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good morning. >> good morning, todd and ashley, all eyes are on mar-a-lago as mr. trump gets ready to leave for new york city to face a judge. in a new truth social post he lays out his plan saying, i will be leaving mar-a-lago on monday at 12 heading to new york and tuesday morning going to the courthouse. america was not supposed to be this way. metal barricades have been set up around the court and trump tower and new york city officials will close key streets as they brace for potential protest. the courthouse will be cleared for a sweep and no other business will be done until t...

Remind everybody was put in place under president trump. it basically said that you could turn people back because of the pandemic situation in the country. now they're discussing lifting it. here's jay johnson, head of the dhs under president obama. here's what he said. >> we're about to hit a million in six months. my highest year was 468,000 in the entire year. these are very large numbers and unsustainable in my view. >> martha: unsustainable in his view. you have to wonder, what the message is here. if it's unsustainable and the boarder people saying this, what is the administration going...

Bit if we can. joining me right now is marcia katherine, spokesperson for dhs under president obama. thanks for coming in. >> sure thing. >> you heard it very clear there from secretary nielsen. when people say this happened under obama, you were the spokespers spokesperson for dhs under obama. what do you say? >> it is untrue to say that we had a policy of separating kids from their parents. the only time that would happen when a kid is separated from a parent is to double-check that it actually is the parent, but we could not and would not as a matter of policy separate kids from their paren...

The sound bite culture we live in. there are three circumstances by which dhs evaluates a child at the border. one is does this child actually have a custodial or familial relationship with the adult? number two, is the child in danger and plenty have been over time. some adults are using children to gain access to the border. number three is the adult subject to criminal prosecution? this is a vexing problem that both presidents bush and president obama faced as well. secretary of dhs under president obama told "the new york times" this weekend that this was the bane of hitence for three year...

Difference. something when president obama did the left did not blow up about this and these seven countries in question were designated back in 2016 by the dhs under president obama. >> well, the 2011 pause was in response to a specific threat that we had gotten that we thought people -- we had evidence that people were using these refugee flows to possibly come into the u.s. and commit acts of terrorism. so it was in response to a threat and because of that we tightened our vetting. we made it harder for refugees to come here and we demanded more information from refugees. >> shannon: do you...