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White house that the wall is not going to work and they should back off it? >> no. there is no feeling like that. i mean, i think everyone at the department of homeland security who has work eed on this issue r a long time, they understand that practically speaking it is not going to do what the president wants which is to cut down on both legal and illegal immigration. but they also understand what mike said is very true that this is not something the president is ever going to drop. its part o...

Two and a half years do you care when he complains? >> sure. i covered eight years of the obama administration. i cared every time the administration criticized our work. you want your work to be -- you know your work is accurate. you dont want people to challenge it, but the presidents complaints about the accuracy of that story were about as correct as his, you know, assessment of where we worked. we are fully confident in the sources. we had multiple sources describing these conversations to ...

Shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. fox news confirmed some of it with an illustration of alligators. "the washington post" and other news outlets have confirmed this reporting which came from the book "border wars." the book comes out on tuesday. and michael shearer joins me now from washington. >> like, i think the most -- the bigger picture we reveal in the book is the really extreme ways that we all didnt know action your iceberg analogy suggests, we dont realize all the different ...

His senior adviser who stood up an internal think tank in the west wing to come up with ideas to target legal immigration and that is what well see in the continued run-up to the 2020 election. so read the book when it comes out on wednesday. >> when this president is in crisis, he goes back to the playbook of immigration. and the book is "border wars" on tuesday if you want to buy. it ill close with flash backs to washingtons last impeachment drama. 21 years ago this week, october 5th, 1988 to ...

Should see. >> those phone calls. but i suspect we wont. julie. >> well, this past week we saw president trump sign a proclamation that would bar immigrants who couldnt pay for their own health care from staying in this country. this came just a few days after i reported with my colleague mike sheer about the presidents more extreme ideas for preventing immigrants from coming across the southern border, everything from shooting at them to digging a water-filled trench with potentially dangerous ...

The kind of approach that mitt romney is taking puts their own elections at risk, and so youre likely to see mitt romney be something of an island of one in a sea of republicans who are really if not embracing the president as julie said, sort of trying to awkwardly find a way not dros him. >> michael, you have a new book out, getting extra attention, "border wars." youre getting attention with the president responding to your book. lets listen to what he has to say. >> my people came to me and ...

Media, and im tough on the border, and im not that tough. it was a lie. >> this comes after "the new york times" reported an excerpt from the upcoming book entitled border from the border wars. previously he talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench with alligators and snakes prompting to seek an estimate. he wanted a wall lec fried with spikes on top after suggest that soldiers shoot migrants from they throw rocks. his staff told him that was illegal but later he recalled...

Yesterday that was a book about the president and immigration. the key part to the story are the presidents discussion of an insane wall system with, quote, a water filled trench stocked with snakes or alligators. president urging american border patrol agents to shoot migrants in the legs. also, as is broken by jake tapper at cnn and confirmed the president instructing acting secretary of homeland secretary to break the law offering him a pardon in exchange. today the president on an unhinged r...

Paper he thought published it, "the washington post." it was actually published by "the new york times." here with me one of the writers of that piece, co-author of border wars, inside trumps assault on immigration. i want to talk about the context of shoot them in the legs. that stuck with me the most. its such a violent, grim, and lawless instruction. what was the context? >> so the context actually started out in the public. if you will remember this is the time when the president is very con...

Hopefully our book will do this but also that people will see kind of how things play out, theyll make their assessment about her. >> michael sheir, the book again is "border wars: inside trumps assault on immigration." thank you for sharing it with us. >> thanks, guys. americans have only faced impeachment of a president a handful of times. were joined next on how history could give us a road map for what lies ahead or not. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven better on p...