Even nastier line on immigration. Over the weekend, President Trump said with no clear evidence that the countrys immigration policy is, quote, laughed at all over the world, saying, quote, we cannot allow these people to invade our country. Invade. Trump demand those believed to have entered the country without documents be deported immediately and without a hearing. And today refused to back down, placing responsibility, of course, on the democrats. We want a system where when people come in illegally, they have to go out. And a nice simple system that works. Sarah Huckabee Sanders drove that message home today. Theyve made it very clear that they dont want to work with the president , that they dont want to fix our immigration system, that theyd rather have open borders and rampant crime than work with the president to create solutions. Open borders and rampant crime. Thats the message. While offering no legislative solution, the president is pushing the new harder line seeing illegal immigration as a wing political issue for him. In response to the president s comments, michigan congressman justin amash, a Tea Party Libertarian tweeted this of the constitution. Quote, no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or perot property without due process of law. The 14th amendment goes on the say that no person in the United States shall be denied within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Well, the white house wasnt able to say how or when the new policy would be put in force. Its unclear how this squares with the announcement late today by the head of u. S. Customs and Border Protection of a temporary halt to the criminal prosecution of adults who cross the border illegally with children. Over the weekend, the department of Homeland Security announce theyd had a process in place to help reunify families that had been separated by the trump policy. According to the departments numbers, by the way, roughly 500 children have been reunited with their parents. But those were children that had not been actually shipped to shelters. Nearly 2,000 children remain scattered across the country. For more im joined by democratic congressman from washington state, robert costa and leon prescott, former Deputy Assistant attorney general for the office of immigration litigation, and also dave jolly down in a windstorm somewhere in florida. Former republican congressman from that state. Thank you. I want to go to robert costa, just because youre a good trump reader. Why did he go from being the guy who apologized basically for separating children from their parents in an aboutface last week to a new aboutface where he getting eeven nastier . Were a few months out before the midterm elections. Republicans in congress, some of them want to focus on the tax law, but over at pennsylvania avenue, immigration, immigration, immigration. This is the issue that stokes the base. This is the issue people inside of the white house think can stop a democratic wave do. They believe its enough . It could be enough. You look at his support among republicans, its 90 in some polls. This is what the president says his base has to come out. Theyre not going to come out because of paul ryans tax law. I understand the political thrust of it. I call it a bayonet thrust. But the question is how do you do this when the constitution so clearly gives rights to people in this country, whether citizen, documented or not. You have rights under the constitution to due process, to a hearing . And we saw this with this administration during the travel ban, an administration that knows it will likely face Court Challenges for the president s statements, but nevertheless moves forward. Congressman, who howe do you read the fact that trump is going on offense this week after being on defense last week . I think that this has always been his plan. Use immigration, use immigrants to talk about invasion, infestation, get people scared. They are a great dividing line for his base. But i think hes misplaying this. I think there are many people across this country, and ive had a lot of republicans calling my office because weve been out front on the issue of children being separated, put in cages, parents who are escaping terrible situations, i think hes misreading it. Republicans are calling me and saying i dont agree with you on some other things, but i do agree with you on this. And i dont think that once he starts talking about eliminating due process, i think every american is going to have to start thinking about who is next. First they came for the trade unionists and i didnt stand up. I dont hear republicans saying that i dont hear them. 90 of the Republican Party is behind this president down the line. I dont hear Republican Office holders facing reelection saying its wrong to deny a hearing to people facing deportation at the border. I dont think the republicans in congress are saying this. I wish they were. But i do think republicans across the country are saying this. And will continue to say this if he continues to take these extreme positions. Im not sure you see it all reflected in the polls. But i do think this is a terrifying moment where he is talking about denaturalization. Yeah, i know shirks talking about things like eliminating due process. These are the hallmarks of a dictator, and i think the American People are going to start to really look at this and say this is insanity. This is really dangerous for our country. Dave, do you agree with that . Congressman jolly you accept the fact that this is a losing issue in the Republican Party for president within the party . Within the party, no, actually, i think its a winning issue. Were looking at the electoral reality that there are no crossover votes going into this election. If they are, theyre trending more democrat. So what trump and the republicans have to do is they have to energize their base. And fear energizes far greater than contentment does. Robert is exactly right. This is about exciting the base with fear and division. But we also have to be very, very knowledgeable today that we are looking at moments of fear and division, rhetoric, if you will, trending towards hatred. And that is a difficult conversation to grapple with. But make no mistake, donald trump is energizing his base because the tax bill has not worked and there are no legislative accomplishments between now and november. I agree. You know, i heard sarah Huckabee Sanders make the point that president wanted he obviously tells her what he wants her to say. She gets the message. And the message for her is democrats are for open borders and they dont care about crime. I think were going to hear those two messages juxtaposed, put right next to each other. Think crime when you think immigration. Sure. Open borders when you think democrats. And it seems to me that he is defining the democrats position his way. Its either my sort of crude way we admit, and maybe even unconstitutional way as opposed to open borders and crime. Sure. And they think is the message that the congressman just said were going the hear from now to november. Absolutely, chris. Thats why its incumbent on democrats to not not just about why this policy is immoral, but why its unnecessary. We have to as democrats provide alternatives of how we would be able to secure the border. And i think one of the messages that is being lost here is look, President Trump, a lot of the stuff that youre asking for was in the 2013 Senate Immigration bill but it comes as an entire package. You cant have only trumps version of comprehensive immigration reform. You also have to solve the problem of the people here who arent leaving anyway, and then you can get Border Security. You can get what do you say to that congresswoman . If he says youre the party of open borders, i think you lose. If he says youre the party of crime, you obviously lose. How do you redefine the Party Position to something more refined than that . Look, i think we have to go back to core values. We have to talk about what america has always been in the world. We have to talk about refugees, asylees. I was on the outside, not in congress but work thoong bill from the outside. The 2013 bill, 68 bipartisan votes. John boehner wouldnt bring it up for a vote in the floor of the house. I think we have a lot of evidence to show that we have done actually, weve put more into the border since 2013 than was in the 2013 bill. But the problem is that trump will win with his minority base. I think he also incites our base to get out because people see how dangerous this is. How did he with win in 16 . He won with this in 16 hi, did. He is president. And Hillary Clinton is not because of this issue, i believe. No, youre right, chris. But what we didnt have in 16 is people believing that he would win. People stayed away. And this time yeah. That is not the case. I think you are seeing this in state legislative races across the country. You look at missouri, the state of missouri. The state of wisconsin, democrats winning in state legislative districts. And i get that theyre not congressional districts. I get that. But these are incredible wins by 20, 25 points over the challenger, republican challenger in districts that trump won by 10, 15, 20. So i think he has some dangerous this is dangerous, just in terms who have we are. And i think its also dangerous in terms of politics. Well, leon, i want to tell you something, and david, the congresswoman can answer this as well. It seems to me al gore once said, and he lost an election, but he got the most popular votes like Hillary Clinton. But he lost the Electoral College vote. He said if you dont define yourself in politics, the other side will. Absolutely. I think trump is defining the democrats now because they havent mentioned that very fine bipartisan bill since 2013. They havent talked about their approach to border enforcement. Theyve let the other guy talk about it. Its hurting them. Correct. The democrats need to say you can have everything you want immediately and when those things are implemented, then we can have our part of comprehensive reform. But it has to be in the same bill. He is the man who makes the art of the deal. Bring people together and get that deal done. Robert, trump is very good at defining democrats. And Maxine Waters is helping, the person who try out of her restaurant the other day. I love robert de niro. He did it too. Theyre all playing the trump game. Theyre making him look like the victim, which he love. And look what the president tweeted about congresswoman waters today, she is the face of the party. Yet you had minority leader pelosi and schumer say this kind of heated rhetoric has to stop. Maxine waters Democratic Leaders want took about the gop tax law that. Want talk that about the president s position on trade, they want to talk about things that arent just back and forth on twitter. Let me go back to david. Congressman jolly, youre a republican at least still in name. I think youre rino at this point. Trump has an amazing ability. Get the other side, get the Mainstream Press to jump all over them, establish that as the socalled liberal line and he runs as the only line that takes crime seriously, the only side that takes illegal immigration seriously and leaves the democrats looking like weirdos like dont they care at all . And thats the way he plays them. So, look, if i would give way leeway to democrats here, it would be this. Donald trump is defining donald trump for republican voortters. He doesnt care about democratic voters. How about the middle . Well, listen. Much like when we saw the syrian refugee crisis . That was an area where there was no rationality for republicans coming out against syrian refugees, but it was effective politically. And they used to it mobilize their base. Democrats are right on this issue about family separation. Theyre right on the issue of everything thats happened at the border, but they need to use to it energize their base. Theyre not going win trump voters on. This as you energize your base, you can win the suburban mom, those suburban communities we are seeing in special elections that is the gray area where democrats can take this issue and win. Just oppose trump without a ooh win . Not oppose trump, but speak to the values as the congresswoman was saying, speak to the partys values to unite families, speak to your base to unite them and energize them to create nor democratic voters than republicans in november. I think the values issue works. Go back to the congresswoman. Tell me how you i like the way you went back to the really good bipartisan bill the democrats did support, and republican senators did and that chicken mr. Boehner refused to bring gallup the house. They dont want comprehensive reform. Theyre afraid of it. I like the way youre shaking your head. Say where democrats should be positioning themselves on immigration. I think its got to be about the values. I think its got to be about the danger that we have to the future of our country. And i think we can say we have lots of bipartisan bills. We have the 2013 bill. We have the hurd aguilar bill around dreamers. We have numerous bipartisan bills that republicans refuse to bring to the floor. Why . Because it serve theirs political interests to continue to target immigrants. If they solved the immigration problem, who would they blame . And ill tell you, i dont think we win by saying look, we can be tougher on Border Security than you. Obama tried that he actually tried that, and it didnt work so well. Well did put a bunch of Border Security in there. I remember john mccain sat the time saying this is ridiculous much Border Security we have in here. But if were going get comprehensive reform, okay, well do it. That was a republican. I think we have to go back to our values. I think we win on children. I think we win on family separation. And i think we win on due process and fairness as well and the constitution. But weve got to do it from a place of deep grounding in who we are as a country. Well, throw in the one more issue throw in on top of yours, congressman. Well said by the way. Throw in stop the exploitation of illegal labor. Thats what republicans are all for. They love the cheapest labor, the most scared labor, the most desperate people in this country who are operating below when nobody is watching, off the books, thats where their money comes from. Thank you congresswoman of washington state, robert costa, leon fresco and former congressman dave jolly. Coming up, President Trump attacks what he calls the filthy restaurant that turned away White House Press secretary sarah Huckabee Sanders this weekend. And once again, trump has shown he is more than willing to villainize his opponents. She is the democrat behind the political ad everyone is talking. Well introduce you to the air force combat veteran and mom who is betting she can win in ruby red, texas. And President Trump appears to have turned on defense secretary mattis, mad dog mattis is making trump mad. The round table weighs in on that. Plus trumps latest cultural fight. This time he is going after nonpolitical jimmy fallon, nonpolitical jimmy fallon. 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