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>> good luck. this is not a function that any agency has done before. we always kept families together for this reason. you take that and add to the fact that theres no evidence whatsoever that there was any planning done, any interagency planning done prior to the emt implementation of this policy. >> thank you for your expertise on this. when we come back, president trumps long-time lawyer and so-called fixer, michael cohen, of all people has turned against the president on putting immigrant...

Feel teary eyed for the children. yes, i love children a great deem. but to me its up to the parents to do things rightfully and legally. >> i mean, there, ken, theyre pretty much repeating the presidents exact words. i dont have trem hem in front me, the president is signing executive action, they may feel the president caved. do you think he caved? >> i dont think he caved. i think you heard me describe it. i think theyve traded one challenge for another one. >> for another. >> so 20 days from...

The president is on much stronger ground in the country with zero tolerance. i dont think youre going to see a democratic senator from north dakota standing up and screaming about zero tolerance. she will scream about separating families. the idea might have politically been strong. the implementation of it was a disaster, which its interesting. melania trump, the first lady, among those who pushed the president. we saw criticism from the pope and international heeders today. criticism from fell...

Brought here as a result of the presidents recent implementation of the zero-tolerance policy? heres 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, thats 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 ...

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 snails 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 i...

These videos to tell this story? >> sure, weve had congressmen and senators, weve had the media, and tour the facilities. of course we need to have advanced notice. we are protecting minor children and these are grantees running the programs. the safety of the kids and their privacy is paramount. but with had folks come through touring our facilities. we are open to it because we deliver excellent care to these kids. this is care we are quite proud of and our grantees take this mission of lookin...

New measures for security, including a wall a fix for daca and end of chain migration. the implementation of a rit-based system. the president said he needed to apartment after the firestorm was hospital. >> the republicans want security and insist on security for our country. well have that at the same time we have compassion, we want to keep families together. its very important. ill be signing something in a little while that will do that. the people in this ream want to do that and working o...

As a trump supporter when i see congress dropping the ball, dont think dhs has done everything they needed to, its a right policy but wrong i implementati implementation. this critical mass here. >> bakari, jason is saying the policy, itself, is the right policy. >> no, its not. i dont know how anybody whos a father, anybody who believes in what the statue of liberty reads, believes in what the essence of america is can say this is the right policy. the white house has bumbled messages before. w...

Actually only recently put in this zero tolerance policy and you heard from the former secretary of homeland security who is now the chief of staff who said, yeah, he was thinking about doing it as a deterrence. so for the administration to say its not being done as a deterrence, thats clearly how they were selling it up until recently. >> what i was saying is this, i think there are two parts of this. as a trump supporter, im ticked off yet again hes been let down here. congress should have fix...

To say there. >> yeah. well, first of all, the joke about eleanor roosevelt, i dont really get. its not something to joke about. when you have the attorney general having to differentiate your administrations family separation policy from hitlers family separation policy, that just speaks to what a problem the administration is in in terms of the public outcry to say nothing of the humanitarian crisis. its such a different world when you go inside the doors of the white house right now, theres n...