this is cnn s senior national correspondent alex marquardt in washington, where the acting secretary of homeland security just laid out this announcement. alex, what did he say? reporter: that s right, kate. acting secretary of homeland security kevin mcaleenan is essentially saying that this new rule that they re putting into place will replace what is known as the flores settlement agreement. that, as you said, allowed migrant children to be held for no longer than 20 days. as a result, mcaleenan said, that created an incentive for migrant families to come to the u.s. illegally because they know that they could then get released after 20 days. so what this new rule will do, if and when it goes into effect, would mean families will be held for much longer period of time. as you say, it could be indefinitely, but essentially it s as long as the immigration proceedings will last. the second core component to this new rule is that it sets a higher standard for the way that
that this is just simply not how a u.s. ally should be treated. keep in mind that on sunday when president trump was talking to reporters, he confirmed his interest in greenland, purchasing it for the first time. sources told cnn that the white house counsel s office had been directed to look into the possibility of purchasing greenland. also, president trump told reporters that his trip to copenhagen had nothing to do with his interest in buying greenland. in fact, he had said that was an issue that was pretty much on his back burner. so kate, we ve seen a pretty dramatic shift from president trump saying the two things had nothing to do with each other to now citing denmark s disinterest in selling greenland as the sole reason for why he s scrapping this travel, kate. all right. we ll see what happens. sarah, thank you so much. i m also going to be talking to the former u.s. ambassador to denmark in a moment about all of that. joining me right now, much more to discuss, elena plot,
problem as the democratic party moves even further left. it kind of stands out as something of an anomaly. many people are puzzled by the fact that the most liberal member of the senate, this one democratic socialist, takes the position that seems at odds with liberalism in america. senator bernie sanders. reporter: during last month s cnn debate, sanders try toddy fu tried to diffuse the issue saying the nra gave him a d-minus rating. that may not be low enough. kate, sanders campaign sent a statement saying as president, sanders would take immediate action to reduce gun violence, including repealing that law that protects gun manufacturers, the law bernie sanders helped pass. fred guttenberg says he s looking for a candidate that doesn t have to explain why he ever voted with the nra. kate? important piece. good look, drew. thank you so much. coming up, late last year,
against the brady bill five different times, the legislation that finally passed and allowed for instant background checks sanders voted against. and in 2005, sanders sided with the nra, voting for a bill protecting gun manufacturers from being sued by victims of gun violence, like fred guttenberg. he s now calling for its repeal. in his 2016 presidential race, sanders passed votes on gun legislation became an issue. secretary clinton, is bernie sanders tough enough on guns? no, not at all. when they re a threat to others or themselves reporter: which at the time, sanders denied in an interview with cnn. so i do not accept the fact that i have been weak on this issue. in fact, i ve been strong on this issue. i can get beyond the noise and all of these arguments of people shouting at each other and come up with real constructive gun control legislation, which most significantly gets guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
commit mass attacks. cnn is following this from florida. what are you hearing? reporter: you know, we ve been following and tracking all of these cases across the country. some of them have been here in florida. we ve been following these cases. a lot of them are very similar. they start with an anonymous ten and police officers follow leads and then lo and behold this is an arrest. there are two cases here in this county, in volusia county. in one case a 25-year-old was arrested at a winn dixie parking lot after his ex-girlfriend went to police because she received text messages that she thought were threatening. one of them that, quote, a good 100 kills would be nice. law enforcement reacted. he was arrested and he is being held without bond. it is unclear if that man has an attorney at this point in time. on the same day a 15-year-old