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Correspondent for "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. also co-author of the best-selling book "i alone can fix it." donald j. trumps final catastrophic year and monica alba and msnbc military analyst retired general barry mccaffrey. ill start with you, general mccaffrey there. and it was a point that was brought up towards the end of the segment or the briefing we were just listening to about the transcript of the phone call you had for context purposes, retired lieutenant colonel al...

Enforcement can detain. democrats want to cap a daily number of the people that can be detained at 16,500. now for context purposes, the daily rate right now is about 40,000 people. and democrats say this is a way of reining in what they call aggressive enforcement tactics by the trump administration. but republicans say this is an absolute deal break because setting the cap so low theyre effectively eliminating i.c.e.s ability do their job and ob oabolishing i.c.e. >> they want to get people ca...