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Because there's less of a guarantee of confidence and belief that this president is as popular as he was maybe just a week ago. >> donna, feel free to respond to that but i want to play you something olivia troy, our viewers are familiar with on this program. she said how the trump administration handled the issue of resettling afghan refugees talking about steven miller here. take a listen. >> you would say what do you want? do you want a little iraqs across the country, the united states? and it was hurtful to hear that and offensive to many of us in the room who had served on the ground in ...

Individuals? >> well, it was really hard to hear his statements and they were said very openly in front of cabinet level people and very senior staff people and would say, well what do you want? do you want a bunch of little iraqs in stands across the country, across the united states. it was hurtful to hear that and offensive. to many of us in the room who had served on the ground in both countries. i've been to both countries. these are the people that helped keep us alive. helped navigate us around the country. and to hear this, you know, naive hateful rhetoric being said in cabinet-level d...

Could not attend, and i remember that so vividly because he wanted to be on record via that memo that was delivered during that meeting to really highlight the fact that we needed to figure out how we were going to get these translators -- and this is specifically on iraq -- into the pipeline when we were trying to basically, you know, reduce the refugee ceiling. that pipeline falls under that processing system, and he knew that the system was being under resourced and it was being targeted by people like stephen miller and these people. so i use that as an example because, case in point, we n...

Under resourced, that they were overwhelmed. that they were working at number of things. and the response would be like, there is a border crisis. and their asylum seekers. yes, these people it's, the same office that a lot of them handled the workload. and that's true. but why aren't we resourcing them? when we talk about the mattis letter -- and the reason i mentioned that letter is because we were going to a cabinet meeting that he could not attend. and i remember that so vividly because he wanted to be on record, via that mammal, that was delivered during that meeting, to really highlight ...

Picks up our news coverage now. >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. i'm alecia menendez. the massive high stakes operation to evacuate americans and their families in taliban held afghanistan. there are more than 80,000 afghans already waiting in a live and death situations. waiting to come to the u.s. the process is a refugee program gutted from the previous administration. this final year in office trump had the refugee ceiling at 50,000 down from the 100,000 refugees allowed per year under president obama. that drastic reduction saw the many reis thelement organization...