an immigration system that secures our borders and upholds our humanitarian ideals. congress needs to fix it. yes. >> i wanted to give you a chance to respond to laura bush. she said this is cruel. she supports an application of the law, even the current first lady, melania trump, has said we should be a nation of law, we should do so with heart. do you have anything you want to tell them? do you believe theyre misund...

Americans and russians to work together again. why do you thi it wasnt done in previous administrations? >> well, the space -- this new council is something that our president wanted to put together to see how we can -- because people have been talking about going to mars, but i think he wanted to focus on getting back to the moon first and use that as a launching pad to get uo mars one day. we need to make sure nasa has the money to do these things. >> the new nasa administrator, hes a former m...

Value that, well, were only talking about american families or were only talking about white families. were only talking about trump families. we talked about families. thats why globally through the office of the presidency, the reach suz to look around the world and see where despots and bad actors were working against the interest of families, and we had a voice in that fight. we dont have that authority nor that voice any longer. >> and i guess the reason im naming names is because these wer...

Detention. but what the trump administration decided to do is say, great, we can keep these mothers for as long as we want. we just have to separate them from their children. thats not something any of the previous administrations would have thought about because it obviously just soundss agree just and inhumane. >> mayor ya >> mariana, youve been talking to mothers who have been re-united with their children. can you tell us what theyre telling you? >> reporter: katy, the psychological effects ...

Director. i think weve gone through five or six so far. so you have a situation where a president does believe he is the best communicator. doesnt believe he needs to be handled or managed by a staff around him. and has made the job either super fluus. this is previous administrations. you have a question, you want to have knowledge before you go into reporting something. you go back and talk to the person or people who may be expert in that. the press secretary. you wrote that only one of five ...

He was talking about at the press conference telling secretary of state mike pompeo to get to work. it is clear it is up to mike pompeo to hammer out the details. >> congress will have something to say as these negotiations -- >> he wants an agreement in contrast to the iran deal which wasnt passed through congress that this administration wants a deal that is passed through congress so that it cant be undone by future administrations. that is to give kim confidence that whatever is passed -- >>...