trace: now more on the first lady s visit to texas and the president s executive order aimed at stopping the separation of immigrant families. we have team fox coverage on both sides of the border. first to steve harrigan who is n mccowan, texas. steve? a surprise visit by the first lady. she was on the ground here for two hours. she visited with 58 children at a shelter here on the south side of town. the children aged from 12 to 17. she had pointed questions for the staff and praised their work. here s what she had to say. we all know they re here without their families. i want to thank you for your hard work and your compassion and kindness and leading them in this difficult time. i would like to ask you how i
you as soon as it happens. president trump says he hopes congress will match his executive order with legislation. speaker ryan says the house plans to vote tomorrow. team fox coverage continues with the chief congressional correspondent, mike emanuel. he s live on capitol hill. mike? trace, good afternoon. the push is on to get at least 218 yes votes to consider both of the immigration bills that lawmakers will consider tomorrow night. so you have attorney general jeffessions and homeland security secretary kirstjen neilsen trying to win over republicans that may be on the fence or leaning for voting for these immigration plans. michael mccall from texas telling lawmakers the attorney general came and talked to lawmakers and said he supports both bills, the mccall goodlatte one. it s a strong station from the administration when the president came up and the attorney general came today. democrats are hammering away at the narrower issue about family
from central america predominantly honduras, guatemala and el salvador. trace? yeah, john roberts live on the north lawn. thank you. we re hearing from lawmakers ahead of the meeting with house republicans on immigration. team fox coverage continues with the chief congressional correspondent, mike emanuel. mike, senate leaders just spoke about immigration. what are they saying? mitch mcconnell says everyone seems to agree the problem of parents and children being separated must be fixed and he says he s ready to work on it. we hope to reach out to the democrats and see if we can get a result, which means making a law and not just get into some kind of sparring back and forth. if it leads to no conclusion. senate democratic leader chuck schumer said the president can fix it himself.
journalist group. [crying]. trace : president trump claims it s up to congress to fix the problem. some of his fellow republicans say the trump administration could stop the separation of families right now. zero tolerance policy is of their making. the policy we re talking about was implemented by this administration. they can change it if they wanted to. the president headed to capitol hill to meet with gop lawmakers. they re working on an immigration bill that calls for ending the separation of parents and kids. we have team fox coverage with mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. first, to the chief white house correspondent, john roberts. he s live at the white house.
he helped supervise the last capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that i pray to god they will never have to negotiations with north korea. thanks for joining us, sir. be used. the president wrote that he i know you re the expert here looks forward to meeting kim but this feels more like a some day. negotiation more than a nancy pelosi says that president trump s letter reads like a cancellation. your take? valentine, but house speaker exactly. first of all, the strong paul ryan says to achieve peace, rhetoric out of north korea was there needs to be a greater not from kim jong-un, the leader degree of seriousness from kim but one of his subordinates. jong-un. president trump would have been the first president to meet with it was aimed at john bolton. a north korean leader. that s one sign. but the more serious sign as we have team fox coverage with secretary pompeo pointed out, rich edson. the lack of response from the reaction with mike pompeo that north koreans abou