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Fact, the idea was to send a really strong deterrent message and that this was going to be part of the a crackdown at the border that would change the migration patterns that he sees as so destructive to america. >> david, it is interesting, because now the administration seems to be downplaying the idea that this was meant to be a deterrence, but certainly from comments that sessions has made and comments that stephen miller has made and general kelly has made, it clearly was designed to try to deter long term. >> without question right from the very beginning of the administration. i mean, i...

From making these kinds of analogies to nazi germany. what's going on on the border is bad enough, and the president has the right to stop it. i'm appalled at the president's statement that he doesn't have the power to reunite these families. >> you're saying he does. >> of course he does. the same article 2 that gives him the kind of power he complains of in another context gives him the power to see that the laws are faithfully executed. the way to faithfully execute laws is not to separate families. he has so many other options. you can deport the families as a unit. you can detain them as ...

Pass at the border and on capitol hill. joining me now is jonathan capeheart from the washington post. here we're talking about children being separated at the bord border. the attorney general justifying it but blaming it on the bible. sarah sanders being challenged by that in the briefing. in fact, we have that. let's play a bit of sarah sanders at yesterday's briefing. >> don't you have any empathy? you're a parent. don't you have any empathy for what these people are going through? come on. >> settle down. i'm trying to be serious but i'm not going to have you yell out of term. >> it's law...

Should do something. looking at the immigration policies, we want strong borders and laws and followed, but as a country, we have to determine where do our values lie here, you know, you mentioned, scott, the, how the children are going to look at the united states, but also, i think, we step back broader, how does the world look at the united states as far as the leader, a moral leader, something that we should be coming together and focusing on, and the second thing, which, you know, lost in the argument, is what message are we sending to law enforcement officers at the bord border. we don't...

Telecommunications. so whether it's passage at the bord border, people talking about it in other phones, the issue is the ploliticizization. sweeping invasive authorities that i think from time to time can be abused. i think every american right left or in the middle should be conce concerned about it. >> we also need to be clear about who we're meeting and where. to simply say i was meeting with a russian hedge fund manager, you and i both know that's not like saying i'm meeting with charles schwab. i'm meeting with a portfolio manager from black rock. if you're a money manager in russia, you...