this is an agency where i need to oversee personnel changes and stephen miller seems to be, from what we've seen and "the washington post" is reporting and also from what i heard from white house officials, seems to be standing up and standing in the way of the acting dhs secretary. one of the things that he tried to do this past week behind the scenes wa to erase the nomination essentially of mark morgan to take over as acting director of i.c.e. he wanted to keep the deputy secretary, who is currently in the secretarying role there, in place and move mark morgan over to cdp. it's just contributing to ongoing morale problems across all of these different departments, not only to know that they have no permanent heads in place at a lot of these agencies but also the ongoing tension between the acting dhs secretary and one of the president's top officials. >> let me get this straight, one of the president's top officials thinks he's going to help put somebody into place who he could have at times maybe be his puppet, right? he could be the person for which he could funnel certain trump

>> reporter: well, as i mentioned, stephen miller seems to be the driving force behind the hardening of policy on immigration. you could maybe even look at bolton as the driving force behind the hardening of foreign policy when it comes to iran. president trump has publicly walked backstrir i sisterings about going to war. he said this week he doesn't want to go to war with iran that bolt sn trying to force his hand and may be getting him into a war and new reporting from nbc shows that some of the hawks including mike pompeo, secretary of state, are trying to come up with policy to make and end run around congress and allow them to go to war with iran anyway. so far seeing that donald trump himself, the president, ran on the platform of avoiding war in the middle east, he has dialed that back. richard? >> nbc's matt bradley at the white house. matt, thanks for all of that. a lot to cover, bring in our tricaucus panel. chair of the congress' his tahi caucus and of the african-american caucus and representative from capital. thanks to all three being here for our periodic tricaucus pa

it's four more years of stephen miller. corruption is the killer app. >> there are a lot of people in this administration who are -- who have already gone. you can still dredge them back up who were lavishly insanely corrupt. >> and the only few good ones are gone also. >> yes. they're out. and there's enough color and context and stories out there already to give the democrats every road map in the world to use this -- use the investigatory process to go after these things. they need to run these things in parallel and get things running at once so you're bringing up the bad actors and people like stephen miller to congress. even if they fight you on executive privilege, you still make the battle part of it. and they look more and more isolated. they look more and more like they're covering things up. which has the advantage of being true. you're able to litigate this culture of corruption around trump and this culture of weirdness as well as corruption around trump. because stephen miller and kushner, they come off in pub

jared has stephen miller whispering in his ear and that means dead on arrival. kathleen rice saying in immigration plan without a path dacatizenship for dhaka -- and tps recipients is a nonstarter. i am not sure how you get away with calling this a plan. no thanks. one more tweet from frank thorpe with nbc news, some reporting on what senator chuck schumer had to say to reporters yesterday. schumer saying i will tell you they have not talked to democrats and win stephen miller is in the room, it is a failure. do not come up with a deal stephen miller rubberstamped and now say pass it. it will not happen. we want to hear from you. phone lines are open. mike is first calling from california. good morning. caller: how is it going? , i just want to comment that i agree with president donald trump because something has to happen. .t is getting out of hand sanctuary cities, all kinds of crime going on. i don't know if that is the right step to do it, but something has to happen and has to happen now. host: that is mike izzy in new york. good morning. forer: this is --

. >> post says this stems from white house senior adviser stephen miller trying to influence hiring at the department. cnn reporter sarah westwood is following the latest. sarah, good morning. what happened here? >> good morning, victor and christie, this is way true struggle of power between keep mcaleenan and stephen miller. he's very hawkish with immigration and he's been carving out a significant role for himself when it comes to dhs and the president's immigration agenda. now, this at the heart of it, according to "the washington post," appears to be a personnel issue where stephen miller want to reassign a new nominee to a different agency within the department of homeland security than the one he was originally nominated it. mcaleenan resisted that, and if he wasn't given more control over who works at dhs. and it appears that mcaleenan has won this round because that original nominee mark morgan is going where he was supposed to go within dhs. this comes as the backdrop of what is scridescribed as as eye crisis. and there are a contingency plans to fly might grant migran detent

they're also not trying to bring down the overall number of legal immigrants, something stephen miller wanted, instead rearranging the categories. but this isn't likely to go through because they're not addressing the hot issue buttons of the day like the asylum back log and daca. >> i want to go to the border city of el paso, texas. mariana, we learned the u.s. military will be building a handful of tent cities at the border. tell us about that. >> steph, the plan is to build tent cities in six locations near the border to house 7,500 migrants. and it is i.c.e., not the military, that will be in charge of migrant detention and support. but like julia said, in places like el paso, it is the humanitarian issues that locals feel are not really being addressed to a large extent. when you talk to wayne garcia from anunation house here, he tells me a thousand migrants are dropped off in the streets of el paso every day. it is a crisis that is overcrowding the shelters, that is spilling on to the streets and the city is having to pick up the slack. unfortunately, steph, last night we learned

. >> it stems from stephen miller influencing hiring. sarah westwood is following the latest for us. good morning. more from steven miller? >> reporter: that's right, victor. steven miller, the long-time trump aide, the most powerful in the white house and hawkish when it comes to immigration. miller is someone who has been staking out a greater claim for himself at the department of homeland security as he takes greater control of the agenda. miller was partly responsible for the shake up at dhs we saw earlier this year that saw kristjen neilson out of a job. "the washington post" is reporting stephen miller wanted mark morgan, someone in dhs in the obama administration and picked by trump to come back. miller wanted him to come to customs and border. kevin mcaleenan wants morgan to go into the top job at immigration and enforcement, i.c.e., which was the plan. he told the acting white house chief of staff, nick mulvaney, he would quit if he wasn't given more control over the hiring process or consulted over who is working with him. it

. >> it stems from stephen miller attempting to influence hiring. sarah westwood is following the latest. good morning to you. what are you learning this morning? >> good morning. a lot going on behind the scenes in terms of immigration. stephen miller is one of the most influential people in the white house. very hawkish when it comes to immigration. he's carving out a greater role for himself when it comes to the president's immigration agenda and the department of homeland security. he was instrumental in the shake up at dhs that saw kristjen neilson out of the top job and saw them run the nomination to lead i.c.e. this showdown with kevin mcaleenan, the head acting at dhs stems from a dispute over where mark morgan should go. he was a former official that stepped down when president trump took office. trump tapped him to come back and lead customs and border protection. miller wanted to move morgan to another agency within dhs. mcaleenan wants him to stay as the incoming head. he met with acting chief of staff, nick mulvaney and threatened to qu

miller, and the chair of the white house economic counsel -- the council of economic advisers, kevin hassett, who were on capitol hill this week reportedly trying to corral support from gop lawmakers and map out the messaging. but the proposal is probably dead on arrival, because it once again calls for more money for border wall construction and fails to address a number of seri

miller. >> stephen miller. on the separated children issue, this is the one thing that republicans just -- this is the issue on immigration where they break from trump entirely, because a year ago, when our various media outlets had the images of crying children in those shelters separated from their parents, everybody from mitch mcconnell -- >> it's indefensible. >> yeah. so they hate this issue. they want it resolved. both as humans and as politicians who have to run. >> yeah. julia, what's the -- do we have a timeline? have we reunited to reuniting these kids? what's to happen to them? >> at this point nay have to be identified and they'll probably come up with a timeline later. but right now the judge has not ordered that. in a lot of cases what makes this incredibly difficult is the parents have already been deported. so you have to try to track down a family member, a parent in a remote area of a country where we don't have access to the legal records, and sometimes it's more difficult to work with the go

it has buy in from stephen miller and jared kushner. the two top policy advisers in the west wing. he's also an immigration hard liner. not quite as hard line as kobach is seen but he supported state laws like in arizona allowing law enforcement to have the right to just check immigration status on any reasonable suspicion. his views are more in line with miller who represents the hard right of trump's aides than jared who has been trying to present a more softer, open immigration policy. he will be reporting who is still acting. >> for sure. let's talk about kobach. first of all, i think it's worth pointing out this immigration czar idea for him originated because there was a sense that under no circumstances would he be confirmed even by this republican senate because of the conservatives he's held over the years. walk us through the list of demands that he had. it's pretty much not really a set of demands that comes with public service, shall i say, putting it mildly. >> it reads like a rock star's rider ahead of a concert. 24/7 access to a private jet. the reason is to make spu

"b," when stephen miller is in the room, it is a sure fire failure. and the ideas, if they want to get bipartisan legislation, do what we did with the gang of eight. sit down together and come up with it. don't come up with a plan that stephen miller rubber stamps and passes. it won't happen. >> what i found interesting is that he said, if he's in the room, i'm against it. but he did not -- >> it didn't get to the merits. that tells that you on paper, they might sound reasonable. >> there are some potential merits. the problem as was said, what is left out. what is left out are the dreamers, which is incredibly popular, and empathetic group, and what is left out is how to deal with 11 million undocumented people who have been here. >> also, the crisis going on at the border now. >> but all of that has to be dealt with in a bipartisan and comprehensive way. it is the only way we'll get this. that needed to be done when there were, republicans were completely in control. still needs to be bipartisan. that's not where we are. >> this goes to what they po

the termination letter the president and stephen miller prepared in bedminster cited comey's handling of the clinton email investigation. the president told mccabe he fired comey for that reason but the facts surrounding comey's handling of the clinton email investigation were well known to the president at the time he assumed office. the president made it clear to both comey and the presidents senior staff in early 2017 that he wanted comey to stay on as director and rosenstein articulated his criticism after the president had decided to fire comey. the president draft termination letter stated that morale in the fbi was at an all-time low in sanders told the press after comey's termination at the white house heard from countless fbi agents who lost confidence in comey. the evidence does not support those claims. the president told comey at the january 27 dinner that the people of the fbi really like him. no evidence suggests the president heard otherwise before deciding to terminate comey and sanders acknowledged to investigators that her comments were not founded on anything. we al

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miller would take over the conversation. to be a fly on the wall. the presentation failed to convince many republicans in the room that real unity was at hand. joining our conversation julia ainsley. i saw you at 9:00 a.m. describe this policy package as dead on arrival. i've been wondering all day long how jared kushner and mr. miller ended up in charge of something that made its way to the rose garden today to come out of donald trump's lips as dead on arrival. that's political -- you know, really political incompetence at an unbelievable level. >> maybe the one success is that jared kushner and stephen miller were able to agree on something when it comes to immigration. maybe that's the win they're taking home today. i will say jared kushner wanted to be this person to reach out to business leaders, reach across the aisle and come out with some compromise. he likes to be transparent on this process, we saw that on the hill. you can be transparent and still not be able to answer people's questions and that's apparently wha

because kushner versus stephen miller or, you know, who knows what they're doing now? who is in charge here? >> well, i mean, ultimately the president is the one who, you know, makes the decisions but he does have a lot of people that he has hired. i mean, i think it's very interesting if you look at the iran situation, he's hired john bolton who is -- i don't know if he's ever seen a conflict that he doesn't think requires an invasion. and, you know, or some sort of military intervention and it's completely at odds, the clips you played earlier at really the view of donald trump that i think he's been, you know, fairly consistent on at least in recent memory that he thinks that we should stay out of these foreign endeavors and going into other countries. it was a major campaign promise and it seems to be something that he's pretty passionate about and yet he chose to lead his foreign policy, spb who has completely different world view. so, you know, i'm not sure if it's just because he saw john bolton on tv and thought he was really good on fox news and so therefore,

. >> this proposa is spearhe jared kushner nt's s immigration hard liner stephen miller. it includes merit-based approach. more green cards would go to those with high-level skills, degree, and job offers. young people and english speakers would also have an advantage. family ties carry less weight, and it eliminates the diversity visa lottery. >> the plan faces an uphill batt battle, and it's unlikely to receive much democratic support. >> donald trump is clearly more interested in creating a political mess to amplify his own electoral agenda as opposed to trying to solve our broken immigration system. >> the president's proposal does nothing to help daca recipients and calls for more border wall construction. and the president will deliver his address from the white house rose garden this afternoon. anne-marie? >> all right. marc liverman, thank you very much. >>> white house leaders will continue with concerns on issues with iran. he tweeted i em sure iran will want to talk soon and he talked on reports of infighting as fake news. david martin reports. >> reporter: the

and to be very honest with you, an agreement between jared kushner and stephen miller is not a compromise. what it is is a big fat piece of red meat to throw to the base that president trump seems to have on this issue or believes he has on this issue. but it's not a serious effort. when you cannot even deal with what i call the motherhood and apple pie of the immigration question, which is the dreamers, the young people who came to this country through no choice of their own, whose only flag they ever pledge allegiance to that is that of the united states, whose only national anthem they know is "the star-spangled banner," the only country they've ever called home is america, you can't deal with them and you can't deal with the tps question, as a minimum, then you're not serious about immigration reform. and by the way, what i've seen of this proposal, more through the press results, president trump would not have gotten to be born in the united states under this proposal. because his grandfather, friedrich trump, came under our immigration system that allows family reunification. and it

now it seems as though stephen miller and jared kushner is spearheading this immigration plan in -- they have started in the senate. but it is very unclear that it would offer for example anything on dreamers, which susan coloracollins says it is a nonstarter. >> the big question is whether the president and mr. kushner want to actually proffer a proposal that could gain bipartisan support or if the administration is going to continue using immigration as a wedge issue, kind of how the president began his campaign back in 2015, to divide and conquer to get that republican base riled up. if there is no dreamer component to the deal, it is probably dead arrival. so the fact that kushner is involved gives me a little bit of hope because he did put together the criminal justice reform clo mompromise at the en the last congress, but from what i'm hearing it didn't seem like this is a serious proposal. >> and republicans have been divided on immigration as well. is there anything to be gained from unifying them? >> politically the president thinks that this is a big issue. he thinks that this

miller you should read about him. he is out there. >> sue herera, you have a market flash? >> i do, on johnson & johnson, which has touched session lows according to bloomberg and other sources, it has been told to pay $300 million in a punitive damage award in a new york case that concerns its talc, its baby powder plaintiffs alleged that the talc in j & j products caused various types of cancer specifically in some cases ovarian cancer. and this is related to a may 21 verdict. this is the punitive damage side of that. the expectation was that they would pay at least $25 million but the verdict came in at punitive damages of $300 million. that moved the stock to the lows of the trading session j & j just gave us a statement and it says in their opinion this trial had many legal and evidentiary errors which johnson & johnson believes will warrant reversal on appeal further, there have been several trials where jurors have concluded that their products were not responsible for the cancer and in other instances judges h

[applause] he tweets more than he eats stephen miller. [applause] he is so blunt that snoop dogg tried to smoke him. tyrus. [applause] . >> what you make of this week for the media if everybody else we can only have the intervention especially in april it was such a cluster you know, what. for them to say maybe we got this wrong maybe we should just apologize over the conspiracy but they are so far in they just run with it which is obstruction. and then tell the american people the truth who obstructed justice. >> it is now like donnie brass go he got too far in and cannot get out. i don't know if you saw that movie. >> there are a lot of book deals on collusion. has anybody told her that she lost the election? or do they just treat it that she just walks in and says i had a wonderful conversation with the secretary of state. so what? i live in the state of wisconsin i never have to hear from her again. [laughter] . >> i have noticed that people in the media talk about the rush investigation as time goes on they keeps getting smaller at f

when stephen miller -- one of the president's most virulent immigration advisors is in the room -- it is a sure-fire failure. the fact that the president is announcing his bill provides a further by the of irony, because this afternoon -- bit of irony, because this afternoon the immigration meme opens up today. the statute of liberty reaches out to people from every corner of the globe and it towers over nearby ellis island where generations of hopeful strivers shuffled off boats into a new life, a new country and helped build america into the greatest country in the world. the white house immigration bill is an insult -- an insult -- to our grand tradition of welcoming immigrants from all walks of life. and it is an appropriate metaphor that the president is skipping the new statue of liberty museum to simply go to political fund-raisers, even though he is in new york. he skips real immigration reform and offers a political document on his trip -- and his trip to new york embodies that. ironically and met foreically. now, on iran, this has been a chaotic week in the news about the tr

white house senior advisor jared kushner and stephen miller from a lunch meeting with gop senators briefing them on a broad outline for a plan that has been in the works for weeks, details were available. it is expected to address border security and back logs. the path to legal migration. lindsey graham telling reporters, quote, i don't think it is designed to get democratic support as much as it is to unify the republican party around border security. graham is holding a press conference today to unveil his own legislation plan include this, establishing refugee processing centers, mexican migrants apply for a time rather than in the us modifying the loss of family can be held together for 100 days, up to the current limit of 20 days, adding 500 immigration judges to wipe out the assignment backlog which has 800,000 cases with average wait time of 700 days and changing the unaccompanied minor policy for central american children so they can be returned to their country of origin after screening. this comes as acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan tells brian kilmeade the president

officials tell "the washington post," president trump's senior adviser stephen miller tried to engineer a shake-up. the closed-door clash flared over the fate of mark morgan, new director of immigration and customs enforcement. with morgan eager to move into the top job, miller urged to have morgan installed instead. he told senior white house officials that he, not miller was in charge of the department. three homeland security officials tell the post mcelhinney prevailed in the dispute and morgan is expected to take over as acting ice director. >> coming up, the latest on a potential spoupreme court fight coming up next. l spoupreme court coming up next >>> a republican calls for impeachment. justin. amash accuses president trump of impeachable conduct and the president is hitting back. >> south bend mayor pete

miller. ( applause ) true story. true story. quick update on something we talked about last night. trump's fed nominee, stephen moore-- seen here demonstrating how to punch stephen moore in the face. moore's nomination has been in jeopardy for saying stuff like this: >> i do believe one of the biggest problems with the american economy today is what has happened with male wages over the last 25-30 years. you know, when you have male wages declining like that, they become less important in terms of the breadwinner in the family, and that can lead to family instability. ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: that is so old-fashioned. "breadwinners"? hasn't he heard about gluten? it's "kalewinners" now. ( laughter ) but this morning, moore went on tv to make the case for himself as a qualified economic expert and steer the discussion away from his comments about women. >> i think the case for me is, look at this boobing economy! >> stephen: ( as moore ) "yes, look at this boobing economy! it's the best in recent mammary. if i'

the president signed into law and jared kushner along with stephen miller yesterday for a lunch meeting briefing them on the broad outlines of a plan in the works for weeks. few details were available but we expect to address border security and asylum backed laws and the past illegal migration which will change the latest currently done. after the meeting lindsey graham told reporters, quote, i don't think it is designed to get democratic support as much as it is to unify the republican party around border security. graham is holding a press conference at 10:00 to unveil his own legislation to address the crisis at the border and we expect highlights of the plan to include addressing the much cited florez agreement that prevents officials from holding on 20 days, increasing it to 100 days and adding 500 immigration judges to wipe out the asylum backlog. that has 130,000 cases with an average wait time of 729 days. this comes as acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan says the president is deeply concerned that things are getting worse. >> he said i need better results. deliver mor

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have any of you ever been contacted by stephen miller? >> thank you, madam chair woman. i will answer first. i have been in meetings with mr. miller at the white house. but that's it. other than in a professional capacity, with respect to what my duties and interaction. rep. higgins: -- rep. rice: and what was discussed at those meetings? >> pardon me? rep. rice: what was discussed at those meetings with steven miller? mr. perez: various efforts of the department and of the agency with respect to our border security mission. rep. rice: so broadly, the administration's policy, and what it was going to be and how you were going to implement it at the border? mr. perez: more so in an exchange of ideas and how to implement what we believe are the best policies moving forward. rep. rice: that's what i said, thank you. mr. albence: yes, ma'am, i've been contacted by mr. miller, i've been in meetings with him as well, as with many other white house individuals. rep. rice: i am asking about you, not any other white house officials. very simple question, to you, not any other whi

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it's mapart of a much larger stephen miller. >> joe, talking about the larger agenda, are we look at them slopely going toward a states rights agenda where the supreme court can come back and say these are things that we want to maintain in roe versus wade but states can decide these things. as we see women's rights possibly going into a state's right kind of construct, next will be voting rights rights. are we moving back toward not having a strong federal government overseeing things like protecting peoples' rights? >> i hope that that's not the case. but that certainly is the hope of some people to move toward a states' rites agenda. i would hope we're still in a mode where the central government is the most important and the most powerful and that you aren't passing on to states the right to do what they want to do when they want to do it because that's when there's all kinds of opportunity for bad things to take place. for some people that's the agenda sadly. >> christina, you're our professor teaching us all this history. when we don't have the strong federal government enforci

miller had some influence on that as a long time aide to jeff sessions. this was a multi-agency failure. the department of justice, department of homeland security that separated the children and didn't keep records that connected the parents and the children and ultimately hhs is the one that ended up with thousands of kids on its doorstep and had to figure out what to do with thep and get them back to their parents. i think hhs bears the least of the blame. they had to figure it out. doj and dhs share it equally. >> thank you for your continued reporting. >>> up next, he spent eight years as a leader in the neo nazi movement. now he tries to combat the very racism he once propagated. you're watching msnbc. propagat. you're watching msnbc. urkey. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotin

we moe sfootephen miller was at this meeting. >> cukushner did not have clear answers prompting stephen miller to interare you positive arupt conversation. that doesn't look good. >> kushner has this reputation of breezing in and breezing out of meetings. it came to a head yesterday. he was asked what should have been easy questions to answer and he found he didn't have the answers and miller had to fill in all the gaps. i think a lot of republican senators instead of coming away united against the plan in which there were scant details, they cam came away thinking kushner knows little about our immigration policy. >> it's not surprising miller had all the answers. >> it's his plan. >> he worked on the hill. >> thaes he's done this. kushner had no answers about something so powerful and close to the president. >> we'll have to leave it there. thanks to all. >>> coming up, tug of war. is the trump administration gearing up for war with iran? tim kaine of the armed services and foreign relations committee is joining me next. stay with us on andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. ea mitchell re

miller, border security versus team jared kushner and maybe possibly including daca kids and trying to get some support from the other side of the aisle. listening to the president just then, did you hear anything new or what were your takeaways? >> new, yes. for sure. in terms of this proposal. new, not as of yesterday. but as of this week, this is the whole -- the whole game here for him is to try to appeal to the business community, and try to appeal to democrats who have been calling for merit-based immigration more extensive legal immigration to help with -- with the much-needed jobs and a work force that is absolutely necessary in this country. there are so many yeah, but that i could go in so many directions after i explain that. >> hit me with one. >> for one example, on this whole idea of this new legal immigration program, democrats are already saying, okay, but what about the current system? family-based, need-based. we know about asylum that should be a separate tranche because that is a separate conversation but is that going to change? and then of course the biggest "y

miller in an effort to steer the administration towards even more hard-line immigration policies. morgan will still need to be confirmed by the senate. cbs news is reporting former white house chief of staff john kelly has joined the board of caliburn international, the parent company of comprehensive health services, which runs the nation's largest detention center for unaccompanied migrant children. before becoming chief of staff, general kelly led the department of homeland security. jess morales rocketto, chair of the immigrant rights coalition families belong together, responded to the news, saying -- "john kelly and the family separation policy he enabled will go down in the history books as a stain on our nation's moral character. if a company sees john kelly's experience terrorizing thousands of children and putting babies in cages as a job qualification, it cannot be trusted to care for children." in a dramatic escalation of ththreats against iran, national security adviser john bolton has announced the u.s. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to t

miller, and the chair of the white house economic counsel -- the council of economic advisers, kevin hassett, who were on capitol hill this week reportedly trying to corral support from gop lawmakers and map out the messaging. but the proposal is probably dead on arrival, because it once again calls for more money for border wall construction and fails to address a number of serious issues like the status of so-called dreamers, which those two issues basically make it a nonstarter for democrats. it also fails to address the overall level of immigration into the country, which is a major goal for conservatives and anti-immigration groups. >> we come up with a policy like this, make no mistake about it, it's cruel and inhumane, but it also hurts our economy significantly. and if you don't believe me, talk to business leaders. >> i think you might get all republicans, at least most of us, but you don't address the 11 million. i can't imagine any solution to our immigration problems that doesn't deal with 11 million. >> here's what the proposal does do. it mandates checks like a health s

>> brandon: you are looking at people like stephen miller and the white house that are coming up with these policies like the npp, like potentially giving virtual agents who they abilities to do incredible interviews right when people cross the border illegally. these are the things, these are the polish the issues the president is saying i will use e authority that i have to do what i need to do to secure the border. and when you saw all of these things that you witnessed firsthand in del rio, i voluntarily deployed to be there right now. i've been in the processing center the last couple of days. i processed personally every single individual already know exactly where they are going in the united states. passage to get where they are going and we are going to walk them out the door. they know this which is that magnet. >> laura: it is like, brandon and victor, this is a perverse, sick situation. it is nothing sicker than the u.s. actually enriching the cartel. that is how crazy it is. our policies are making the cartel more lethal and richer every single day by this. this circle of

miller or whoever is briefing him is getting him riled up. >> the president has been so agitated by the flow of migrants at the border by the increase of numbers and very frustrated by the inability of his administration stop it and change the trends down there. he sees tariffs as one area where he can unilaterally act. it's why he likes tariffs so much. it's something he can impose as the president and put out there and pull back at a whim. that's what we're seeing this week with this decision. there's some familiar with the patterns who say maybe the president is bluffing. there's a period of time before they take effect. even the new president of mexico suggested today there's a chance trump could reconsider and pull back this threat before it takes place. i don't know if that will happen but that's always a consideration. >> he's got a very hard couple of days here to consider this because this is supposed to go into effect on the 10th. in between then he has the state visit that's fraught with political peril with the way he's praising brexit and will meet with teresa may. what

miller who will sabotage it. this is laughable. he created manufactured crisis by trying to limit asylum-seekers by not giving . kennedy: they candidate manufactured crisis. >> we are 2,000 miles - [inaudible conversations] >> it is manufactured when you make it worse and try to hype up the fact that there's a problem we want if you have the kids and walking for three months that's a crisis. >> why would people do that? >> then you sit down in congress and figure out a plan to get good people in a keypad people out. [inaudible conversations] kennedy: that's divisive lingered. here the show would like to bring people together in a giant cultural cocktail party. let's talk about tsa. >> fantastic idea and i will do some corny joke about petting down or making the line longer because i won't do those corny jokes but it is another band-aid [laughter] >> even this week coming in i have crazy my back and he said that's okay goes through and i said it was okay to have not can you get screened and i have clear and tsa so

miller, on trade, it's peter navarro with a hard line. here it's john bolton. and what you miss when you skip the process is you sometimes fall into these dangerous situations, where someone's agenda is driving it, rather than the intelligence. and the president has neither the respect for the intelligence process, i think, or the attention span for the intelligence process, to actually be the leader of this. so he gets led around, and he'll wake up, you know, one morning and say, how did we get here? i'm angry at john bolton. well, he's the president. >> you know, peter baker, your friend maggie haberman over at "the times" is reporting what are the president is really angry about is the reporting that's out there suggesting that john bolton is somehow manipulating the president or pushing things without the president's knowledge. the question is, is does john bolton have the authority within the administration to get the united states to do things that the president doesn't want to do? how much tension is there, really? >> yeah, there's

miller. former virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli is reportedly slated to take on the role. as a state lawmaker in virginia, cuccinelli authored legislation seeking to force employees to speak english in the workplace, and he unsuccessfully fought to eliminate the 14th amendment's birthright citizenship clause. oklahoma reached an $85 million settlement deal with teva pharmaceuticals sunday, just ahead of today's landmark trial, brought by the state against drug companies responsible for the deadly opioid crisis. oklahoma settled with purdue pharma in march for $270 million. the trial is still set to go ahead with remaining defendant johnson & johnson. oklahoma is the first civil trial against a drug company for their role in the opioid epidemic. in court filings, the oklahoma attorney general mike hunter likened johnson & johnson to a beenin, which has targeting an unsuspecting public since the 1990's. there are nearly 1900 federal and state lawsuits targeting drug makers and distribut