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This is important, so lets get into it. im going to show you the proof tonight. this is the trump administration memo from this april, signed by jeff sessions. this is the proof. and what this does, the reason this is happening tonight and this weekend and every day that this policy continues is that the trump administration shifted from a long-standing set of policies that prioritized enforcement against immigrants deemed more dangerous and offered more protection for folks who are not consider...

If it -- i could get into the weeds about the settlement. the easees way to understand is look at the prior administrations since 1997. if that settlement required whats going on now, prior administrations would have had to do whats going on. this is unprecedented clearly a trump hat manages choice. i know you worked at a former my grant shelter, talk to me about your experiences there. tell me why you left. >> first of all, thanks for having me on. i appreciate being a part of this. basically...

Seeking and anyone who would be apprehended for a crime would be separated from their children. past administrations have not taken that view. the president has said this is a democrats law. s not. he does have some room to argue that democrats have blocked attempts to change immigration laws, including the program for dreamers, daca, so there has been a lot of tension between the parties. democrats have n voted in support of previous attempts for that for their own reasons and the hard line rep...

President said he wouldnt sign the compromise bill. then white house officials came out anonymously and said he will sign it. later in the day they had to definitively put it on the record that the president will sign that compromise bill. it is very basic things like that that in past administrations have been pretty routine and notcontroversial, that have been problematic with this white house. republican senators and republican house members have pretty much been fed up with it. >> sabrina, a...

Not exactly true. when im looking at an 8-year-old child in my district, ey weren with their parents. they may have been separated because they traveled alone or traveled in a group or with somebody else. so a lot of these cases are not actually involving a separation of the parents. its a dangerous thing and discouraging people from traveling thousands of miles where they can be exploited and preyed upon and where they run great physical risk is the right thing to be doing. now, if were going...

Recommended to him, and hes told us, i havent pardoned anybody, im not going to pardon anybody. >> he has some people. >> gosh, that he has a right to do. >> although they do send a message. especially this early in the administration. >> what is he supposed to do? >> wait until the end. >> not do his job because mueller is investigating. >> theres a reason hes doing them right now. you dont think theres a message in any of the pardons? >> i dont think so. i think hes executing his constitutiona...

I dont want bad people coming in. i dont want drugs coming in. and we can solve that problem in one meeting. tell the democrats your friends to call me. >> democrats did not force that practice on anyone. those are the facts. this increase of family separations occurred after the trump administration decided to prosecute all offenders. the goal with that policy was to deter families from attempting to cross the border illegally, but some people are still coming. our ed lavandera starts our cover...

Face. that is disrespectful. i know people are out there saying why wont you let him talk, because i think when you come on this network you be the opportunity to speak to the american people directly. and if you are not honest in your answers then you are doing a disservice to the people watching. i asked why the president continues to lie and say this is democratic law, when its not a law. it is not the same practice of other administrations. so please answer. >> no, its not. >> so answer my q...

Their parents made bad decisions why wont you protect the children? >> do we separate criminals from their parents in this country? yes, we do every single day. >> the reason its not working is other administrations are looking at these same families, all of these families arent criminals. all of them dont have to be prosecuted as criminals. they made the choice very few were charged criminally and others were detained. this president decided every single person is going to be charged criminally...

Now and everybodys really excited about it. i think well have to move when hes 12. if another one of f these people tell me they saw me born, another stranger tell me they were there. >> thinking as a dad, i just cant get out of my mind this whole separating of babies at the border from their parents. i justbothers me the united states would take people running for their lives and rath ethan welcome them here, do the worst thing you could do. as a dad, how do you think about this border crisis a...