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>> we're talking about 50,000 children. >> i understand that. >> 50,000 children. >> i absolutely understand that. and what the president has said is that he would -- well, look, if you take at president at his word, i know it's a hard thing to say in this room, you take the president at his room and contain the cornyn/cuellar bill which says we will handle these children in as safe a manner as poebl. >> how long is that going to be? >> that's not the problem. you have to give the children a fair hearing. they need a fair hearing. >> so you don't believe we should return them back? >> we shoul...

Make it clear to the central american countries you can't send your kids on these dangerous journeys here. the white house has not sent over specific language. that's because liberal democrats and others -- i don't think the white house wants to take the lead. again today, josh ernest said, yes, we would still like that flexibility, again, he was not clear an did not come out as you mentioned and give support to this bill which they're still going through. i think what's going on is getting the gauge of how many democrats might support it, you have ron barber of arizona saying he will support ...

Hour hours. juan vargas said he got a distinct impression that the president is against the cornyn/cuellar bill. >> when i left, he didn't say this, but he all but said, you know, i think we can do it under existing law, there's some leeway there. i don't think he's going to be pushing for a change. he better not. he's going to get great resistance from the hispanic caucus. this law is important, we shouldn't change it. >> can you shed light on what's going on here? the white house wanted this to get republicans on board. we the spanish caucus is against it. the president basically told me he'...

Butting up against the motives and calculations of politicians. why does it matter what political incentives might be motivating different politicians to say and do all these different things in the face of this crisis? it matters, for better or worse, they're the ones that have to solve it, or at least they're our best chance for getting it solved. for improving the situation any time in the near future. right now, there's a new bipartisan border bill introduced on capitol hill. by john cornyn for texas. henry cuellar. their bill would rewrite the current 2008 george w. bush law so minors fro...

It's a republican house, he can't get the money unless republicans sign off on it. you also have nancy pelosi, the minority leader who wants the same thing, she wants the money to pass as well. she knows they need to get republicans to go along with that as well. both of them think that the cuellar or cornen bill is the way to get republicans on board. here is pelosi last week signaling her openness to changing the 2008 bush law, it got the president's appropriations request passed. >> you can have a different view about the value of a provision of the law, and as i said, it's not something th...