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And challenge what is happening, right? are the right people on the hill and meeting with leadership there? >> you make a great point because today the white house held what's called a background briefing with senior administration officials. and that's when they put up people from the different respective relevant agencies to talk to reporters on background. so when we report it out they don't attribute their name. and halfway through the call i got a text from a colleague who said none of this matters because it only matters what donald trump has to say given that we've seen how this movie e...

Now over the death of a 7-year-old guatemalan girl who die died in border patrol custody last week after crossing the u.s./new mexico border with her father and large groups of migrants. the department of homeland security is confirming the child's death and saying that she and her father were in custody for eight hours when the little girl started to have seizures and her temperature spiked to 105.7 degrees. the emergency responders tried to revive her after she went into cardiac arrest and she l e later died at the hospital less than 24 hours after being transported. and jacob, what do we kn...

Are still some 800 miles from the southern border, making their way here. they have tried to say that they are not entitled to come into the united states and that that is illegal. we have pointed out that it is perfectly legal to come and seek asylum in the united states and there is a process for doing that. well, as of today, that process is changing and president trump is going to deny asylum for asylum seekers. he's making it much, much more restrictive. do you think this group of migrants are a national security issue? does the president need to go to these lengths to change asylum laws?...

Doesn't exist, there were aides that were holding a briefing, a background briefing where their names will not be on the record because it was background briefing, and they essentially said, well, the president is the one in the administration who's talking about this. there's only so much they can do, and it's really not a change. over time the president has, you know, tweeted policy when the policy wasn't in place yet. he's teased things that are coming where apparently no one else knows that they're coming. this is pretty standard for the president. i think one thing that we're seeing is we...

There were aides that were holding a briefing, a background briefing where their names will not be on the record because it was background briefing and they essentially said, well, the president is the one in the administration who is talking about this. there is only so much they could do and it is really not a change over time. the president has tweeted policies when the policy was not in place yet. he teased things that are coming where apparently no one else knows that they are coming. this is pretty standard for the president. i think one thing we are seeing is we are just seeing so much ...