hammering homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen on wednesday about the controversial trump policy of separating children at the border. this as nbc news is now reporting that border patrol in san diego kept a watch list of reporters, activists and lawyers who were monitoring their activity, delaying their access as to migrant families, holding them at the border in some cases. joining me now, senator dick durb durbin. i want to ask you about what was happening in the san diego crossing. this is one of the most shame flg chapters in modern american history. to being that we forcibly separated 2800 infants,ed to lette toddlers and children and then lost them. it took a federal court to finally reunite many of these and still over 150 of these children have not been reunited with their parents a year later. and i wanted to play more of that hearing with secretary
lawmakers, that they are very committed at this point to finding some kind of an agreement. and according to this source tonight, and again, we don t want to get too optimistic, there is a feeling in the room right now that they re moving towards some sort of compromise, anderson. jim acosta, thanks. earlier tonight, i spoke with democratic senator dick durb durbin, who is one of the lawmakers trying to negotiate a budget deal. senator durbin, you were in a closed-door briefing by career security officials today. what did they tell you? do they believe that a wall is needed? do they believe that there is, in fact, a crisis at the southern border as the president has indicated? well, we didn t get into a crisis, but as we heard last night was a shameless exaggeration of the situation at the border p. i listened to it last night and it reminded me of how we need to build a wall from sea to shining sea paid for by the mexicans. he was back in full campaign mode last night when it ca
reporter: look, this is the first time most senators have heard the level of detail that republican and democratic leadership have heard and the president-elect have heard and president obama have heard about the extent of the russian hacking and things that allegedly happened during the elections. remember when this when this classified report came out, that classified report is what actually most member of congress have seen so far, but what happened they don t really know the details so it s interesting to see dick durbin forgive me manu, let s go to the white house. . [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, the president and vice president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ]
white house we got sound in, senators leaving the closed door meeting topic being russia here is democratic senator dick durb durbin. there s never been any question that this question goes straight to the top to vladimir putin, i m not disclosing anything that s classified. and when you look at the breadth of it it is not limited to going after the doc and john podesta, the only good news we have is that they didn t infiltrate the voting process of this, but they did everything short of that. they re going to look into the e-mail investigation and the d.o. d.o.j. do you agree with that and look how the vaginvestigati
said, but harry reid is the leader and dick durbin is the whip. harry reid came out yesterday and said he s running again and he s not even up for re-election. there is a hierarchy in the senate. it is the place where they send cra crazy legislation to cool off and become better. i think you will find the max baucuss of the world and others that come together and get a deal and get it done quickly before the christmas break. you talk about the hierarchy of the senate. let s talk about the star of the incoming freshman class, elizabeth warren. do you see her going on the obama model of things or the hillary clinton model of things to put your head down and be a workhor workhorse? i worked there for seven years. senators that come in and do what they re supposed food in their first term, which is sit on the back bench, be quiet and learn everything you can possibly learn and get into that