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Are going to pour in and invest our country? >> we have made this conversation, because of the presidents questionable leadership, a conversation about law and policy. its a question of moral imperative. for a country where we had a president who lost his life, lincoln, to say i will protect the weak. we had a president in the 1960s who said i will protect the weak. president bush did something -- the second president bush, in africa, underreported. i will protect the weak with incredible supp...

To address something you have been reading a lot about. >> reporter: the outrage over children on the border being separated from their parents and kept in cages has consumed headlines. the white house insists this crisis is a problem for congress. >> politically correct or not, we have a country that needs security, that needs safety. those are the only two options, totally open borders or criminal prosecution for law breaking railrobreaking. i dont want children taken away from parents. >> rep...

Building. we have seen republicans acknowledging that. for example, the chairman of the national republican congressional committee coming out and saying that the president needs to address this problem. >> they need to fix it quickly. samantha, i want you to listen to this exchange i had with the acting ice director in the last hour. >> its simple. illegal entry into the united states, its a crime. its a misdemeanor. >> if they are seeking asylum, is that a crime if they are crossing the border...

Clear they need to do something to address it in the near term. >> we saw the motorcade heading back toward the white house. it sounds to me like the headline emerging is that theres no change in the separation of families policy until theres xroe hcomprehensi immigration reform. they have to reconcile whatever they pass, assuming they pass something, and then the president has to sign it into law. that could take a while if it happens at all. in the meantime, moms and dads are losing their kids...

>> my reaction is that this is indefensible. its telling the administration sent a career law enforcement officer to speak with you to try to explain a policy that doesnt make sense. lets be clear. this policy is not just going to impact children on the southern border. its going to impact children all around the world. were in a position where the u.n. is calling our own actions unconscionable. we have absolutely zero credibility going anywhere around the world and fighting on behalf of childre...

Acting ice director, who was on this program if the last hour when i had this exchange with him. the men and women of ice, they have to implement this zero tolerance policy. is this new zero tolerance policy that the president has supported, that the attorney general announced, is it humane? >> i think -- i think its the law. >> it may be the law. but is it humane? >> i think its the law. im a law enforcement officer. i must follow the law. we take good care of these children. whats inhumane is ...

Arrest the adults for the federal crime of illegal entry. those are the only two options. totally open borders or criminal prosecution for law breaking. >> thats not necessarily true, david. before this new policy was announced and began to be enacted in april, most of the undocumented immigrants who went through what was called the civil court system, not the criminal system, so they could stay with their children. this is a new strategy, a new policy by the administration as they themselves sa...

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