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Democrats would say, remember this, just earlier this month, the presidents own attorney general, jeff sessions, enacted the very polici. >> if you dont want your child to be separated, dont bring them across the border illegally. >> if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. that child may be separated from you as required by law. >> now the attorney general would say hes trying to send a deterrent message -- dont try it wont happen if you dont try. democrats are saying the separ...

Nuclear power. >> i would like to have better fidelity on the question of was john bolton a good soldier or was he doing everything he could to torpedo this thing. i think that is important to understand. i dont think the president asked him very carefully about policy issues. he just liked his swagger on things. the reason i put that as number one is the issue will be in the coming weeks now that the secretary of state is willing to talk to the north koreans at the drop of a hat how about sendi...

That threat. michael flynn jr. is pretty active on social media but certainly seemed like a warning. >> let me ask you about the state department for a moment. the new yorker has this sweeping profile about the ambassador to panama who quit the administration, being very public about it. the article also tells an anecdote of how after he briefed the president and other senior members on policy issues at the white house, the president quickly started talking about the trump hotel in panama city, ...

Won last week by 1,000 votes. congratulations on your win cara. >> thank you so much. >> this is not necessarily a left-leaning district. you were the more progressive of the candidates. there is some concern for the democratic party you are going to be a little bit too progressive for this district. what do you say? >> well, i think thats an interesting narrative. as it turns out in our campaign we knocked on over 60,000 doors. the policy issues, the things that we have been talking about are t...

So it does seem like the focus of this white house is on trying to plug all of these leaks, but the fact that the issue of the meeting actually leaked is a sign that theyre not doing a very good job of making sure that the leaks are being controlled. >> why do you thupg this sort of thing is leaking out, though? >> well, there are some people within the white house who are not comfortable with this type of talk. the idea of making fun of senator mccain, who is not a democrat. hes a republican, s...

Gives public servants such a bad nam name. >> vice president mike pence said that robert mueller needs to wrap up his investigation. what do you think of that? >> what bob muellers career has always been about is do it by the books. dont set arbitrary dates, dont try to intimidate people. bob mueller is a republican, hes a decorated war hero. throughout his career -- and, boy, i have disagrooed with him plenty on policy issues, hes behaved in an honorable way. nobody is above the law. let him do...

Hes talking about the issues the president is embroiled in. it will make the president that much harder to be his own spokesperson. and now he has other people who want to be the presidents spokesperson speaking on behalf of the white house. it is going to get confusing. >> you have the face of the presidents team talking about major policy issues. correct me if im wrong, but didnt we just confirm a report that he wanted to be secretary of state? >> sure, he wanted to be secretary of state and h...

Sources who dont exist. >> we spoke to a number of administration officials who said kelly repeatedly questions the presidents grasp on policy issues and the functions of government and will often say im the one here saving the country. >> new claims iran has lied about nuclear weapons as president trump faces a deadline to decide the fate of the iran nuclear deal. netanyahu documenting irans past nuclear program and claiming iran remains a nuclear threat and doing it in english for an audienc...

Him actually calling it to him in the first place. so well see how this develops. no question that many people around here believe that john kelly is a short-timer, likely potentially to leave this summer. but who knows. the president makes these decisions himself. but there certainly is a pattern emerging here of so many staff shake-ups. >> jeff, thank you very much. and editor of the national review rich lowry and national correspondent for the nation, joan walsh. john kelly is the presidents ...

Did they fight and die for a tax cut or an immigration approach or something? no. they fought and died for the core values that are all we are as a country, the ones i laid out. i hope we first ask -- maybe we want an unconventional guy. what is happening to these? because if we lose these, thats all we are as a country, a a selection of as per rations. collection ever values. we should realize those ewe nature us. insist that our leaders reflect those and get back to fighting like crazy about t...