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Senator franken and senator begich. Senator franken came to the floor yesterday and gave another passionate, important floor speech in support of these ideas. It is something that as i have presided and as i have been with him in caucus i have heard senator franken speak to many times. It is about equipping workers with the skills they need by investing in partnerships between our Community Colleges and our employers. Senator franken, senator begich, myself and others have seen this work in our home communities. We have seen Community Colleges, learned from manufacturers what are the actual to...

Which warns today, quote, Trump Officials are defending the policy as a deterrent to illegal entry, but surely they understand that separating parents from children is normally unacceptable and politically unsustainable. If mr. Trump wants to lose the house and risk impeachment, keep giving democrats a daily picture of children stripped from their parents. Trump is answering by digging in deeper and firing blame at anyone standing in his way, from democrats to the media to republicans who have offered up solutions. All we need is good legislation and we can have it taken care of. We have to ge...

Anxiety. Good evening, i am katy tur in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. We begin with exclusive reporting from nbc news that President Trump has for months, for months been eurging them to reinstate a large scale family separation policy at the border, according to three officials with knowledge of meetings at the white house. A major impediment to reinstating that policy which was an unmitigated political disaster for the white house last year is gone. Secretary nielson is out at dhs. So is nearly everyone else at dhs. More on that in a moment. And secretary Kirstjen Nielson that resign...

Acting director of i.c.e. during the obama administration, john sandwig, and political analyst jackie kucinich. john, i want to start with you. what do you make of what we were discussing with m.j.? the president goes to the border but doesn't see, as far as we can tell and certainly doesn't meet with any migrants who are down there in the city of el paso where they've really been inundated in recent weeks. >> you know, i think symbolically it was -- it was very important to meet with them. i think had the president met with migrants he would have seen the personal element and the stories of p...

Getting the resources that they needed, they're in this new immigration plan that they announced last week, there are more border patrol going down to the border to help process immigrants. so really this -- perhaps they thought this was a no-win situation for him. haven't heard what their actual explanation was here. but you know, it seems that at least at this point they're not ready for those particular optics. >> john, the earlier -- the national security adviser, jake sullivan, said they don't expect deliverables on immigration in talks with mexico during this summit. what should mexico b...