Argument, wolf, or is it about making a difference? i think if you can look back and say, i want my time for me, serving in congress to be more than just making an argument and making a difference, i think that s where you can find the right tone in the spirit and theater proclaim what it is that we believe in. we ve got to tone down the rhetoric. thank you so much for joining us. thanks, my privilege. up next, president trump backtracks, and now says he may watch former special counsel robert mueller s testimony before congress on wednesday. we re also keeping our eyes on puerto rico right now. huge crowds are in the street once again demanding the immediate resignation of the island s governor. the shawn mendes verizon up concert was surreal. we were right in front of him. dead center, front row. i ll never forget that day. (announcer) the network more people rely on gives you more, like a free galaxy s10e when you buy one. that s verizon. yeah.yeah, this is nice. hmm. how did
As our political asylum process is, it is a legal way to try to get here. why don t we change it to where we give yearly renewable work permits where only the breadwinner will risk their lives to come up here and then we don t have to have all of these people fleeing their source country, honduras is a lawless nation, somalia, latin america, mothers know they will be separated from their child. laura: we ll talk to the congressman about that in just a second. we have a situation right now, as it exists, that the president, i think, was trying to deal with. i think in a reasonable way, something is good here. it s either open borders, let people into the country, we know how that works, it encourages more, or it s separating the families, which is a harrowing thing, the images are terrible, nobody likes to see it. so john, i want to go back to you. the president came out today, and the media was blaring, president trump backtracks, reverses course, at the same
President trump backtracks, reverses course, at the same time, he says, they are not getting rid of the zero-tolerance policy. correct, john? that s right. that s what a lot in the media had a problem with because the executive order keeps in place that is zero tolerance policy. the trump administration, rightly or wrongly, and i think they were not prepared to do this when they did, they are saying we are going to prosecute every single person who crosses the border illegally. that s an insane thing to do if you have the system we have come a right? the executive order keeps that in place, and just says, we are going to get the families together while there asylum claims and immigration status is adjudicated. obviously, that runs up against the 1997 flores agreement, which says you can t give kids for more than 20 days, even if they are with their parents. so the trump administration has sort of provoked a showdown now. it is a challenge to congress. this is going to get struck down
Welcome back. i m jacob soboroff here at msnbc headquarters in new york. here are some of the stories that we are following at this hour. president trump backtracks after appearing to defend vladimir putin. the president says, quote, i believe in our intel agencies. the comments came after trump originally said he thinks the russian president, quote, is very insulted by reports of russia interfering in the 2016 presidential election. pennsylvania gop senator pat toomey is the latest to call for roy moore to drop out of the senate race in alabama. moore calls the washington post report completely false and untrue regarding sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl when moore was 32. more than 500 peep attended a a funeral. questions for the pentagon as they continue to grow with