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The crisis of family accept rations. thank you all for being here. tiffany,t s gift to get through that first block of television without crying, quite frankly because you -- you know, you're talking about taking a breast-feeding child from their mom. it just doesn't get any worst than that. right? >> yeah. >> and so i wonder just on the politics of this, you have some republicans expressing a discomfort with it. but no republican signing on to the democratic bill that would actually end it. so where are we now in terms of the politics of this? >> this puts a $25 billion price tag on these und...

Pointed out on father's day talking about a policy that rips kids away from their fathers and let's not mince words about this. the administration has been very clear that cruelty is a policy here because they want kids ripped away because that will be a disincentive for people to come up to try to cross the border. so zero tolerance becomes zero humanity and the republicans, you had -- there were two more signatures you needed on a discharge petition that would have allowed votes on far more humane immigration bills. there are as you said, the fienstein bill, very clear bills that could have ...

Is controlled by the republican party won't do anything about it. look how far we've fallen from george w. bush, republican president talking about compassionate conservatism to we're talking about president trump who couldn't care less about children being ripped away from their families, the speaker of the house, who couldn't care less apparently about children being ripped away from their families. i'm glad you started the show with that clip of speaker ryan talking about, you know, how wonderful it is to have his family. i hope he sees these pictures and internalizes them and puts himself ...

Endure for hundreds of years without people coming up with a justification for owning other people or the separation of native american families or people revere fdr and families were dragged off. so i woender if as we're here almost weeping over these stories in the moral justification, if it actually works, if people want this policy they aren't going to change their minds because they see pictures like this. . you had steve bannon who was on -- back on tv who was saying that even if republicans pass this watered down version of the bill which won't stop family separation by the way and will...

Administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. >> the religious leaders have come out and said this is unhumane. do you agree? >> we don't want kid separated from their parents. >> i think this is a terrible situation i'd like to fix. >> and yet the immigration bill touted by the house gop leadership only so paul ryan can avoid an embarrassing discharge petition forced through by members of the house doesn't even outlaw family separation. there is no long waj ianguage il that puts away with the separation of families. it leaves the door open for migrant families to ...