Are doingf people, we very well. It is very far along and i think the house will be getting together with the senate. Hopefully they can get something done. Humanitarian aid is very important. I think people are starting to realize that i was right when i said we had a crisis at the border. It wasnt manufactured at all. We have a crisis at the border. We can solve the problem if they would change some of the rules and regulations, change asylum, change so many different things, the loopholes in particular could be done very quickly and you wouldnt have this problem. I have been saying it for a year and a half. I have been saying you have to change the loopholes. You have to change asylum. You wouldnt have this problem. What they are working on is aid, humanitarian aid for the children. It seems that the senate is very close. I think nancy wants to get something done and the senate and house will get together. I think they will be able to do something very good. I am heading to japan, osaka. We are going to be meeting with lots of different countries, many of whom have been taking advantage of the united states, but not so much anymore. Soon, not at all anymore. So, we appreciate. Any questions . Reporter [inaudible] pres. Trump the mueller thing never stops. There was no collusion, no obstruction, no nothing. How many times do we have to hear it . It just keeps going on. I have been going through this for two years. The criminal activity was on the dossier andhe fake , thef the other things fisa courts, all of that. With the insurance policy. Lover,trzok and his page. This is a disgraceful thing. I heard about it last night. I just said, does it ever end . At what point does it end . It is a disgrace. No obstruction, no collusion. The democrats want a doover so they had a doover and it didnt work. There are no doovers. We spent a long time working with mueller. I gave him all the witnesses he wanted. I gave him lawyers. I gave him people. He interviewed 500 people, 2500 subpoenas. They had everything they could possibly had. Nobody has ever had more. Nobody has ever been more transparent. This is just a hoax. I call this the witchhunt, but it is really a hoax. It is the greatest hoax in the history of our country and the worst political scandal on the other side. A lot of things right now are coming out that are very bad what they did. This continues on. To end a half years two and a half years. It continues. Reporter [inaudible] therter the photo of drowned immigrants. Pres. Trump that is like i have been saying. If they fix the walls, you wouldnt have that. People are running through the rio grande. It can be a very rough river at times. Going across the rio grande is very dangerous, depending on the time of year and the conditions and the rapidity of the water. We know that. We have many guards there. People go through the guards. If we had the right laws that the democrats are not letting us have, those people wouldnt be coming up. They wouldnt be trying. We are building the wall. It is under construction. It is a lot of it is under construction. Over 400 miles next year by the end of the year. It is very important. They can change it very easily so people dont come up and people wont get killed. Women are being raped on the journey up. You have these caravans. One of the terrible things, children are actually being brought in to slavedom. If you look at what is happening, the cartels and coyotes are getting rich, because the democrats refused to change the loopholes. They refuse to change the asylum. In one hour, we could have it done. They want to have open borders and open borders mean crime and open borders mean people drowning in the rivers, and it is very dangerous. Reporter how do you feel about the picture of the father and daughter . Pres. Trump i hate it and it could stop immediately if the democrats change the laws. They have to change the law and then that father, who was probably a wonderful guy, with his daughter, things like that wouldnt happen, because that journey across that river, that journey across that river, a very dangerous journey, that is a very dangerous journey and we dont think by the way, just so you understand, many other things happen. You have seen it. Women being raped. Women women being raped in numbers that nobody believes in the caravans coming up. I want to thank mexico. They put 6000 people at the border. Reporter [inaudible] pres. Trump the asylum policy of the democrats is responsible, because they will not change the asylum policy, but not for the but now for the first time, they are starting to talk about it. Reporter [inaudible] mueller pres. Trump i dont know anything. I just heard. My only response to mueller is, does it ever stop . After all of these years and times and people, does it ever stop . The Democrats Use it to divert from what they have, because what they have done if you look and you see and it is just my opinion, tremendous criminal activity on their side and they know it, and this is a diversion, but i ask you this, does it ever stop . Truster will you Vladimir Putin on not interfering . Pres. Trump i will have a very what i say isnd none of your business. I am meeting with russia, china, many countries. We are meeting with many countries. We have been ripped off by everybody over the years. They are not ripping us off anymore. We are meeting with china. Just so you know, china has been paying us billions and billions of dollars. Until i got here, they never paid this country 10 cents. We will see what happens with china, russia, japan, many countries. Reporter [inaudible] pres. Trump iran can do whatever they want. It is just fine. They have a country that is an economic disaster. They can solve it quickly or 10 years from now. Whatever they want is fine with me. I have all the time in the world. They have strong sanctions. They have to live with those sanctions. Iran should do the right thing. I am not sure their leaders care for their people. If they do, they will make a deal. If they do not, they are thinking about themselves. They are selfish and they are stupid if that is what they are doing. Reporter [inaudible] pres. Trump i will be meeting with a lot of other people. I may be speaking to him in a different forum. I will be going to south korea. We will be there for about a day. We have a lot of meetings planned with a lot of different countries. We are a country that is respected again. These countries respect us. They did not respect us 3, 4, 5 years ago. Thank you very much. The house will be in order. 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Coming up this morning, we get your reaction to the first democratic president ial debates. Join the conversations all morning long with phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets, live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. At the table now g. K. , butterfield, democrat of north carolina, member of the energy and Commerce Committee representing the First District in north carolina. Good morning to you. We asked you to come on to talk about the poverty line in the u. S. Because we have been , reading about changes by the Trump Administration and we wanted your reaction. Can you explain, what is the first poverty line and what does it mean . Guest the Census Bureau defines what is poverty in our country. And it generally bases it on a familyfo