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Involving michael cohen. for the first time, distancing himself from president trump. the president's former personal attorney and long-time friend today resigning from his post with the rnc, and in his resignation letter, he cites the russia investigation, he also then takes direct aim at the president for the images the nation and the world has seen these last few days. again tonight, abc's kyra phillips. >> reporter: he was the gatekeeper and confidant to donald trump for more than a decade. >> i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> reporter: but tonight, for the first time, the presid...

>> infest, that's what we come to, huh. i said disgraceful. we're all part of the human race and doesn't look le they're acknowledging that. >> yes, a beautiful race of people. >> thank you all. more on this program about the backlash to the side of fox. and trump's policy separating children from their parents at the border. officials claiming they're just following the law. is it really a defense? stick around, i'm going to talk to the former director of the cia and the nsa. join t-mobile. and get netflix included for the whole family.

To you or anyone there why you can't have zero tolerance without separating parents from their kids? >> well, you know, today i don't know what they were trying to say because it was back and forth. you know, the homeland security secretary said one thing and sarah came back -- >> let me tell you what she said. last night she tweeted, we do not have a policy separating families at the border, period. but it was in context. she was still defending the policy. then today she defended the separations very publicly. watch this, april, and i'll let you finish your point. >> here's the bottom line. ...

>> i get it, i'm just saying she's one link in a chain. they had to know that when they changed the policy to prosecute all illegal entries into the country, they were going to wind up here, right? i mean, there was only one scenario. if you increase the prosecutions and you don't expand your resources for how to detain and deal with them, didn't they know we would wind up here? >> well, i think more than didn't they know it, they knew it and they planned on it. i've been on the committee, the homeland security committee in the united states senate for almost 18 months. i've been asking them s...

Almost 18 months. i've been asking them since as early as march of last year about this policy. we've been hearing about it. i asked, for example, elaine duke who was acting secretary for a while, it's on the record. i asked her, what's going on with this? yeah, there have been conversations, she said, about the policy separating children from their parents for purposes of deterrence of immigration. this is not something that just happened to them. this has been a plan, and they're implementing the plan, they're enforcing the plan and it's wrong. and we're now seeing vivid images of babies, ch...