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Week after i.c.e. raided seven plants across the state, arresting 680 undocumented workers and stripping children from their parents. something the acting immigration and customs enforcement director said is now defending in an exclusive interview with us. watch this. >> the ultimate individuals responsible for the safety and their children are their parents. if they are engaged in illegal activity, they are the ones placing their children in harms way. >> joining me from outside the morton plan...

Facility. >> well, its a very robust investigation at this point. you have people from the department of justice at the facility today to start to look into this. you already see action being taken. the idea that the warden of the facility is temporarily reassigned, that is something that i would say would maybe be a normal step. the fact that two people that worked on epsteins wing had been, or his unit, i should say, have been put on administrative leave. thats a significant step they found so...

Pull a frank pentangeli, which is a reference to hiding from congress what you knew. frank, of course, is the character from the godfather part 2 who played a mobster who was going to be a big witness, but then, in dramatic fashion, recanted right when he was supposed to talk to congress. >> i was in the olive oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago. thats all. he kept saying mike did this and michael corleoni did that. so i said, yeah, sure. >> this, that. frank has come to...

And con to what you might call people who back these measures versus people who pretend they do. and that tells you something about where they think their constituents are and the limits of any political position built on denying reality even in our propaganda filled time. there are some fact checks that require a lot of work, research, reason, informed discourse and that does really demand more of people in our political process. there are other fact checks, though, like seeing that these publi...

Justice department that runs the federal president. how he was allowed to take his own life, if thats what it was, but also everything else epstein was a part of. that investigation does not have to die with him. >> are you confident theres a relationship of trust between your medical examiner and officials at the prison enough to give you faith in findings to determine this was a suicide. >> im absolutely confident in our medical examiners office. i am not confident at all in the justice depart...

Post that the president is upset about aspects of whats been happening. najeel namely he doesnt like it when people call him racist. he says hes a branding -- he recoils from being called the r word even though some of his actions and words have been, quote, plainly racist. >> well, a racist is as a racist does. i mean, i dont know how else to say it. he has routinely deployed racist language, racist practices since long before he was president of the united states. he seems more concerned about...

Of course goat status. if it wasnt impressive enough, check how it looks in slow motion. simone biles making history here. im not a sports caster, but i will tell you it looks incredible. we have one more note we want to share. if you caught any of our show friday, you may have seen something many of you are calling your favorite fall back ever. the rapper debrat, they have good chemistry on and off, here are a few fun moments airing for the first time from after the show. >> acting like 40 ye...

In the last month alone hes described it to use elijah cummings, the squad, and hollywood. phil and ashley go on to write, quote, following a month he leveled racist attacks on four congresswomen of color, maligned majority black baltimore as a rat infested mess and saw his anti-immigrant rhetoric parroted in an alleged mass shooters statement, the risk for trump is that the pejorative that has long dogged him becomes defining. phil, great reporting work from you and ashley as always in "the was...

As mayor of new york, not an uncommon thing considering the tabloids you have. "the new york times" wrote trumps competition for the most unpopular politician in new york is bill de blasio. i certainly have spoken with democratic sources who are frustrated. that is something that might jeopardize his chances. how do you respond to that? >> very quickly about new york. the safest city in america, as mayor over the last six years, pre-k for free. re-elected a year and a half ago with 67% of the vo...

A stick may be. thank you. >> corn dog. i can tell you right now. >> dont be photographed eating one. its a big mistake. when we return, time and time again, president trump has tweeted warnings of massive immigration raids. this time silence as hundreds of people were arrested and separated from their small children. new reporting on why so many undocumented immigrants are arrested but few companies face prosecution. all money managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie c...