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Around and i think the administration deserves some of the blame for that, too. when you say the president flipped on this he has been an advocate for the border for sometime -- >> well, his tweet suggested he was going along with what had happened with what mitch mcconnell had put together. >> let me suggest something else that would be helpful to the administration. there's another option you could pass, the funding for the other bills and leave the cr for the homeland security. he needs to advocate. when joel says it's a pr stunt, the reality is that the career officials for border patrol s...

>> reporter: the expectations need to be set different than this storm than hurricane florence a couple weeks ago, and this is a wind event and you can see millions of people without power for sometime, is that true? >> that's true. absolutely. that's why we asked people -- >> i know you are intending -- hopefully people have been paying attention. the storm got stronger very quickly and people were not paying attention to it four or five days ago, and they have to take action quickly. i know you are going to meet with the president later, and what do you plan on telling him? >> i have been sp...

Still trying to sort out exactly why. we know that nikki haley met with the president on october 3rd last week and she handed him the letter of resignation and thanking him for allowing her to be part of his administration, but in terms of the specific reasons as to why she is stepping down at this time, she said when she was in the oval office with the president earlier this morning, that listen, she wants to have a break, especially. she has been doing this for sometime, being governor of the state of south carolina and a top level member of this administration. one thing we should point out...

Effort in syria and with the u.s. sending special forces into iraq and syria, it seems as if the u.s. involvement in syria is only deepening. it looks as if the u.s. is getting more military entrenched in the conflict. is this mission creep? >> no, i don't think so. this is a -- this decision has been under consideration for sometime, and i would say that we should view this as the right kind of next step for us to be connected to those groups on the ground that we have provided support to. vetted groups that have been successful on the ground. this provides us the capacity to advice them forw...

In the middle "new york times" columnist jackie cal lins. let's talk optics at the moment. was it a big mistake for the white house? the bergdahls happened to be in town when they got the news. then they do this rose garden thing. it seems to have backfired. the president says it's important to know parents that have been missing their child for five years. >> the purpose of the rose garden, the optics, has nothing to do. it's part of the part son power play in washington, d.c. the truth, just a few weeks before, i'm on twitter all the sometime, you have members of the senate saying get him ho...