senator mccain did reach across the aisle sharing bipartisan bonds with democrats and my next guest, chris coons from delaware, who served with mccain for eight years. most recently co-sponsoring immigration reform legislation. senator, thanks so much for being with us. i ve got to ask you, come from a different generation than senator mccain. what s it like to walk what was it like to walk on the senate floor that first time, look across the aisle and see, hey, that s john mccain and i m here with him? initially i found it hugely intimidating, frankly to try and spend time talking with senator mccain and explaining my views defending my views about foreign policy. here s someone who is the armed services chairman, the six-term senator and i already knew obviously his story of service and sacrifice in vietnam. so literally from the day i was
don t have a president who would rescind this zero inhumanity policy immediately? moments ago, the administration stressed that entering the u.s. without permission is a crime. basically, the problem is when you detain women and children, the courts have said that you have to release them within 20 days through the administration wants congress to close the loophole so families can stay together. what we heard from democrats today is they want to ban the practice and they believe families should be handled administratively, not criminally. bret: william la jeunesse in san diego. thank you. which side will blink first on zero-tolerance? let me know on twitter. @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport or on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. g.o.p. leaders hope to take action on immigration reform legislation this week.
children stopped at the border 239% over the same 23329e time period. it s not on the radar in the senate. i don t know about in the house. in the senate it s not on our agenda. i went to immigration early this year. wide open for amendments. the senate did not want to pass any particular version of it. honestly, laura, i can t see us going back to immigration this year unless there was some proposal that the president was actually okay with and said he was willing to sign. i don t think he is okay with anything that i have seen coming our way. so short answer, not on the agenda in the senate. sandra: senator john thune is senate of the republican conference he joins us now. good morning to you. good morning, sandra. sandra: sounds from here like mitch mcconnell all but ruled out the senate attempting another immigration reform legislation. i think the leader described it pretty accurately. we had a debate on
to start this new legislative push for new immigration reform legislation and it very much seemed that that effort was following the president s tweets and meant to kind of put that policy muscle behind something that the president was talking about basically because he d seen it on tv. and jeremy, tomorrow baltic leaders visit the white house. there s going to be one of those planned press conferences, two questions for both sides of the press corps. in our like a good neighbor state farm is there segment, i should mention these visiting leaders will be finely attuned to vladimir putin and the moves he s been making and the words he s been choosing. absolutely. and it s part of the reason why the president s behavior lately has been so mystifying. i mean, he s talking about now rewarding a man who the intelligence services have told trump, apparently to no avail,
impulsive, reckless behavior lately is he is surrounded more and more by people willing to provide that affirmation. he s spending more time lately with people like corey lewandowski, dave bossy, people who coined of phrase let trump be trump and that s what you re seeing now, trump being his truest self. i always ask how did trump advance today and is there any strategy that you see employed in the situation in a jeremy talked about? it s really interesting as you talk about that feedback loop idea, the president went really hard over the last would you mean of days talking about the immigration issue, specifically referring to the caravans of illegal immigrants that he painted these pictures of the caravans coming across the united states trying to ominously cross the border. when did that start? when fox & friends did a report on it in the morning. after all the of president tweets, the white house and homeland security put together a conference call with reporters and reveale