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Law into the books that just merely handles the separation issue, because you need 60 votes in the senate to get that done. i don't think, because based on what we know about washington and based on what we know about politics, it doesn't seem logical that there will be some sort of grand global immigration compromise this year. we are five months from election day. the parties even within the republican party and within the democratic matter, there are massive, massive chasms when it comes to views on immigration policy. so i think the best thing that could happen, if you're the president and...

>> reporter: dana, i think you need to look at what the house is considering this week as a method to solve the daca issue, not the separation issue. there is one considered conservative, one moderate republicans have been behind closed doors and negotiating with leadership for the last couple weeks. here's the reality, specifically when you jump off what the president just said. this is a partisan effort. this is an effort that doesn't have a companion piece of work that's moving over in the senate. dana, you recall quite well the senate tried their hand at immigration a couple months ago. no...

And human services when they get to hhs. >> is that the image of country you want out there, the children -- >> the -- the image i want is a secure border and humanitarian ideals and congress needs to fix it. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to laura bush's op ed and supporting a application of law and current first lady melania trump said we should be a nation of laws and do so with heart. do you have anything you want to tell them, do you believe they are misunderstanding the situation or do you believe there is -- component of this policy because you outlined other administrations ...

Things. you have to turn them away at the border, send them back to their home country, have a new detention policy and detention facility that allows to process quickly where children are staying with their parents in this new facility or what some are advocating for, just open borders and say come in and come back laterfully. >> dana: people have a hard time making that last point. you'll be back voting on this legislation this week. have a safe trip back to d.c. thanks, congressman. >> thanks, dana. >> dana: let's bring in maryann marsh, former secretary to john kerry and chris stirewalt an...

Reporting. >> ed lavandera, thank you. cnn white house reporter steven colinson with us now. i want to go back to the president's tweet where he said democrats can fixed forced family breakup by working with republicans on new life for a change. he is putting the onus on democrats, but he also does not have to be implementing this no-tolerance policy or practice which is what's causing the separation. he could stop it at any time, is that correct? >> yes, that's correct. what happened under the zero-tolerance policy is people undocumented coming across the border are being funneled into the ...