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Who were killed in the line of duty yet the ceremony for the families very good with those families he connects with them. the white house was lit up in blue in support of police officers and he doesn't shy away from us. all we ask for is support and respect we get neither from this mayor, so if we become president , we wouldn't get in the white house and that's not a good thing. neil: we shall see patrick lynch thank you very very much and we did put out a call to the mayor, he hasn't returned it but i get that a lot. folks in the meantime the president is accused of being a racist for wantin...

Break all this down for you. first, i want to explain what's going on. there are so many moving parts. in just a few minutes from now, the president will be leaving the white house. he's heading to mcallen, texas. it is a spot that has some of the highest rates of illegal border crossings in the country. the president plans to meet with border official bus according to "the new york times," even he has admitted it's mostly a photo op and reportly said he does not expect it to change a thing in the immigration debate. it seems like the whole standoff has become more about optics and political p...

Everything theyen with the through. >> give us a sense, is this a big black hole right now? are we in a legal mess? or is it just a purocedural issue? are people lost in the system? >> the administration is trying to make it harder than it should be. asylum is already difficult. many people go pro se. if you look at the approval rates in texas alone, there are only 5% or 20%. so they're trying to make what is already difficult even more difficult. >> how so? what are they doing? >> they're proposing making changes that would bar someone from getting asylum if they entered legally. that's the o...

Undocumented people were among the brain stormed ideas. i never in a million years would imagine we would have babies in cages. that is beyond the pale. he made a political calculation because there are republicans in swing districts, how are they going to go out and campaign and defend babies incarcerated? that's the reality we're living in. it's the combination of both white nationalist racism making the policy and complete and total incompetence to be able to at least try to track family members because how is a six-month old baby going to tell a border official that this is my mother when ...

Why would we create a crisis where we rip parents away and seems like that when it provides no value in terms of border security from chemokekeeping the from coming in the first place. >> the president and others are pointing to the border patrol that supports this policy this h was lester holt's interview with a border official in charge. >> do you feel like the bad guy? you're the instrument of a policy that's very controversial right now in. >> i feel that the option of not doing anything is going to worsen this situation. i think we have to work with what we have right now and hopefully ge...