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Were not there yet. hes presumed innocent. the fact is theres a long way to go. but you have to remember the deterrent value of this. this is something that is going to be taken seriously by prosecutors, by the judge. this got into our national discourse. we are in a time where, you know, theres assailing immigrants coming out of washington, d.c. there are people wearing blackface in virginia. theres so much in our dialogue nationally, this is not something we needed. you dont want to set a prec...

People there were many red flags. lets talk about those. just my reaction, its so disheartening. such hate as it relates to immigrants and race and for this to be added into the equation doesnt help anything. in terms of the red flags, there are things we talked about. what are those? when you dont report immediately, theres a 40-minute lapse. when you happen to be on the phone with your manager at 2:00 in the morning. when you are asked to turn over your phone records and you redact them. so ma...

>> i want to get to tumor questions that buy candy for the segments over. will this remain a mexico policy, although its a short-term deal. >> when the government comes in with the americanist interested it out in a short-term thing. once people realized the tactic of coming in the united states and doing catch and release doesnt work it will significantly reduce the likelihood of people wanting to do that. eric: almost at the virtual wall. will the president shut down the government over fundin...

They basically -- the prosecutors had discretion prior. they took away that discretion. what that means is you are going to get more cases like this. the volume is going to increase. if you have a river and you block up three-quarters of it, the water is going to flow more through one part. its not complicated. to say you didnt do it on purpose is just not true. >> right. and if its a deterrent, its going to take time for the deterrent effect. so you would have to be willing to put up with this ...

To be fair to kelly, part of the deterrent value that he was after is making sure they were no longer in that network. >> good point. good point. but something would have to change about the root causes of the crime and violence down there. gentlemen, thank you very much. okay, is immigration dead now in congress? >> yes, yes, yes. >> well, then im going to cancel our next guest, gop congressman mark sanford, because i was hoping to get the answer from him, john berman. >> hell be a second sou...

Oppresses his own people. hes gotten that. he created a deterrent value that drove us to the table by developing a nuclear arsenal, by testing it in a way that showed it had advanced rather quickly from where it was before. so the process is what matters now. there will be a lot to worry about if youre in the region. back home i think there will be a lot of politics being played about how much credit is due to president trump for achieving this. so, the process matters here. and you came into th...

And the united states and it almost derailed the summit before it got going. the u.s. engaged in war games south korea. president trumps defense secretary made it clear that that issue is not up for negotiation. given what we heard from the president, how do you see this issue being resolved? >> i think thats one of the many things the president could use if he thought it would be benefit to the united states. i have got to address one issue many people are almost afraid. if american troops leav...

That will slow down the regimes ability to rebuild its chemical weapons capacities. i would expect that some months down the road three, four, five months. hell begin again testing american resolve. assad needs chemical weapons because he has a manpower shortage. he has a military incentive to use chemical weapons. and so unless the united states sustains its policy and strikes assad when he uses chemical weapons again, the deterrent value will be lost. >> hope us understand the profile of assad...

See the death penalty in this case. does that weigh? >> it does. what happens is certainly, you know, as a prosecutor, what you do is you evaluate what the feelings are. by the victims. their families, in the community. what happened here was atroci s atrocious, heinous, outrageous. there is a cry for blood in this case. you cannot, strictly from a deterrent value, shoot up schools and just expect, okay, ill plead guilty and spend the rest of my life in jail and thats the end of it. it will be a...

And that would be an enormous -- thats not something that could just quickly be turned. that there would suddenly be a budget to increase the number of nuclear wpens in the united states. also there is this importance of the balance between the conventional force and the nuclear force. there is a very delicate balance that military leaders understand. they understand the utility of the fact that the conventional force is what the united states uses. look at syria. look at iraq. look at afghanist...