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Put your heart strings and humanity to the side. lets talk dollars. welcome back. president trumps tough talk on immigration and his policies, they are costing you and me taxpayers millions and millions of dollars, and they are making some companies filthy rich. since 1997, the federal bureau of prisons has paid private companies to build and operate prison facilities to ease capacity at government-run facilities. and then share of federal prisoners night wide held in private prisons has surged ...

Melania goes down and now theyre complaining about the jacket. you are never going to get a win on this issue. a normal issue like gas prices. healthcare jobs, those are the things that actually effect the lives of everyday americans. yes, migrant families will tug at your heart strings and makes you feel bad and want to find a solution. its not going to be a driving issue for regular voters in the midterm elections. >> dana: greg, i had congressman burgess on the 2:00 show today. >> good for yo...

You heard chuck schumer say it. the president saying he cant do this unilaterally. what are you asking for? and i want to go back to the words and the rhetoric what is being used around this. it is so highly charged and it is pulling at all of our heart strings. reports of these tender-age shelters. of migrant children so young they are finding a separate place for them because of the influx of children being separated from their parents at the border. that pulls at your heart strings. i know yo...

>> i cant get anyone to answer the question why, why put this policy in place. put the humanitarian issue, the heart strings aside. from a policy perspective, if the president says we have a jobs issue, immigrants are stealing our jobs, lou can he possibly make the same argument the jobs picture is great and america is beautiful. when i walk through this town, there are help wanted signs in every window. i spoke to small business managers who said this is a community of texans and migrants. one ...

Through such lengths for us not to see the images of the girls and the images from inside and why theyre not allowing reporters and journalist s into these centers. because its heartbreaking. because when you see it, you see it, it completely changes the narrative. alisyn, this has been going on for seven, eight weeks now. unit ilnow we until now were seeing the images. the 2-year-old girl wailing and hearing the reality and there is going to be more of that. more whistleblowers inside those can...

Of children at the border. does either have the votes? >> i think, you know, right now, handicapping whether or not they will get through is incredibly difficult. what we do know, the images coming out from the southern border they pull on heart strings and further solidify the argument that something has to be done. the argument from senator cruz and feinstein is strongest. you cannot make policy from bad circumstances. instead, you need to put out the fire and look more generally at where the ...

Welcome back live from texas. im stephanie ruhle. the president plans to meet with republican lawmakers later today to discuss the immigration bills put before congress. and he faces a gop caucus that is increasingly breaking from his policy of family separation. >> thats traumatizing to the children who are innocent victims and it is contrary to our values in this country. >> its clear this is a very sympathetic, tugs at your heart strings sort of picture, and narrative. i think its a little mo...

Unemployment. when supposedly we are being inundated with these immigrants. immigrants who, in almost every walk of life, contribute to the strength of communities, to the strength of local economies and so on. and of course the trump administration and its demagogue mode is always going to be able to find an immigrant who becomes a criminal or a thief or so on. and paint anecdote as data because they are relying on the stupidity of low bigotries to make this particular argument. but the united ...

>> eric: in terms to the two bills the conservative one versus moderate one. they both address this. >> right. you are getting the border security and the wall funding. you get solution to this i would think with either one. i think the leadership bill is the only one that might even have a hope of getting in to law. mcconnell, the senate majority leader doesnt think its getting past. >> eric: not the goodlatte? d.o.a.? >> not to become law. >> eric: all right. this issue has to be fixed. its tu...

He had a lot with us being here today. today. ainsley: exactly thats why his parents said they were coming on "fox & friends" to give us one of the few interviews they gave the media. they want you at home to understand what this man is capable of and what happens in this country that brought attention to north korea. all of us started paying attention when you heard a mom and dad describe the torture that their son went through. that pulled at all of our heart strings and we felt so badly for t...