finding a loophole after a federal judge last week said that anybody who crosses the border has a right to seek asylum by international law, by american law. so the president decided to close the border to ensure these families seeking asylum did not take a step forward on our ground. it really takes a moment for us as americans to try to reconcile what we re witnessing because we are the moral authority when it comes to refugees and asylum. and that picture that is now circulating around the world all of a sudden jeopardizes not just ethnic minorities in this country, people seeking asylum here but their ethnic minorities are vulnerable and up for option, and that is incredibly frightening, lawrence. ron klain, there s a simple option which only democrats in congress next year can find the answer, and that is who gave the order. the secretary of homeland security doesn t mention the use of tear gas and no one down the
families seeking asylum did not take a step forward on our ground. it really takes a moment for us as americans to try to reconcile what we re witnessing because we are the moral authority when it comes to refugees and asylum. and that picture that is now circulating around the world all of a sudden jeopardizes not just ethnic minorities in this country, people seeking asylum here but their ethnic minorities are vulnerable and up for option, and that is incredibly frightening, lawrence. ron klain, there s a simple wuestion which only democrats in congress next year can find the answer, and that is who gave the order. the secretary of homeland security doesn t mention the use of tear gas and no one down the line in the trump administration will even mention the use of tear gas. lawrence, that s right and it is an important question. but in some ways it s buried inside the bigger question, which is no matter who gave the order donald trump created the
if you don t like it, leave. they re staying because they agree with the president s goals and are willing to tolerate his behavior or they think it s going to help them professionally. it s a mistake he had sort of naive expectations but these people are signing up for this. they re signing up for it. is it fair he s making kirstjen nielsen the scapegoat? or is the broader issue the president promised things on the campaign trail that it s unrealistic or he s unable to solve? mexico s going to pay for the wall. obamacare sucks. i m going to give you something better. tpp is raping the american people. china s a currency manipulator. none of which are true, by the way. he said lots of things to the american people who said right on, i want things to be better, and he hasn t offered real solutions. so nielsen, doing the job she can, is she the scapegoat? well, she is a scapegoat but she s a scapegoat for a problem that doesn t exist. we don t have an immigration crisis in the un
surprise to get riled up over the issue. he almosted vetoed the whole omnibus funding over not having enough money for the wall. when running a relatively small company, he can yell at somebody and getting it in line, yelling at your director of homeland security doesn t make anything better and made the relationship worse and almost lead to another cabinet vacancy. which is the last thing they need. let s run a clip of what happened on fox business earlier today. the subject is john mccain and torture. she can t use it anymore because it is we have determined in congress it is not
surprise to see him once again getting riled up over this issue. i mean he almost vetoed the whole omnibus funding bill over not having money for his border wall. i think it shows a little bit of a misunderstanding of how the government works and sort of hearkens back to his business days when running a relatively small company, he could maybe yell at somebody and get something in line. yelling at your director of homeland security doesn t suddenly fix problems along the border, and it sounds like in this situation, it actually made their relationship worse and almost led to another cabinet vacancy, which is the last thing this administration needs right now. peter, i want to show you one thing and read you another. let s run a clip of what happened on fox business earlier today. the subject is john mccain and torture. she can t use it anymore because we have determined in congress that it s not legal.