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Now 2,000 times of children separated from their parents as leverage for a deal. now, the compromise piece of legislation that the house is considering would attract democrats in theory. it would grant legal status and ultimately citizenship to the dreamer kids. it would deal with the issue of separation of families and it would fortify the border. the question is, will that have enough support in a midterm election year to pass, and one of the issues would be would the president sign it. so the...

Is trying to force them from even crossing the border to seek asylum. theres a lot of other things this admintration could be doing to stem this flow. instead, what they want to do is use human flow of people running away from violence, seeking shelter here, they want to use it as leverage, as hostage to again fulfill this stupid border wall which was supposed to be paid for by mexico. now theyre holding thousands of families hostage so the american taxpayer can pay for this mistake. >> want to ...

Is threatening to impeach rosenstein over it and so forth. that politics is clearly heating up and will unfold in the next few days. >> "the washington post" reported this meeting in florida happened in may just before that, george papadopoulos his meeting where he was told russians had dirt on hillary clinton. june 9th, just a few days later, the trump tower meeting, the infamous trump tower meeting took place. then in july we had this wikileaks release of e-mails, as well. help us understand t...

That does galvanize republican voters. >> and jeff, kellyanne was the asked about the white house literally using this as a political leverage while commenting on this, there is that report from the "washington post" that krooitdscites a whit person saying that the thinking is to force people to the table. here is how kellyanne responded to that. im sorry, dont have that. let me just get the sound bite as far as i have it, i certainly dont want anyone using this as leverage. i object to that ver...

Every way, shape and form. is the president wanting to hear exactly what you said, congresswoman, youre willing to work with him youll say okay i will support funding a wall to some extent. is that why he is doing this? hes trying to use this issue as leverage to get money for his wall? >> but you know what? if thats what he was trying to do, then he should have done it. there have been moments -- we have been ready to do this for months. this is the latest in a war that makes no sense. and you ...

Journey. why do that right now? i understand we have an immigration debate going on in this country. why use these kileverage? >> well, i certainly dont want anybody to use these kids as leverage. i saw a headline that breathlessly screamed as much and i objected to that forcefully. let me say this. these children are -- >> in fairness by the way it was a white house official who told the "wall street journal" -- the thinking is to force people to the table. >> by the way i want that person to s...

Because they have no option but to flee. we need to be working with our southern neighbor, mexico, to deal with this crisis. none of this can be resolved by angry tweets or by using these families as a leverage. look, youre absolutely right, its going to be very difficult to get a comprehensive immigration bill in election year, any year. lets not tear the families apart in the meantime. >> shouldnt be part of the immigration -- separating them? >> it shouldnt be. its just plain wrong and immora...

On imgreat lakmigration and get wall, there are bills on the floor of the house but stop the separation of parents from their children. if they said it, if a majority of senate republicans and a majority of house republicans, if even a selected number of elected republican members of congress, not people like me talking on cnn and other networks, but other elected members of congress said it, i think the president might say, let me stop this. >> scott, do you think that this is now just a negoti...

Supporting this practice and using it as leverage perhaps to get more democrats on board in which to design and v on a immigration law that will also help finance his wall. >> i dont think democrats are about to come on board in favor of the kind of any immigrant hysteria that he and jeff sessions and all the trump wanna bes in the texas state government have been advocating. i think hes trying to hold the republican party together because we had 22, 23 republicans signing a petition to override...

Issue comes up. so the president could pick up the phone to attorney general jeff sessions using his power to implement immigration legislation, immigration laws that he has the discretion to do, and change this and revert back to the position that was prevailing before may. i think whats interesting about this tweet is that the president appears to be confirming that hes using this growing political issue over separations which is having a real impact in washington on the politics of this issue...