Plus President Trump reportedly considering a new plan that might put him in putins good graces. Welcome to the lead. Im dana bash in for jake tapper. We start with the national lead. The Trump Administration changing the rules again, creating a new obstacle for some members of the military who risk their lives to serve the United States. Now it may be harder for some of their children to become u. S. Citizens. Its part of a pattern by this administration to crack down on legal immigrants, never mind illiam immigration. Just yesterday two officials confirmed to cnn President Trump said he was willing to part any aides who might break the law, trying to finish construction of his border wall. He ordered the rates on nearly 700 on undocumented workers, crying, wondering what happened to their parents. As it takes aim at new and nonu. S. Citizen who are serving the United States overseas. We have Service Members who didnt sleep well last night, because theyre worried about their families. Theyre worried about the citizenship of their own kids, as they are supposed to be doing their jobs to protect the rest of us. The policy is complicated. At its core, it takes away a residency exception made for some people serving the u. S. Only because theyre overseas. The kids of naturalborn citizens, or those who have spent longer than five years in the u. S. Wont be affected. Those who are impacted fall into three main groups. The children born to American Parents serving overseas who have lived in the u. S. Under five years will now need to apply for citizenship. The new children of parents serving the United States who only become citizens after the child is born, they too have to apply. And if u. S. Citizen parents serving overseas adopt a foreign child while serving, that child also has to apply. This has nothing to do with people coming across the border without authorization. This has nothing to do with people who are threats to the United States. This is a specific policy to keep certain children of activeduty military members from being u. S. Citizen. Reporter the pentagon says this would impact around 100 people per year. The department of Homeland Security argues its far lower, around 25. Thousands of immigrants serve in the u. S. Military risking their lives. Troops and their families dont have much of a say over where theyre deployed. The u. S. Policy is in essence a punishment. Having served alongside immigrants, its a total insult to their service. Reporter dana, we have to note this new policy is not making anyone ineligible. The department of Homeland Security says its just aligning itself with Current State Department policy. What this does, it does create a headache, a lengthy process of applying for citizenship for these kids with lots of paperwork for their parents, who have asked to serve the United States and then are apparently being penalized for doing so. Dana . Alex, thank you so much for that report. Joining me now is active director of ken cuccinelli. These are americans working for the u. S. Government, being sent overseas by the u. S. Government to serve the u. S. Government. So why are they targeted with this policy . Well, usually the word targeted i take offense to that. We have brought ourselves in compliance with the law, and as noted at the very ends of that report, we have made ourselves consistent with the department of state. What was going on before was that the uscis approach to working the children up to be citizens was not consistent with the state department or the law. So we were acting illegally. We have brought ourselves into compliance with the law. What was happening now is you get your documentation and can you go to the state department, and they couldnt give them a passport because they werent legally qualified as a u. S. Citizen. Now all of that will mesh together correctly. This only applying to about 20 or 25 people a year, and no one should for a moment think this incredibly promilitary president would do anything like i just listened to minutes of attacking, oh, this is another he attack, this is another attack. This is complying with the law in a way that actually where there is still paperwork required before, theres paperwork required. Now it will work better. Youre saying its complying with the law. Im going to ask you about that for a second. This is half a page, which did link to a longer policy manual, but on it, this is what created the concern and the chaos among military applicants. No, what created it was the firestorm. No military members firestorm was created by the confusion in what you all were doing. Fair . No. You think it was clear. No, i dont think it was clear. I just said it was a policy manual. This is like a reference manual for the career professionals who process this paperwork. They had paperwork to do before this change takes effect. They have paperwork to do after. Again the last comment wasnt accurate. Again, these are people who have just changed the process. No one is denied citizenship who has access to it before. It doesnt apply to anyone born in this country. It doesnt apply to people born to american citizens overseas, and you all have zeroed in on the military, but it doesnt just fit for military members, but it applies to civilians, including expatriates. But its member serving the military asked to go overseas by the u. S. Government in service of america and those folks actually have a statutory provision just for them, that all that time overseas until orders counts as if they were in the United States for purposes of their childrens citizenship. Then why again, this is chaotic. This is not the first time we have seen this i freely concede and as i heard the lead in, its all President Trumps fault. This is a complicated area of law. Paperwork is required to comply with the law. It only apply toss children born in another country who were not born u. S. Citizens. It doesnt affect birth right citizenship, 2 doesnt affect anyone born in the United States, legal or illegal parents, it doesnt matter. These are children born, who when they were born were not u. S. Citizen, who are trying to be made u. S. Citizen by their parents. Its the paperwork they have to file. But it does delay no their eligibility. No it changes what they have to do. What this was about legally was the definition of in residence. Youre not residing in the United States if youre on a military base. If theyre sent by the u. S. May i, please . Sure. If theyre in another country on a military base, that is not in residence under the statute. Congress set these rules. We didnt set these rules. Weve been breaking the rules for the to make it easier for people, and then they couldnt get passports. Now were meshing all of that together, so when they get their documentation through uscis, they will smoothly operate with the state department and theyre more easily travel back to the United States. I isle finish my question is it a fact that the people going abroad and in the service of the United States, asked by the u. S. To do that, are because of that, their childrens residency or citizenship is being delayed because they are not in the u. S. Because the government asked them to do that . Well, first of all theres two categories military and civilian. Okay. I mentioned the military. They have their own special statute. For civilians, it would only be if the parents werent u. S. Citizens. You still have even if youre a u. S. Citizen, you have to get proof. You still have to do paperwork. Nobody escapes paperwork even u. S. Citizens whose children are u. S. Citizens. Part of the reason for the freakout is this isnt happening in a vacuum. This came after another chains that you put in place a few weeks ago, making it harder to get into the country, the visa and green card, meaning federal assistance, and you said famously the statue of liberty give me your tired and poor who can assistant on their own two feet, of course, i didnt say that. You read the first few words of what you just said. I didnt say thats what it should say. I deal with the law, not poetry. Fair, but the point is that the law, which you deal with changed, and again its on the heels no, the law did not clang. The regulation implemented a law passed on a bipartisan basis in 1996. Were using 140year the rule to implement the law changed. Thats true. Thats part of a pattern. Thats why people are think when they saw the change and it wasnt clear, they want, oh, this might be part every a pattern that started earlier this week. The headlines were declaring all over that did not you know this. You saw it yourself im sure. Citizenship will be denied to the children of military those are headlines all over the place. That was never true anywhere. Citizenship delayed. Thats not what the headlines were saying yesterday. Is that the right was to say it . No, paperwork changed to get citizenship, but as your own reporter said, the one thing he did get right is no one who before this paperwork change went into place could get citizenship, can no longer you might be talking about headlines that we have very good immigration reporters. I listened and sat here. One last question before i go. You said in a tweet this is not about birth right citizenship. Its not. The president separately has hinted in recent weeks more about changing birth right citizenship. Are you on a path to doing that in the Trump Administration . Nothing were doing in my agency, uscis, is related to that and pursuing that. 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Everybody god concerned of a Vice President going up into the middle of this, but we can lose a Vice President. We cant lose many more of these kids. Not a joke. This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire, and the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. I got up there, and my word as a biden, he stood at attention. I went to pin him, and he said do not pin it on me, sir, do not do that. He died. He died. The Washington Post found that biden was a senator, not the Vice President when he visited kunar province in 2008. The Service Member honored in that instance was an army specialist, not a navy captain, and biden did not pin the medal on him. He did a i ward the bronze star to then Staff Sergeant chad workman in 2011, for his heroic actions. Biden responded saying i dont understand what theyre talking about, but the Central Point is it was absolutely accurate what i said. The story was that he refused the medal, because the fellow tried to save and risked his life saved died. Thats the beginning, mid the and end, the rest of you can take it and do what you want with it. We are back with our panel if you were inside the Biden Campaign right now, what would you do . I would play a movie called i looked it up a wing and a prayer. Theres a scene where a b17 bomber is going down, theres a wounded crewmate, the crewmate cant escape. The pilot said, never mind, son, well ride this down together. The pilot won a congressional medal of honor. Thats baloney, thats a movie. Ronald reagan told that story word for word to a roomful of recipients, and we loved it. He was asked about it, he sid i might have seen the movie, or the readers digest, or maybe ive seen too many war movies. Maybe joe biden has seen too much real heroics. I dont have a candidate in this, but i think joe should embrace this. He has been to afghanistan more times than almost anybody i know whos not in so not a big deal . This is like reagan, not trump. Trump says hes the chosen one. Apparently hes jesus its not the 1980s anymore, and this is a big problem. The fact that its not the 1980s will be a problem for the Biden Campaign. We live in an era where Hillary Clinton says i ran under a tarmac under sniper fire, that proved not to be too. When Brian Williams mixed up the details, that was a problem. You cant do this anymore. That was about their heroism. Joe is talking about soldiers heroism. Its a huge difference. Joe biden got facts conflated and confused. Thats fine with me. But i think the problem he could run into is, you know, trump obviously has a doesnt have much relationship with the truth in a lot of ways, and its going to be hard for democrats to have a candidate that has some similar issues, maybe not to the same scale, but it provides a contrast point. That could be problematic. When you have other candidates that havent done this, that havent conflated anything, that havent maybe pushed the truth too much. I think that its not the 1980s. Its also a different time than just two cycles ago. So the fact that a lot of democratic strategists are trying to figure out if theyre operating in a postgaff world in the political realm because of the fact that trump has made some 12,000 or more false or misleading statements, and continues to do so. So whether or not it will hurt their candidate that much if they embellish here or there. And biden has, yes, gotten locations wrong, but he claims the essence of the story is accurate, and it appears to be, but he has repeatedly there has been a pattern of him getting locations wrong, getting certain names wrong, and whether or not that actually even impacts him with the democratic base. It is true, not a singular incident. Its a question about a pattern, and just on the raw politics of this, how does that play . Lean into it. Yeah, i got one heroism confused with another, you know what i wont do . I wont confuse neonazis with honorable people. In other words, hes got to lean in. If he becomes too riskaverse hes going to make gaffs, hes joe biden, but i think he should lean in and embrace it. You mention the questioned of the postgaff world. You talk to voters a lot. Is that a thing . Or is this the ability to survive gaffs a trump for donald trump its definite