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Heart. nbcs chef bennett is live at the white house. what else did we hear from the president? >> the white house messaging has been all over the map on this. youve seen the president refusing to accept responsibility for this policy outright. even as his own chief of staff has called it a deterrent policy and they have cited scripture. here today the president was really digging in saying this policy is a matter of national security. take a look. >> they could be murderers and thieves and so mu...

During in europe. they see the toll taken with the economy and theyre saying, we dont want those issues in our country. we expect to you stand with us. even if republicans want to do the right thing, theyre listening to the people who have to vote them into office. >> we heard from the president in the last hour. i think his take on how quickly this can be solved and by whom is different than a lot of other peoples. >> we can do this very quickly if the democrats come to the table. everybody wan...

Leverage just so he can get his wall and his other immigration demands? >> well, i think its important to keep families together. and thats one of the issues thats got to get resolved in this compromise bill, this bill were going to be seeing and talking about next week, a bill were going to vote on. weve got to fix this. but this is not a new issue. this is something that happened under the previous administration as well. th this is not a new policy. it was a court decision in 2016 that create...

This inhumane policy and they should end it today. >> he is blaming democrats for whats happening there. senator merkley, how do you respond? >> the president has no credibility on this topic. theres no new law that caused this, no law passed by democrats, its administrative policy that they started considering according to the press reports when he first came into office. thn they started a pilot project last summer and told the american people they werent separating kids. then they said they w...

Policy gives him political leverage with legislation. hurting kids to get legislative leverage is unacceptable. it is evil. were going -- im going to turn this over to my colleagues to share some thoughts and reflections on what we saw inside, and then well open it up to your questions. >> ge i want to thank senator merkley for bringing us together. we were just visiting this facility southwest key programs, and i want to emphasize the point that the people who are working there are doing the be...

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 separating the families. thats a democrat bill. thats nting 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. what you think of it as policy and as its apparently being used b...

Border. in the first six weeks after the president and his administration announced a zero-tolerance policy. it was the president on th this week. >> they are all saying about separating the families. thats a democrat bill. thats democrats wato 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. what you think of it as policy and as its apparently bei...

Leverage in trying to get something through on immigration, that the contours of what theyre looking for includes the wall. it includes some limits -- some restrictions on legal immigration, protection for families at the border, and then a path to legal status for the dreamers. politically, given this situation at the border, is there any sense among democrats, any appetite among democrats to go down that road towards compromise, or is that just a complete dead end to start with? >> i mean lets...

Foreign affairs. jon allen, let me start with you. let me read to set this up from a "washington post" piece tonight that i think explains the calculation behind what you hear president trump saying there in terms of trying to pin this on democrats. they say, president trump has calculated that he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations by continuing to enforce a policy he claims to hate. the attempt to gain advantage from a practice the american academy of pediatrics describe...

Lawmakers, even if they believe their constituents think that families should be kept together, i think a lot of them also believe that their constituents support president trump more than they care about family unification on the mexican/u.s. border. i think franco is absolutely right that this has always been sort of a moral question in u.s. immigration policy about keeping families together, and its one that has survived for a long time. the idea that families should be able to be kept togeth...