While her words make clear she disagrees with some of the zero tolerance immigration approach. Im here to learn about your society which i know you have children. And i would like to ask you how to help reunite with the families. And the big Election Year question, does he help or hurt . 135 days until mid term elections, the president is on the road more and more. For the republicans the risk is predictability. Whacky jackie has a vote for her is a vote for pelosi and chuck schumer. A vote for her is a vote for increased taxes, weak, weak lordslord borders. It is a vote for crime. With us is Jonathan Martin of the new york times. President trump was forced into a dramatic about face on the issue that most animates his disruptive and unique political brand. I dont think being weak on the border, i dont think that is a good issue. I think i got elected largely because we are strong on the border. I really believe that. Zero tolerance is an immigration label the president loves, but global outrage brought a tasty treat in the form of a rushed executive order. The kplpolitical imperative wase quiet the outrage. The president says zero tolerance is still operative. Emails from other Administration Agencies suggest otherwise. The government report 522 children are reunited about 2,053 are still separated. The reunification process will take a bit because of legal proceedings. The administration plans to keep arrested Families Together and the pentagon is being asked to rush new shelters into operation with the capacity to hold tens of thousands. The headlines are not kind. Just a few here from the past few days. The president believes all this criticism is unfair. Our people are actually doing a very good job handling a very difficult situation but this is a problem that should have been solved years ago. It is interesting listening to the president on the road. He almost didnt touch the family separation issue defending his people but he didnt want to talk about it. I assume the reason is because it is a full and complete about face. It is bad for his Larger Campaign theme which is hard on immigration and tough on the borders and you are in front of a conservative audience in a state like nevada and you dont want to talk about the fact that you bow to the Mainstream Media by softening your border policies which is what he did. Of course, he is going to avoid focus on that. He does want to run on a hard line on the border. He thinks that is a winning issue for him and frankly democrats think it is a vulnerability for them if it is on issues like sanctuary cities and open borders. When you talk about being separated from parents its not much of a wedge. On the policy front wednesday after the president reversed course, how many kids are there . Are you missing anybody . How long is this going to take . You got nothing from the administration. Last night they did release a statement in which they say in part dhs, department of Homeland Security and hhs have a process established to ensure that family members know the location of their children and have regular communication after separation. The United States government knows the location of all children in its custody and is working to reunite them with their families. Are they getting their act together . We have to understand this is a crisis entirely of their own making. You can argue there was a crisis in terms of the volume of Central American migration into the United States which existed for many years. There was. But this particular crisis of all these children who are now listed as and being treated as unaccompanied even though they came to the border with their parents is in the administrations own making. They put the policy into practice without thinking about the implications it seems like at all. This past week in their panic and haste to try to diffuse the Public Relations crisis they put in place the executive order that they didnt fully think through and figure out how to implement. So now they are in a situation where maybe they have a list somewhere of names and birth dates of the children. But the actual process of reuniting with families is complex because the legal system and immigration system treats the children differently than they treat other people and a lot of them have their own legal processes that are going in parallel and diverging from their parents and this is incredibly complicated for them to rectify. They created this particular part of the problem. There was the president s decision implemented by the Justice Department and much like when the travel ban was implemented you called the Different Agency and got a different answer because across the administration well intentioned people didnt really know what the policy was. If you listen to the president , he doesnt say i had to retreat, we were wrong. He says this. So we are keeping Families Together and this will solve that problem at the same time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a zero tolerance. We have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally. No politician likes to say i messed this up, i was wrong. But if you listen to that it sounds like im solving somebody elses problem. This is a problem he creates. And he has given no clear indication of how to fix it after coming out not only does the executive order not explain how he will implement it. He has had mixed messages on policy grounds telling House Republicans he needed to pass legislation not just to deal with this issue but also larger issues involving Border Security and then drop that, we dont need to worry about it. In the mid terms this has been a bungled policy and the policy not surprisingly didnt want to talk about it because it is a huge embarrassment for the situation and they havent explained about what they are going to do to reunite the families. I think he is torn a little bit about how to message this because he understands he doesnt want to drag down mid term races and cost the majority that leaves him vulnerable but on the other hand he put corey lewindowski. He still sees right up to the line. This is a rallying cry for many people in the base and is an opportunity that he understands it is complicated to take advantage of that opportunity because it turns off so many people who were not in that camp. He is still juggling the strategy. And to jonathans point the president did win the republican nomination and the presidency in part by taking positions on immigration. The president thinks i trust my reflexes. They got me into the oval office. Democrats understand they are vulnerable to a degree. This one says on this issue they think they have a huge opening to say you got this so wrong. Over and over again they said i just dont know. I dont know what the change will be. I dont know how these reunifications will happen. They do not have direction on how to go about this family reunification and not separating families. Where is the plan . Where is the list of the names . Where they are from and where they are going . What shelters are they in . Fair questions raised by the democrats. Will Congress Pass a separate piece of legislation . If you are the democrats you want the families reunited. There is a lot of questions whether the executive order would stand up in court. Does the president need legislation . They argue they need legislation. Others say they dont need legislation. Then the president tweeted dont worry about this. Lets worry about it after the mid terms. The house will try to pass if they come up with a kricompromi it will probably not pass the house. The senate is working on a narrower approach to deal with the issue about the family separations. There is not much appetite to take that up for mitch mcconnell. Im skeptical anything can get through. Especially with trump saying dont bother, that will lose any that they have remaining. I think if the issue moves away from the kids at the border i think it is an opening for republicans. I think they are being pushed to the left by the base. Trump demagoguing the issue is pushing democrats further and further to the left. He baits the democrats into conversation. More on that and the mid term election complications down the road. Next Melania Trump and the 40 question. Hey allergy muddlers. Are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec®. Its starts working hard at hour one. And works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. 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When children come here what kind of stage do they come here . How long is the time that they spend here . Those are questions the Trump White House has had a hard time answering. To have them raised publically by the first lady was a remarkable use of her platform to question and criticize the husbands policy but wasnt the only message. This 40 jacket and its i dont really care graffiti sparked a global mystery. Just who was the first lady looking to startle . Who . I wish i could answer the question. I was on the trip. It was raining. A the jacket was cinched. None of us saw it. We didnt know it said anything on the back. We land and there is this controversy. My instinct was not that she was trying to send a message about the kids. She changed jackets and was wearing Something Different during the time. Of course it was going to spark a debate and speculation and of course nobody believes it happened accidently. How would she find a 39 jacket . I dont think her closet is stocked with a lot of 39 jackets. Was she sending a signal about speculation about her kidney surgery or trolling her husband in a subtle way with the back of it pulled . Of course the questions were going to be raised and unfortunately i think it ended up overshadowing the more serious message she was trying to convey. Very serious message. Remarkably public disagreement with her husband or raising questions about her husbands policy. She wore it on the plane, off the plane and wore it walking along the holiday. What was she doing . I think it is totally about her husband. The whole purpose of the trip was effectively a rebuke. This is his policy that he held on to and only grudgingly gave up on. And then the next day after he gives in she goes to the border to draw more attention to his policy that he just bailed on. I think it is pretty clear that she has her own views on this topic. Keep in mind she issued a statement sunday or monday talking about the issue, as well. Clearly she has her own strong views. She says you can have a strong immigration policy and have a heart. She is an immigration herself. She is a former fashion model and has had her own business. She knows sometimes unfairly whatever she looks at will be looked at. The headlines fashion fireworks, New York Post has the first lady gone rogue . New york daily news, full muddle jacket. The staff says it is just a jacket. The president tweeted that it was about us that she is being critical of the Media Coverage of her and them. She was doing something. The fact that we dont know what she was doing makes it more interesting. The president is actually saying something accurate here that it was aimed at us even though the spokesperson for the first lady said there was no message. The president said there was a message. Thats still not appropriate. They should not be using this occasion, this very serious issue to try to troll the media. That doesnt make sense. Here is a suggestion for the white house. They can clear this up by having a press briefing. I would love to see it. The idea that they would allow her aides, other people in the west wing who know when these trips are happening everyone knew she was going to do this, that she would be allowed to go out in public with a message like that on the back of the jacket at this sensitive time with the controversy over the family separation policy and all of these questions swirling about her role, she is a very private first lady. She doesnt step out of the spot light a lot. When she does the fact that she useatize to ses it to send a meg why dont you save this for another day is telling. In the end no matter the message it has been overshadowed by that. I think she wanted to send a message. She knew what she was doing. 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This is where you get into his mindset. 51 about the russia probe. This is not exact. We are blending tweets. 51 about the russia probe. Trade, north korea, economy. Republicans would like the president to be talking a lot more about this a lot less about this. Again, yesterday he travelled to nevada. The most tweets in the month came just yesterday on this saturday. The russia witch hunt is rigged the president tweeted. Steel is coming back and tweeted very sad that nancy pelosi and her side kick crying chuck schumer. It is this past month we have seen the republicans want the president to talk about the economy. Forefront on the president s mind right now is tough on immigration. If you are weak which some people would like you to be, if you are pathetically weak the country will be overrun with millions of people. If you are strong then you dont have a heart. That is a tough dilemma. Perhaps i would rather be strong but that is a tough dilemma. You talked about this earlier. He wants to talk about this even in the face of this major retreat, an embarrassment for the Trump White House. There are some who agree and some who think it helps when you see the democratic enthusiasm. There are other republicans who say not where we live in the country. Thats bad for us. Two americas. It depends on where you are living and what campaign you are working on. And the house a lot of the action is in high income educated suburban districts where demagoguing immigrants is just not going to go over very well. Other parts of the country where there are Key Senate Races playing out that message is more effective. It depends on where in the country. The challenge this president doesnt do nuance very well. The idea that he isnt nuancing that message, good luck. This is why you see a split in the gop on how effective this message is because some folks want it and other folks say keep that stuff down. It is so fascinating to see him yesterday where there is a large hispanic spaupulatipopula he didnt mention the words immigration, wanting to talk about taxes and economy. Remember, helder was one of the republicans who voted for the 2013 comprehensive immigration bill in the