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Minors are detained must be a licensed facility. and they want that part of the settlement stricken or modified so they can start detaining parents with children in military-type facilities or other types of facilities that are not in any way licensed to ensure the safety and the well-being of children. i think it is a retreat. i think it is a major retreat. but on the other hand he simply cannot accept responsibility for a catastrophic and irrational decision to separate children in the first place. instead he blames congress, where they have no blame. he blames the settlement when the settle...

Children. so -- >> peter schey, can i ask you your reaction to one nyu law professor tonight has called this an unqualified retreat for the president. do you see it that way? >> i think it's a qualified retreat. i got it all from the department of justice today telling me pursuant to the instructions of the president they intend to be in court, possibly as soon as tomorrow, in our case in order to request that the judge modify the agreement. and according to the conversation with the department of justice they want to not only request, in essence, that parents can be detained with their childr...

>> thank you for joining us with theaking 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 talking to chris bef...