marc, about it s all on the southern border, people walking up through mexico. anderson, i m agreeing with you on that point. i m agreeing with you 100% on that point. at the same time, there are problems with the laws we have in this country that the president has said, help elect more republicans and we can fix these laws, because right now, i need 60 votes in the united states senate, and i can t win over any democrat votes to actually fix the catch and release laws. all right, marc, stay with us. amanda as well. we ll come right back. i want to talk about the larger question in all of this and perhaps an ugly one. how effective has the president been on the campaign. truth or untruth, and are the democrats too optimistic about their chances coming up in this midterm election? later, breaking news. what the president just said about the murder of an american resident, allegedly by the saudi government, jamal khashoggi, ahead. today.
94,000 central americans last year were detained at the border. did you know 99% of them are still in this country because of laws passed by democrat congress that says the catch and release, they must stay in the country until adjudication. i m not arguing immigration policy with you. i m pointing out a lie, and you have yet to say it s not a lie. anderson, what i am saying as well, though, is there are democrats who have also demagogued this issue and are not being honest. you agree he s lying? what i have said is he didn t need to go the extra yard and accuse and make accusations about middle easterners in there because he doesn t have proof of that. the president does have a lot of accomplishments. the economy, supreme court justices, whether you agree with, you know, his picks or not. he could be there s a lot of things for him to tout for his supporters ahead of the midterms. does he feel, you think, it s not enough? listen, one of the reasons he got elected was by
middle easterners in the caravan. he s been offered this opportunity multiple times, and they re just not offering any proof. shortly after the president said there s no proof, the department of homeland security put out a statement saying this is proof. that s right. is that right? that s right. although, i mean, i m not sure this was proof of anything. in terms of what the department of homeland security put out, but they issued out some tweets, posted some tweets shortly after the president made these comments. we can put it up. it says citizens of countries outside central america, including countries in the middle east, africa, south asia, and elsewhere, are currently traveling through mexico toward the u.s. anderson, this doesn t prove that there are middle easterners in there. it s just them saying that s the case. and this goes back to, i think, to another important point. and that is just because the white house or the president or the vice president, they say that the
are overconfident about some sort of a blue wave? well, i think there s some evidence to suggest, not necessarily that these tactics in the last 48 hours are working, although i wouldn t be surprised if it does indeed keep the republican base enthused, but i think post-kavanaugh, getting kavanaugh on the supreme court, and the continued good economic news, that has helped the numbers uptick for the president, anderson. we do see in that same nbc/ wall street journal poll you were citing, republicans getting almost to parity with democrats in terms of interest in the election. i think what we re seeing here now is an environment where the republicans who had been sort of asleep at the switch for much of the last year and a half, are now getting in the game, and that is causing the battlefield to tighten a little bit. marc, also, you had the president out at campaign rallies with big crowds. that s got to be very effective just in terms of, you know, it s local media attention, it s
and they are exploring all options to appeal the flawed rulings. joining us is jessica snyder. they took great paps to rewrite the executive order and both judges are saying it s the president s own campaign statements that gave them pause. a majority of opinions went into pain staking detail about the comments president trump and his team made specifically referring to their plans for a muslim ban. both judgeses cited then candidate trump s interview here on cnn with you where he said i think islam hates us and he referred to a press release calling for a complete and shut down of muslims enter the u.s. they said those statements coupled with white house senior adviser steven miller s tv appearance when they were rewriting the order when he said the new order would have the same policies of the old. all of that made it clear that the intent all along was to ban muslims from entering the u.s.