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Reunite these kids and document them and process them in a way. i mean were hearing reports, senator, with all due respect that there are children under 5, up to 50, who they cannot find the parents and they are not able to reunite them. you said on the 24th on msnbc we know where every single child is. that these are career people at hhs and dhs and that it will be absolutely possible to connect them with their parents or the relative they came with. can you really say that? >> i can. i feel ve...

And expresses fears they cannot depend on protection from political interference. fair question to ask, where is sessions? >> stuck in the middle. so unprecedented with the president attacking the fbi, his appointe appointees, and in the middle of that, jeff sessions who has to run the department and we know on twitter the president trump is not happy with him. >> right. and president trump just, like, you know, "politico" reported dating back to march president trump had multiple outbursts in t...

20th, 1973, when the attorney general and the deputy attorney general of the united states under richard nixon resigned in protest rather than comply with nixons order to fire the special prosecutor looking into the watergate break-in. those resignations in protest and nixon abolishing the special prosecutors office afterward were ducked the saturday night massacre. well, on saturday, the trump administration orchestrated its second purge of federal civil servants having previously dismissed mor...

Republicans only have themselves to blame. the real fallout, though, everyone is just digging deeper into their bunkers. >> we had to change the rules now because the perpetual war on the executive branch and judicial branch are completely out of sync with our constitutional role of advice and consent. >> they decided to change the rules. i suspect that changes the senate in fundamental ways forever. >> its not justappoint appointe appointees, its the amount of time weve wasted. can it get worse...

Economy has dropped off the radar screen a little bit as you have seen positive job numbers. the economy moving in a slow but still positive direction. the bad news for the administration is that the speed of the recovery is still not strong enough. whoever is able to grab the mantle of the person whos looking out to protect the economy might have the upper hand in this budget battle that were going to see in the months ahead. >> but going back to this issue of whether the public will be engaged...

Lawyer. i want to bring in democratic consultant and columnist jason stanford and republican strategist and columnist, noel. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> looks like this is going to set up a fight. you heard the president talking about this being a constitutional duty. jason, senator chuck grassley said its hard to imagine a rationale for nominating three justices at once. is there a good one? >> of course. every president has put judges on the d.c. circuit court. there are t...

Of us. >> meanwhile the white house is taking an aggressive strategy to appoint new federal judges. the "new york times" reports president obama will nominate three judges to fill vacancies on the d.c. circuit federal court of appeals. they overturned the presidents agenda through the first term. right now the court is eeply split with four the democratic appointe appointees. the names of the presidents nominees have not been released yet, but we could get some insight at some point this week. l...

They actually showed they werent fixated on black appointees. one after the other, they seem more comfortable to attack black appointe appointees. thats a big concern for people across the country. >> what about the president though? he clearly is backing susan rice. but is this a fight worth having? i mean -- >> this is a man who has won office, who is not going to be on the ballot again. he said im going to back the people who i think can do the best job. if you have an issue with my general b...

that republicans wanted holder to turn over and they are fuming over this. >> bringing about one of the worst disperchments on the history of the department of justice is indeed an injustice to the congress, the american people and this important investigative arm of the house of representatives. this is a very sad day for the united states of america when the president would engage himself at the last minute and try to exert executive privilege. >> that was florida congressman john mi...