Montreal area in the 1960s in childhood. Decades later in the 1980s, these two russian adults, these two spies stole those identities from those deceased kids from the 1960s and under those identities they started a fake life in toronto. The couple lived in toronto through the 80s and into the 90s. In the 90s as Donald Heathfield and tracy leanne, the fake identities, they had two sons, their sons were born four years apart. After their sons were born in canada in the 90s the family moved sometime in the mid to late 90s to france where the father, Donald Heathfield, went to grad school. He was fluent in french as well as english. As was his wife. The family apparently spoke both french and english at home with their boys. They didnt speak russian at home with their boys even though they were from russia and were native russian speakers. Their sons apparently had no idea that their parents were russian at all. When the story of their very unusual family was ultimately told, the boys would ultimately say they had no inkling their parents were russian, they never heard their parents speak russian, they never heard their parents speak about russia. They certainly had no idea their parents were russian spies. Although their spy life started in canada though, ultimately the goal of this spy operation, the reason they were deployed by russian intelligence in the first place was not to spy on canada but, instead, to spy ultimately on the United States. All that time in canada was like training wheels for Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley. That was their time where they got to acclimate to the west, build up their skills at blending in in the west, build up their plausible background as a worldly but normal canadian family. And after Donald Heathfields stint at grad school in the late 90s in france, they started in canada, they went to france for him to go to grad school, then they finally did it. They moved to the United States. Donald heathfield enrolled at the Kennedy School of government at harvard. Look, we have a terrible photo of Donald Heathfield at his harvard graduation from the Kennedy School in the year 2000. The reason that we have this not great photo, this grainy photo taken from very far away in the year of 2000 is because this photo was taken by the fbi. Because the fbi apparently knew as soon as Donald Heathfield and his purportedly canadian family got to the United States, the fbi apparently knew that they werent canadians at all, they were in fact russian spies living under deep cover. Donald heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley had been living for two decades in canada and then in europe before they ever set foot in the United States to start spying for russia here. We now know that the fbi was on to them as spies as soon as they got here. This is the fbi photo of Donald Heathfield at his harvard graduation in 2000. There are also fbi photos of his wife, Tracy Leanne Foley at that graduation, as well. Ultimately a decade later, in 2010, when a federal indictment against these spies was unsealed, we would get tons of detail on what this spy couple was assigned to do here in the u. S. By their handlers in russia. We learn the goals of were they were sent, we learned their specific assignment, we learned how well they did at carrying out those spec assignments for moscow, we learned how they communicated with their handlers back in mot cow. We learned their codes, their spy technology. We got all of it in the indictment. This is from the indictment in 2010, quote, from in or about the 1990s up to and including the present the defendants and others known and unknown, unlawfully willfully and knowingly did act as agents of a foreign government, specifically the Russian Federation without prior notification to the attorney general as required by law. The fbi has conducted a multiyear investigation of a network of United States based agents of the foreign intelligence agency. The svr. The targets include covert svr agents who assumed false identities and were living in the u. S. On long term deep cover assignments. These russian secret agents worked to hide all connections between themselves and russia even as they act at the direction and under the control of the svr. These secret agents are typically called illegals. The fbis investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the u. S. In the service of one primary longterm goal, to become sufficiently americanized such that they can gather information about the u. S. For russia and can successfully recruit sources who are in or are able to infiltrate u. S. Policy making circles. In this indictment, Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley were called the boston conspirators. It says in the indictment the boston conspirators have received info tackles, directives that Moscow Center wanted them to focus on obtaining including, among other things, u. S. Foreign policy. For example, a message from in or about april 2006 set forth the info task for may and june which was that they should gather information regarding u. S. Policy with regard to the use of the internet by terrorists, u. S. Policies in central asia, problems with u. S. Military policy and the western estimation of Russian Foreign policy. Quote, a boston conspirators electronic message to Moscow Center from 2006 focused on turnover at the head of the u. S. Cia. So the fbi unsealed this indictment in 2010. We got all of this very specific directly quoted information about what they had been told to here by moscow and what they told moscow, what they carried out here under moscows orders. We also learned all this spy information about their spy information. To further the aims of the conspiracy, Moscow Center has arranged for the defendants clandestinely to communicate with the Russian Federation. They have use the secret methods used below, radio grams and steganography. Steganography. That must be a dinosaur related code. You go to the museum of natural history. Under the hoof. As it turns out, steggen nothingraphy it is an actual spy thing according to the fbi this steegen nothingraphy is the process of secreting data in an i think. Moscow center uses steganographic software that is not commercially available. It permits the svr to insert data in the images posted on publicly available web sites without the data being visible. The data can be removed from the picture and decrypted also using software provided by the svr. Similarly, svr software can be used to encrypt data and then to clandestinely bend it on publicly available websites. The fbi later released this photo of online images of flowers to show some of the actual images that the russians used to pass information back and forth with Moscow Center. Messages encrypted in individual pixels in these images of flowers. Crazy, right . In an fbi search of Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foleys house in boston in 2006, Law Enforcement agents observed and forensically copied a set of computer disks. These Password Protected disks contained a program employed by the svr and by the illegals. So theyre using the super spy movie technique of dead dropping encrypted messages for the handlers back in moscow. The messages are inside the pixels of pictures of flowers on line. And they used this spy software that encrypts those messages and can also uncrypt those messages so the messages can be read. Thats how that he passing information back and forth to moscow. We know all of this because the fbi is onto it. The fbi knows what they are doing and watched them do it for years. I mean, look at that time line here. That house search of the boston town house where the fbi grabbed the disks with the code stuff on it was july 2006. That was a full six years after they were lurking at harvard secretly taking pictures of Donald Heathfield at his Graduation Ceremony that year. The fbi was watching them and surveilling them and collecting intel for the whole sixyear period. The fbi during that time had put microphones inside the spys house. On or about october you this, 2004, Law Enforcement agents intercepted Oral Communications taking place inside the boston town house. Tracy leanne foley defendant was heard saying to Donald Heathfield defendant can we attach two files containing messages or not . Lets say four pictures . Theyre talking about this steganography code. Theyre talking about transmitting secret messages using the picture encryption trick theyve got on the Password Protected disks and apparently had no idea they shouldnt talk about out loud about that in their house because the fbi had bugged their house. They had no include that the fbi was on to them for years down to the smallest detail. Completely unbeknownst to these trained spies. The fbi was on to them for the entire time they were in the United States. So Donald Heathfield comes to this country from france to go to harvard. He graduates from harvard in the year 2000. The fbi is there at his graduation. January 23rd, 2001, the fbi gets into a safe deposit box that heathfield and foley had opened up in cambridge, mass. Inside the cambridge safe deposit box, officials observed and photographed a series of photographic negatives. The negatives library to be of Tracy Leanne Foley when she was in her 20s. On all of the negatives of the youjser foley save one, the name of the company that produced the film on which the negatives were printed had been excited meaning it had been cut off the negative sheet but on one negative the name of the film company remained visible. They missed one. The fbi later published pictures of these negatives that they had photographed inside the safety deposit box. You can see where the red arrow is . On just one of the negatives theres this is blurry little tiny reference. Looks like tachma. If you google that now, that means nothing. If that is what looks like tachma but 80s in cyrillic, if its in the al an fa bet in which the russian language is written, then the c is what we would think of as an s so that single blurry mark that looks like tachmac and it means nothing. In cyrillic that means tasma. It means, hey, i think these guys are russian. That is probably why they cut that identifying tasma reference almost all but one off of all but one of those negatives showing pictures of a younger Tracy Leanne Foley. They forgot to cut the reference off one of the negatives and with that one reference there the fbi caught it. Heres the best part. The fbi got into that safe deposit box, they found that one tiny marginal missed reference on one negative. They found that january 2001. Any photographed it. They took that evidence. Photographic evidence, right . They put all the negatives back, put everything back as it was and they left the safe deposit box there and then they just kept surveilling heathfield and foley for years. A full decade later in 2010, the fbi apparently had reason to go back into that same safe deposit box again and those negatives including the incriminating one with the cyrillic script on it were still there a decade later because heathfield and foley had no idea their safe deposit box had been spied upon by the fbi for a decade. They had no idea the fbi had been on them for ten years. Going through their safe deposit box, photographing them. Miking their house. The fbi had secretly gone inside their house on multiple occasions. They had photographed their notes and letters. They photographed this page from this notebook from Donald Heathfield which apparently includes his handwritten notes on the 27digit password he needed to log into that software that allowed him to encrypt his messages in online pictures. They had the picture of the password code. The fbi was that up in their business for that many years and these trained spies had no clue. By the time of their indictment in 2010, the fbi not only had detailed descriptions of their trade craft and verbatim instructions they received from moscow, not only did they have all the means by which they communicated with their handlers. Including all of the names of all of the people who Donald Heathfield had approached as part of his spying for moscow. He was supposedly a guy with a harvard degree and good Language Skills who was working at a consultancy in cambridge but he was using that as cover to spy for russia. It turns out he wasnt just reporting back publicly available information like theres a new cia director and theres an election under way. He was getting information out of individual that he was reporting back to moscow, individuals like a person who had worked in congress as a legislative council. An economic contact. He reported he had established contact with a former high ranking security official. The fbi knows who that was. They didnt put their name in the indictment but they watch the that contact happen and watched reported up the chain by this spy. Feithfield appears to have made contact with a u. S. Official working on nukes clear weapons at a u. S. Government research facility. Spf had conversations with him about Research Programs on small yield high penetration Nuclear Warheads authorized by uss congress ie Nuclear Bunker buster warheads. Its not comforting that an active russian spy was making contact with and communicating with u. S. Officials who were actively involved in Nuclear Weapons research in the United States. Right . Thats alarming. It is slightly less alarming when you learn that the fbi was watching them do it every step of the way for years while the spies will no idea the fbi was on to them. This is the Counter Intelligence part of the fbi at work. Their job is to counter foreign intelligence operations inside the United States. In the Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley case you see that work unfolding completely undetected with this incredible level of intrusive surveillance on these spies over the course of a decade. I mean this must be hard to do without being found out, right . Its unbelievably cinematic. This case of the russian illegals this spy ring which was uncovered in 2010 really is what led to the tv series the americans oixts in real life in this case, there was a side plot to Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley specifically because their son whos were born in toronto in the 90s, those sons apparently had no idea before their parents were arrested in 2010 that their parents had been spies or that they were russian that became there dramatic battle in canada when the boys sued to try to get their Canadian Citizenship back. They were like we dont care that you were born here. The boys were like maybe but we dont speak russian and never have been there. So please can we be canadians again. This is the kind of stuff for obvious reasons ends up making good movies and tv series but those are based on real life. I mean, this is a way that governments fight each other and steal information from each other and sabotage each other this potentially is a way that governments can fall. If you can use Clandestine Operations like this to get people loyal to a different government into positions of power in your targeted country, luck essentially bring down that countrys government, rights. That country can fall before your intelligence operation. Thats the worst Case Scenario if operations are ever so successful that they reach their highest objectives. The fbi now has a public facing website about the russian spy ring. They headline it operation ghost stories because that was the fbi code name for that investigation. They called it ghost stories because the spies used the identities of dead people to Start Building their legends in north america. The fbi says these deep Cover Russian spies may not have an cleaned their objective but they were not idle. They elected information and transmitsed back to russia. They were actively engaged in what is known in the spy business as spotting and assessing. They identified colleagues friends and other whos might be vulnerable targets. They were trying to coopt people they encounter hods might one day hold positions much power and influence. The most famous example of this tactic took place in Great Britain in the 1930s when soviet intelligence talent spotters were able to recruit Cambridge University students who would late ser rise to power and become soviet operatives during world war ii and into the 1950s we believe the svr illegals operating in this country may very with hoped to do the same thing here. The svr was in it for the long haul. They were willing to wait decades to obtain their objective. Doubter Intelligence Division at the fbi pulled the plug on these russian illegals including donald hooethfield and tracy leanne foal little in 2010. Under that indictment unsealed in 2010, all in one day all across the country they and all the other illegals were arrested and sent home in a highly publicized is spy swap. In the lead case agent for Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley at the fbi, the fbi agent who led this covert fbi operation that monitored those two russian spies for years, all the surveillance these trained spies were unable to detect, all the intelligence collection from right under their noses breaking their codes and miking their house and photographing their notes and all the rest of it, that lead agent who ran that intrepid fbi operation against Donald Heathfield and Tracy Leanne Foley was an fbi agent named peter strzok. Being the lead agent on heathfield and foley was just one of the high stakes espionage cases that peter strzok has worked on or led at the fbi. He won a medal for his work on that one. But he also worked on other russian spy rings in the u. S. And chinese spy rings in the United States other more than 20 years at the fbi he rose toes become the senior agent on all espionage cases at the Washington Field office the at the fbi and became the head of the countser Intelligence Division for the fbi. In that capacity he ended up involved in the investigation of Hillary Clinton using a personal email address when she was secretary of state. In that capacity as head of Counter Intelligence division, head of the Counter Intelligence division at the fbi, peter strzok was assigned at the very earliest stages to the fbi investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election and russian interest in the donald trump president ial campaign. Youll recall that in the spring and early summer of 2016, foreign intelligence agencies and governments started coming across information and intelligence intercepts about unexplained russian involvement in and support for trumps president ial campaign. Those foreign intelligence agencies and governments notified the cia, the cia doesnt do working to counter foreign intelligence operations inside the United States. Thats the job of the fbi. Thats the job that fbi agent peter strzok was in charge of for the fbi. Fbi started an investigation into that matter in the summer of 2016. That meant peter strzok was in charge of that because you have his career. He was very well placed to do that work, right . Intimately familiar with russian intelligence operations and russian intelligence efforts inside the United States. In his role at the fbi, he was literally the lead person in the entire u. S. Government in charge of stopping Russian Operations inside the United States. And he had decades of experience in that and awards and indictments and dramatic International Spy swaps to show for it. That work also apparently gave him some feelings about russia. And we know something about how he felt about russia and its government and its intelligence operations in part because reporters and the public have been given access to strzoks personal texts, texts that he wrote to a woman at the fbi with whom he was having an affair. As the fbi investigation into russian interference started up, it was just starting in the summer of 2016 and peter strzok was working on that investigation, he exchanged texts with lisa paige at the fbi apparently while the two of them were each watching tv footage of the Republican National convention. Now im going to read you one of those texts from peter strzok. Im not going to swear when i read that text but i want you to know im going to make an obvious allusion to a swear word just in case youre watching with your kid and you dont want your kid to hear it. Ready. One, two, three. Of f the cheating mother iffing russians. Bas tarreds. I hate them. I think theyre the divorce. Iffing conniving cheating savages as the state craft, athletics you name it. Im glad im on team usa. Yes, Peter Strzoks damning text messages. President trump and the republican whos support him and congress decided Peter Strzoks personal texts make him an object of outrage on the right. Some of his personal texts are in fact very critical of then president ial candidate donald trump. His texts are also critical and profane and snarky toward hockey. And Bernie Sanders and Loretta Lynch and eric holder and lots of other people besides, not to mention his swearing tirades against the cheating mother iffing russians. The only active political figure he expresses he positive feelings about appears to be john kay sish. Okay . He was involved in the initial stages of the investigation because he was the lead Counter Intelligence agent at the entire fbi. When that investigation came under the purview of the special Counsel Robert Mueller very quickly removed strzok from the special counsel investigation staff as soon as he found out strzok expressed personal opinions in his personal texts. That happened last july, long before any indictments were handed down by the special counsels office but republicans have seized on peter strzok has some sort of easy mark as the way theyre going to beat mule he investigation politically and use him to make the Russian Investigation look so terrible maybe they can get account whole thing shut down all together or something. A couple of problems with that strategy which we are going to see in living color over the next 24 hours including starting tomorrow morning. One problem theyve got is what his actual job was at the fbi. He ran Counter Intelligence in this country at the fbi. Destroying him says something about Congressional Republicans view of the value of Counter Intelligence at a time when there as active concern about that for a lot of americans for a lot of obvious reasons. That, of course, wont stop them. But that brings us to the other big problem theyve got with trying to peter strzok their get out of jail free card on the scandal. Turns out hes not the worlds greatest door mat. His lawyers public statements about Peter Strzoks eagerness to clear his name are evidence of that. Strzoks lawyer telling the Washington PostPeter Strzoks political conviction that a Trump Presidency would be disastrous for American National security is not based on his bias, it was based on information that was available to him. After the office of Inspector General report was published which referenced strzoks personal texts, strzok came out guns blazing at republicans trying to downplay the importance of the russia investigation and to still play up Hillary Clintons emails instead. Lawyers saying not every fbi investigation is of equal importance to u. S. National security. Theres simply no equivalence between an investigation of the possible mishandling of classified information a relatively commonplace occurrence in the fbis Washington Field office and credible evidence suggesting that the president ial campaign of a major Party Candidate was actively colluding with a hostile foreign power in a way that could undermine the integrity of an american president ial election. To require senior National Security officials to profess fealty to this false equivalence is short sighted and dangerous. Tomorrow theres going to be an allday spectacle that is going to unfold on your tv screen starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time when republicans in the house have demanded an openended day of testimony from peter strzok. They already had him 11 hours behind closed doors. Now they want to do it on tv all day long tomorrow because they think they can make peter strzok some sort of national villain. Im not sure they know exactly what theyre in for with this guy though. Given his history, given his career, given the way he responded to the way they have come after him thus far, it is clear that peter strzok whose career account republicans have now destroyed, peter strzok who was the lead National Security official in this country in charge of countering russian intelligence operations on our soil, this guy is going to having hours and hours and hours of public testimony tomorrow starting at 10 00 a. M. And the republicans think that will work out great for them but its clear that he has tales to tell and he very much wants to tell them. And so this is going to be worth watching. Well be right back. 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Manafort submitted a new filing to the judge saying, never mind those complaints about my jail cell being too far away, i dont actually want to be moved anywhere else despite what we might have said before in our earlier requests. Well, now today theres a new filing from the prosecutors, from the special Councils Office that suddenly made much greater sense why Paul Manafort might desire to stay in the remote jail where he has been for the past several weeks. Quote, among the unique privileges Paul Manafort enjoys at the jail are a private selfcontained living unit which is larger than other inmates units, his own bathroom and shower facility, his own personal telephone and his own work space to prepare for trial. Manafort is not required to wear a prison uniform. On his monitored prison phone calls, manafort has mentioned that he is being treated like a spi vip. Manafort also possesses a personal laptop computer that he is permitted to use in his qulunt to review materials and prepare for trial. The jail has made extra accommodations for his use of the laptop providing him an extension cord to ensure he can use it in the unit and not in the separate work room. Although the jail doesnt allow him to send or receive emails, he has gotten a work around. He revealed on the monitored phone calls in order to Exchange Emails he reads and composes emails on a second laptop shuttled in and out of the facility by his legal team. When the team takes the laptop from the jail it reconnects to the internet and manaforts emails are transmitted. The reason trumps Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort is in jail right now is for alleged witness tampering because he violated the terms of his house arrest by allegedly trying to contact potential witnesses in his case and according to him, he tried to sub born them to commit perjury. Now apparently hes secretly sending emails from jail on his laptop, the second laptop. Not the personal laptop he uses in his vip living unit and work space with private telephone where he doesnt have to wear a prison uniform. You can see why when the judge ordered him transferred to a place that would be more conducive to preparing for his trial it, he might say thanks, actually, where i am it just fine. I have an extension cord and everything. Heres the thing though, the judge in this case in virginia, weve noted before that hes a little bit can tankerrous. Manafort filed his motion last night saying thanks, but no thanks. Actually, id rather stay where i am. You dont need to move me. This is how the judge has responded. Quote, on july 6th defendant Paul Manafort filed a motion to continue meaning a motion to postpone his trial by detailed the trials and travails of his detention at the Northern NeckRegional Jail. However, defense counsel filed a motion opposing defendants transfer from Northern Neck to alexandria despite having just complained about defendant being housed at Northern Neck. s surprising and confusing when council identifies a problem opposes the most logical solution to the problem. It cannot be easily explained or resolved. In response to manaforts lawyer saying that they were concerned for his safety if he was moved to the alexandria jail the judge had this to say, quote, the professionals at the Alexandria Detention Center are very familiar with housing high profile defendants including foreign and domestic terrorists, spies and traitors, both kinds. Accordingly and for all of these reasons it is here by ordered that defendants motion opposing his transfer to the Detention Center is denied. It is further ordered that the u. S. Marshals shall comply with the courts previous order directing that defendant be transfor theed from Northern NeckRegional Jail to be housed at the axdry yao Detention Center pending trial. So the president s Campaign Center will now be apparently moved to a jail in alexandria, virginia, to wait his trial whether he likes it or not. Wonder if hell be able to surreptitiously be able to send emails from that lockup, too. Something has made Paul Manafort suddenly want a long time before his trial starts. He wants many more months to prepare for his trial. But whatever it is, it doesnt actually appear to be the location of his jail, which is what he had started off complaining about. 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Help stop the journey of gum disease. Try parodontax toothpaste. Im about to show you something that you will think is satire but it is not. Quote, how the new face of the migrant crisis got stuck with the job. Health and Human Services secretary alex a czar las reluctant lit taken on a new role, public explainer and punching bag for the migrant crisis created by Donald Trumps zero tolerance border policy. He didnt want the job but no one did said an unnamed hhs official. And alex is doing his best. He stepped into the middle of a blank storm. Its a tough situation meaning its a tough situation for him, for alex a czar. Hes doing his best but poor him. The article continues, quote, the policy of family separation began in the white house and the department of homeland security. Its not clear alex a czar even agreed with it his supporters say but a czar took ownership in good soldier fashion reuniting all those families has zapped his time and pulled his agency away from other priorities. A czar has pulled long hours personally reviewing case files of migrant children, paging through documents after midnight. He works hard and is here early and late. Hes working round the clock on this. Alex a czar barely had time to go to his College Reunion for two days in the middle of the crisis while his agency was taking kids away from their parents with no idea of how theyd ever return them with no plan for what to do with the kids they were holding he was at his College Reunion for a weekend and yes, given the human misery that continues to unfold for these babies and toddlers and kids who have been taken away from their parents and given the governments lack of plan to fix that despite promises that theyve had a plan, its a little hard to take the selling of alex a czar as a good soldier who just happened to be caught up in the middle of this amazing mess that he maybe, maybe doesnt agree with doesnt want to say he doesnt agree with it because that might make trump mad. He might not agree with the policy weve heard. Someone has started sell agamazing pr story about the guy who is holding the kids taken away from their parents being the real victim here. This is sometimes i read the news and i like get frustrated. Sometimes i read the news and i think i might be dead and ive gone to hell and this is what the news is like in hell. This is particularly hard to take today, the day after alex a czar and his department of health and Human Services blew through a court imposed deadline to give back more than 100 kids under the age of 5 that theyre keeping from their parents. As of yesterday afternoon, precisely four of those kids had been reunited with their parents thanks to his hard work. Maybe more will be reunited by midnight last night. We dont know. Apparently part of what theyve been working so hard on was making sure ha alex a czars public image would be a little more shiny than it is. Lets put unnamed hhs officials out to talk to politico. Com to know how hard hes work and how this isnt his fault and how he might not agree with it but dont say he doesnt. House republicans joined with House Democrats in calling for steep penalties against a czars office if he fails to explain how he plans to reunite these kids with their parents. Lawyermakers will strip 100,000 a day from his budget. The judge who set the deadlines asked the aclu to submit a proposal for possible punishments against the administration for failing to meet the deadline. The judge could rule on those possible punishments at the next Court Hearing later this week. Joining us now is an aclu lawyer who is arguing this case against the government. Thank you for being here tonight. I notes you are in the middle of an incredible amount of work right now. Thank you for having me. As far as we can tell from the outside, the government seems toe have missed the deadline to comply with the judges order in your case. Can you give us an update whats happened and what the government has or hasnt done . Right. So we do not sympathy that all of the eligible children were reunited yesterday. We have not gotten an update from the government about whether there are still children who havent been rebayhed. Ive just heard a few minutes ago someone was reporting that hhs is saying they reunited all eligible children. I have no idea whether those where is before the deadline. I suspect not and i still dont know how many they mean because theyre saying all eligible children. I dont know whether their count is the same as ours. Wealth have to wait and see. I dont think they met qule yesterdays deadline. If they have reunited all the children, were thrilled. Thats what were doing this lawsuit for obviously. We now have to turn to the children 5 and above that are 3,000. Till i get confirmation for council from the government saying all the children under 5 eligible have been reunited well wait and see. When the government says all those eligible, its not counting the parents who were deported without their children previously. Children under 5. The government tried to say well those shouldnt be included in the lawsuit. Is the judge said, of course, theyre included in the lawsuit. Theyre the most acute situations. We still have those and were waiting to see even if the parents in the u. S. Have been reunited. Just to be clear on that last point, youre telling me that the governments position here is that these parents with their kids came to the border, the government took the kids away and then deported the parents to another country and now the government is saying that they not only are going to continue to hold the kids but they had have no ultimate responsibility to ever give the kids back because they have been sent to a different country by the same government . That seemed to be the governments position or this ruling by the judge didnt cover them, which would make no sense. They are the most extreme case. Of course, the court rejected the governments position. What the government thought they were going to do with these kids, who knows . Whether they were going to give the children up to foster homes or adoption, it is far from clear. If the government did not meet the deadline or indeed if they do not meet the next deadline for the kids over the age of 5, thats thousands of kids, the judge already signalled he may come to you at the aclu to figure out what the appropriate punishment would be for the government in order to respond to them missing the deadline. Is that unusual . Do you know what that sort of punishment should be . Well, the judge has a range of options. I think is he asking us for our recommendation. Hell make the ultimate decision. I think for us, the touchstone is going to be whats the most constructive remedy that will move the reunification process along. Were obviously hearing a lot of people say you should ask for the most punitive thing. The most punishment against the trump administration. You know, ultimately what were looking to do is find is the remedy that will move them to reunite all the kids. So we will consider all options. Right now i want to find out how many children have been reunited. How many have made the deadline and if they didnt make the deadline, we are going to have to propose remedies by tomorrow at 3 00 p. M. Pacific. And then theres obviously the big deadline coming up july 26th where 2,000 to 3,000 additional kids need to be reunited. This is a mess. The government not only took these children deliberately and caused this kind of trauma to them but didnt even bother to keep track where they were sending the children. Yeah, and thats alarming and upsetting when youre talking about 100 kids or several dozen kids, right . When youre talking about potentially thuz of kidsing with this problem its mind boggling. 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A boat. Huh. Tomorrow is day two of the twoday nato summit in brussell on day one, they issues a memo why account staff appeared to be so uncomfortable at the breakfast table. The press secretary told the Washington Post today that chief of staff john kelly looked so displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese. I thought they said breakfast. This is just pastries and cheese. Egad. Tomorrow theyll try it again though. Second day of the nato summit where it appears to be a live question whether or not the president will try to blow up the nato summit the way he blew up the g7 summit last month. Then he will go to the uk where maybe the staff can get a proper breakfast. Britain right now is embroiled in a political crisis that may take down the british government. Its driven in large part by account issue of brexit. Its driven in small part by the question of whether russia may have actually been behind the brexit referendum vote. Even without the burgeoning evidence that suggests russia was involved, the brexit vote might be about to bring down the uk government and Prime Minister theresa may. After visiting the uk already embroiled in political crisis, over a vote that was a big surprise that may have been tied to russia, then the president will move on to his oneonone summit with vladimir putin. The Financial Times has broken the news yet another trump property appears to have been financed by the russian government. This time its the Trump International hotel and tower in toronto. For anybody looking into the president s business dealings, this deal has a lot to offer including evidence that trumps billionaire partner in the toronto project authorizes a secret 100 million payment to a moscowbased fixer representing kremlinbacked investors. We will put a link to there brand new blockbuster report at maddowblog. Com tonight. Meanwhile, stay buckled in. This is going to continue to be a big week. Eat your wheaties. Maybe youd rather have pastries and cheese. Frooep free country. Your call. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Being, lawrence. We be seen at president at the g7 meetings sign a document and refute everything that was in the document after he left. And so the issues for people involved in the nato summit is when will it actually end for President Trump . It will end at a certain hour or a certain moment. It will end perhaps with a signature or whatever. But is that the end of it . Will there be something that changes everything said here . When he takes a gold or controversial step, he likes to have other people do that. He makes nice with everybody at the g7 and gets on a plane. He wants Robert Mueller fired or Jeff Sessions fired. He dispatches other people to do