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Nancy pelosi said, the president trump's executive order seeks to replace one form of child abuse with another. instead of protecting traumatized children, the president has directed the attorney general to pave the way for the long term incarceration of families. and we just learned that the justice department called peter schey to try to get a modification in the flores case, which dates back to attorney general janet reno when the case was first brought. >> today wasn't the end of this fight. it wasn't even the beginning of the end. it was the end of the beginning. there are a number of fro...

Administration. >> thank you for vojoining us wh the breaking news on how you plan to handle the fight with the justice department that could begin as early as tomorrow. thank you for joining us, peter. john, we've seen the president go in reverse, it's something we've seen many times before starting with who's going to build the wall, mexico is going to build the wall. in fact, weer here because mexico did not pay for the wall. so the president decided it was time to take hostages and see if he could get congress to pay for the wall. >> and the hostage taking backfired. to the point you were ...

With us across a commercial break because there are a couple more points i would like to cover with you if you have time to stay with us. >> yes. >> and chris hayes and john bolton -- jacob soboroff in texas covering the story. and sunday night jacob soboroff will be doing an hour on the border on date line sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on nbc. we'll hear more from peter schey about his legal authority to enter and examine any facility holding children in these cases anywhere in the country. and we'll hear more from what he expects in litigation with the justice department possibly as early as...

Merritt, not just through luck or happenstance. >> joining our discussion now, john hileman, national analyst for nbc, and ron klain, former chief of staff, and a former senior aid to president obama. and back with us by phone is peter schey, the president for human rights and constitutional law. he is the lawyer handling the flores case, which is the ca that controls the rules for handling children in federal custody in these kinds of matters. peter schey, quickly, the reason i wanted you to stick around is i wanted you to explain more about your legal authority to enter the examine the condi...

Administration how to reunite those children with their parents. >> peter schey, let me just underline the news you're making here tonight in your report on your conversation with the justice department. you're saying that the justice department, when it goes into court, where it will face you and the other side on the flores case to modify it, one of the modifications they want is that they will be able to put children in unlicensed facilities? and you indicated that those unlicensed facilities could be on military bases, which links up to one portion of the executive order, the homeland secu...