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Being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. President trump is spending the weekend at the golf resort in bed minu bedminister, new jersey. The news of a booming economy and the president fulfilling a Campaign Promise overshadowed by the latest bombshell in the russia investigation. The man who once said he would take a bullet for trump is now telling special counsel mueller the president knew about that infamous 2016 Trump Tower Meeting ahead of time. This is something the president has repeatedly d...

Is referring to that created this challenge about keeping families together. as i said a minute ago, the secretary of homeland security said yesterday she thought they were close to reunifying, identifying and reunifying the pool that are already here. and if it requires legislation to overturn the court decision, which i think it does, i support that. >> brian, could he be doing more? >> i think hes exactly right. hes referring to the court case that i referred to at the beginning that has bede...

One that democrats need to come to the table and to help republicans solve. they dont seem to have any interest in doing that right now. >> matt, quickly do you see any consequences midterm directly related to -- i think everyone agrees its a debacle. >> oh, yeah, this is something every voter knows about, every voter cares about and every voter will be thinking about when they cast their ballot in november. brians spin notwithstanding, people know whos responsible here, trump and the republican...

To pay for as well. >> matt, why are you shaking your head? >> because this is ridiculous. the problem were facing now, the 711 kids that are still being held away from their parents in custody is a problem created 100% and entirely by the trump administration. there is no ambiguity about this. it is true -- >> i think theres no doubt that the administration is trying really hard to address this situation at the border -- >> no, theyre not. >> they had a very tight deadline to return these child...

Fights, missing children. what we do understand is there is a disconnect between what the government says is happening in these shelters that they operate versus what these children are saying is happening. we now see a federal judge mandating an independent monitor be present in these facilities to keep her abreast of whats happening there, fred. as you mentioned, 711 children still in the custody of the u.s. government separated from their families. >> all right, very troubling. kaylee hartung...

Has reported theres a 6-year-old girl who was forced to sign her first initial on a document she could not read. basically taking responsibility for her own sexual assault in custody. this is a catastrophe that is caused by trump and is enabled by congressional republicans. >> so a lot of things have happened, you know, in the course of a month and a half when people got a better grasp of the numbers of separations from visiting facilities. but there also seems like theres kind of a lull in what...

What will happen to these kids regardless if youre a republican, democrat, regardless of where you are on border control, et cetera? >> without a doubt. in the view of most democrats, donald trump has been a catastrophe in many ways but i think the most monstrous thing this administration has done is removing children from their parents and putting them in facilities where theyre subject to mistreatment. its essentially kidnapping. theres a lot of things in our politics that are complicated. tar...

About up until this point are just sort of out of the air brace braced on next year. but then you have some stake holders who have anything to do with the next year will be fighting tooth and nail to protect their carveouts in the tax code. the budget part of this was the easy part. the big messy fight continues when congress returns next week. they are off today. >> thank you so much, garrett haake. and i have brian mcgwire to senator mitch mcconnell. this is the concern we have heard from demo...