Around the country. President trump again this morning blamed democrats saying that it is their policies that got us here, what he does not say is that he cou stop this from happening this morning, today, if he wanted to. With a phone call, as senator Lindsey Graham said. His administration is the one enforcing the rules, discretionary rules, it is one that his administration is enforcing. Abby phillip joins us live from the white house. I know you spoke just now to Deputy Press Secretary there. How is the administration justifying its claim in the face of the facts this morning that this is not their policy, that this is somehow to be blamed on democrats . Well, jim, the administration is really all over the place on this, first, Kirstjen Nielsen said there is no policy, and President Trump in a tweet in two tweets moments ago seemed to acknowledge the policy existed but blamed it on democrats saying children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means of enterin
If you go back and look at it, i thought what he did was completely benign. Of course you should ask a murderous dictator. Thats the job. Thats the job. If you want is a culture of obeisance from the media, youre going to be sour a lot of the time. But look, theyre making decisions. Look at the guy we had on at the top of the show. Thats trumps choice for senator from virginia. Im glad you brought him up. Do you think people understand do you think they know that theyre bigots or do you think theyre not . Because i dont think that guy knows how big a bigot he is. I think they know 100 . Ill tell you why, i dont think its natural. You and i grew up in places that were different but had a lot of similar ethic dynamics. And my feeling has always been sometimes hate comes out of ignorance, true. But most of the time people know what they own in their heart. This guy knows what he cottoned to. He knows what hes trying to distance himself from, and s why wouldnt answer a single damn question
Theyre making decisions, look at the guy we had on at the top of the show, thats trumps choior senator of virginia. Imd you brought him up. Do you think people understand do you think they know that theyre biggots or do you think that theyre not . I think they know 100 . Ill tell youwhy,t think its ral. You and i grew up in places that were different but had a lot of similar ethic dynamics. My feels is hate comes out of ignorance, its true. But most of the teem people know what they own in their heart, this guy knows what hes trying to distance himself from and thats why he wouldnt answer a single damn question about it and that spoke volume. Thats w why the president likes him. I dont know. And i like how you wen after him from your dad cnn tonight, im don lemon, we have breaking news for you. It could be a legal headache for donald trump. Is he going to cooperate with investigators . First, fresh after his summit with kim jongun, President Trump is doi own version of mission accompli
Foundation. Good afternoon, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the highly anticipated report from the Justice Departments Inspector General examining how top officials handled the investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server. It just dropped like a bomb in the j. Edgar hoover building, assailing the decisions made by former attorney general Loretta Lynch, former fbi director james comey, fbi agents whosed biased antitrump texts the Inspector General finds deeply troubling. Repeatedly independentor general Michael Horowitz says he found explanations from the aforementioned to be unpersuasive and yet the top line here in this 568 page report, the ig found no evidence that political bias impacted the decisions leading up to the decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton. Which is not to say the Inspector General didnt find a lot to criticize, concluding that former fbi director james comey deviated from the bureaus norms in giving that july, 2016, press
Immigrants can find out if their children are okay. What im describing is how the Trump Administrations zero tolerance policy is being put into practice along the southern u. S. Border. At least one person at the white house is not happy about it, first lady. A spokeswoman for Melania Trump te cnn that mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together and achieve successful immigration reform. She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs with heart. Let me remind you that her husband, the president , has expressed compassion for children before. It was more than a year ago when he claimed that seeing suffering babies in syria drove him to order military action there. It crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, were a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was. That cross