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Collins said they thought it was amazing that kirstjen nielsen keeps saying it's on congress. a lot of the traditional flank with limb, kind of crumpling a little bit, whether that completely deteriorates on this issue will be key to whether the white house moves at all. >> all right, josh dawsey from the "washington post" posting that story. thanks for much. with us now is bakari sellers and jason miller. jason, you heard secretary nielsen earlier saying this is really up to congress to deal with. this isn't some policy put in by this administration. but, i mean, this is clearly, i mean, woul...

This is not a law. it is a trump administration policy put into place by an announcement by attorney general jeff sessions in may to separate migrant families who come across the border. she follows michelle obama who just retweeted what laura bush had to say in a very powerful and emotional op-ed in "the washington post." and even melania trump, who through her spokesperson, suggested that this government needs to have a heart. so much more to talk about. that's going to wrap up this hour of "msnbc live." i'm chris jansing. my colleague, craig melvin, will be reporting tomorrow from the u.s...

>> the democrats gave us the laws. now i want the u.s.a. laws to be beautiful, humane, but strong. i don't want bad people coming in. i don't want drugs coming in. we can solve that problem in one meeting. tell the democrats, your friends, to call me. >> your friends, the democrats. there are two explanations for what you just heard from the president. either the president isn't briefed about what's going on at the border. >> ding, ding, ding. >> or he is lying to the public. here are the facts. forcibly separating children from their parents at the border is not, not a democratic law. it is a...

Border. when we got inside the first group of zero-tolerance policy was announced. basically what we saw is a system stretched to the limits because of this zero-tolerance policy put into place by the trump administration. over 1100 young kids have been taken away at this facility alone since that policy was put into place. kits are going off into the health and human services program, and this is the place where it all starts. inside there are families that are together under at the moment they are separated. they're sitting on the floors on top of mattresses with silver blank either mothers ...

All familiar with the president's routine lies about things large and small, everything from paul manafort's role in his campaign, more on that later, to the crowd size at his inauguration. but this particular lie that the democrats are responsible for a policy put in place by his own department of justice and announced by his attorney general is different. because it's an attempt to deflect blame for an urgent moral crisis happening at this very moment in our country. crisis of this president's own making, that donald trump has admitted he intends to use as leverage to further reduce immigrat...