Would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaneys report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera . Yes, please. Would you like to hear it . Yes, please. Why dont we do this. Well say grace afterwards. We are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. President trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for a presentation. We will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. Craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. You heard President Trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. All of this coming just less than a day really after President Trump did an aboutface on his Policy Of Separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
cross the border here
earlier this morning, 17 deftsz who had been charged with illegal entry had the charges dismissed. now that immigration attorney says these defendants had one thing in common, that those 17 defendants were all parents of children that they had been separated from those children earlier this week. they had been arrested as they crossed into the border into the u.s. illegally, either on monday or tuesday before the president had signed that executive order. now craig, why is that significant? it appears that we re seeing the ramifications of the president s executive order play out in real time. there s a lot of questions about how the judicial system w handle this. whether there will continue to be prosecutions of these adults who have children. just a short time ago the washington post citing a senior u.s. official, reported that the doj was suspending prosecutions of these adults until i.c.e. could have more resource capacity to have to be able