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Deterrent, using cruelty to children as a policy tool. and the consequences are going to be lifelong. and this is what congressional oversight looks like. this is a very good choice by the democrats, to highlight this, because it gets lost in all the rhetoric about the wall and open borders and all of this sort of thing, that in fact you have a man-made, administration-created, humanitarian nightmare that is not over. >> youve covered congress, you talk to these people all the time. diane degett...

American people should appreciate. they are willing to negotiate on border security. i heard the president talk about steel slats. we have more. if there needs to be an addit n additional 20 miles, lets negotiate that. you cant negotiate in a postage situation. no president, republican or democrat should say im going to get my way or im going to stop paying people that keep us safe at airports, nowhere in the constitution does it say that anybody, president, senator, or congressm congressman, ha...

Understood, judging from what weve heard from the president of the new york fed. and then second, the fed has to realize that it cannot keep a really important policy tool on automatic pilot. that it needs to be more sensitive to whats happening. and i think that the fed can regain control and we can stop the self-inflicted wounds. sandra: do you think the presidents criticism of jerome powell and his actions as the federal reserve chairman, are they warranted? >> no, i think the president has a...

Understood, judging from what weve heard from the president of the new york fed. and then second, the fed has to realize that it cannot keep a really important policy tool on automatic pilot. that it needs to be more sensitive to whats happening. and i think that the fed can regain control and we can stop the self-inflicted wounds. sandra: do you think the presidents criticism of jerome powell and his actions as the federal reserve chairman, are they warranted? >> no, i think the president has a...

Weve heard from the president of the new york fed. and then second, the fed has to realize that it cannot keep a really important policy tool on automatic pilot. that it needs to be more sensitive to whats happening. and i think that the fed can regain control and we can stop the self-inflicted wounds. sandra: do you think the presidents criticism of jerome powell and his actions as the federal reserve chairman, are they warranted? >> no, i think the president has a point in saying fed, get a fe...

Was going to ask rick. do you think -- i think that the bucket of immigration policies, that is the bucket in which well find the beginning of not being the country we thought we were. >> yes, and no. weve been a country with a horrific immigration history. even the refugee debates we turned away jews fleeing nazi-dominated europe who had come here on a boat and we sent them back to europe. weve had a bad history when it comes to immigration. what were seeing now in my estimation is an administr...

The russia investigation that they have been dying to get answered. they are not going to swap that all away because others want to talk about health care. those investigations are going forward. elijah cummings who has a lot of experience running these kinds of investigations, there is a lot of pent up demand from democrats to look into these things. sometimes the public doesnt always have the appetite for that. >> right. >> they are looking at their health care bill every month. >> they are go...

>> for such a long time sanctions have been the vice that the international community has used, the u.s. has levied them, weve seen international sanctions levied by the united nations. i wonder what role theyre playing going north. you had this guy second in command when hes on a sanctions list to meet with the president of the united states. i wonder about the economic considerations here, how much pressure the u.s. can apply via the economy, how much of an enticement that is for north korea t...

>> exactly. so ive never been for wide-ranging sanctions. i believe that russia is an occupied country and there is 145 million russians who are suffering under this occupation. and you have a very small number of people stealing resources for their own benefit and vladimir putin is at the top of the small pyramid of people stealing and there is no point in punishing the russian people who are being punished enough and who should be punished is vladimir putin and the people around him holding hi...

The results of say the steel and aluminum tariffs the other day. its as if the administration sees tariffs and more broadly protectionism as an abstract concept rather than as actually a policy tool that has real implications for american producers and consumers both directly and when others retaliate. its just not being thought through, and its one of the reasons the market is beginning to tank. this administration has got to be really careful. they inherited a strong market. they added all sor...