trish: michael star hopkins, again, you're inferring a lot there. we're not talking about breaking up families here. that is not what the republicans mentioned. they want to keep immediate family unit together. >> absolutely. trish: spouses children, but do you need everybody else? >> well, when you say everyone else, say uncles and aunts, they still, five to 10 years what it takes to go through the family unification purpose. they still have to go through the background checks. they have to still go through health screenings. trish: just because you're here doesn't mean you get to bring in your aunt, uncle, everybody else. >> it doesn't. trish: that is the point, you want to come here to have something to contribute. you have more prosperous life in america and therefore make us a better country. >> absolutely. the people who are coming here with other family members have to do that they don't just get cart blance entry because they have a family member that is here. there is a strict background process and a long process. trish: clinging to that.

because the american people deserve better. >> michael star hopkins is running for senate in new jersey, he is making the point, trish, you can't use those two examples together because they're completely different, what was happening in the fbi in washington is different from what was happening at fbi in florida. to which i say, i don't know i did, my response to that, antonio, they're not entirely different, right? they're being led by the same person. leadership matters. >> right. trish: i don't care if it's a field office in florida where they're in the doing their job or the fbi in washington where they're to the doing a very good job, isn't it all coming from the same place? >> coming from the same place. we used to take pride in our police officers. we used to take pride in our leaders. they used to take pride in our teachers. they're taking god away from our schools. they want to take the flag away from schools. there is no leadership anymore. nobody takes responsibility. all they want to tax more, regulate more, instead of going down to the source of everything. we have a const

michael star hopkins, michael malice and jamie weinstein. i'm not upset kellyanne conway has taken the lead on this. i think the policy people have done a poor could be of combating this this crisis. >> some people in congress or states where this is a big problem haven't been consulted. but it would give them a chance to see what their plan is. hopefully at the end of the day they treat this like tax cuts and repealing obamacare. kennedy: it seems as though the good news is i don't think we'll legalize all drugs. but i do think we are talking about things in a different way that is not so much party versus party. >> back in the day, drug addicts and users were the most of marginalized people in america. for a long time social conservatives wanted to pretend these people should be ignored. now using the word opioid epidemic instead of war on drugs. these people shouldn't be going through withdrawal in jail which could kill them. and they can be returned to functional members of society. it should be treated with empathy. kennedy: taking that

laney khan is here and michael star hopkins is here as well. michael, why don't you take that first about motivation, that's essentially what the president is saying, that he needs to get his party motivated. i'm sure he knows and you think that yours already is, right? >> i understand his base is with him no matter what. i have no idea what the rest of the republican party is do. i'm not anti-republican. i am anti-garbage human being. donald trump, he continues to be fail, he continues to be a terrible person. >> connell: so the argument, even though he won't be on the ballots for the midterm, is a number of democrats have said let's run against the president on personal issues. so how does that shape up for republicans who are on the ballot for the midterms? >> i'm not sure that's enough for democrats. the rea reality is this will coe down to how charged up each of the respective bases is. i worked on four presidential campaigns. in each situation, it was all about where the motivation was from the base. i think donald trump at cpac yesterday

michael star hopkins and amos snead and founding partner at s3 public affairs. good morning to you both. you heard what gowdy said the chronology does not favor the white house. they are claiming there was a bottleneck at the white house security office. does that defense hold water? >> if you look at that and see the news and the gowdy said they will open an investigation. take a minute and think about chairman gowdy, someone who has a love and appreciation of the law. he is leaving congress to go back and practice law. i think he is one that will call balls and strikes throughout this investigation. then you saw speaker ryan saying they were also supporting this. this is not the last we're hearing of this. >> eric: what went on over at the white house? you heard christopher wray said they had the report in march, finished it in july. more information in november and closed it last month. yet porter was kept on. >> i think if you look at this, i work in public relations. if you look at this from a crisis communications standpoint you want to know what all the f

bush and michael star hopkins, democratic strategist and senate candidate in the state of new jersey. dade, you didn't know that? david: no. lauren: i'm sure you were listening to the press conference moments ago. the press was heated up. there has been a lot of issues since the last briefing which was just a week ago. gun control after the parkland shooting front and center. we just heard from blake with the president deciding to ban the bump stocks. brad, i have to ask you, yes, that is a step in the right direction but if you look at google's youtube, there is tons of videos how you can make them on your own. >> right. lauren: is this going to make a difference? a step in the right direction, will it make a difference? >> yes i believe it will. banning bump stocks as produced is a step in the right direction. up to the manufacturers to thwart people who want to go around the rules and try to modify their weapons. but good news is the president is open to hear about not only enhanced background checks, eliminating bump stocks and also helping people who are mentally ill and should n

star hopkins. good to see you both. tom, starting with you, here, what do you expect them to possibly learn from hope hicks today? >> absolutely nothing, like has been found so far. both congressional committees and special counsel mueller have found absolutely nothing. it is important just to stick with the fact the. the facts are they have found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. but what we do know is that democrats paid a foreign agent, christopher steele, to use propaganda to try to undermine president trump's campaign. that's a fact that can't be denied. trish: what is wild about it, is, it is, you know, perhaps propaganda that was fed to him about it russians themselves. >> so the collusion is on the democrats side, not the republican side. could you imagine if it was reversed? could you imagine if trump campaign hired a foreign agent to come up with propaganda and then that was used to influence the media? remember christopher steele briefed the media. tri

michael star hopkins, the politicians only care about the short run. >> this will come as huge surprise i agree with god. as generation that will pay for these things it is a terrible deal. it is bipartisan deal. democrats get a little what they want. republicans get a little what they want. chip is reauthorized i it is a great deal for the short term. trish: what about the daca kids and dreamers. nancy pelosi giving near record, near all-time record second to longest speech there. i like that, quick play back. speaking for eight hours on capitol hill. how, how come you're not talking about that? >> well i have to say, speaker ryan needs to allow a vote to go forward on daca. this is moral imperative. all people of faith would agree these people have been made a promise. they have come here. they have not broken any laws while they have been here as part of their registration under daca. time to let that vote go forward to move on. trish: but said you thought this was a great deal. you agreed with ford. which is it? >> deal itself is a good deal but i think speaker ryan should allow a s

here now to react is our political panel, we have a gop fundraiser and michael star hopkins is a democratic strategist as well as contributor for the hill, and he's also running for the united states senate in new jersey. we wish him best of luck there. michael let me go to you first and it wasn't all roses for nancy pelosi last night as she was speaking to a crowd there was a heckle erin the crowd. take a listen to what happened. >> have to struggle to make ends meet. >> [indiscernible] >> so no we're not talking about that. so in any event, now i can, you know i'm a mother of five, i can speak louder than anybody. david: if you didn't hear they said how much are you worth, nancy and actually we got an answer for that she's worth about $43.4 million. it plays into the whole narrative, anti-nancy pelosi narrative that here is a woman worth 43 million, she calls thousand dollar bonuses based on tax cuts "crumbs" to people and a lot of people taking a thousand bucks as a bonus don't refer to that as crumbs. the question is whether she's doing more harm than good for your cause. do you feel co

michael star hopkins a democratic strategist and candidate for the u.s. senate in new jersey. chris, i'll start with you. what do you make of this from a hollywood actor? >> it's quaint and brings you back to the old days. right now in the hyper partisan age. it has always been pretty partisan. news stations fawn over north korean dictator. wealthy hollywood celebrities taking their jets around the world to complain about people. to go to a foreign country 40% of the gdp is fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and say we have it backwards and the united states is backwards and united arab emirates is quaint, funny and easy to right off. he is just spouting off again. >> sandra: a frequent critic of this president. did he go too far with these comments? >> i think donald trump is a dangerous leader and the juxtaposition of barack obama unveiling his portrait while donald trump is in office it said it all. he talked about the people often forgotten. talked about the unification and equality and things that our country is built upon. if you look in the last couple days all that has bee

star hopkins thank you both for joining us. michael i'll start with you. can the resistance take a pause long enough to actually make a deal with this president and do something that both addresses border security which the president has demanded but also addresses the daca situation? >> look, the democrats have been trying since 2008 to get an immigration deal done. you know, we had comprehensive immigration reform that was put together by the gang of eight and republican president decided that he wasn't going to implement that and now we have president trump saying he wants to get the immigration deal donald he would sign anything that was put in front of him. two different bills have been put in front and he won't sign them. pete: wait we had a democratic president from 2008-2016 that took executive action but no legislation the democrats were able to push to fix this. but under president bush that's when the gang of eight came together to put together a bill and that's when the immigration issue started. the only reason we