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Being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. President trump is spending the weekend at the golf resort in bed minu bedminister, new jersey. The news of a booming economy and the president fulfilling a Campaign Promise overshadowed by the latest bombshell in the russia investigation. The man who once said he would take a bullet for trump is now telling special counsel mueller the president knew about that infamous 2016 Trump Tower Meeting ahead of time. This is something the president has repeatedly denied. And now the president is doubling down on that denial. Cnns White House Reporter Sarah Westwo...

Is referring to that created this challenge about keeping families together. as i said a minute ago, the secretary of homeland security said yesterday she thought they were close to reunifying, identifying and reunifying the pool that are already here. and if it requires legislation to overturn the court decision, which i think it does, i support that. >> brian, could he be doing more? >> i think he's exactly right. he's referring to the court case that i referred to at the beginning that has bedeviled administrations going back 20 years. the problem here is the democrats don't seem to have an...

One that democrats need to come to the table and to help republicans solve. they don't seem to have any interest in doing that right now. >> matt, quickly do you see any consequences midterm directly related to -- i think everyone agrees it's a debacle. >> oh, yeah, this is something every voter knows about, every voter cares about and every voter will be thinking about when they cast their ballot in november. brian's spin notwithstanding, people know who's responsible here, trump and the republicans. >> matt bennett and brian mcgwire, good to see you both. pope francis accepts the resignati...

To pay for as well. >> matt, why are you shaking your head? >> because this is ridiculous. the problem we're facing now, the 711 kids that are still being held away from their parents in custody is a problem created 100% and entirely by the trump administration. there is no ambiguity about this. it is true -- >> i think there's no doubt that the administration is trying really hard to address this situation at the border -- >> no, they're not. >> they had a very tight deadline to return these children and their parents. >> how, brian, when we heard admissions from the administration that they ...

Fights, missing children. what we do understand is there is a disconnect between what the government says is happening in these shelters that they operate versus what these children are saying is happening. we now see a federal judge mandating an independent monitor be present in these facilities to keep her abreast of what's happening there, fred. as you mentioned, 711 children still in the custody of the u.s. government separated from their families. >> all right, very troubling. kaylee hartung, thank you so much. let's discuss the politics of this. i'm joined by mike bennett, senior vice pr...