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Yesterday, is anyone at the white house trying to make a case to you that this is a strategy? it is hard to understand. just take one of the issues from yesterday, its really hard to understand the president saying that we need to juice the economy even though the economy doesnt need it and everything is great. >> well, the president and his advisers are certainly aware that some of the economic numbers have not been as robust. they have a way to back it up that its doing well. were trying to st...

Challenge will come principally through the case, the flores case. and so we will be prepared to provide whatever assistance is necessary and well be monitoring that closely. well hopeful that in that flores case itself the court will simply strike it down and say this violates the agreement and nothing else will be necessary. >> let me ask you, because is keeping children together with their parents for a longer period of time, is that better than separating them and holding the children for on...

Illegal high capacity mass squee mag -- magazines, everything he would need to carry out a mass casualty event. and the police chief stressed that had this not been alerted, had the fellow employee not told authorities about this threat, that police chief believes that lives would have been lost. now, the suspect right now being held on $500,000 bail. we expect that the long beach police department will present their case to the district attorney today. but the message out of long beach is that ...

I have real interest rates, and despite that, i have a stronger economy. >> what do you see in that? is this his need to have an enemy? what is this. >> i think its both of the things, theres a need to have an enemy and his agenego. in this case i think its a bit bruised. its an expression of a kind of neediness and almost confusion. and when i see the president go back to attacking obama or hillary clinton and other of his favorite enemies, i think of it as going back to a comfort zone. so hes ...

Manpower that they need to protect the border and to better process people? >> were for that. >> hold on, i want to go through the punch list, leader and then you can fill in whatever you want. to give them judges, case agents, to give them money to create accommodations for kids and for families. would you give them that? >> well, theres certainly going to be a discussion about accommodations. we want to make sure that children are provided for, not taken from their parents and that their paren...

At the port of entry. >> if its to give cbp the manpower that they need to protect the border and to better process people? >> were for that. >> hold on, i want to go through the punch list, leader and then you can fill in whatever you want. to give them judges, case agents, to give them money to create accommodations for kids and for families. would you give them that? >> well, theres certainly going to be a discussion about accommodations. we want to make sure that children are provided for, n...

The judge ordered the government to speed up the process of reunification while another federal judge in los angeles overseeing the flores case which has established the rules for holding children crossing the border in federal custody denied the trump governments request to change the flores rules to allow children to be held in custody for more than 20 days. the judge in the flores case said that the trump administrations legal argument for changing the rules was "tortured." faced with these c...

Department of health and human services was forced to reveal today that they have no idea what to do with one of the children who might actually be a citizen of the united states. in documents filed in court and in a press release the department of health and human services said one child cannot be reunified at this time "because the parents location has been unknown for more than a year. records show the parent and child might be u.s. citizens." the judge ordered the government to speed up the ...

Reverse the flores settlement after 20 days, those kids will have to be separated. >> it does, certainly if -- the flores settlement is pretty clear. i cant imagine the judge who oversees that settlement will reverse her order of a couple of years ago. i guess well find out in 20 days. one would hope they would release these families under an alternative to detention. the problem would be solved and we would have a more humane policy. >> one way of complying with the flores settlement is after t...

And families. for more than 20 days. i guess well find out in 20 days. one would hope they would release these families under an alternative to detention. the problem would be solved and we would have a more humane policy. >> one way of complying with the flores settlement is after those 20 days, releasing both the children and the adults as opposed to separating them out. that is inconsistent with the message that the trump administration has been sending about being tough on this. but i mean, ...