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Take such initiatives when they're requested by ukraine, and then while condemning, while sanctioning, while continuing to decide and act, to leave this path open so that the day when the conditions can be met, we can obtain a cessation of hostilities for the ukrainian people. >> 7,000 more u.s. troops are heading to europe. that's on top of 8500 others placed on alert last month. some u.s. forces currently stationed in europe are being sent to russia's eastern flank, including latvia. helicopters are also being moved to eastern ukraine. katie bo lillis is standing by. this brings the number o...

Children in dirty diapers and unshowered and their mothers having to have other children take care of their kids, what does the trump administration get out of this? >> i think all of the above. i think -- look, the administration has been treating migrants and asylum seekers and their children as roughly, as badly, as disgracefully as they possibly can as a potential deterrent. they think it's a deterrent. it's not working, it's not a deterrent. it's obscene. i mean, every once in a while something gets to you and this one really gets to me. the descriptions of the conditions that the lawyers...

>> they were thinking this could be a deterrent from people coming here, just like separating children from their mother's arms. they thought that was a potential deterrent. if you are messing with children as your strategy for border security then you need to go back to the drawing boards. new leadership at hhs, orr, that's the office of refugee resettlement which is managing the settlement, and they are making tough decisions that's better, one, for our country and it's in line with our values. >> i want to ask you about the president's big decision he announced about syria -- >> i know what...

And that's going to change the way border security ends up looking. it's not going to be exactly what president trump has been selling. but there's going to be even that much more pushback from the democratic party if they're in charge especially if he's asking for more money to flow to the border. we don't know the details of. i think members are going to want to see those at least in more clarity before they start writing checking for it. >> it also acts as a potential deterrent because asylum seekers would want to know how long they have to stay in mexico before they could ever -- their cas...

Actions while enforcing our immigration laws. >> well, keeping them honest, that's barely half true. it is, however, totally disingenuous. the administration, they chose to enforce the law, but in a way that two prior presidents, republican and democratic declined to precisely because it would lead to mass family separations, which of course it did. but the trump administration viewed zero tolerance, as they called it, as a potential deterrent to illegal border crossing. and that's a legitimate, albeit harsh way to look at things. as long as you accept responsibility for it, which frankly, thi...