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Facilities is zero humanity. >> there is no longer to the policy. the administration is arguing by inflicting this harm on children and parents, this stress, they are sending the message for people not to seek asylum in the united states. it is completely unacceptable under any moral code to inflict trauma on them in order to send some political message to adults somewhere overseas. the president argues this is giving him political leverage. hurting kids to get political leverage is unacceptable...

In the first six weeks after the president and his administration announced a zero-tolerance policy. it was the president on this this week. >> they are all saying about separang the families. thats a democrat bill. thats demowanting to do that and they could solve it easily by getting together but they think its a good election point. >>chris: what do you think of the separation of families? the zero-tolerance and whats come from it. and as its apparently being used by the top administration as...

And democrats critical including former first lady laura bush. she wrote, i live in a border state and i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries but this zero-tolerance policy is cool. its immoral and it breaks my heart. the democrats argued that the white house, the president and the administration using children as pawns to try to make congress make immigration reform. i asked kristin nielsen about that earlier today. you are calling on congress to change the la...

The north koreans agree to give up their nukes, missiles and weapons infrastructure and verification. we didnt see that in the joint statement. its not a fatal flaw because theres no style points but we needed a little bit more. i think president trump can recover because he has the overwhelming leverage but this is going to be a little bit more difficult for them than it otherwise needed to be. >> eric: could that be coming? theyre supposed to talk to each other. >> of course. as i said, this s...

Crime taking place south of the order? its historic, some countries, the most dangerous place in the world. not going to happen in the united states." the president is blaming democrats for stonewalling on immigration policy changes that he would like to see. tweeting three short words. "change the laws." democrats criticize the prent for using children as leverage to get congress to pass the tough proposals. here is the democrat from oregon. >> deliberate trauma on children and stress on adults...

Naval ships and knows theres her option and its not a pretty one. >> sandra: were back with "americas newsroom" a-team, steve hilton and mary anne marsh and gordon chang. your reaction to gordon mccaul saying its a major breakthrough. >> its historic the first time an american president meets with a north korean leader and the other thing is president trump did fail to press the advantage. if you go back to the end of may, clearly president trump with brilliant diplomacy had the north koreans on...

So, nbcs geoff bennett, when the president tweets things like change the law, cochange kwhaes happening in a vekd, all he has to do is pick up the phone, right? >> reporter: thats right. the white house has been all over the map with this. the president refusing to take full ober ship of this policy falsely suggesting that democrats are to blame. even as his own attorney general has defended it citing scripture and chief of john kelly referred to it as a strong deterrent. but today the president...

Tomorrow if they went out and said, im not going to approve a single trump judge until its over. they have leverage. but we have seen over and over again with few exceptions that these senators on the right just dont want to use their leverage on this stuff or take on the presirectly and it goes to the fear that the president has created in his own party of him. its astonishing. i think these lawmakers are more afraid of trump than the outcry from the media or from the population. >> theyre afra...

Summit. and well keep you posted on -- >> well keep an eye on this, but if sarah huckabee sanders is not going to be talking more about family separations well go to the panel and just chew over what secretary nielsen just said. she refused to say the family separations are being used as leverage. but she basically said in the language and the words she used that, yeah, they are being used as leverage. she said that she is looking far long-term fix, and until that long-term fix happens, families...

Members because you are starting to get more, what we call in the world of journalism, color coming out of these holding pens. nicolle, you just saw coming across the web a pro publica audio. im sure youre going to play it at some point, but it is heart wrenching. it has little children and you can tell any mother, any person can tell the sound of a baby wailing. some of them crying so hard that theyre gasping for breath, being separated from their parents. so, we are starting to get more detail...