senior fbi investigators who have been involved in the russia investigation and that report validates the claims he s made repeatedly. the governor of massachusetts who is a republican reversed course and ordered the national guard not to send assets or personnel to the southwest border because he said the actions of the federal government are resulting in the inhumane treatment of children. would you comment on that and have you seen any other impact on border operations from this whole situation? i haven t seen his comments specifically. but i would tell him that he should call every member of congress particularly those in his own state and ask them to fix the laws. there is only one body here that gets to create legislation and it is congress. our job is to enforce it and we would like to see congress fix it and that is why the president has repeatedly called on them to work with him to do just that. deborah. what was the president s reaction to laura bush s piece in the w
no defense for this policy. but they have failed to join the legislation that i have helped plead and every democrat has joined, no republicans have joined the legislation that would reverse this policy. it is time for them to stand up and use that moral campus mo compass and show moral backbone. do you think it is possible she ll do that at the beginning of the briefing, announce they are walk away from this policy. i would say realistically, probably she s there to defend it not to reverse it. and that makes me very sad, genuinely sad as an american because it is so betraying american values. it recalls the worst period in american history during world war ii when we put people of japanese decent into separate encampments and separated them from the communities and in other times in our world history when families have been torn apart as
illegally. that bears repeating. sarah sanders was asked, why would you not support standalone legislation. if you are saying it needs a fix, why not support standalone legislation in congress to reverse this policy? she insisted they want to look at a broader immigration package that would include as we know funding for the president s border wall, restricting legal immigration. it s clear this administration is willing to use these children as political pawns to gain concessions on ill gracioummigr donald trump tweeted almost that exact same thing. democrats should come to the table if they want this problem solves. kierst kierstrstjen nielsen said we re using them as pawns. what would you call that? pressure on the democrats, they say, to accept what he wants, money for a border wall among other issues.
want to see in legislation and the president wants to fix the smim and we re committed to do that and we hope congress would do their part and democrats have to stop playing political games and come to the table and get real about solving the problems. on the i.g. report and the hearings in congress with mr. horowitz and the director wray, the president tweeted yesterday and today that the mueller investigation continues to be a quote, witch hunt. he said on friday that after reviewing the i.g. report it shows there is no evidence of collusion. his own fbi director today said that the mueller that mule ser not on a witch hunt and the report doesn t speak to the special counsel investigation. how is there that disconnect stwen what the president believes another branch of his administration is doingish of the preside the president is clear and he was very involved in the campaign and laid out a number of times that there was no collusion and he strongly feels this is a witch hunt