the most generous country in the world on this front. but we have to deal with the crisis we re facing down there. and joining me now, john callaway, victoria de-francisco, and also carlos cabreracabrera. welcome all. asylum applicants who you want to see the trump administration going after. is that who you want them to go after and with this approach? alex, so i m the child of people who came to the united states as refugees so this is something i m very sensitive to. and it is okay and a good idea for congress to revisit asylum policy, to find a way forward. i m sure that there is common sense changes that can be made. what the american people don t want is a cruel policy that turns away people who are in desperate need that sends the
did that ruling surprise you or did it make sense? it makes sense, dana. it was a pretty thin read. i used to work at doj when you had these shutdowns, there s a huge exception for community protection, which covers a lot of doj. i might have 50 employees and maybe four or five were sent home. dana: all right. i remember 1995, my first day on the job as press secretary to dan schaffer. i didn t know if i was essential or not. it was my first day. i haven t essential in any way. i did want to ask you about this. the administration is trying different types of cools. they re going to be ripe for legal challenges. the new york times writing today the title of this on border refugees in limbo. them saying the latest move could potentially cause hundreds of thousands to pile up along the mexican side of the border. with thousands of asylum applicants being made every month and with a huge back log in the immigration court, migrants cases could take years to resolve.
we will continue conversations with this new administration about reaching an agreement to permit the united states to process asylum applicants while individuals remain in mexico. but those conversations and those negotiations are ongoing. we remain hopeful that we ll be able to reach that agreement. going forward. there may be progress on that. jeff paul is lives in tijuana with the latest. reporter: we are standing here on the tijuana border. this is in fact the exact spot where one week ago, hundreds of migrants from the caravan at a protest and marched up to this border wall. you can see for federal agents standing by, anticipating any other moves, should they happen. but it s been a very quiet day so far. most of the action happening at
appears to be closing in on. we ll dive into the latest developments out of the mueller investigation when senate intelligence committee member angus king joins me live. we want to begin with the breaking news. hundreds of mile rants rushing the u.s. border near san diego. pedestrians and road crossings have been closed in both directions at what is the world s busiest border crossing. and it comes as we are hearing two different stories from the u.s. and mexico about a supposed deal requiring asylum applicants to stay in mexico while their cases are processed in the u.s. so we re waiting on nbc news correspondent hans nichols. as soon as he s available we ll jump and talk to him. for now, i want to welcome in the panel. joining me on set, jonathan swan. co-founder of the beat dc, tiffany cross, republican strategist, rick tyler and nbc news national security reporter julia ainsley. we were hoping to have this
and roger stone is just one of several former trump confidantes the special counsel appears to be closing in on. we ll dive into the latest developments out of the mueller investigation when senate intelligence committee member angus king joins me live. we want to begin with the breaking news. hundreds of mile rants rushing the u.s. border near san diego. pedestrians and road crossings have been closed in both directions at what is the world s busiest border crossing. and it comes as we are hearing two different stories from the u.s. and mexico about a supposed deal requiring asylum applicants to stay in mexico while their cases are processed in the u.s. so we re waiting on nbc news correspondent hans nichols. as soon as he s available we ll jump and talk to him. for now, i want to welcome in the panel. joining me on set, jonathan swan. co-founder of the beat dc, tiffany cross, republican strategist, rick tyler and nbc news national security reporter