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Happen from that kind of thing. its difficult to imagine any particularly good outcome, only because when nations achieve some kind of diplomatic success, its over a long time and theres a period of negotiation. and then theres a capstone meeting. for the first meeting, youre trying to protect the down side. make sure nobody massively misreads the other. >> talking is what you want between world leaders of all kinds. adversaries and allies. fascinating to watch. the pictures of the first handsha...

Who are deported and try to reenter the country. now, both bills head to the senate where they face an uphill climb. joining me now texas attorney general. mr. paxton, thanks for joining us this morning >> good morning from texas. >> first of all, your response to the passage of these two bills? >> big for us. you know, this is a long time coming. had it been passed several years ago, we wouldnt have lost kate and others. for me it is a no-brainer. you are protecting our citizens and in my opini...

But was allowed to delay incarceration until her daughter vanessa was a year old. six weeks later, vanessa was allowed to join her. >> i just couldnt make it without my girl. its my first baby. im just so attached to her and i think its better to raise the child here. >> women have their own rooms. a large room all decorated for a child. wearing nonprison issued clothes. its a communal atmosphere. i think it was nellas time to cook for everybody. some of the other kids were drifting in and were ...

Gridlock. the down side, if nothing gets done, we all go out. weve get to sell our story. tell the voter whats were doing and why it matters. i look forward to doing that. >> neil: do you worry many in the senate -- maybe theres good reasons for this -- the healthcare draft, only a few republicans know about it. i talked to your future colleagues in the house today who said they dont like that. these are coming from republicans who didnt like the way that this has been crafted. what do you say? ...

The russian ambassador. they run into each other at a speech. the guy comes over and says hello. you call that a meeting? i dont. >> bill: whats the down side to his appearance today. >> the down side is people trying to push him into a situation where he has to invoke executive privilege so he looks like he is hiding something, i guess. i dont know of any other down side. i dont know of any down side from the standpoint of asking him what he did. i know he -- based on conversations with people ...

And we are at the beginning. the down side for president trump is that its very distracting for his administration and he hasnt been able to get major legislative accomplishments done. we are early in the trump presidency. but he needs to get tax reform, healthcare, he needs to build the wall. those sorts of things. its not to see things go away. they become side issues as opposed to the main thing. absence of substantive progress, this is the main show. >> we saw president clinton compartmental...

Active president with lots of things happening it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. >> that tweet i find amazing, the idea hes so active that his surrogates cant catch up with him to find out whats true and whats not and actually speak the truth at the podium. what are you learning about morale at the white house at the end of this week? >> certainly for white house staffers its been a demoralizing week. like you were saying about the presidents pace som...

Him. >> the first day, guys were coming in the white house asking for help. >> neil: did you ever say, what are you think something what are you doing? i get that with donald trump. does anybody tell the emperor he has no clothes or no argument? >> youll say we ought do do this. thats an excellent idea. but heres the upside. heres the down side. >> neil: if you were advising donald trump right after his inauguration and he wanted to make the crowd sizes a big issue and told sean spicer, what wou...

Obamacare. instead of saying, well, okay, if theres going to be a trillion in tax cuts, lets do an across the board tax cut for working families, cult the payroll tax by 1% or something. that would be popular with middle class working americans. they repealed obamacare tax else which that tax cut goes almost entirely to the wealthy. they made a mistake by focusing in the last month on preexisting conditions, which as we were discussing in the show is pretty complicated. they got good at confusin...

Tied to the house he doesnt have a full staff and that the larger elements of government are still with a lot of empty desks? >> some. i think every president has to get a team in place. confirmation takes time. president trump is behind all other of the past presidents in recent years. its fine to down side. its fine to be sure people are getting their moneys worth, down size and be efficient. you have to have the critical positions filled to run the government particularly with these challenge...