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Border security issues. today she was in south texas with the defense secretary, james mattis, visiting with troops who were sent there by the president to stop a caravan of migrants from central america, by the way still hundreds of miles away in mexico. they're trying to cross the border -- trying to get them to stop from crossing the border. trump claims many of them are dangerous criminals trying to invade the u.s. when, in fact, there are people who are seeking asylum from violence in their native countries in central america. you may be aware of that since he tweeted about it 45 times in...

Messy fight on capitol hill, it's going to be a long summer. luckily or not so luckily, mitch mcconnell canceled august recess, so they'll have some hopes of getting this done before the october new term starts for the supreme court. >> we'll see if that actually happens. jonathan, before we go to break, i want to get your reaction on the growing calls for some democrats to abolish i.c.e. take a listen to what senator gillibrand told my colleague at a rally to unite families yesterday. let's listen. >> i think the mission of i.c.e. is no longer being accomplished. unfortunately, i.c.e. is beco...

Solution? >> i think the mission of i.c.e. is no longer being accomplished. it's becoming a deportation force. i believe you should separate the missions. immigration should be dealt with as immigration issues. it's a humanitarian issue, and the criminal and border security issues should be dealt with differently. even i.c.e. agents said we're not able to deal with the human or drug traffickers and criminal element that's trying to come across the border. there's a big difference between criminal justice and immigration. particularly refugee status and asylum seekers. that's a humanitarian iss...

20 takedays. republicans point to democrats and say where were democrats like you crying out when these families -- when the obama administration was asking for families to be held indefinitely if necessary. what is your response to that criticism? >> there is two things. first of all, the flores settlement, the kids weren't held, you didn't have the situation where by administration policy, by president trump's policy the explicit decision was to take kids from parents. so we didn't have that. the second thing is that -- as i mentioned earlier, there is innocent kids here. what the president ...

>> there would abe a strong bipartisan support if there were that stand-alone legislation. tell me how you're going to vote on the more conservative and more moderate pieces of legislation today. >> i've always been sensitive to these kids, the dreamers, and i think the second piece of legislation is the sore spot. i'm supporting the second piece of legislation because it fixes the border security issues and takes care of the dreamers and deals with the family separation issue. i think that's a win-win-win and that's why i'll be supporting that piece of legislation. >> are there 200 votes in t...