the president calling on the iranians to be cautious. the foreign minister firing back with color us unimpressed. world heard harsher plbluster months ago. channelling the warning to be cautious. let s bring in nick paton walsh. nick, this is how we do it in 2018. reporter: what a marked difference from five years ago when the obama administration were gently and carefully putting together a complicated nuclear agreement. the trump administration pulled out of that and now 48 hours later, distraction again made to bar some of the critics for security clearances. now we are still talking about the possibility of this conflict with iran. on three separate occasions the white house stood by the tweet
this in helsinki. i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial. reporter: it has been the most sweeping rebuke of the president from his own party. on capitol hill, senate majority leader addressed moscow directly. i think the russians need to know there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016 and it really better not happen again in 2018. reporter: the white house shaken by the blow back, as the president awoke to headlines declaring treason. the wall street journal editorial page declaring that helsinki performance a personal and national embarrassment, asserting the president had projected weakness. anthony scaramucci is not mincing words. loyalty requires you to tell the truth, sit with him, explain to him the optics of the situation, why the optics are bad, the strategy in terms of
this is to make a point that they need to leave children alone. this is not the america that we fought for and died for. my community has fought. there s no reason for them to do this to the children. these people have children in a bus like criminals. they haven t committed any crimes. do you have a message for president trump? we re coming for him in 2020 and we re coming for his congress in 2018. reporter: earlier in the day there were about 25 democratic lawmakers, a delegation came down here, toured the facility, came out, told us what they thought. one of them had a message for president trump. stop the chaos. just get reasonable policy, let us all as members of congress be a part of it. stop telling congress not to pass concrete immigration reform. we can fix this system. reporter: now, as far as the family reunification goes, the dhs says they ve reunited 500 families and have a plan in place to reunite the remaining 2,000.
a bus carrying illegal immigrants out front here and i got into it with one of the protesters. here s what happened. why are you stopping the bus? this is to make a point that they need to leave children alone. this is not the america we fought and died for. there s no reason to do this to the children. these people have their children in a bus like criminals. reporter: do you have a message for president trump? we re coming for him in 2020 and we re coming for his congress in 2018. reporter: earlier in the day, about 25 democratic lawmakers came down here. one of the questions i was asking them was where the outrage from you in 2014 when they erected the facility with the same standards. here s what anthony brown of maryland had to say. we took issue with president obama. where we re really taking issue with president trump is that he s treating everyone as a criminal and you ve seen a spike in the separation between
some representatives of congress who couldn t be here today, of course, because of the shutdown. i ll give you a look at the crowd here that is watching all of this go down. i do want to talk a little bit about what this is all about. because last year was about moving your feet and getting the attention of the world. this year is really about strategy. it s about power to the polls. and that has been the mantra over and over and over again. they are trying to flip seats. they have chosen nevada for a reason. that reason is it s still considered a battleground state. and they re hoping to flip some seats here. but they are also very concerned about this shutdown. and hear what one of the organizers had to say about the shutdown and who they feel they should blame. this is the first time in history, when you had a unified house and a unified white house that we ve seen a government shutdown. i think this clearly demonstrates the catastrophic leadership that we have in place right now,