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boundaries for their children. set boundaries for adolescents. set boundaries for teenagers on the use of phones. on use of social media. >> it's hard to protect them. >> on the use of everything. it's hard but it is -- it is a lot more important than so many other things. >> okay. we're over time here, though. we will revisit this. that does it for us this morning. it is so great that yasmin vossoughian is back with us, and she picks up the coverage right now. hey, everybody, good friday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we've got a lot happen...

With his chinese counterpart as of yet or has any plans to do so? >> not yet, we haven't heard about any kind of meetings that are planned, anything that's occurred at this point. this whole conference, there's these sideline conversations, which they sometimes call pull-asides. if there is to be a meeting, i think that's what we would see here, a quick conversation skprgs the big question is what would they be able to accomplish. is it nothing more than meeting face-to-face, and that is enough of a diplomatic overture or would there be a discussion. a couple of things, the surveillance balloo...

Incumbent on each person, each parent, each family member to make sure that each kid gets the most out of that individual setting. whether it is at harvard, whether at high school. because if you don't take advantage of all the tools and resources that are there for you, you really won't get any positive. so i don't know if it is the structure or the individual kids saying you know what, whatever structure, i'll get the most out of it. >> we're way over time, but promise me that you'll come back because i have so many questions to ask you. and if you guys ever need another voice on those sidel...

To jeff sessions. why would he let barr walk in here without a conversation about that. >> i don't think the two had a conversation. donald trump is off the charts on this. i don't think he goes ahead of appointing people and doing interviews. he has other people telling him what to do. he was looking for somebody that could be confirmed without a big to-do in the senate. >> maria? >> if anything what we learned from the president he's a severe micromanager. nothing leaves his office without his stamp of approval. if something happens he says there will be hell to pay even if i told you to do ...

Understanding and your sort of intimate knowledge of how this white house functions, do you think anybody will sort of look back at the end of today's news cycle and say maybe we shouldn't have doubled down on the attacks on former american presidents for the way and whether or not they called families of the fallen? maybe we should have made more of sort of the progress on one of our campaign promise, something that can unite people. everyone is for beating isis. do you think there is a process in place? does general kelly sort of run an after action report process at the end of every news cy...