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>> its part of the big bill which is so hard to get through. >> thats -- thats exactly it. >> and thats 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 youre using these children for leverage to get through what you havent 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 sp...

That, you put this policy in place to separate families on purpose to fight for -- basically, its leverage to get to the wall and thats what the presidents doing. everybody knows it and the language on top of it that coreys using and that others in the party are using and supporters on the hill are using doesnt help. it just continues to push them away. forget about the larger politics of the policy of this thing. its going to hurt in november because i believe republican women are repulsed by t...

Document that authorizes his administration to do something that pretty much agrees he could do with a phone call. according to our sources also, the first lady melania trump has been -- has been urging her husband to end this practice. now, melania put out a statement, a really rare statement for a first lady, essentially saying that she hoped this practice would end, and that has led to where we are today. melania trump yesterday we heard a little bit more from ivanka trump about her views on ...

Leverage, and you have to vote -- >> thats a ridiculous assertion. i said this last week in my press conference, we dont 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 thats why were 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 ...

Fact, the idea was to send a really strong deterrent message and that this was going to be part of the a crackdown at the border that would change the migration patterns that he sees as so destructive to america. >> david, it is interesting, because now the administration seems to be downplaying the idea that this was meant to be a deterrence, but certainly from comments that sessions has made and comments that stephen miller has made and general kelly has made, it clearly was designed to try to...

He comes to the capitol hill and frames this legislative leverage for this wish list of poorly thought through egregious legislative. hurting children to create legislative leverage. it is evil. >> so when the president says this is about democratic obstructionism, what do you say? >> well, i would say no democrat held the pen that created this policy and no democrat can hold the pen that can end it. that is a presidential pen. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell said today there is un n -- and i...

Seems to be downplaying the idea that this was meant to be a deterrence, but certainly from comments that sessions has made and comments that stephen miller has made and general kelly has made, it clearly was designed to try to deter long term. >> without question right from the very beginning of the administration. i mean, if its -- if it wasnt meant to be a deterrent, what was it meant to be? it also appears to be, or they thought it was, or at least the president thought it was a point of pol...

Act. democrats say we need to act, and we say we need to act. >> somebody obstacles to legislation and when the president can do it with his own pen, it makes no sense. >> i disagree with chuck and chuck knows it. you always negotiated. we are here to fix things. not here to make it worse. >> this is why i dont think the republicans have lost any leverage because if they pursue skinny bills which address the family issue alone, forget about daca, forget about the visa lottery. just focus on this...

The question is, what that does and where does that leave the legislation going forward. matthew continetti, editor in chief of "the washington free beacon." mara liasson, national clinical correspondent at national public radio. tom bevan, real clear politics. the question is whether this executive order will stay about whether the judge will allow the altering of what was a decision. >> part of the executive order is to tell the justice department go to court and adjust the florez decision. th...

The dreamers and he took away the deportation relief from that. he felt it was unconstitutional. he got kind of a stay from the courts but that one now is, has trump given up his leverage with congress? he took care of it with an executive order. does it take the heat off congress? congresses voting tomorrow on a couple different bills. >> both likely to fail. i think we saw earlier that theres not a consensus on immigration in either party. i think on the child and family separation issue, its ...