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Take those jobs. >> what were seeing across this country, ever since the president was sworn into office in 2017, in january, were seeing an outright war on immigrants. were seeing an outright war on families. were seeing it today play out at the border. were seeing violation of the law by customs enforcement in every city and jurisdiction. were seeing a tax on cities, on mayors, on local officials that want to abide by the fourth amendme amendment. theyre calling those sanctuary cities. theyre ...

Countries. thats what these lawyers are doing. this is about entering the country legally. the narrative coming out of the trump administration is, somehow, these people are trying to break the law. its a flat out lie. >> this is an interesting point, david. theres been talk from the trump administration that these people are coming here to vote for democrats during the midterm elections. they cant vote, fyi. butd distincti distinction, because there is a sense theyre illegally rushing the borde...

The deal, and heres whats not. the 2015 agreement between iran and six world powers, including the united states, does not eliminate irans controversial nuclear program. instead, iran has agreed to eliminate 98% of its stockpile of enriched eu eed uranium. they agreed to hand over 14,000 centrifuges out of a total of 20,000, used to enrich the ukraiyo uranium. it can keep enriching up to 3.5%, less than the iranians said they had before doing the deal. it is less than the 90% needed to produce a...

>> reporter: there are volunteer lawyers here working with these families. the volunteer lawyers have told them to tell their stories, to be truthful, to be honest, to present their cases of asylum to the border patrol. simply walk up to the agents, surrender themselves, start the process of their sasylum proces here. it could take months. it could take years. many of the families could be detained immediately, even separated from one another, as they look to seek asylum into the u.s. many of th...

Symbolic value or some -- does it make some symbolic point? they insist no. whenever you take something like this out, itll get attention. in the past, i will say, ive sort of cited this language to the justice department on things like access to pretrial things and so forth. it talks about the needs of public safety, republicapprehen fugitives, right of the public to be informed. they insist it was hordetory language, and thats why they took it out. >> you are able to interpret these things. wh...

Way, there are two other volumes that interpret sections in the u.s. attorneys manual. it is called the criminal resources manual. one of the goals the justice department says was to try to trim this thing down. every successive justice department keeps adding stuff to it. the justice departments view was, its becoming so vague, a lot of these sections, they say. theyre nearly stating things that are obvious. constitutional values. that is their explanation for why this section called "need for ...

Is that underway? >> first of all, for trump to say that the laws are weak, earlier in the segment, you pointed out that nearly 3/4 of these people are likely to be denied asylum. this is a very strong, very strict law. the president has declared that these people should not be allowed in the united states. during the travel ban litigation, many of the courts pointed to the presidents tweets. the tweets that the president put out about anti-muslim, dont let muslims in, in many cases, thats what ...

To access journalism if we attend the white house correspondents dinner? >> whos conflating it? this isnt just about you two or any particular journalists. this is about institutional weaknesses in our administration -- i mean in our journalistic system that the government has exploited. this is a time that all journalists need to be reflective on what their role is instead of defensive and look at the broader threat. the one thing that all journalists do have in common is they are under threat ...

Life. they say now that they have reached the u.s., they will not turn back. >> this is unbelievable. >> 200 feet from the border here. theyve come this far. one last picture. you see this family right here? they have been waiting here overnight. just over here is the border fence and the border crossing. they have made their way all the way from el salvador, nearly 3,000 miles on their journey to the border wall. the question now, can they get over the border fence? that remains to be determine...

All of these people are seeking asylum. so many of them say they face dangerous conditions. they are gathering in this area. they are getting some services here. they are getting food handed out to them. some are meeting with attorneys. theyre looking for an opportunity to travel into the u.s. they say the violence they face in their countries is incredibly dangerous. they say there is no turning back now. many of them have been on the road for four to five weeks. they have now arrived here, 3,0...