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Released, there are ankle monitors or they have to post bond or whatever. that's the so-called catch and release policy that the trump administration very much wants to avoid. it says many of the people, most of them don't show up for those hearings, they just head for the hills and remain in the country illegally under the radar. so that's part of this equation and one of the reasons why the separation issue becomes important. >> jacob, while pete was talking you were indicating there was another misconception out there. what was it. >> reporter: if you don't like those cages that goit to see...

Is signing with the secretary of labor. >> bret: is their urgency here or is this an issue both sides are playing politics with? >> our side is not playing politics with it. i had my staff working for the weekend, but a legislative fix. 77 pages that we worked around the clock to get introduced today. we did that at noon. it's about getting the job done right. unfortunately, it's been a political football back and forth and when you're dealing with people's lives, you've got to make sure you get it done right. hopefully we well and i believe we well this week. >> bret: were republican saying w...

President was very compassionate about it, talked about his daughter bringing that up, ivanka. when you look at that, it's not lost on him that we've got to fix this. but at the same time, we've got this for week. the pressure is on us from the american people to get it done this week. i believe we will. >> bret: we appreciate you stopping by. a.b., your thoughts. >> it's going to be a huge challenge to either get the good let bill or that moderate leadership bill over the finish line even though both have been reworked to include provisions to stop the separation of families. we are looking a...

Times. >> bret: standby. mark meadows walking out, joining us. thanks for being here. give us the inside scoop. >> obviously it was a long meeting where the president was talking about not only the agenda on immigration but what we have accomplished and what we need to do from here. it's all about getting it done. he really wants us to make sure we put up 218 votes on the house floor this week. he said he is behind us 1000%. obviously wants to deal with this separation issue with children at the border. both bills do that. the compromise bill or the leadership bill is certainly the one that se...

Colorado for example, says he plans to bring up the separation issue in this meeting today. but the president has tended to dominate dominate the conversations in these meetings. remember the of this meeting originally was to deal with those two house immigration votes that were supposed to happen this week. but this family separation story has completely dominated that, essentially blown it out of the news cycle, and you've had mitch mcconnell saying today he only wants to consider a narrow solution. he essentially threw the president a lifeline saying the senate would take this up, even thou...