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And families. for more than 20 days. i guess we'll find out in 20 days. one would hope they would release these families under an alternative to detention. the problem would be solved and we would have a more humane policy. >> one way of complying with the flores settlement is after those 20 days, releasing both the children and the adults as opposed to separating them out. that is inconsistent with the message that the trump administration has been sending about being tough on this. but i mean, it's important to point out that is a possibility, especially since it does seem unlikely that the ...

Overed in a couple of days. >> jeff, "the washingtonpost" is reporting that the administration is preparing to litigate the flores settlement. they have a better chance in court, they think, then doing anything legislatively. does that make sense to you? >> i mean, certainly legislation appears to be going nowhere. the house of representatives can't even agree on what they want to do. and in any event, anything they want to do is very unlikely to pass the senate. so there doesn't seem to be any legislative solution in the immediate offing. going to court, i mean, this is a settlement, the flor...

About this, right? this is the one thing he can't, you know, in his mind he can't do. and he's blaming the democrats -- >> he can only do it if the democrats help him do it. >> as if the house doesn't have enough republicans in the house to do -- if they needed to do anything legislatively, they don't. >> they don't. >> that's right. i guess i want to talk about weakness and smallness. for a guy so obsessed with the size of everything, this is just such an extraordinary display of political impotence, political powerlessness, of small man, small hands, small everything. why is he so into it? >...

The republican who is majority ill when. he said he does not think they should attach any bill to frequent special counsel to this must-pass spending bill. he thinks he should lay out the attacks. it does not make essential to do anything legislatively. right now, republicans are concerned about what they're doing but not ready to take them on quite yet. >> all right. thanks for that. joining us now, a key member of the house intelligence committee. democratic congressman joakim castro. do you believe the president is setting the stage for mueller's firing? >> i think it is quite likely that h...

How this will play and it doesn't look like the politics will be good for republicans even if some of these things are significant accomplishments. the tax bill polls terribly by about a 2-1 margin americans disapprove. the cnn poll had 33% approval, 55% disapproval. most americans think this is going to benefit the wealthy and corporations and not them. half of them think this is false but half of americans think their taxes are going to go up. the aspect of the accomplishments, this is very real and i think it's a major shift for them. most of the discussion all year was that they're not doi...