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Is this signaling anything larger potentially? how do you see them holding together? >> this is the cornerstone of the democratic strategy. separate republicans from the president on this issue. if youre mitch mcconnell, youre ultimately going to have to choose. do you protect your vulnerable members? or protect the position of the president? democrats believe over enough time and with enough of these defections, they can increase that pressure on mitch mcconnell to have a vote in the senate to ...

In fact, were talking about airports where a wall wouldnt do anything. >> so misleading at best. lets talk about this razor wire or whatever you want to call it on top of the existing wall and the troop movement. whats going on there? >> right. ive been down to the border, seen them hanging this concertina wire. they would expand this and talk about this today. theres a meeting between dod and dhs officials. and this isnt something that the president would have to get congress to approve. dod co...

Line on a number of issues, starting calling for separating these votes from the votes to build the border wall. the democrats have done what they said theyre going to do. it does place the ball squarely in mitch mcconnells court. he said he doesnt want to take show votes. he doesnt want to vote anything that the president wont support. to kristens point about this meeting and having relatively low expectation, i can tell you the feeling is largely the same here on the congressional side except ...

Separation of parent and children. they did not do that under prior administrations. this is unprecedented. >> so the argument that their families have been separated because the law required it, you say false? >> false, absolutely. you can talk to anybody on the border and they will tell you that there were sporadic separations for particular reasons. this is a systemic policy to separate thousands of children. we have never seen anything like this. >> you can go for standing as a class, a grou...

Practice right now that doesnt a lot of sense. >> by the way, im not defending the process. i dont like whats happening. >> but he does, right? >> im just saying i think trump has made the case that illegal immigration is a big problem. >> everybody knows its a problem. >> but i keep hearing this, though. i keep listening to cnn, he keeps hearing liberals say we care about illegal immigration but they dont want to fund the wall, theyre not in favor -- >> because a wall wouldnt do anything. >> wh...

The system is broken in lots of ways but ripping babies away from their mothers is not -- does not go further towards creating a system that is fairer to these people. >> heres the problem -- >> hold on, lets set the context because i need you to explain something. youre pro-immigration, thats fine. however youre defending a practice right now that doesnt make sense. >> by the way, im not defending it. i dont like whats happening. >> but he does, right? >> im just saying i think trump has made t...

2014, they had kids who came here unaccompanied, people didnt blame obama, they blamed the situation but when its trump, everybody blames trump. fair pushback? >> no, let me be as clear as possible. we pushed back on obama for deporting lots of people. this is different, the separation of parent and children. they did not do that under prior administrations. this is unprecedented. >> so the argument that their families have been separated because the law required it, you say false? >> absolutely...