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Looming potential shutdown, but mitch mcconnell did say yesterday that he is convinced that the government will not shut down. im wondering do you share his confidence in the presidents willingness to sign potentially a short term continuing resolution if you send him one, and how did republicans convince him that this trump shutdown was a bad plan? >> kasie, i dont know yet from the white house what their plan is on a continuing resolution. any shutdown that occurs obviously would be very -- mu...

Are issues weve dealt with for the last two years now. no question that the russians were trying to use social media to try to be able to stir up controversy in the united states. this started in 2014 where they actively were building pages to try to build following because they were already looking to be able to target the election. a couple things come out in the report very clear, one is they were very engaged in the campaign and got prepared very early and the second one is they tried to fin...

Bipartisan support through the committees, weve conferenced these and i think we should be able to resolve it this year rather than try to punt it into next year. part of the challenge that we have right now is nancy pelosi is not in a position to be able to negotiate on this, shes not speaker, doesnt want to negotiate this until after shes already speaker and so thats locking us up with dealing with anything in the house and i would tell you the president is very strong on border security issue...

So i think theres some room to negotiate on that. i think that democrats will probably stand fairly strong on a lower amount unless they get something in return but i dont think any of us want to shut down the government. there will be some negotiating, some back and forth on it but i think we will know in the next ten days what the final outcome with regard to the border security issues will be for this year. >> harris: i know it was reported yesterday that there was some discussion between the...

That. the trump white house is so dysfunctional, the president was completely caught off guard by the first lady, melania trumps, statement yesterday that deputy national security adviser mira ricardel no longer deserves to work in the white house. according to our reporting, trump was furious, angry that he looks like a bossed around husband. but now we know just how influential the first lady really is. the president is doing what his wife wants. we learned tonight that mira ricardel is, in fa...

Border security issues. today she was in south texas with the defense secretary, james mattis, visiting with troops who were sent there by the president to stop a caravan of migrants from central america, by the way still hundreds of miles away in mexico. theyre trying to cross the border -- trying to get them to stop from crossing the border. trump claims many of them are dangerous criminals trying to invade the u.s. when, in fact, there are people who are seeking asylum from violence in their ...

Messy fight on capitol hill, its going to be a long summer. luckily or not so luckily, mitch mcconnell canceled august recess, so theyll have some hopes of getting this done before the october new term starts for the supreme court. >> well see if that actually happens. jonathan, before we go to break, i want to get your reaction on the growing calls for some democrats to abolish i.c.e. take a listen to what senator gillibrand told my colleague at a rally to unite families yesterday. lets listen....

Solution? >> i think the mission of i.c.e. is no longer being accomplished. its becoming a deportation force. i believe you should separate the missions. immigration should be dealt with as immigration issues. its a humanitarian issue, and the criminal and border security issues should be dealt with differently. even i.c.e. agents said were not able to deal with the human or drug traffickers and criminal element thats trying to come across the border. theres a big difference between criminal jus...

20 takedays. republicans point to democrats and say where were democrats like you crying out when these families -- when the obama administration was asking for families to be held indefinitely if necessary. what is your response to that criticism? >> there is two things. first of all, the flores settlement, the kids werent held, you didnt have the situation where by administration policy, by president trumps policy the explicit decision was to take kids from parents. so we didnt have that. the ...

>> there would abe a strong bipartisan support if there were that stand-alone legislation. tell me how youre going to vote on the more conservative and more moderate pieces of legislation today. >> ive always been sensitive to these kids, the dreamers, and i think the second piece of legislation is the sore spot. im supporting the second piece of legislation because it fixes the border security issues and takes care of the dreamers and deals with the family separation issue. i think thats a win-...