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Are going to pour in and invest our country? >> we have made this conversation, because of the president's questionable leadership, a conversation about law and policy. it's a question of moral imperative. for a country where we had a president who lost his life, lincoln, to say i will protect the weak. we had a president in the 1960s who said i will protect the weak. president bush did something -- the second president bush, in africa, underreported. i will protect the weak with incredible support on aids funding. now we have a president who says about the weak, the following, mexicans are ...

To address something you have been reading a lot about. >> reporter: the outrage over children on the border being separated from their parents and kept in cages has consumed headlines. the white house insists this crisis is a problem for congress. >> politically correct or not, we have a country that needs security, that needs safety. those are the only two options, totally open borders or criminal prosecution for law breaking railrobreaking. i don't want children taken away from parents. >> reporter: but mounting an aggressive defense of the policy. >> when you prosecute the parents for comi...

Building. we have seen republicans acknowledging that. for example, the chairman of the national republican congressional committee coming out and saying that the president needs to address this problem. >> they need to fix it quickly. samantha, i want you to listen to this exchange i had with the acting ice director in the last hour. >> it's simple. illegal entry into the united states, it's a crime. it's a misdemeanor. >> if they are seeking asylum, is that a crime if they are crossing the border -- >> you are clouding the issue. if you don't want to be separated from your child, come throug...

Clear they need to do something to address it in the near term. >> we saw the motorcade heading back toward the white house. it sounds to me like the headline emerging is that there's no change in the separation of families policy until there's xroe hcomprehensi immigration reform. they have to reconcile whatever they pass, assuming they pass something, and then the president has to sign it into law. that could take a while if it happens at all. in the meantime, moms and dads are losing their kids. is that what you are hearing? >> reporter: yeah. based on members i have spoken to in the room w...

>> my reaction is that this is indefensible. it's telling the administration sent a career law enforcement officer to speak with you to try to explain a policy that doesn't make sense. let's be clear. this policy is not just going to impact children on the southern border. it's going to impact children all around the world. we're in a position where the u.n. is calling our own actions unconscionable. we have absolutely zero credibility going anywhere around the world and fighting on behalf of children. that is going to have a lasting impact. >> david, this is how the president is framing this ...