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but her rival senator bernie sanders is protesting what his campaign calls the media's rush to judgment since super delegates don't actually cast the votes until the democratic national convention in philadelphia in july. as secretary clinton makes the history books, rival donald trump come this fall accused of making, quote, the textbook definition of a racist comment. those words coming not just from any republican but the highest ranking, the house speaker paul ryan, in response to trump insisting that the judge overseeing a lawsuit against trump university recuse himself because of his mexican heritage. speaker ryan endorsed trump, keep in mind, merely five days ago. >> i regret the comments he made. i don't think -- claiming a person can't do the job because of the racist comment. i think that should be absolutely disavowed and unacceptable. but do i believe that hillary clinton is the answer? no, i do not. do i believe that hillary clinton is going to be the answer to solving these probables? i do not. i believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day and we have more likelihood of getting the policies enacted with him than we do with her. >> and political reporter manu raju there. you have also been chasing senator graham along the hall y hallways on the hill. we'll get to your conversation in a second. with regard to speaker ryan, talk to me about his comments and the question you asked about whether or not these comments are undercutting his agenda as speaker. >> that's right. actually what's remarkable here is that a lot of republicans are just absolutely fed up. they're very frustrated. they don't want to talk about the party's nominee because they're very upset that he's distracting from what they're trying to do which is to sell the american people about why republicans deserve to hold on to congress and also to take back the white house. now, paul ryan has been trying to put together an election year agenda with his house republican colleagues for months. they wanted today to be the beginning of that roll-out including an effort to deal with how to talk about how republicans would deal with the issue of poverty and they want to show a different kind of republican party, if you will. but what ryan was particularly frustrated about was that what trump is saying is clearly undermining what they're trying to do on capitol hill. when i asked him about that, paul ryan did not hold back. >> i do think these kinds of comments undercut these things and i won't pretend to defend them. i'll defend our ideas. i'm going do defend our agenda. what mat earls to us most is our principles and the policies that come from those principles and our ability to give the people of this country a better way forward. >> reporter: now, paul ryan is still supporting donald trump saying he would be better than hillary clinton. but most republicans we have spoken to today are still standing by donald trump even if it's a very tepid level of response. a couple of quick comments, bob corker said donald trump is in a period to right the ship otherwise things will be very, very problematic going forward and i spoke with ron johnson up in a tough race in wisconsin and he told me that he is supporting donald trump but he's not endorsing donald trump. he said there's a big difference because he don't endorse everything that donald trump says but at the end of the day to vote for him so sort of a response and shows the level of consternation on capitol hill right now for donald trump. >> makes you wonder what happens in two to three weeks if the ship isn't righted on the short list apparently for vp. the's that. you have senator graham who, you know, vociferous in the opinions and now on the trump train and now saying what? >> reporter: now criticizing very strong terms donald trump's latest comments about judge curiel. he told me just now earlier that those comments were un-american. he said that trump's playing the race card, they were racist. something that a lot of republicans not willing to say. and he said that this is almost like mccarthy style of campaigning and politics and something you don't hear senators say from presumptive nominee. he's not on the trump train quiet and not everybody online with graham and hi said that more republicans should abandon him at the end of the day, brooke. >> okay. manu raju, you are good. you are good. let's listen so onto some of th sound. >> i want him treated fairly in court but the fact the lawyers have not asked for the judge to recuse himself speaks volumes. and if they did ask him to step down, simply because his parents were born in mexico, they would be subject to being sanctioned or disbarred. because there's not a valid reason to ask a judge to recuse himself. so i think the lawyers are probably good at what they do. and i think what mr. trump is doing is not consistent with the rule of law nation, demagogue ri at the worst and to the political process, he's trying to ruin this man's life. and i'll have no part of that. >> reporter: do you think it's a racist comment? >> oh, clearly. it's funny. i don't believe donald trump with the way he's lived his life is a racist person. i believe he'd hire somebody based on merit but he's playing the race card. in the political process, he's throwing the race card on the table to try to undercut the trump university lawsuit effect on his campaign. >> reporter: but it's un-american in your view? >> i think it's very un-american for a political leader to do this, to question whether or not a person can be a judge based on their heritage. >> reporter: your think your colleagues should consider decision avowing trump altogether and abandon supporting him? >> i understand why people can't support hillary clinton. i can understand wanting to support the nominee of the party. i just can't personally go there. i would say there's -- i'm pleased to hear widespread consternation by republicans and if mr. trump continues this, clearly over the top, you might not think it's un-american over racist, i do. if he continues this line of attack, then i think people need to really reconsider for the future of the party and the future of the country whether they should support him. i'll leave that up to the individuals. >> reporter: do you think paul ryan should, too? >> paul's a great guy. he's a stand-up guy. he's going to have to -- you know, if mr. trump continues to do this, then he's putting the future of the republican party in play. he's stepping on some pretty important principles of separation of powers and continues to put people in a bad spot. >> manu raju, thank you so much. as senator graham and speaker ryan going harder against mr. trump, some of donald trump's other big-name supporters defending him. ie, new jersey governor chris christie today. >> that i know donald trump, i have known him for 14 years. donald trump is not a racist. so, you know, the allegations that he is are absolutely contrary to every experience i have had with him over the last 14 years, and so, we're going to end it there. i am sure if i sat back and thought about it that there would be times that i would think that there were things he said that he shouldn't have said. quite frankly, he's admitted that over time there are things he said he shouldn't have said. that happens to anybody in politics who speaks their mind. >> joining me now, cnn political commentators bill press who supporting bernie sanders and s.e. cupp, a cnn strategist, republican and boris epstein, a trump surrogate. welcome to all of you. boris, just out of gate here, you period speaker ryan, the highest elected republican in all the land calling trump's comments textbook racism. fast forward to the nest meeting between speaker ryan and mr. trump. what does that look like? degree of awkward is what? >> i'm sure the meeting will be fine. what i would like to point out is that you spend 7 1/2 minutes interviewing folks in the party criticizing donald trump and 45 seconds on chris christie. he mentioned several and there are. top republicans backing donald trump and disagree with paul ryan. i looked up the definition of racism. claiming one race is superior to another. mexican is not a race. donald trump in no way said one race is superior to another. i disagree with speaker ryan. good interrue of manu -- >> we took all of -- to be fair. i understand what you're saying but we took all of chris christie's press conference live and surpassed that back and forth with manu and senator graham. just for the record. >> fair enough. you see my point, as well. we are going into the discussion and a lot of time spent criticizing mr. trump. i'm -- >> who did i go to first, boris? trump supporter. >> i don't believe it's racism. the party will be fine. congress has the job approval rating of about 20%. 80% of people disapprove of congress. i'm not worried about what specific people in congress say. >> hang on. speaker ryan says kind of sort of matters when it comes to donald trump and party unification. no? >> 12 million voters is what matters. that's how many voters have come out for donald trump and by the end of the process, over that. that's what matters. the voters are what matters and not one specific member of congress or senator. >> s.e. did i hear you gig snl. >> yeah. what about the whole of congress? donald trump at the top of the ticket of a fractured republican party is a threat to both the house and the senate. forget the supreme court. i think actual party unity and what paul ryan talked about wanting opposed to fake party unity should matter, matter to the future president of the united states. >> i totally agree with you. of course. >> the highest elected republican in the country. he should want a united republican party and congress to be behind, to be behind him. i understand donald trump is saying, look, i'll do it without all of you and the establishment. i'll do it without the moderates an the speaker. without the rnc, without reince priebus and without congress. >> he is not saying that at all. >> of course he has. of course he has. >> he has not. >> he said that he would remove paul ryan. >> at the convention. >> remove paul ryan as the convention chairman if he got in his way. >> he did not say that. you're mischaracterizing his words. >> yes, he did! >> he said it is up to paul ryan. >> what about this? >> you know he did. >> bill press, you're watching this. i'm coming to you in a second. >> no, no. >> boris, back to, you know, part of manu's reporting and i have talked to a lot of very highly respected republicans, one of whom recently said to me, if bob corker is on the ticket with donald trump, you got me, i'm sold. hearing manu say even senator corker saying if donald trump doesn't right his ship in two to three weeks dot-dot-dot -- you need the 12 million voter that is you mentioned. duds that not worry you? >> it does not. as governor christie said, no one will agree with everything their candidate says and, of course, we want republican party unity and donald trump wants that. he wants moderates, independents. he wants the hispanic vote and working hard to get that based on the message of a stronger economy, a stronger country. if some people choose to take one thing he says and kons tratd on that and come out and give speeches or interviews about that, it is up to them. the trump campaign want party unity. >> it is absurd to say we are taking one thing that donald trump said. there's a pan plea. there's a grab bag of things that donald trump has said that make it very clear that he is mounting a campaign now for white nationalists. that's not to say -- >> come on. absolutely ridiculous. >> he's getting lots of support of -- >> who are you supporting? >> not donald trump. that's for sure. >> who are you supporting for president? >> to talk -- this isn't about me. let's keep it professional. please. let's keep it professional and clean and polite. this is about your candidate and your candidate is making a play for a nationalist segregationist -- >> no evidence of that. that's ridiculous statement. >> pitting a mexican judge against all of his supporters. it makes absolutely -- it makes absolutely no sense to say on one side we're going to win high school panics and they love me, but then to say, this hispanic hates me. >> treated unfairly. >> bill press. >> you can't have it both ways, boris. >> as the democrat on the panel, are you eating this up with a spoon? i mean, are the quotes on textbook racism being edited into a democratic attack ad yet? >> first of all, in this battle, i give proxy to s.e. cupp and glad to watch this agreeing with everything she said. >> don't disappoint me like that. that's so sad. >> i'm sure, boris. you thought i would endorse donald trump. look. >> i was hoping. >> i don't have a dog in this fight but as an american i have a dog in this fight because, i mean, i really do believe in this country, the diversity of the country which comes from the great wealth of the people we have, of different ethnic origins and different races and religions and one guy to the pinnacle of a political party with these kinds of bigoted racist nastatements and sad for the country, the republican party and if i were a republican i would run as far away as fast as i could from donald trump which i think is what the republican party's going to do. there's going to be one race for president in the toilet and then there's one races for senate and the house which people will focus on and should. >> boris, i want you to respond but let's make sure in addition to what bill press said, you said the media is making much ado of this one issue and germane and to quote the comments, then you have what trump's own attorney said about judge curiel. here you go. >> the judge is doing his job and we're not seeking to recuse the judge. we're trying to assert our rights and i think the court today did a job of trying to balance out competing interests. >> so if his own, boris, his own attorney is saying the judge is doing a fine job, why not just scrap that, move on? there's material that mr. trump could use in attacking hillary clinton. why not just attafocus on that? >> he has to work in front of that judge. mr. trump has a right to disagree or agree and question the fairness of the judge. >> but not based on the race. >> this talk of bigotry is out of place. all that donald trump said was this is a judge who's -- of a particular background. >> mr. trump bougrought it up, boris! >> that's a group affiliated with pro-illegal immigration, given scholarships to -- >> he fought a mexican drug cart cartel. that's something that he would applaud. >> talking about a judge he believes is not fair. can i please respond to what bill said? as far as bill's comments are concerned, the democrats have issues going on. bill's candidate -- >> nothing like this, baby! no. >> claiming to be the nominee. we'll let the democrats figure out their issues. >> don't try to go there. >> one voice. one voice. >> still going to be the nominee and media said that hillary clinton clinched it. i would worry about that, if i were you. >> hang on a second. hang on a second. we did the math. look at pledged, we'll talk to karen finney coming up but we're just calling it as accurately as possible. go ahead, bill. >> bill would disagree, right? >> go for it. >> my turn. i just want to say the democratic party is a love fest compared to what we're seeing in the republican party. where people are coming up with this crazy kind of status. while i support donald trump but i don't endorse him. >> who does bernie sanders support? >> no, no, no. >> let him finish. >> bernie sanders has nothing to do with it. i'm talking about -- >> no? i thought he is a candidate for president. >> compared the minor differences you might see. >> all right. >> at the donald trump -- >> all right. >> working together for the convention and elect donald trump president. >> thank you for the healthy conversation, you three. boris and s.e. and bill, thank you very much. let's move on, shall we? coming up next, history made. hillary clinton becoming the first female to clinch a major party nomination for president. bernie sanders sees it otherwise. hear what his campaign has to say about tomorrow. and hillary clinton's, as well. plus new details about that wild conference call involving donald trump and surrogates. hear why a source says it was leaked. we'll speak with the texas congressman who is telling trump to take the wall and shove it up his boop boop. welcome to 2016. back in a moment. you both have a perfect driving record. >>perfect. no tickets. no accidents... >>that is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. >>yup... now, you would think your insurance company would cut you some slack, right? 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>> all right. thank you very much there in new jersey. a closer look now at the historic moment for hillary clinton. estimates shows hillary clinton's won 1,812 pledge delegates and super delegates putting the tote at 2,384, 1 more than needed to clinch that number. listen, bernie sanders is not ready to go anywhere. the campaign says, quote, it is unfortunate that the media in a rush to judgment are ignoring the democratic national committee's clear statement it is wrong to count the votes of super delegates before they vote this summer. karen finney is here, senior spokeswoman for the clinton campaign. welcome back. >> good to see you. >> you have a big night ahead in brooklyn. thank you for swinging by. >> you bet. >> she is not throwing out the confetti and victory dance just yet. do you see her as the nominee? >> i believe and we believe that by the end of the night hillary clinton will be the presumptive nominee of our party with a majority of the pledge delegates, a majority just on the raw votes, actual votes. >> why are you guys being so careful? even she said last week before and, chris, well, i am or will be. the nominee. >> yeah. well, we think it's really important that people come out today in california and new jersey and other states voting today because, again, we want to secure this nomination by winning so there's no question we will have the majority of the pledge delegates, we have the majority of actual just raw votes and 3 million more votes than senator sanders and more votes, i think 2 million than donald trump. in terms of what kind of argument are you going to make to super delegates and whether or not there's a question, we believe that the question is answered by the end of the night tonight. >> on this very day, eight years ago, this happened. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> that was when she bowed out. >> that's right. >> a couple of days after that final super tuesday. just walk us through how heartbreaking i'm sure that was for her to do that. >> sure. >> can you me a preview of her message this evening? >> one thing about that in that speech in 2008, she honored the hard work of the people working on the campaign while also saying, now it's time for us to come together and support then-senator barack obama and said it unequivocally and very clear that's what she wanted people to do. >> is that a memo to senator sanders, karen finney? >> letting you know what she said back in 2008. but look. i think -- i won't get ahead of her in terms of what she will say tonight but it's a lot of things we have been talking about in terms of the way we need to come together in this country to break down barriers and to make sure that we're increasing incomes and we're not building walls with mexico, that we're actually building bridges. i think she really will draw the contrast because what's at stake in this election when we think about the differences, you were just talking about, you know, mr. trump's comments in your previous segment. that's at stake in this election and important to remind people of that while also saying the choice you're going to have in this election is a positive vision about how we move forward together or this fearful divisive vision that really we don't think reflects the values of our country. >> do you anticipate the president's endorsement by the end of the week? >> far be it for me to -- >> you all have been communicating. >> i called him on this -- no. look. we welcome president obama to this process because he of all people i think is going to be one of the most powerful people talking about what's at stake because he knows personally the hard work going through the last eight years to try to bring our economy back to the brink and someone who can speak to secretary clinton as a secretary of state and the things that they were able to accomplish together. >> okay. thank you very much. >> you got it. >> appreciate that. up next here, back to the trump campaign and turmoil there and the inside source of the power feud to trigger the conference call of supporters yesterday. which is all part of the internal power play. we'll look into that. also, the growing ripple effect of the zika virus on the upcoming olympic games. a tv anchor of the network hosting the games said she will not be going to rio. this is a top american athlete explains why he's refusing to go. stay with me. most of the show. 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>> yeah, you know, it is hard to be an olympic champion and not go to the games and kind of enjoy it in another capacity and be there supporting the teammates and your sport. and, you know what? it was just an unfortunate decision that i had to make to, you know, me and my husband wanting to start a family and that being more important and the health of us being more important. >> you were supposed to go down and serve as a gymnastics ambassador. was it a conversation that you had with your doctor? was it really the conversation you had with your husband that ultimately determined your not traveling? what was it? >> it was actually all of the above. so when i talked to my doctor and said we want to start a family, but, you know, the zika stuff just started coming out. she said i highly, strongly stay do not go to rio wanting to go down this route. and also, had to have that conversation with my husband about when's most important to him, put this on hold or go ahead? three weeks out of the life and so it's just kind of -- this was more important. like i said, the health factor and just the not knowing of what maybe future things could happen if you do contract zika. and it's just a scary subject and definitely i had to talk with everyone, had to talk with the president of usa gym dmastices and i couldn't go and be an ambassador for the sport and like i said a sad decision and most important one and smartest one for our family. >> you know, sad for you and imagine you know what it's like to live your dream and to go to the olympics and for athletes really having to have a come to jesus, if you will, over whether or not they want to go. >> yeah. >> i want to ask you about that in a second but something that stuck with me for 24 hours as this piece of correspondent in rio nick paton walsh did showing these little babies. this is the real life implication of the zika virus in brazil. look at a piece of this. >> it was when he is born and facing the other people in the hospital, their expressions, seeing and accepting the difference, for me, that was the hardest phase. >> just wanted to remind americans who don't know really, haven't comprehended the story of it, that's it. the little children. put yourself in their shoes. it is a dream to compete in the olymp olympics. what kind of call would you have made 12 years ago? >> gosh, you know, i think at least for the gymnastics part, we are a lot younger and, you know, i think like the cyclist said, if i wasn't in this stage of my life and wasn't the age i'm at and wanting to start a family right now, i would probably be going, as well. and just trying to take as much precaution as possible while i was down there and definitely i can't imagine the decision that these athletes that are my age maybe in the same kind of life that i'm in right now and maybe wanting to come back from the olympics and start a family and i can't imagine making that decision. olympics only come four years and so difficult and i feel for them and totally relate and so, it's definitely a personal decision. >> okay. carly patterson, thank you for your time and good luck on the family end. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up next, we have more breaking news and a wild day for the race for president. after house speaker paul ryan calls donald trump's insults on a judge racist, textbook racism, leaders of the senate slamming donald trump, as well. their comments just in next. 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these attacks on the judge which donald trump has faced no shortage of criticism not just in the media but the republican party on a whole and donald trump says he believes he's wrongly maligned here and needs help getting the message, the side of this out and told his surrogates and top staffers to continue on that point. an interesting element here is just the day before a memo had gone out saying, look, this is an issue for the trump organization. not the campaign. if you're a surrogate, defer it to the trump organization. if you think about this case specifically, brooke, it makes sense. why on a trump organization issue would the campaign be forced to deal with this for a long-term basis. well, donald trump did not know about the memo. he made very clear he did not appreciate the memo and told people on the call to disregard the memo. there are a lot of issues right here at the trump cam pan and one is doesn't appear, one, that everybody's on the same page. two, that somebody got out in front of donald trump on this issue specifically and when you talk to people who know donald trump, within the campaign, one of the cardinal sins is getting out in front of donald trump, brooke. >> okay. phil mattingly, wow. thank you so much on the reporting on the call. let's bring in senior media correspondent host of "reliable sources" brian seltzer and kurowic. your take aways? i think phil is being nice saying, repudiating the memo. don't listen to the stupid letter. what does that say about how he's talking to staff and the disconnection? >> proof that trump is own best publicist and maybe doesn't want anyone involved. own producer and publicist and basically producing a trump show. visiting campaign headquarters, the space is raw, the space is unfinished and half empty. there's not a lot of staffers there. it's essentially just the man himself and a few people that are close to him that he trusts. clearly as the campaign tries to grow, expand, he is having a hard time with that. >> one sense, david, kudos for him, taking control and micromanaging, perhaps not aware of everything if he's not aware of the memo, for example, but support earls saying, you know, stop saying that. it just sounds to me like donald trump isn't -- is he not listening? >> well, that's part of it. you know, part of it, also, is the reports he said go after the reporters. go after the people asking this question. >> that's right. >> which is really shocking to me in a way because it's one of the times, you know, i've thought trump has been pretty savvy with the media. this is just really stupid. how could you go after jake tapper, say, last friday in the brilliant interview that tapper did when he said, by the way, is this not the definition of racism, what you said? also, you can see the importance of a journalist framing that debate. today you heard the speaker of the house essentially mimicking -- >> textbook racism. >> what tapper said. that's how reframe the debate when we do our job. and trump's going to what? say, oh, i'm going to attack you now. that's going to play well. i'm so surprised. i think this is usually when i'm on talking about trump on a roll with the media. this is a reverse roll since about last tuesday doing that press conference. >> that's the last time we talked, david. yes. yes. here we are again. let's be precise for people. not only attack journalists, what he said on the call, you know, attack the people asking the questions, those are the racists, meaning this group. >> yes. >> i would go at him. i let them have it. >> you know, i'll tell you, brooke. that's even worse because when you start using calling somebody a racist that way, when you know better, that's one of the reasons as a nation we have such a hard time talking about race and if -- it's one of the major things in this country right now, a conversation we have to have, and when politicians are willing to use it the way these remarks suggest he is willing to use it, that is a dangerous person. that is really a problematic. this thing, this conference call is troubling stuff about trump and it also pushes him off his game, i think. >> off his game. saying attack journalists. say they're the racists and, too, the fact that the leak happened, right? phil said the fact that no one should get out ahead of trump. someone clearly has. what does that suggest to you? >> i think it show it is chaos inside both the campaign and the concentric circles beyond the campaign. the core and then the circles out from it. karen finney was here. they have endless numbers of circles, hundreds of circles. the staff is small and then the circles around him is small and increasing the surrogates, looking for more people from the party of support, the circles are bigger and bigger and he hasn't said anything since last twe night, not tweeted for 16 hours. makes me curious what he says tonight. should talk about the final wins in california and elsewhere. there was talk about maybe being a press conference. maybe now it's not. will he take questions of journalists or not? and on this historic moment in the united states history, a female nominee steps to the cameras tonight, will donald trump be talking about a judge? >> excellent, excellent, excellent case. it's must see tv. brian, david, gentlemen, thank you so much. >> thanks. >> for that chat. next, we have more breaking news on this back and forth after the speaker of the house paul ryan calls the insults on a judge racist. both leaders of the senate from both parties slamming mr. trump, as well. those comments for you just ahead. dad, you can just drop me off right here. oh no, i'll take you up to the front of the school. that's where your friends are. seriously, it's, it's really fine. you don't want to be seen with your dad? 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no, i do not. do i believe that hillary clinton is going to be the answer to solving these problems? i do not. i believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day and more likelihood of getting the policies enacted with him than with her. >> new jersey governor chris christie firing back today as he cast his primary ballot earlier on. he did not defend donald trump's remarks in particular but he did say that. >> that i know donald trump. i have known him for 14 years and donald trump's not a racist. so, you know, the allegations that he is are absolutely contrary to every experience i have had with him over the last 14 years and so we're going to end it there. >> let me bring in cnn political director mr. david chalian. i mean, talk about the optics for a second. we showed the picture of the two leaders of the senate for the majority and the minority. mitch mcconnell, harry reid. agreeing on one thing on how inappropriate those comments were from donald trump. what did you make of that? >> this is just nothing short of astounding to watch the republican party officials, the top elected officials in the party grapple with their nominee in this way that they're clearly rebuking the comments and yet not walking away from their endorsement, support, intention to vote for him. it just puts them in such a bind and such an awkward and terrible position. now, harry reid, obviously, for his part will try to win back the senate for democrats by making senate republicans own every single syllable of everything donald trump says. that's his political strategy and tactic and approach there. but just listening to paul ryan, listening to mitch mcconnell go before cameras to basically publicly scold his party's nominee and say get back on message and is -- it's just nothing short of astonishing and we have not seen this in modern american presidential politics. >> add the name of senator corker to the list of those repudiating the comments and he was up here in new york at trump tower, potential for the short list on the trump ticket and here he was telling manu raju, he needs two to three weeks the right the ship or else he's in trouble. >> let's immediately put that on the list, three weeks from now to call bob corker back and see where he is. that is right. i think what senator corker is saying is that and i think what you are hearing when you listen to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, as well, i don't think they can do this all the way through november. have to defend comments of trump refusing to walk them back that they deem inappropriate. >> you don't think? >> if they think that it's harming down ballot, nothing matter more than protecting the majorities. >> sure. >> that's mission number one. starting they believe if it starts to impact their members in a way, then i do think you start seeing tougher and tougher time for them to stay with the position they're at right now which is just to rebuke the comment but stick with trump. now, bob corker put a time limit on it. maybe others will give donald trump a much longer leash but it's hard to imagine when we're in the heat of campaign battle in the fall and the senate or the house which looks a lot less likely, obviously, in terms of being really contested, is in the balance, if the power in those chambers in the balance i imagine you see a different approach than right now. >> uh-huh. david chalian, we'll see you on tv tonight. thank you very much, my friend. >> thank you, book. >> we have today senator lindsey graham of north carolina republican taking opposition to trump and the attack on the federal judge saying all on a new level saying un-american. here he was with manu raju. >> do you think it's a racist comment? >> oh, clearly. but it's funny. i don't believe donald trump the way he's lived his life is a racist person. i believe he'd hire somebody based on merit but he's playing the race card. if he continues this, which is clearly over the top, you may not think it's un-american. i do. you may not think it's racist. i do. but if he continues this line of attack, then i think people need to real. >> reconsider for the future of the party and the future of the country whether they should support him. >> much to discuss with me now cnn political commentator amanda carpenter. we have van jones, a form ore official in the obama administration. and trump supporter scotti nut-hughes. welcome to all of you. let's get right to it, with, you know, let's just start with the comments both from mitch mcconnell and the top brass of the house speaker paul ryan saying trump's comments, textbook racism. how -- how does trump have those very important conversations with both of those leaders after they have come down on him like this? >> i think how we have the conversation is how it should have happened in the first place, behind closed doors. i have a real issue with these republican leaders. i don't know what they're trying to accomplish going out and making the comments very public first in front of the cameras. i give the democrats credit. they don't do this. everybody, yes, you're supposed to disagree. i won't 100% agree with the politician and let's have this discussion behind closed doors instead of airing out the dirty laundry and how's this helped republican party? saying you're here to help the republican party, call mr. trump behind the scenes like reince priebus and others have done and have your conversation there. then take it to the public if you don't get the response you like. >> amanda, let's take you to scottie's point of behind closed doors, talking about leaders of the parties. just five days ago speaker ryan endorsed donald trump. these are questions, they wanted to repudiate the comments. that is, "a." "b" what do you make of the bind that the republicans are in, would you rescind an endorsement? >> i think it's an impossible position. this is not a sustainable thing to say i disavow the comments and still going to endorse the candidate. i understand what paul ryan is trying to do, trying to be radically pragmatic saying a better chance of passing the bills into law with donald trump than hillary clinton. that said, this is just going to be too hard of a line to walk. my question is, is that republicans have a nominating process. there's a reason we have delegates. it's to prevent a disaster. if people really believe that donald trump is going to be a disaster for the party, if they cannot stand by his comments, if they cannot support him, do not think that he supports our values, you have to use the process in police and not nominate him at the convention. we need to start talking to delegates, say what are you going to do? it's very simple. they don't have to do this. they can not show up or rewrite the rules and going down this road saying he's bad for the party, saying racist things, we shouldn't nominate him. end of story. >> go ahead, scottie. >> i can't believe i heard that. on a day that the democrats are semisplintered and they have a nominee. you are sitting here actually saying to go against the will of the people. >> yes. >> a lot of delegates are still bound on that first vote and mr. trump has those bound delegates to the count he needs so to sit here and add to the idea we're splintered doesn't help the situation. >> sure. it's a terrible situation. we should get out of it immediately. eject. >> no, no. >> there's a bigger problem ivan! van jones, are you loving this as a democrat here on this panel? >> so happy right now. i don't want to talk. you all just keep going. you know, part of what you're seeing, and it's sad, but it's gleeful for some of us, this is what happens when you have a political party like the republican party that has allowed the kind of trafficking in dog whistle politics around race for so long. the anti-bodies are gone now in the republican party for the kind of stuff you're seeing from donald trump. look at this now. hillary clinton pulling her party forward. making history today. moving forward. breaking down barriers. destroying this class. >> even though senator sanders said he's taking it to the convention. he's still fighting. >> he has that right. the reality is, if you look at when's happening in democratic party history's going to be made today and yet you have the republican party drug back to fight over stuff. that if -- listen. i have to agree with paul ryan. if this comment is not a racist comment, then there is no racist comment to be made. an enso, you have the republicans fighting over stuff resolved in the last century. democrats pulling us forward. frankly, had donald trump just kept his mouth shut, the democrats would have had the worst week of our lives with some of the stuff last week and none of which was talked about an i'm happy about it. >> i think -- >> hold on, hold on. >> i mean -- >> this is sort of a disqualifying event for donald trump even if you put aside the questions of racism. the fact that this guy is willing to litigate a civil case in the public -- >> paul ryan is still supporting him. >> -- such an extraordinary amount of bad judgment, even if we could somehow put aside the questions of racism, the fact that he's so myopically focused on this scheme he hand is horrifying. >> hold on, hold on. hold on. back to paul ryan. the speaker of the house of representatives. he is so steadfast in the agenda of his does this supercede? what kind of internal come to jesus is paul ryan having? >> donald trump is the nominee without the nonendorsement. we have seen the disconnect in the republican party between the people and the leadership. and right now -- >> you know that you all need these leaders. >> yeah. >> he needs to workdy. >> doesn't need them at the convention. >> doesn't -- pander to the people. let's look at this. the reason why the democrats are scared, lock at the timing of why this is coming up. trump university litigated in november. didn't get traction. but somehow magically the last two weeks it has. maybe to do with did gallup poll that come out and on the economy mr. trump leads hillary clinton -- 52%. national security 50%. >> why isn't trump talking about the issues? >> with hillary clinton. maybe this -- >> scottie? >> against the worst week ever as you described, van. >> i do have an honest question, though. all that stuff is great. and you guys had greater stuff to talk about last week. you had jobs numbers that weren't good. you had a report that wasn't good. you had a lot of good stuff. you have a nominee whose judgment, take the race off the table. judgment is so bad that he would rather talk about his own lawsuit than the things in your favor. you are doing a great job today defending him. why isn't he doing a better job? >> that was the question and answered it and seemed to take it. also, van, you know this. sometimes we have to answer the questions that are asked to us. this was a question that was asked to mr. trump. did he answer it how i would have answered it? probably not -- >> to the point and stay on message. americans care about donald trump and care about the issues. >> but, you know, i would love it that mcconnell telling donald trump that he doesn't need to be criticizing. send that same message to the former opponents running graham and others that donald trump beat in the last primary. aka bitter. these bitter folks need to just get over it for the good of the party. >> get over it. not going to get over a racist candidate. not going to happen. >> he is not -- >> many other republicans like many. >> all right. ladies, thank you. amanda, scottie, van, i'll ask you to stick around. we have more here because we have to talk dems, specifically hillary clinton becoming the first woman in american history to clinch the party's nomination. major party ticket. bernie sanders does not agree. hear why cnn made the call. also, one of the trump's lawyers defended the judge in the trump university case. we have more on that. hear what that lawyer said just before trump went on the attack. texas congressman telling trump to take the wall and shove it up his -- you know where. welcome to 2016. back in a moment. what's with him? 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i remember eight years ago being here in washington, d.c. when hillary clinton grudgingly had to throw in the towel and concede the democratic nomination to barack obama. here we are eight years later and she's become the presumptive nominee. there's questions about how did we get to it. let's take a quick look. the magic number is 2,383 delegates. how do you do that? between pledge delegates which are the actual votes that you would get in the state and then the democratic party they have these things of super delegates, these are basically free agents, governors, senators, house members, members of the democratic national committee, that are free agents. they are awarded the ability to give their support to anybody. now, if you look at the math right here looking down there, hillary clinton has 1,812 pledge delegates, 572 super delegates. put that altogether, she has 2,384 delegates, 1 more hand she needs to be the democratic nominee. i should note, brooke, we began this canvas last fall, the cnn political team. reached out to the super delegates and in a rolling process and basis, asked them who are they supporting? looking for public statements to try to find out where they stood. now, of course, bernie sanders is not very happy with this. bernie sanders says that we should not be counting the super delegates into the math but the fact of the matter is they do count and that's where we stand right now, brooke. >> all right, mark preston. also watching the numbers through the evening tonight. thank you so much on the vote tallies. this moment for hillary clinton comes as mark pointed out eight years to the day today since she conceded to then-senator barack obama. in that 2008 nomination race for the white house. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> just today, hillary clinton tweeted this statement. she made eight years ago. quote, if we can blast 50 women into space, we will some day launch a woman into the white house. cnn's senior political reporter nia maleka-henderson is here with me and van jones. >> it's a long time in the making, almost 200 years, right? 1848, ceneca falls convention in new york. a couple of years later, truth saying black women should be included on conversation, as well. you think about 1917, women picketing wilson saying how can this be a democracy if 20 million women can't vote and then in 1920, the ratification of the 19th amendment. so it's in some ways it seemed inevitable in some ways if you look back eight years ago there was a sort of steady progress but listen. built on the backs of a lot of women who fought for this moment and men, too. so it is quite a historic day. she is closer to something that we'll see if it happens. she obviously will get that nomination in july and we'll see what happens in november. >> you know, thank you. and, van, this is something that i've just picked up on different people talking about this. folks remember eight years ago and did have the first african-american nominee for president of the united states. it was to a lot of people in this country, it was, you know, electri electrifying, felt so huge and yet here we are on the precipice of with a woman and people fesa it doesn't feel as huge. why do you think that is? >> because it's not happened yet. not that big of a deal. who cares? when it actually happens, when you have a woman with this opportunity, it's going to feel different. it is going to feel different. i remember when it was speculation about brahm back, then-senator obama. when you saw him walk out and accept the nomination, people got goose bumps on both sides. it will be a goose bump moment. and also nlet's not forget back in 1972, the first woman, african-american and threw her hat in the ring, say, listen, women can do this, too. a long walk from '72 to now and the poetry of literally eight years later, when she -- one of the best lines in american history, 18 million cracks. to come back literally eight years later to day and essentially clinch, that's -- people will start getting emotions they didn't know they had. they'll have reactions and surprised about. sometimes on cnn we cover news. today we're covering history and starts to feel that way. >> nia, let me ask you, too, you talk about history with a woman. you know, the questions have been posed both to nancy pelosi and harry reid about, you know, two women on a ticket. and both of them have said that they think this country is readily for this. >> again, a real historic conversation that we're having here. you can have that conversation because women are 19% of the congress at this point. 20 women senators and so there are many women that you can choose from and 6 female governors, as well. women benefitted from the strides made by women of shirley chisholm. you hear people talking and we'll see if that's something that happens. i mean, we have seen for years and years two men at the top of the ticket so here, again, people talking about what it would mean if hillary clinton were to actually select elizabeth warren. it would be two fold, right? historic and also really be unifying i think for a lot of people in the party who like that elizabeth warren wing, a bernie sanders wing but in some ways just as much her wing of the party, as well. >> nia, van -- go ahead, van. >> listen. part of the problem of democrats have is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to women. there are so many strong women in the democratic party that, you know, and men never do this and say, nlg, it is your turn. it is your turn. the women stood down and said it's hillary's turn. turning back, she has too many women to pick from and the difference of the democrats today making history and the republicans drags us back to the racist part of america. it couldn't be clear today. >> thank you so much. thank you, thank you. >> thank you. coming up next here, back to the republicans. got to talk about donald trump. he's attacked this california judge viciously. what do you know about judge gonzalo curiel and the trump university case besides the fact he was born in indiana and mexican-american? 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>> well, we had the advantage that he was a sitting state court judge. when you apply an attorney in practice, you always have to hope for the best and just guess about the person's judicial demeanor and what they'll be like as a judge but in his case he had been on the bench for several years and all the reports we got of him and we talked to, oh, probably 60 people who appeared in front of him or known him as a lawyer, said that he had wonderful judicial temperament, he was very humble. he was very fair minded. didn't have any ego. was quick to learn new areas of the law. and everything about him just sounded wonderful. >> anything, any alarm bells? so familiar with the background. they caused you any kind of concern? >> no, i don't think there were any. >> okay. you know, obviously, donald trump has an issue with the judge. but when you listen to what his own attorney said about him a month ago, you wouldn't actually know it. here he was. >> you know, the judge is doing his job. and, you know, we are not seeking to recuse the judge. we're trying to assert our rights. and i think the court today did a job of trying to balance out competing interests. >> so again, just underscoring trump's own attorney saying the judge is doing his job. when you hear donald trump, you know, tripling down on this man's mexican heritage as he points out, a conflict of interest in the case, candace, as a lawyer, can you explain conflict of interest. you know? give me an example in this conte context. >> well, an obvious conflict of interest if a judge was ruling on a dispute of one company and another and he owned stock in one of the companies. but, you know, to say that someone of mexican heritage cannot be fair to donald trump because donald trump has insulted all mexicans is a silly argument and almost everybody would be recused because he insulted women. he insulted muslims. there would be very few people left to judge any case of his. and, you know -- >> go ahead. >> "the new york times" points out this morning that this is not the first time he's tried to bully a judge ruling on a case. it's happened in the past. >> well, even when you look into the past of judge curiel, when he was working as a federal prosecutor there was a huge focus on drug cases and a drug cartel specifically, one of trump's biggest criticisms of mexico and so this is something that the judge was fighting. he had around the clock security, death threats because of his work at the time. yes? >> absolutely true. it was one of the things that so impressed us about him interviewing him and looking at his record. >> tell me what he did. last question. with that. >> what judge curiel did? >> yes, ma'am. >> he was in the federal prosecutor's office and he was in the drug enforcement area. i mean, a section of the prosecutor's office and he was prosecuting people from the cartel and he got death threats and had around the clock security with him and i think that i recall, though i could be wrong, he had to move out of the house and live elsewhere for a while until they felt that the threat has passed. >> important for people who are learning about the judge to know more about the work and the background. candace carroll, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next, he was the architect of hillary clinton's 2008 campaign. eight years later, he's watching her dream become a reality. we'll talk live about what has gone so right for her this go-around. 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(vo) change your sleep, change your life, change to tempur-pedic. hillary clinton has made history as the first woman to be the presumed presidential nominee of a major political party eight years ago today. almost like it's scripted here. june 7th, 2008. she conceded at a chance of making history then suspending the campaign against then-senator barack obama. >> it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories. unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee. unremarkable to think that a woman can be the president of the united states. and that is truly remarkable, my friends! >> 20 days later, hillary clinton threw her support behind the presumptive democratic nominee, the man later to appoint her secretary of state. now the strategist instrumental in the clinton 2008 campaign, had been with the clintons, he's mark penn, former pollster, strategist for bill clinton's presidential run and so nice to have you on. >> thank you. >> i just have wanted to pick your brain. so here goes. you back in 2008, take me inside that room when the decision had to be made for her ultimately to give that famous 18 million cracks in the ceiling speech to pull out. >> look. i think it was a long, hard-fought campaign and decision could have been made to keep going but ultimately the rest of the party was coming in with a message, look. you have had a fair shot at it. we didn't win, although we won the primaries, we didn't win the majority of pledge delegates. you have to bring the party together. she took everybody's opinions and pros and cons. >> did you it? a circle? >> around a table. it was clear that she was going to have to go out and call it the end of the show. and she did it. she did it i think with great humility and underscoring a theme. i think we knew then she would be back and america knew she would be back. so that's why this is a really historic day. nothing america admires more than someone who has a defeat and then comes back from that defeat. it's the classic american story. >> uh-huh. how heartbreaking was that for you? blood, sweat an tears into a campaign like that. >> i think heartbreaking for everybody and for me, look. it was our fondest dream to have this day. it is great. today she has this day. and sometimes that is the way it works in politics. you know? they're very few political figures who can take a defeat and come back from it. president clinton did. he took a defeat in arkansas. he took a defeat in '94 and i think it's in the clintons' genes just push forward until they win. >> you know, back in 2008 before she ultimately decided to bow out, the supporters i know at the time saying, no, keep fighting the good fight and bernie sanders' supporters doing the same thing. i talked to bernie sanders surrogates on the show yesterday saying, brooke, this is not the same thing. he is leading a revolution. he's leading a movement. this is unlike 2008. he has every right to keep fighting. don't count the super delegates. he will be there in philadelphia. >> some voters will vote today and after today's vote, i think the result likely is going to be very clear. i expect she wins california and then i think sanders has a real decision to make. look, no one but sanders makes that decision. i think for the good of the party, the same folks will come to him saying, look, it is time. you had a good run. just as we had a good run and even if the arguments are strong for staying in, the arguments are stronger for getting out and letting the democratic party unite itself. >> a huge piece of that is 30's endorsement and according to our reporting that is happening this week. and if you were on the inside of that roll-out, what would that look like? how would you orchestrate that? >> well, look. i think that's going to be pretty simple but a big event. i think the big event is tonight's speech. i think -- >> in brooklyn. >> a big moment here. i think it's been a rising tide last week's speech. the announcement by the ap. the speech tonight and then obama's endorsement. i think they all come together as a set of events. >> does he appear with her or by snims. >> i hope he appears with her. >> does he speak specifically to sanders himself or supporters? they had a chat on the phone but senator sanders won't tell us what was said. >> no. i think he'll compliment senator sanders for an excellent race, for raising important issues. as he did. saying, look. now's the time to unite behind a leader to go forward based on the votes that have taken place in the party. >> two more questions for you. remember, we back to the 3:00 a.m. phone call ad. let's remind everyone. >> it's 3:00 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. but there's a phone in the white house and it's ringing. something's happening in the world. your vote will decide who answers that call. whether it's someone who already knows the world's leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world. it's 3:00 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. who do you want answering -- >> mark penn, you wrote that ad. you orchestrated that whole thing. you could -- could you if you're a clinton campaign right now cut, copy and paste and drop it into 2016? think you'll see more of what? >> absolutely. i think last week's a 3:00 a.m. speech. i think everybody needs a new, creative version. that ad could run tomorrow and the message as true today as it was then. >> final question just as a strategist and i'm sure you've read and heard about the conference call donald trump had with his supporters and there was frustrations. it sounds to me according to reports belittling of staff, miscommunication. you know? ignore that stupid letter or disregard a memo. what's that tell you about the inner workings of his campaign, the nucleus? >> i don't know. we'll see what happens. donald trump has to learn the political apology and now's the time when members of his own party call him a racist. if he's going to continue to do this position and be strident with the campaign, the question is, whether or not he has someone in the campaign who can tell him, it's time the take this back. >> and that he listens. >> or he doesn't listen and i think she's going to open up a significant lead in the next week or two in the polls. >> okay. mark penn, come back. come back. >> okay. >> thank you so much. coming up next, the sitting congressman that wrote donald trump telling him to shove the border wall where the sun don't shine. we'll talk to him about that live, next. political correctness, that is so four years ago. now yet another politician not at all mincing words when it comes to the presumptive republican nominee. texas democrat writing this scathing open letter, quote, mr. trump, you're a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass. i would like to end this letter in a more diplomatic fashion. he goes on, but i think you of all people understand why i cannot. joining me now the man who wrote the letter, congressman fi filemon vila of texas. my goodness, the language, congressman. >> yeah, like i said, i usually am much calmer and prefer to be much more diplomatic, but in this case i felt like i really had to speak in a way that mr. trump understood. and that's why i used that language. >> what was your message? >> well, you know, the fact of the matter is that over the course of the past several months we have witnessed these outrageous statements coming from donald trump. and back in my home district i run into constituents who express their concerns and frustrations with what he says but last week when he made those comments about judge curiel in california, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. i just felt like it was important to speak out those comments were racist. judge curiel is a distinguished jurist, first generation american born in indiana, served as united states prosecutor, was appointed to the state bench by governor schwarzenegger and has served this country well as a federal judge. to make those comments about judge curiel is just wrong. >> on that, and you're not the only one to call the comments racist, trump advisor has said to cnn what he's saying, he being donald trump, is what a good amount of people are thinking in this country and don't want to say. what's your response to that? >> well, let me tell you, i don't view this issue as being a republican versus democratic issue. or one ethnicity versus another. this is an american issue. the fact of the matter is is that since i became a voting age, the presidents that have served our country have all been presidents both republican and democratic who have celebrated diversity. we do not need presidential candidates or presidents who are goipg to demonize diversity. because what this country -- we are a melting pot. all of us who are american citizens either have grandparents or great-grandparents or great-grandparents way before then that came from other countries to use this incendiary language about judge curiel is just not right. go ahead. >> i was just going to say. i wanted to move onto this "the wall street journal" opinion piece. it's an op-ed, in it took the time to actually fact check a number of trump's anti-mexico sentiments. let me just read this, quote, mexico's 2014 homicide rate of about 16 murders per 100,000 means that it is about as dangerous as philadelphia and considerably safer than miami or atlanta. quote, mr. trump is appealing to constituents who have stuffed themselves on a diet of bad statistics and misleading anecdotes, people who fancy themselves victims but behave like bigots. do you think he has influenced supporters in a misleading way? >> let me tell you, i read that editorial this morning, and for sure mexico has its challenges. we do as well. but i really think that we need to redirect the dialogue with respect to relationship with mexico. united states chamber of commerce statistics show that over 6 million jobs in the united states depend upon trade with mexico. the trade figures between the united states and mexico are in the billions. so i think moving forward that whoever becomes president, but those of us on both sides of the aisle here in congress really need to redirect this conversation and respect our relationship with mexico. >> sure, sure, congressman filemon vela from the state of texas. thank you so much, sir. let me pivot we just got breaking news, senator mark kirk, a republican from illinois just sent a tweet saying he cannot support donald trump as the nominee of his party based upon his military experience. he suggests trump does not have the temperament for some context kirk is in the middle of a tough re-election race and has said in the past he would support trump if he were the nominee. and now says he cannot. our special coverage continues on this super tuesday. you both have a perfect driving record. >>perfect. no tickets. no accidents... >>that is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. >>yup... now, you would think your insurance company would cut you some slack, right? 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New-yorkUnited-statesArkansasCapitol-hillNew-jerseyTexasBrooklynPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaWashingtonBrazilTurkey states. sunlen s sunlen serfaty joins us from capitol hill. we know something can come as early as tomorrow morning, but do we have clear answers after the meeting the president had with republican lawmakers yesterday? >> reporter: as of now no. there are many competing, legislative proposals and many lawmakers wanting to do something on this, but as of this hour there's nothing that has the votes that can pass up here on capitol hill to have a legislative fix for this problem that we've heard from many lawmakers speaking out very vocally and critical of this policy of the trump administration. we will hear from speaker of the house paul ryan any moment now. of course, that comes on the hills of president trump speaking to the house republican conference last night, going into that meeting, many lawmakers wanting to hear a very explicit endorsement by president trump of one of the house bills that is a broader immigration package that also includes an addressing of the separation issue at the border. coming out of that meeting, many lawmakers were confused and not clear exactly what president trump supports and the white house says he will indeed support this compromise measure and the feeling certainly was that he wasn't explicit enough to get those essentially over the finish line. lawmakers here and house republicans and coming out of the meeting, many say we don't have the votes for this compromised measure they may be voting on as soon as tomorrow. so this boils down that you have a lot of movement on capitol hill and a flurry of activity and essentially there is not a proposal that will pass that addresses this problem. so what will house speaker paul ryan say? because this will be the first question to him, right? we'll bring that to people live as soon as it begins. thank you very, very much. >> as for president trump he's taking his immigration fight, he's got a rally in duluth, minnesota. this is all part of that. abby phillips is outside the white house. good morning, abby. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. president trump today is doubling down on this issue of the family separations, not backing down and continuing to blame democrats, but over on the hill as republicans are looking for a solution to the problem, many of them found that president trump wasn't particularly helpful and wasn't clear as sunlen just mentioned about what, exactly he wanted. the -- some of these quotes from lawmakers are striking. one of them saying that the president didn't seem to understand the morality of the issue and he described saying the crying babies doesn't look good politically and another lawmaker said it's nice to see the president, but it doesn't move the ball forward. on the two bills they're discussing on the hill, it's a total miscue from the administration. both of these bills are designed to fail and it is only the president who doesn't get the joke. this is not exactly the best sign for a white house who either needs to get what they're looking for on broader immigration issues or resolve what has been a terrible week of press for this white house on the issue of family separation, and given that the president doesn't seem to be backing down and putting the ball in lawmakers' court, they haven't seen him doing a whole lot to help with the process of whipping votes for passage this week. it remains to be seen, poppy, whether or not the president would be willing to sign a standalone measure now that they have proposed doing something very narrow just to deal with the issue of family separation and also the white house is now being asked to put a moratorium on the separations while congress seeks to do their work. he's going to be in minnesota tonight. the president at a rally usually more unplugged than usual and we'll have to see what he says then, poppy. >> thank you for that. let's go to the border now and we're learning about tender age shelters. these are facilities where infants and toddlers are being held from their parents and three of them in southern texas and nick valencia is in brownsville, texas. nick, what are you seeing and what are you hearing? >> reporter: we are outside one of the tender age facilities and it's called casa presidente and it's run by the southwest key which is one of 26 shelters here in the united states. this shelter has children ten years and younger and it's a mixture between boys and girls and among them in this facility which used to be a former hospital are babies. i am joined by the congressman. thank you very much for taking the time. you got a tour of this facility on monday and you saw with your own eye, the children that were there and the babies that are inside. tell us what it's leak in there. there are 80 children and these children are being well taken care of. it's not an ideal situation because they are not with their parents and in this facility are children under the age of 10. some mothers who are teenagers who have born children. in one room they have four infants and two with their teenage parents and two who were alone and one who was separated from her sister and their mother had died at some point in the process and the other, who i'm told, was separated from her mother. >> reporter: these infant, when the audience hears tender age which is like a nicu, which is where babies are held. what do you think tender age is? >> under their definition tender age means 10 and under. that's why most of the children in here which are about 80 children, 40 of whom who have been separated from their parents are under the age of 10 and there are exceptions with respect to teenage girls. >> as you understand it, the 40, are they zero tolerance? they just came here because of the zero-tolerance policy? >> our understanding as of our visit on monday is that the 40 children who were separated from their parents are here directly as a result of the zero-tolerance policy. >> reporter: let's get back to those infants and those babies that you saw in there, four in all. who is taking care of them? babies need 24-hour care. who is giving them the attention that they need? >> like i said, it's not ideal because these children are not with their mother, but under the circumstances, the children that i saw in there, the two of the parents are with their mothers and the other two were being attended to by southwest keys employees and they were both being fed at the point that i saw them and there is constant attention and the people working in there are doing what they can under the circumstances. >> we saw customs and border protection that they hold people equating being in cages. they don't like that definition and that verbage and they're saying they're not cages. what are the conditions inside? >> i think it's true that the initial border patrol processing stations and at the facility like in tornillo, texas. >> reporter: tents. >> tents up in el paso, for sure that would have all of the appearance of the cages. this facility here is an old hospital. you can imagine going into an old hospital. these are air-conditioned rooms and the structure of the building itself does not appear to change very much since it was -- i've been in this hospital visiting friends and family in the past. so i did not see any -- any difference in the way this building looked before than it was a hospital. >> reporter: what's it like, though, going inside? we talk bfred before, you have nieces, nephews and going in there and seeing children without their parents and children separated because of the zero-tolerance hospital. >> when you walk into a room one of 8 months and one almost 1 without their parent and you begin to think and realize that these children that are toddlers are being held hostage by the president of the united states, it's abhorrent and the fact that in the united states of america in 2018 that we're allowing this to happen is just really shameful and what we need is for the president to rescind zero tolerance right now. >> reporter: congressman, filemon vela, we appreciate it. >> it's heartbreaking when you think of those babies, just infants and toddlers who in many cases they need constant attention and here they are in this facility, casa presidente run by southwest keys and they run a second facility in combes and tender-age shelters are defined under the age of 10 years old. it is absolutely heartbreaking. >> nick, you just heard him say an 8-month-old and another baby that's under 1. these are children that could very well have been breast-feeding from their mother and that being much of their sustenance, and if their mother is not there then they can no longer be fed and nourished in that way. i am so glad you're there. i am so glad you're reporting this out for us, nick, thank you very, very much. let's discuss this with cnn political commentator steve cortez and doug hyde. good to have you both here. steve cortez, you just heard that. are you comfortable with that situation for the 8-month-old and that 1-year-old? >> gosh, no. of course, i'm not comfortable. as a father, an american and human being this is a tragedy. it's always a tragedy, by the way, when parents misbehave, commit crimes and are separated by their children so it's a tragedy, but i totally disagree with the congressman that the fault is that of the president. they didn't smuggle their children across the border their parents did and the parents mistreated the kids and under the terrible conditions we're doing the best we can. >> you would agree that it is the president of the united states who can reverse this, who can end it immediately and who can reunite the 8-month-old and 1-month-old with their mothers, correct? >> yes. it is catch and release. >> hold on one second. they're not mutually exclusive. you can reunite and pass broad immigration reform. you can reunite now. you can halt the separation as senator orrin hatch. republican, an ally of the president is calling on the justice department to do. should they do that? >> should we stop arresting their parents? >> that's not what i asked. should we halt the separation right now -- >> it is what you're asking because once we arrest them -- once we arrest them children cannot go with their parents to jail. >> they can be held -- senator ted cruz's proposal, is that they're held together once again and the process is expedited. >> right. that can be changed, but under current law they cannot. children cannot go to jail with their parents -- >> whether it's a u.s. citizen or a foreign national who is illegally crossing the border. i have so much empathy for the children, but the parents are the ones who are culpable who are choosing to illegally cross the border and sneak into the country and bring their children along in tow. >> doug, the counter. >> there's not a lot of empathy if you're not willing to do anything about it. if donald trump alone can fix things then he can solve this problem today. if he needs to work with congress to do so, we know that congress has been unable to pass any immigration legislation for years then the president needs to be clear and consistent with congress which he certainly wasn't last night. he went to the meeting with attitude instead of knowledge which is why i got an, mail from a conservative republican who says trump did what he does and it doesn't help. they need clarity and they need his support if they do it with legislation. the cruz bill is a good bill and the president can pick up the phone and do it on the phone, as well. bee have two ways to be concerned and you can be concerned about open borders and catch and release and still help the kids in such an awful situation. they're not mutually exclusive. >> steve, i want to ask you about something i heard you say on this network. you were speaking with my colleague, erin burnett, here's what you said. >> i -- >> they're invaders, they're not immigrants. >> let me finish! [ indiscernible ] >> they are immigrant, okay? steve. >> when you come here without permission. >> you are invading. >> do you regret calling them invaders? >> i do. i said i'd like to take that word back. it was a bit over the top. i am very tough on border control, but calling them invaders i think is too strong a word and what i don't want to do also is do what the critics of the president is doing is reach to the hyperbell onic. sorry to interrupt. let's listen to house speaker paul ryan. >> the house will vote on legislation to keep families together. under this bill when people are prosecuted for illegally crossing the borders, families would remain together under dhs custody throughout the length of their legal proceedings. additional funding is also going to be made available so that dhs has sufficient resources to house and care for families during this entire process. this is obviously something we discussed last night with the president at our conference, and i hope that we'll be able to pass this tomorrow. bottom line is this, we are going to take action to keep families together while we enforce our immigration laws. second, i want to provide an update on the steps that we've taken to grow our economy for working families. six months ago this week, six months ago this week historic tax reform was passed and signed into law. in just this short time, we have started to see real results. tax reform has helped improve the lives of so many americans which is exactly what we set out to do when we passed this in the first place. since it took effect, $1 million jobs have been created and unemployment is at its lowest level in a half century. wages are riding. utility bills are going down and tax reform has been every bit the game changer that we were hoping and envisioned it would be. it has helped replace uncertainty with growing optimism. people are feeling more confident and in more control of their futures and that is what this is all about. not just these six months, but six months after that. >> significant headlines from house speaker paul ryan saying that tomorrow the house will vote on legislation that would keep these families together. it would effectively -- end the separation of children from their parents at the border. he said we're going to take action to keep families together while we enforce immigration laws. he also said dhs will get additional support, monetary support to provide what's needed for the families at the border. steve cortez, back to you. >> that sounds like great news, by the way. i'm anxious to hear the details, and that would be wonderful. under current law we can't enforce the current laws and keep the families together. >> yes, you can because that's -- >> you can't, poppy because -- >> that's exactly what they did. the same laws were on the books -- right, but you can. you disagree with it. >> not true. >> doug hyde, is that not true? >> i think it is true. >> if you arrest the parent the child can't go with the parent to jail. >> let's let doug get a word in because it's been happening for more than a decade. >> if we'll take donald trump at his word i, alone, can fix this then he should fix it. if congress will vote on immigration after years of being stuck on that bill that is a good constructive step, but if donald trump alone can fix this, then donald trump alone should fix this. >> doug hyde, you said earlier this week the majority of the republican congress just like the majority of the primary voters have no urgency in moving anything other than border security. do you think that is no longer the case given what we just heard from speaker ryan? >> think the urgency comes from president trump. republican members of congress are very fearful of where their base is on this, but donald trump has an ability to move his base. they will follow him because they are trump supporters first, trump agenda supporters second and if donald trump says to them with credibility that i don't support amnesty and this is not amnesty, his base will come along with them. there are a lot of republican members who frankly will vote no and hope yes and that's been one of the things that's stalled immigration legislation for many, many years. members will vote no and hope something passes. that's not the recipe for success. >> we'll take a quick break in because we're keeping an eye on the press conference as soon as speaker ryan starts taking questions we'll bring it to you live. stay with us. hey! we didn't have a homeowners claim last year so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. so let's promote our summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this. surfs up. earn a $50 gift card when you stay just twice this summer. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com (male friend) thanks for the invite! show me the movies. 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>> the president comes over to talk immigration and at one point he said is congressman sanford. i wanted to congratulate him after his race. the room went totally silent and the president said nasty guy. he's a really nasty guy, and some folks booed. it really took the repub conference by surprise because it's rare for a republican president to come over and the president has disdain for mark sanford which he's made clear. he had only learned from this from his chief of staff. he was hour away and said he was in airplane hell on the tarmac for about five hours when i talked to him and he seemed more amazed than anything. it was a sense of i've already lost. this guy beat me, you know? he's had his fun. doesn't he have anything better to talk about? you have all of these important issues and you're dealing with immigration and you're trying to rangel vote, why do you need to personally attack me, and mark also pointed out that he'd agreed with a lot of the president's policies. >> true. >> but in his word, his caustic and counterproductive style is why he can't fully support the president, and he said his comments were the epitome of that. >> does he feel encouraged because we know the reporting that you have, when the president attacked him some of the republican lawmakers booed at that? did sanford feel encouraged by that? what did he say to you? >> he felt heartened by that, let's be clear, poppy, mark sanford who was governor of south carolina and overcayman affair, a famous affair, the appalachian trail episode that we remember, came back and served a term in congress and the thing that brought him down was essentially his conflict with president trump and has unwillingness to get onboard. so i think he was probably heartened last night a little by the boos, but he lost and he's going to be out of congress soon enough. i don't think he can be too terribly heartened by the current situation. >> good point. josh dawsy. thank you very, very much. we are waiting for house speaker paul ryan to take questions on capitol hill at this weekly gop press conference. of course, the questions will be on this immigration compromise. he says the house will vote on a bill tomorrow that will end the separation on families at the border. much more ahead. i'm a fighter. always have been. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd. that's why i fight. because it's my vision. preservision. try areds 2 + multivitamin. ithe most highly recommended bed in america just got better. introducing the all-new, reinvented tempur-pedic. designed with the most pressure relieving material we've ever created. for your most rejuvenating sleep. find your exclusive retailer today at tempurpedic.com i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? 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here's what we do know. this facility is owned and operated by southwest key programs, a non-profit that owns and operates that old walmart in brownsville, texas, that's housing some of the children that have been recently separated. we are also trying to find out what the capacity of this facility is. we have heard from the director of this non-profit group that they are receiving this wave of children as a result of these prosecutorial programs that are now in place by the trump administration. the question is where will some of these children go? they expect to reach 100% enforcement of the zero tolerance policy in the coming weeks which means less and less of these families will be allowed or at least will be released from detention, instead and find themselves in front of the judge and the children in front of these facilities and that leaves the question of how many of these facilities will house children. >> what happens in congress tomorrow according to speaker ryan, would change some of that. polo sandoval, thank you for that reporting. now for life of those waiting on the other side of the border and ed is in the border town of reynosa, mexico. ed, tell us what you're seeing and hearing there. >> reporter: hey, poppy, we are in a shelter just a few feet away from the texas/mexico border and this is a place where immigrants come to figure out what -- >> we'll be right back to you. let's listen to house speaker paul ryan. >> you just did. [ laughter ] [ inaudible question ] >> should this white house have an exclusive -- under 2 years old? >> let's just make it clear. we don't think families should be separated, period. we have seen the videos, heard the audio and when we were working on this bill for the last number of months we saw that this court ruling was wrong and we had put this fix in the bill to begin with. so let's look at what's going on. this court ruling goes back, i think, 2008, and the law should not have our government choose between enforcing our borders and enforcing our laws and securing the border and keeping families together. that's ridiculous. it's a ridiculous choice. tomorrow, we're going to have a vote on legislation that makes sure that we can enforce our laws and keep families together, and it's about custody. it's doj versus dhs. i know a lot of you cover this issue. we know that. we're saying with stick with dhs and oh, by the way, we'll finance facilities for families to make sure that they can be taken care of so we don't have to have this ridiculous choice between enforcing our borders and enforcing the law and keeping families together. we think it's a false choice. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> if the bill is unable to pass tomorrow night what is plan b, and also -- >> everybody asks that. this bill is plan b for us to begin with. so right now we're focused on this legislation. by the way, it solves daca in a very elegant way, by the way. it's a very good solution for daca. we are focused on getting the bill passed and the president came to our conference and asked members to support this bill and that is our focus. if other things happen we'll cross those bridges when we get to it. >> have you asked the president to push pause on this policy. >> he asked us to pass this legislation which stops this policy for good. yeah. >> speaker ryan, so your legislation allocates $7 billion for new family detention centers. that will take time to build. so what happens until those are built, and this is a follow-up to that question, has the president considered what will happen until your legislation is implemented? >> i would refer you to kirstjen nielsen, she's talked about interim measures and the court case is the key thing for us. you've got to change the law so that we can make sure that custody stays at dhs. that's why we're voting on this tomorrow. >> first of all, would you entertain a narrow emergency bill that would affect families? >> we're trying to pass this legislation right now. this is very good, compromise legislation that not only solves the child separation issue at the border. it solves daca, and it solves a lot of the broken immigration parts and right now we're focused on passing the legislation coming to the floor tomorrow and when others situation arise what other circumstances are, we'll cross those bridges when we get to it. >> you're sending the message that you'll use these as leverage, and you have to vote -- >> that's a ridiculous assertion. i said this last week in my press conference, we don't think families should be separated at the border and we should not have the government choose on whether to support the law, secure the border and keep families intact. they ought to do all of those things and that's why we're having to vote on this tomorrow. thank you. >> house speaker paul ryan there saying tomorrow morning we will have a vote in the house on legislation that he says not only would end the separation of families, parents from their children, the humanitarian crisis at the border. he also says it solves daca. he said it's a ridiculous assertion for anyone to think that these children in this situation is being used as leverage to get this compromise bill passed and on to the president's deck. let's bring in our chris cillizza in for viewers. do you know what the republican legislation actually includes and whether any democrats will get board. >> let me answer the second question first. we don't know on the democratic front. >> yeah. >> this is an attempt to find a solution to the fact that you had, even before this family separation, you still had no answer to daca. that issue had been bubbling and no answer. this is an attempt to find a solution to that while also paring with what we know donald trump wants which is significant funding for the border wall. >> right. >> that is now being smashed into with this family separation issue, and they're trying to deal with it all in one time with a big, broad bill. i wasn't sure when speaker ryan initially said we're going to solve the family separation issue tomorrow whether he meant we'll address it. that, apparently, is not the case. >> it's part of the big bill which is so hard to get through. >> that's -- that's exactly it. >> and that's why the reporter asked the question, and then, what do you do next? he said this is plan b, but also are you worried about the optics that it might look like you're using these children for leverage to get through what you haven't been able to get through? >> and remember, was there not significant funding despite what donald trump says. donald trump wanted full funding in the last government spending bill. he wanted $25 billion and that did not happen and didn't come close to happening and he got about a billion and a half. so i think they're trying to avoid that look. i think the bigger danger here, poppy, candidly is, there is a reason that a large-scale immigration bill hasn't passed congress because the republican party is significantly split within itself. you have another bill that is not the compromise bill that the leadership is backing. the bill paul ryan spoke a lot about. >> the goodlap bill which is significantly more conservative. yesterday, all of the leadouts from donald trump's time on capitol hill is that he had both bills and that's actually a problem if you're paul ryan. you want him to say we want this one bill and not the goodlap bill and that's not one i want to sign. when you give conservatives an out, there is a real possibility this does not go through tomorrow. >> you have some of the more conservative republicans who will have to answer to their constituents if they vote with this compromise bill, with what paul ryan calls ann elegant solution to daca. hold that thought. paul ryan said this was si ridiculous choice, and a false choice to have to choose between keeping families together and enforcing our immigration laws. what's struck you most from the answers that we got from the speaker? >> it was so interesting, poppy. clearly, the speaker of the house trying to present that congress is trying to do something on this. he was very clear at the top and he said the administration wants congress to act and we are, but it is definitely worth pulling back a bit and looking at the reality up here on the hill. >> in the house he announced they will hold a bill that addresses the family separation issue tomorrow, but as of now they do not have the votes to pass that through. even if they have the votes to pass it through, it goes nowhere in the senate so the reality at the moment is that they are essentially chasing these legislatives that end up here. so the big question is what's next? what's the direction next? when and if and likely when these legislative priorities fail up here on the hill and he really did not have an answer for that. he just said we will cross that bridge when we come to it. our focus right now is on the legislation, but it is notable that he has not said whether he would put a bill on the floor that is a stand alone bill. he would not even go there today, poppy. >> they will put this forward not knowing that they have the votes to get it through under the president's desk. sunlen serfaty, appreciate it. we'll be right back. i'm worried i can't find a safe used car. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax? 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>> my goodness, we have been working since september when the president himself just like separating babies from their parents, he created the daca crisis. he did that because he's using these issues, these abhorrent aspects in order to get a border wall built which most experts will tell you does not address migrating patterns -- >> congresswoman, just get back to the question because i don't have a lot of time with you. >> that's what i'm saying to you. >> what are you willing -- >> i answered the question, poppy. i answered it for you. >> for example, are you willing to give any border wall funding? >> we have been -- yes. we discussed in the border in the usa act that it should be evidence-based, 21st century instead of using a fourth century response to border security, make it operational security by 2020. we have long -- every democrat has been long, working and funding homeland security and border security measures including in the usa act which gave a real pathway for citizenship and a real protection for dreamers. this bill does not do that. >> we've heard some of your democratic colleagues calling for secretary nielsen, the dhs secretary to resign including senator mazzi and we heard from senator tina smith yesterday from this program. do you think secretary nielsen should resign? >> i want to answer it in this way and i think everyone will get my answer pretty clearly. i've been an appointed secretary in a state for 18 years, you know? you are always transparent and you don't in that child abuse or any other kind of harm to your constituents in any manner whatsoever. you don't say that you're doing a policy and the next day defend it. she has been inconsistent. she has not been credible. she has not been transparent and she is inflicting direct harm upon children in this country. i don't think that's a person that should be serving the american people in any capacity. >> how is she -- what is the direct harm that you argue she is inflicting on these children? >> when you -- when you rip a child from their parents who are seeking asylum, you know, when i was in san diego visiting the entire process from ports of entry to what happens when i.c.e. gets families that are not coming into ports is they can't come in through ports of entry, and the system is so convoluted and so terrible about the impact it has on every family seeking refuge in this country, that when the child is taken away and that decision is made by i.c.e., you have children who end up in states far away from the border crossing. so if you were picked up in san diego, your child can end up in chicago with no way for you to figure out how to reunite or even assure that that's where your child is. >> we have to wrap it up, but given you believe that pain caused to those families and children and that damage you will not vote -- you will not vote yes for a bill that one significant part of it would end that, correct? >> i will not vote for a bill that does not end family separation. just because speaker ryan says it does doesn't mean that it does which is why all the organizations that care about children, the pediatric academy and society, the psychiatric children's academy and society, the pope, the catholic bishops are all saying this bill -- >> it sounds like you're asserting that speaker ryan is lying about this. >> i am saying that speaker ryan is not being credible or transparent about this bill because he hasn't spent the time on immigration issues in a bipartisan manner. it's a partisan effort and he's only doing that for the white house. >> congresswoman, we have to leave it there. i appreciate you being with us today. thank you. >> all right. thank you. >> we'll be right back. than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. >> there is no stopping cristiano ronaldo. lindsay za lindsay has the bleacher report. >> ronaldo and portugal just became the first team to send another team home from world cup play after beating morocco. moments ago this bleacher report brought to you by ford, going further so you can. it took him less than five minutes to give portugal the lead over morocco this morning. he knocked in the impressive header you see here for the score and then got some serious celebrating. his fourth goal of this world cup after scoring a hat trick against spain last friday. he is now europe's all-time top scorer with 85 international goals breaking a record that stood for 62 years and in other world cup news, russia becoming one of the stories at the world cup, the host nation came into the tournament as the lowest-ranked team at 70. now they racked up more goals than anyone else. russia in a rainy night in st. petersburg. scoring two goals in the 16th minute of the second half. they've now scored eight goals in the first two games, and get this, poppy, some bars in moscow are already running out of beer. >> no! >> some locations near the kremlin in red square are struggling to meet the demand and we are only seven days into the month-long tournament so you hope they pull out more vodka. >> no beer, but vodka. >> thank you very much. >> we'll see you tomorrow. still ahead, the president says he is working on something on immigration, just tweeting that. what exactly is it ahead of the house vote tomorrow on this republican compromise bill? 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MexicoRussiaPetersburgSankt-peterburgUnited-statesValenciaCaraboboVenezuelaTexasSan-diegoCaliforniaPortugal legislation. they want open borders that breeds horrible crime. republicans want security and i'm working on something. it never ends. if he's working with that he didn't share that with lawmakers. some lawmakers leaving say they didn't know which two bills he favored and he's not moving the ball. new reports of hundreds of young children, babies, toddlers being separated from their parents. the associated press reporting the administration is calling them tender age shelters. three facilities in texas, housing hundreds of children, again, babies, toddlers, all younger than 13 years old . tender seems a tough word. sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill and abby let me start with you, because the president just tweeted this. i'm working on something. any word on the white house for what he's working on? >> reporter: good morning, kate. no word from the white house as to what the president was referring to and it will be interesting to see what he's been working on in part because for days now the white house has insisted that there's nothing that they can do, that this is required by law and that they're only enforcing it, even while lawmakers have asked them to stop separating children at the border. the president can do nothing at all about it. president trump is clearly frustrated by the narrative tha is out there about this issue. he has been blaming democrats and also pushing back on some of ribe. images that you just children being held at facilities at the border and there is a sense within this building right now that this is not working for them. whatever the white house is trying to achieve is not necessarily happening in part because there is so much pushback, so much pressure, it will likely, at least according to the president force him to do something and we'll see very soon, i'm sure, what exactly that will be. >> and what will have turned the tide. what was it -- the pressure has been on and what was it that turned the tide for him to act if he's going to. thanks very much, abby. >> sunlen, we just heard from speaker of the house paul ryan, and the legislative fix, if you will. >> that's right. it should be noted are many potential legislative fixes, many proposals and many pieces of legislation and the reality of the moment up here on capitol hill here, kate is none of the potential fixes at this hour have a chance of passing. that said, speaker of the house paul ryan, coming on the heels of that meeting with president trump last night said that they are pushing for a vote tomorrow in the house on this immigration proposal, this compromised proposal that also includes addressing the family separation issue. here's what he said just moments ago. >> we do not want children taken away from their parents. we can't enforce our immigration laws without breaking families apart. the administration said they want congress to act and we are. tomorrow the house will vote on legislation to keep families together. >> reporter: the reality is as of now, kate, the house does not have the votes, and the house republicans do not have the votes to pass that bill that they will likely vote on tomorrow, and even if they were able to get the votes it would go nowhere in the senate. so the big question is what is the real plan b, then, when all of these legislative proposals fail up here on capitol hill and speaker ryan today would not answer if he would endorse potentially putting a very narrow, stand alone bill specifically to address the family separation issue on the floor. he just said we will cross that bridge when we come to it. likely, they will have to come to that, kate? >> might be sooner than later. thank you very much, sunlen. appreciate it. now to the new report from the associated press on what the trump administration is calling tender-age shelter, housing the youngest migrants caught up in all of this. cnn's nick valencia is in brownsville, texas, with more on this. what are you learning. >> reporter: kate, i'm standing outside of casa presidente, and it is one of the three tender-ij shelters that the president reported on. inside there, there are children as they define tender age, 10 years and younger. there are also babies in there, infants and it was a short time ago that i spoke with congressman filemon vela and he described to me what he saw after getting a tour on monday. you walk into a room and there are two children, one the age of 8 months. another the age of almost 1 who is without their parent, and you begin to think and realize that this -- these children that are toddlers are being held hostage by the president of the united states. it's abhorrent, and the fact that in the united states of america, in 2018, that we're allowing this to happen is just really shameful and what we need is for the president to rescind zero-tolerance right now. >> inside the demographics include 80 children. 40 of them that have been recently separated from their families as a result of the zero-tolerance policy according to congressman vela. he saw two infants, two of them with their teenage mothers and the other two that were tended to by staff. it was also children by the age of 4 and 5 years old. 7 to 8 of those children, he described it as just absolutely heartbreaking. kate? >> nick, thank you so much for bringing us their stories. we appreciate it. joining me to discuss this and what is going on, the chairman of the house ways and means committee, texas congressman brady. >> sure. thanks. >> so what's going to happen with the vote tomorrow? >> i feel pretty optimistic about it mainly because the president is in full support of this common ground because it does close the back door of illegal immigration which means there won't be an encouragement on drug trafficking, sex trafficking, human trafficking and those dangerous journeys to america, but it also finds a good, compassionate solution for the daca and the dreamers who are here as well as making sure families can stay together as their cases are being heard at the border. this is a very thoughtful, i think, balance, common ground and the president made no bones about it and he's in 1,000% in support of the house passing the bill. >> are they there yet? >> in the last three meetings of the house republicans what i've seen are the most thoughtful, and i think best discussions we've had in a long time about how we find the solution to immigration because we know it's been broken for decades. president obama didn't fix it. we have an opportunity to find a real solution, and i think we within 24 hours as we're speaking right now, we have a chance to find a real solution for the country. >> if it -- even if it passes, all of our reporting suggests that it's not going anywhere in the senate. the senate is working on its own kind of fix. >> i am hopeful. >> i'm not saying you shoudn't ask because of it, but does this get the ball rolling? >> action creates action, sure. could chuck schumer and the democrats block this humane solution? block the passport for the daca dreamers? block this real change in law -- >> are you -- >> what's that? >> are you sure that mitch mcconnell will put the bill on the floor? >> they're in support of a real solution. border security, reform of immigration, families staying together and finding a good, compassionate approach for the daca dreamers. it's right there, and i'll tell you what, if he's serious about this, within 24 hours he has an opportunity to actually help leader mcconnell bring it to the floor. >> but much to chuck schumer's chagrin, he doesn't control the floor. >> actually, he does, and you know you're not a new rotoeport. the senate has a 60-vote -- so you know that senator schumer has to sign off on what happens. >> but are you even assured of what mitch mcconnell is putting on the floor. >> if the democrats are serious not about showmanship, but about solving the problem within 24 hours they can join with house republicando exactly that. >> a quote from last night coming from the president in your closed-door meeting. the crying babies don't look good politically. congressman, is that how you're thinking about this? >> you may have been in a different meeting from me. it is important for families to stay together. he doesn't like the false choice between what the law says today which, by the way, democrats also supported and following the rule of law, and so here is an opportunity -- >> did you not hear him say that? >> i know that some are looking for a band-aid, a quick fix. we're looking for a permanent solution for families. we think we have the right approach together. >> congressman, did you not hear him say that to the room? >> that was part of a longer discussion the president said i think ought to stay together. you, congress, this is your law. come together and change it so that we can keep them together while their cases are being heard. that's the humane approach, and so, yeah, the president is strongly supportive. >> congressman, you guys have some wheels in motion and how far it goes. we will wait and see. do you concede that this problem is something that the president could fix? >> no more band-aid. i know that's what democrats are looking for. it's time for real solutions. >> i'm hearing from republicans. >> no, no, i'm hearing from republicans. >> so do i, you just heard from republican president trump saying it's time for us to change the law, and i agree. >> the crisis at hand. lindsay graham was on my show on friday and he said the president can fix this with a phone call. >> in congress -- >> you can see that he can do it? >> within 24 hours. >> i hear you. i hear you. >> that should solve the problem so no more band-aids and no more showmanship, let's really solve this, come together for republicans and democrats. >> would you like to see the president ask unilaterally, though? >> if he so chooses. >> no more band-aids. you don't want to see an executive action even if he did. i want to see action by congress to get these families together permanently and that's the real solution and by the way, we can do it now. >> you are no spring chicken coming to capitol hill. you are very optimistic for how things can work on capitol hill right now, congressman, but we know how things work which is at a snail's pace at best. >> i was told that about tax reform and i was told about irs reform and the truth is when we come together i think we can get these things done. >> orrin hatch, senator and other republicans have written a letter to the president and asked him to put a pause on these separations and in the letter they write this, we support the administration's, fort to enforce our immigration law, but we can't support the implementation of a policy that results in the categorical, forced separation of minor children from their parents. do you stand with them in the sense that while you are working on it, working on a fix on the hill, that the president should pause the separations? >> i think there is an urgency for congress to act. i think we should just as when the president obama, when he originally did the daca executive order, when in effect he invited all of these unaccompanied minors, these young children to travel those dangerous distances, and to be warehoused in those same facilities and pipelined to the northeast on their own, democrats said nothing. the media said nothing. here we have an opportunity to create a real solution that's compassionate and humane and let's act together now. >> i just want to put a final point on it. republicans were outraged when obama had an executive action fix to daca. you do not want to see even, if he could, and even if he would try, you do not support the president using executive action on this? >> president obama's actions were outside the law and outside the constitution. congress has a chance as the president challenges, to actually solve and change the law. why would we put band-aids on an issue this serious? let's solve it. >> i'm going to take that as a no, i think. >> com pro hencive immigration reform has alluded congress for years. >> this isn't comprehensive -- it's securing the border and change the immigration. >> no, no, i understand. >> i don't want you to mischaracterize it. >> if you let me answer the question, it wouldn't be mischaracterizing. i promise you, congressman i'm not miskaushcharacterizing this broader issue is an issue that has thwarted congress for years which is really getting down and dirty and fixing the immigration system. another issue that is holding you up now is opioids and how to tackle that crisis facing the country. a series of bills just passed the house last night. you were involved in that. what do you say to the public health community that i'm seeing talking saying there's nothing ground breaking here that you're passing. >> so i think it is. they're wrong in this fact, so we' have to tackle this a dozen different ways. you do it through prevention of the overprescribing the education from patients and physicians, but also access to treatment. congress has appropriated billions of dollars for the treatment to address this issue. these laws are necessary this week and next week because it gives the authority to solve this issue from a dozen different directions, and so, look, this is republicans and democrats, by the way, working together. on the other of other stock who they couldn't work together on so i see some hope here. >> hope spring eternal. kevin brady, always good to have you on. thank you very much. let's see what congress can do in the next 24 hours. this morning, american allies are weighing in, even the pope is speaking up about the crisis at the u.s. border. coming up we will go live to the mexican side of the border where cnn is talking to families hoping to make it to the u.s. plus some republicans and white house officials say the policy did not start with donald trump. we will fact check that. stay with us. i have type 2 diabetes. i'm trying to manage my a1c, then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk? 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(wife) nope! switching to allstate is worth it. friends and allies and probably satisfying to our adversaries. that's what the former director of national intelligence james clapper is describing the crisis at the border. pope francis is also weighing in declaring the practice immoral. let's go right to the border. cnn's ed lavandera is in mexico across the rio grande. >> reporter: hi, kate. we are inside the migrant shelter just on the edge of the texas/mexico border and this is a place that has a number of rooms just like this and this is essentially, kate, a place where migrants, it is a last stop before they decide to travel to the united states or for people who have been deported and need to make their way back home to central america or other parts of mexico. we came here to get a sense of as we heard the trump administration in the last couple of days talk about this zero-tolerance policy is designed to serve as a deterrent and whether or not that is the message that migrants here are getting. what's interesting is we talked to a number of people who have been at this shelter for several weeks now. some of them have made several attempts to get in. the pastor who runs the shelter tells me that he's seen a number of people who have given up. they said the threat of having their children separated from them was too much, but the vast majority of the people that we talked to here, kate, say that it is a risk and a chance that they're still willing to take that where they come from is so much worse that they're not willing to get this far and not have a chance to get inside the united states. and that is the message that these folks here are relaying to us as they try to make sense of this policy, kate? >> all right, ed. continuing following their stories and we appreciate it, thank you so much. meantime, the blame game of sorts continues. some republicans and trump administration officials are saying in essence, this doesn't start with us. this started with obama. listen. >> children have been separated from their parents under previous administrations and in this administration prior, but now with the zero-tolerance policy if you're apprehended across the border you are automatically going to be placed in prosecution and the department of justice doesn't have the facilities to take the children. this was enacted after. >> this was after the president announced the zero-tolerance policy. >> that's actually not true. the last administration, the obama administration and the bush administration all separated families a -- they absolutely did. their rate was less than ours, but they absolutely did do this. this is not new. >> there's no doubt about that. they separated the families. >> let's cut through it a little bit if we can. joining me right now is marcia katherine, spokesperson for dhs under president obama. thanks for coming in. >> sure thing. >> you heard it very clear there from secretary nielsen. when people say this happened under obama, you were the spokespers spokesperson for dhs under obama. what do you say? >> it is untrue to say that we had a policy of separating kids from their parents. the only time that would happen when a kid is separated from a parent is to double-check that it actually is the parent, but we could not and would not as a matter of policy separate kids from their parents. in fact, family unity was key to our policies. it was written in all of our memos in 2014. >> president obama's domestic policy adviser told "the new york times" that the idea of separating families was discussed and was looked at as a broader way of what they could do and then quickly dismissed. what were the conversations that you all had about this back then? >> there were a ton of conversations and many ideas were brought to the table. in fact, all ideas were welcome, but that's just where we drew the line. we could not separate a child from their parent. it is too hard to go through the process both as an adult and a child, they're on totally separate tracks and to reunite them is just too hard. family unity was key to our message. >> what about the issue of deterrents? what about the issue of -- and it depends on who you talk to when it comes to the trump administration, marcia, because you heard from john kelly and john sessions. is it -- it was to act as a deterrent to people making the dangerous trek up to the border and coming over. this was supposed to act as a deterrent. did you not care about deterrents or did you not think it would have been a successful deterrent, was that a part of the calculation and the conversation that you had? >> no amount of deterrent will stop people from fleeing a burning building and that's what they're doing in central, in, they're fleeing violence, and poverty and the push factors that are driving america in the first place and we did do a matter of deterrence in 2013 when we saw an influx of kids crossing the border unaccompanied. we put families in detention, in family residential centers while they went through their immigration proceedings and we didn't separate them. so what the trump administration isn't doing that we did is also get out the message in central america using the state department and all of our resources that is a dangerous journey that you will not be allowed to stay here. that you will be put in holding centers while you go through your immigration proceedings, and what we also did was provide aid to central america. you're not going to stop anything and that's what's missing from their from seproce now. >> president obama did not say public outrage over detention of families and children and families and children, of course, were with their parents. looking back, looking back from where things are now, do you acknowledge that you all didn't land on the correct answer in this delicate issue? >> weid have a lot of controversy in 2014, i spent the summer in mcallen, texas. it was my job to take all of the reporters through the facilities to describe what we were doing, and it was a whole of government response. we had fema and dhs, and the state department and hhs and dod involved, but no amount of deterrence will stop the pushback. it will stop these families from coming to the u.s., and i believe in border security. we enacted strong border security measures under the obama administration, but there is a way to do it humanely. there is a way to do it without ripping families apart. >> let's get real for a second. who do you think will finally end this crisis? >> president trump can pick up the phone and end it in a matter of minutes, and i hope that they do. i was really disappointed to hear that none of the top administration officials have actually visited some of these facilities. you know, jeh johnson, my former boss, the secretary of homeland serity went numerous times to mcallen and saw the facilities himself and he talked to kids himself and he talked to families. he and his wife both cried together over what they saw, and wanted to change things. it was -- it, you know, iould encourage all of the trump administration officials to go down there, to see what's happening with their own eyes, to smell it so they can -- maybe something will change in their hearts and maybe they'll realize this has to stop. they have the power to do that right now. no one has to wait for congress to act. >> marsha catron, appreciate it. >> coming up for us, former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski after apparently mocking reports of a girl with young syndrome being separated from her mother. corey lewandowski is speaking out and he's going on offense. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. and it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck, or severe stomach pain. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. taking trulicity with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases your low blood sugar risk. common side effects include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and decreased appetite. these can lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. to help lower my a1c i choose trulicity to activate my within. ask your doctor about once-weekly trulicity. i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? 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how dare you, sir? >> i don't know the young girl that zach referenced. i was mocking zach, a liberal, democrat committee activist who was doing nothing, but politicizing the issue of making an example of one particular child. >> joining me right now joe trippy, cnn political commentator, and jason miller, cnn political commentator and former senior communications adviser to the trump campaign. thanks for coming in. jason, no matter what you feel about the policy and the crisis at the border, why are folks talking about this horribly sad crisis in this way or saying the facilities are like summer camp for kids? do you think this helps? >> well, i think you make a very good point to ask conservatives as supporters of the president. i think we have a higher bar that we have to meet as far as making sure that we're articulating his policies in the way that it puts the facts forward and don't seem as though we're insensitive. i think corey's comments yesterday went way to the insensitive territory and i think what that does is that muddles the message and instead of that being a debate over the need to build the wall going past on these additional proposals and now we're talking about insensitivity and does the administration care or not and tat's not a winning position for us. >> yeah. joe, president trump says that congress should fix it. republicans and democrats say trump could fix it faster, but i am also seeing reports in "the new york times" reports that chuck schumer shot down a chance to fix it in the senate in the absence of trump doing anything. morally and politically, can democrats stand here, point the finger at corey lewandowski for being insensitive and saying we're not going to work with republicans and we'll stand here and wait for trump to do something? >> well, i think one, the president keeps moving the bar. democrats have come with several proposals that were either voted down or that the president pulled the rug out at the last minute. so we'll see where that goes, but i think one of the things that's happening here is the policy itself is bad, and it's hurting republicans. what's hurting them even more is when corey lewandowski uses this kind of language or the president says that these people are infesting our nation. this is coming from the top and the problem is the language itself, i mean, crossing that line, the crass, sort of punitive language is the policy itself hurts him with republican women and republicans as a whole and a lot of other people that would normally support the policy, but i mean, they could support the policy and then they hear this language and they start to move away and they start to see the policy maybe, but not this divisiveness, not this bitterness and that's not who we are and that's what's, i think, adding to the policy division that the president's created here. it's the language, as well. >> you know, jason. the comment that joe's talking about here is the tweet from the president when he says that democrats are the problem. they don't care about crime. no matter how bad they may be to pour into and infest our country and he continues, madeleine albright, she tweeted that he's fostering -- he's fostering hate with the language that he's using. is the president fostering hate here? >> i would disagree on that. i think the president takes this issue of ms-13, of the gang problem, of the human trafficking and the drug trafficking. i think he takes this very personally, that he looks and he's met with so many of these angel moms and the people have been impacted by these lax border policies and whether they be sanctuary cities and to joe's point, i completely agree with them, for too many i think the language has gone to the right direction here because really what's at core are these policies and the fact is that we can no longer have this open-border policy. i think a zero-tolerance policy at the border is the right way to be. i don't think dhs was ready to implement this on schedule as they should have. i think there are quick fixes we can do as far as closing the loopholes regarding catch and release. i think there is the ted cruz proposal is a good one. i disagree with the president on that point. >> can i ask about that really quick? can i ask about the ted cruz proposal? it kind of fixes -- you can't separate families and in doing so would double the number of federal immigration judges to speed up processing. trump says he wants congress to fix it, but he just threw ted cruz's proposal down the stairs yesterday. let me play this for you. >> they should like to hire 5,000 or 6,000 more judges. 5 or 6,000. can you imagine the graph that must take place? you're small business owners so i know you can't imagine a think like that. >> if he wants something done why did he throw out the cruz proposal? >> the president's trying to accomplish what he ran on in 2016 which is come up to the big, broad, comprehensive reform and he has very specific principles and he talked about building the wall and ending chain migration and getting rid of the visa lottery and coming up with a real, long-term solution to the daca crisis and closing the loopholes for catch and release, but these are very specific policies we need to come up with tho approach the problem overall and he doesn't want a patch to get by and the fact of the matter is it's starting to reach a critical mass and republicans and hopefully democrats will be pushing forward on solutions of what we can do to solve this, because again, the zero-tolerance border is going on and we should not be allowing people to come into the country illegally. >> jason, at first, he attacks the democrats saying we don't care about the criminals and it's just crazy talk and then said at the same time, but hey, the democrats have to step up and do something about this while at the same time attacking ted cruz's proposal, the republican that a lot of democrats might be able to accept. so how -- and then on top of that, you put this policy in place to separate families on purpose to fight for -- basically, it's leverage to get to the wall and that's what the president's doing. everybody knows it and the language on top of it that corey's using and that others in the party are using and supporters on the hill are using doesn't help. it just continues to push them away. forget about the larger politics of the policy of this thing. it's going to hurt in november because i believe republican women are repulsed by thisch is why -- >> guys -- thank you. i've got to run, jason. i really appreciate it, though. jason, joe, thanks, guys. coming up for us, threats of new tariffs between the u.s. and china continue to drag down the markets. the dow is now in its longest losing streak in more than a year. what's going to happen? 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what do you see there? >> reporter: today is the calm after the storm, but you always get the feeling what we might be seeing is the calm before the storm because in this environment, kate, you don't know where the storm is coming from. we've got trade worries. we've got tariffs on the horizon. you've got companies that are saying they're not sure what to do next. you've got companies criticizing the administration over the immigration separation policy. what have we got today? the dow jones industrials are down just some 50-odd point, but the broader market and the s&p is higher. volume is larger. you see the way the market is looking and it's a nice sea of green, but i urge you, do not be fooled because underneath all of this there is a tension in the market, kate. we talked about the markets now live coming up online as cnnmoney.com. essentially, what you need to know is that this market does not think the worst is about to happen, but it's holding its nose in case it does. >> good advice for life. >> richard, great to see you. thank you so much. talk about kicking a man when he's down. i'm not talking about richard quest this time. first the president helps ruin mark sanford's reelection bid and he talks behind his back with his own friends. what's the message to the republican party? 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these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. the president's tweet attack on mark sanford, mark sanford even says may have sunk his campaign for re-election. yesterday, the president ripped into the republican congressman during the closed door meeting with other republicans on immigration, calling sanford a "nasty guy." sources in the meeting say trump's dig fell flat and drew some groans. when sanford found out about all this, he told "the washington post," he said this -- >> the tragedy of the trump administration is he thinks it's about him. the president has taken those beliefs by so many people across the country and has fallen prey to thinking it's about him. joining me right now, editor at large chris cilizza. so chris, sanford had already lost, but trump could not let it go. lawmakers booed when he did, when he called him a nasty guy. i wonder if that, i don't know, it's not surprising to me that trump would attack him again. i wonder if it surprised trump if republicans booed in his presence or if it impacted him at all. >> reporter: i believe it impacted him not at all. he is who he is. the trump -- the version of trump that we have right now is the version we're getting. it's not changing. he's not evolving as president. i think that -- the episode last night shows that. it reinforces what we know about him. he is a bully. we've seen this before. the fact that he asked whether mark sanford was in the room, got the answer no, and then attacked him, is really something. and he's also a poor winner. he won. mark sanford lost. mark sanford lost in large part, not exclusively, but in large part because he was not a get in line behind donald trump on every issue kind of republican, and the woman who beat him, a state legislator, katie arrington, said he doesn't support donald trump enough, i will. so be gracious in victory is usually what we learn. the other thing we relearned is he's not great at reading a room. the one thing if you know if you have spent time around congress, it's a club, it really is, for better and for worse. and when they lose one of their own, whether they liked him or didn't like him, that's sort of the reality he doesn't get. >> chris, i'm looking down because i'm getting breaking news coming in, looking at my e-mail from a full report. the white house pool was called in to the cabinet room. president trump is meeting with members of congress right now. and coming out, we'll have the tape when it comes, but coming out of it, president trump says he invited -- i'm looking for it. he says that he's going to essentially -- he's going to do something about this border crisis. here's a quote from the pool, "i'll be signing something in a little while that's going to do that," talking about keeping families together. i'll be doing something thats i somewhat preemptive and will be matched by legislation, i'm sure. that coming from the president. the pool is probably still in there. chris, the president saying, he's doing something on the heels of saying he couldn't do something. >> let's first say good if he makes good on this, because this is a policy that he can stop. that has always been the case. remember, jeff sessions announced in april they were putting in place a zero tolerance policy when it came to people crossing illegally. that necessarily meant there would be more family separations that. is a fact. why they went through all this saying as recently as monday night, kirsten neilson, the department of homeland security secretary, said congress alone with fix it. that was not true at the time. it's not true today. so why they went through all of that, putting the blame on congress or saying congress needed to do something, only to at least reportedly sign something that does what we knew they could do from the start i'm not sure about. but the end result i think is a good thing, even though the sausage being made was a very bad thing for republicans. >> honestly, we don't know exactly what this is going to be, right? >> that's right. what the is is here is an important one. he's going to take action to improve security on the border and help keep families together. how he's going to do that unilaterally, we know he could stop the policy of separation with a phone call or the stroke of a pen, what he's going to do also, that is an important thing to get to. remember, and i'm just recalling what the president said on friday, you know, he said all along that he hates having the children being taken away, but putting it squarely -- he did it last friday and this morning, that it's the democrat's fault it's the democrat's law, and essentially his hands were tied. this is a big change. >> look, it wasn't true then, kate, and it isn't true now. the president -- >> what do you think changed, though? i do wonder. >> so let's assume, and you're right, but let's assume that what he's going to do is effectively going to end the separation of families at the border, these in the near term until congress tries to address it. what likely change is massive pressure from republican legislators saying you are -- this is going to hurt us. this is going to cost us. you saw the head of the republican congressional committee, basically the campaign arm, come out and say, i oppose this as a father. this is not who we are as a country. you heard some reporting out of that conference last night with house republicans was that trump knew that the pictures were bad for republicans. now, you can say, well, what about the actual kids being displaced from their parents. but this was a political problem that was not going away. so if it changes, that's what has changed. nothing else has changed. he could have done this a week ago. >> but still, this is still big. and i'm going to readhe quote from the pool one more time. i'll be signing something in a little while that's going to do that, which deals with the separation of families. chris, 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