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Conceding more authority to dod to conduct foreign policy, without the authority of the elected commander-in-chief. that is dangerous. >> okay. while this is happening secretary of state mike pompeo was asked on fox news by chris wallace about the president, about how he feels about the president saying, its okay to accept foreign intelligence, foreign interference in an election. heres what our secretary of state said. >> i came on to talk about foreign policy. i think the third time youve aske...

Disturbing in a variety of ways. here the notion that dod is preparing to impose costs on moscow in the event they were to intervene in american elections or otherwise interfere with the american political process is good news. it demonstrates they are interested in creating costs for russia, deterring russian actions without saying there is some sort of kinetic military activity involved, which is not a credible threat. they talked to john boltons office, mike pompeos office and neither denied ...

Aggressive tact that the u.s. government is doing now against russia in planning potential essentially forms of malware into the russian power grid, taking a more offensive approach, rather than just doing this on defense. do you support that new policy? >> look, you have to take every step possible first of all to make sure what happened in 2016 what the russians attempted to do to meddle with our elections when barack obama was president, doesnt happen again in 2020 or any other election. im g...

>> you know i think yesterdays announcement the white house made it clear it was kind of premature. look, ive had discussions with the white house. theyve approached me. i was first approached bisect nielsen about this job and i declined it because i didnt think the job was structured right and i didnt think it had the proper authority and look, i think a border czar needs to be structured in a way they can coordinate activities from dhs, doj, dod, hhs, they all have a piece of this border issue...

>> dana: all right. before i let you go and get back to that beautiful weather down there in the south, i want to ask you, i usually dont pay attention to rumors, but theres so many rumors that you might be leaving your position and taking over as the secretary of another cabinet agency, veteran affairs, or that you might be leaving the trump administration altogether. how do you want to respond to those accounts from unnamed sources? >> look, i think you touched the key play there is that rumor...

Skeptical that theyll move forward with it on monday. this may not even be a problem that well come to, because theyre saying theres a chance that the white house -- >> he says unless the mexicans stop these people fro crossing into the united states, a 5% tariff next week, 15, 20, 25. there are national security implications in all of this. >> and the calculation here comes down to whether or not the president believes believe it or not he gains more bang for his buck by appearing to be strong ...

President has been in office. that should be the place in mexico to request that. >> i want to ask about a new report from your general at dhs about an el paso border patrol facility. rooms were overcrowded, up to six times their capacity resulting in standing-room-only conditions, making detainees stand on toilets to get room to breathe. president trump has called on using funds from the pentagon to pay for his border wall. know you want congress to pass the money you need to expand the facilit...

Offered refugee status since the president has been in office. >> a new report about an el paso border patrol facility. rooms were overcrowded, up to six times their capacity resulting in standing-room-only conditions, making detainees stand on toilets to get room to breathe. president trump has called on using funds from the pentagon to pay for the border wall. i know you want congress to p s pass -- until they do, would you like to see president trump use some of the money hes using from dod t...

One you just got? >> were working with dod. theyll help with 7,500 additional spaces to prevent people from being too crowded. weve put up 1,000 temporary facility spaces on the border in texas. well add arizona this month. were driving as hard as we can to provide a better scenario. >> six migrant children has died since september including a 16-year-old boy who died after a week at a dhs facility in texas. we know undocumented children are being held in dhs custody longer than the 72-hour maxi...

Reports in the future like the one you just got? >> were working with dod. theyll help with 7,500 additional spaces to prevent people from being too crowded. weve put up 1,000 temporary facility spaces on the border in texas. well add arizona this month. were driving as hard as we can to provide a better scenario. >> six children have died in custody, six migrant children have died in government custody since september, including a 16-year-old boy who died after spending a week at a dhs facility...