over here? and it signals he s in a deal making position than representing american allies. i want to turn immigration here because in addition to the family reunification hurdles i want to talk about the other immigration story that s picking up a lot of steam. it s the u.s. army discharging recruits that would give them a path to citizenship. so far 40 has been discharged. is president trump targeting this group or is there more to this story that has nothing to do with his view on immigration? i think allies of the president, conservatives would say there s more to the story that has to do relates to immigration but isn t necessarily discriminatory. i would say a lot of these immigrants still have to complete background checks, but one excuse or not excuse, but reason they ve been using to back this up is they have relatives abroad and that puts
recruitment program have been booted. kevin barren is executive editor of defense one. kevin, the ap writes, among other things, about a 22-year-old whose file said he was so deeply loyal to the u.s., his family in pakistan was not an issue. they got him out anyway. another iranian citizen was hoping to get medical training. said he felt proud he was pursuing everything legally. both now fear being deported back to their country, having served in the u.s. army, and being in trouble because of that. what are you hearing about the news of these immigrants being discharged? what is your reaction? well, i think there s two parts of the story. one is out the pentagon is treating these recruits they made a promise two, and the second is the large immigration story we re all talking about, with the trump administration s efforts to get illegals out. as a pentagon reporter, my first reaction was, hold up. secretary mattis said repeatedly over the year and a half since coming into office with
we have team fox news coverage for you now on the unfolding immigration story. garrett teny is live in washington. dan springer is in las vegas where the president is now. let s begin with steve harrington who is live in texas outside one of the centers. what s the situation on the ground where you are? reporter: we ve seen protesters here in front of the mccallen custom center, a processing center before people who entered the border illegally are initially taken. we ve seen the number of protesters go from zero to 200. as far as the mood, it got hot about two hours ago here. a bus load of parents and children being moved from one detention center to another was pretty much surrounded by protesters. one of them threw herself actually in front of the bus and had to be pulled away by colleagues. a lot of yelling also, free the children, free the children, despite the fact that these were parents and children together, not in fact being separated. still a real perception here on the gr
welcome back. i m david gura. attorney general jeff sessions ba backpedaling now saying he never intended to separate children from their parents. put intentions aside, nearly 2,000 migrant children remain split from their parents and there s still no clear plan in place for reuniting these families. joining me is jeremy peters, a reporter for the new york times, natasha is a staff writer at at the lanticthe atl the date line is leesburg, virginia, you talk to trump supporters across the country about many things, in part, how they reacted to this story that i just mentioned, this immigration story. what did you hear inning aggreg? i think there are a lot of
border stuff and no coverage of the inspector general testifying on the hill. any surprise to you? i think we look for a lot of sizzle in our media, and obviously it had a lot of stake in it. ask peter strzok. obviously that is a huge story, and to think that it didn t at least to get a or two, they didn t give it half of what immigration god and that would be something that i would say, i totally get it given the motives around the immigration story. so that shows the media that priorities are completely out of whack and unfortunately you have to say a gender-based. obviously this ig report was bad for the fbi and possibly good for president trump in terms of dismissing and obstruction of justice sort of argument against him in terms of what lawyers have been saying. shannon: the minute will