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Will happen immediately, that you and jacob and the people down on the border may see a change here immediately. now that doesn't include the children that have already been separated, they're going to have to figure out how to reunite them. but in terms of how this goes forward, people arrested for illegally crossing the border, parents with their children, will continue to be charged with a crime, but what i'm told is they have found a way to do that without triggering a law that says when the parents are taken by the marshals, the child is considered an unaccompanied miner and has to minor ...

For the president in making this decision. usually these kinds of things go the other way, but you saw lindsey graham who's about as liberal as it gets on republicans on immigration and tom cotton who's about as conservative as it gets, both trying to find ways to praise the president for making this decision today. you heard lamar alexander say this could be like nixon to china, that the president has that kind of cachet on this issue. so you've got members of congress now trying to cover for this decision that they all wanted to see happen done at the executive level and done today. >> jacob...

Children, at least, behind the scenes to some extent. but i did find it extraordinary to sit down in this hearing yesterdae the senate on monday hauled in michael horowitz, the inspector general from the justice department. on tuesday it was the house republicans hauling him before their committees. to hear about his investigation of the original hillary clinton investigation in which he found that bias was not a factor in the decisions that were made. they're not happy with that, so they're now talking about having an investigation of the investigation of the investigation, and the democrats ...

The border and having their kids taken away from them -- or having the fear that they will be taken away has just kind of had this kind of mounting trauma effect on these individuals that i have spoken to. >> one of the things that's struck me is, there are two schools of thought to this, as there are to most things. oftentimes more schools than that. but the images and sounds of the audio recording we heard yesterday and the day before of children screaming out for their mothers and fathers inside one of these shelters. you have a lot of folks who will tell you that this policy's wrong, it is...

Immigration policy. one can only surmise that they were going to be more and more companies like this who took similar steps. garrett haake still standing by for us on the hill. garrett, i understand you have some new reporting. what do you have? >> reporter: yeah, craig, that's right. there are some folks you just played some sound from, republicans who were caught completely off guard by this decision. but there were some republicans who were in discussion with the white house trying to get to that outcome and one was senator oren hatch who has been a close ally of this president goes out of...