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Together to address this humanitarian crisis and protect vulnerable populations. we know if congress were to act or the courts were to enforce the law as written, we could address this crisis tomorrow. instead we continue to do more with less. i ask congress to please put politics aside and recognize this for the growing security and humanitarian crisis it is. when you talk to people on the ground, that is one of the first things they mention to you, ryan. it is a growing crisis, one that seems ...

Migrants are released because the time table for them to be held by the government has expired. they were caught offguard. there is an expectation that more migrants will be released in the coming days. we are waiting for that to happen. >> joining me now to discuss this the former acting director of immigration. the head of customs and border protection said it was devastating in speaking out this morning about the tragedy of the 8 year old and 7 year old. they said their facilities arent equip...

>> that was the final straw. we were on board that my brother would have definitely shown up for his own fathers funeral. >> but ellen and their children showed up. they no longer kept in touch with the family but seen the death announcement in the newspaper and came to pay their respects. >> we werent expecting them. so it was a little strange, kind of caught us off guard but once again we are in a state of mourning. dedont want to create issues. we werent going to have them escorted out. >> af...

Skpe -- happiest and saddest of occasions are what brings families together. when mikes family gathered together to mourn the death of mikes father, any hope the family had left for mikes return evaporated. >> that definitely was the final straw where we were all on board that my brother would have definitely shown up for his own fathers funeral. >> but ellen and her children did show up. they no longer kept in touch with mikes side of the family, but theyd seen the death announcement in the new...

Everett from politico and reporters from bloomberg. i want to start with this statement from mnuchin that caught everyone off-guard. one person said, if this werent the end of december i would have thought it was april fools. the markets are already nervous if you have. its like sending out a message saying are our space shields intercepting incoming asteroids. uh, i didnt know any were headed our way. any sense on why mnuchin did what he did? >> it seems like he wanted to calm everybody down an...

Know, hes obviously being supported by the republicans in congress. were an organization that works equally with both republicans and democrats. its want way we operate. we need do that to best advocate for our members. so for us, its not a partisan thing. lets be real, theyre shutting down the government, and trump has taken ownership and is the one that deserves the credit for it. >> your organization represents 110,000 employees. you were saying many were caught offguard. im going to assume t...

The consequences to the united states inside syria taking skin out of the game and going from having, you know, marginal influence in the region to having absolutely none in an area that produces real tangible national security threats and terrorism that can endanger the united states. so i think in this case i think the right was completely caught offguard. our allies were caught off guard, generals were caught off guard, and the president as he said is trying to deliver on a promise of withdra...

And the president fails to see how it will endanger our country. thats right. the calls are coming from inside the house. bottom line, nothing about any of this is like anything weve seen before except, of course, from this president. starting with that tweet this morning, "we have defeated isis in syria. my only reason for being there during the trump presidency." he did not elaborate. a short time later a source told us the president ordered a full and rapid military pullout from syria. to say...

Everyone doesnt begin to describe it. it even caught the white house off guard. one senior official who was holding a conference call on it simply could not offer any details referring reporters to the pentagon. the pentagons response, ask the white house. were not making this up. no one had any details, at least none that they could talk about. republican senator bob corker whos the outgoing chair of the senate foreign relations committee, went to the white house for a scheduled meeting this af...

His own department and his own party and with putin rendered his vice president mute. >> reporter: mr. vice president, do you stand by what you said to members of the senate? >> nothing say. kaitlan collins is out front at the white house. kaitlan, the president makes this announcement and says nothing to anybody all day and is afraid to take questions, putting out a video where he was safe and secure from anyone asking him anything. >> typically, erin, a president would come out to some kind of...