i think she expected it would come out this way. we ve been trying to help our viewers understand why people don t speak out. do you have a sense or any conversations with your sister-in-law about why she didn t share this, if she didn t at the time. it s. [ expletive ] completely understandable why she didn t share this at the time. i think it s completely understandable to me and this is part of our culture that we live in. she said she would be willing to testify on thursday.
in the united states at some point they ll never be able to reunite the parents, they ll end up entering the foster care system in the united states depending what state they are in and what judiciary process that cob. whether they are lucky enough to find a family memory lated to those children here in the united states. but if not they will essentially become wards of the state. again, this country created orphans because this administration, the trump administration, secretary nielsen, basically tried to create a deterrence by separating families. had no plan how to actually end this problem except again the focus on political problem. we ll keep on it. congressman, thanks four your time. thank you. before i hand it over to chris, i want to remind you about daily on facebook. go to facebook.com anderson cooper full circle. rolls off the tongue. see you tomorrow and 8:00 p.m. news continues though as it always does.
what if supreme court justices were chosen by voters. and imagine if we have another campaign for the supreme court between trump s election of gorsuch and obama s choice of garland. that would become as contentious as the presidential campaign and more consequential in the long term and we would end up with the president tweeting. we need more republicans in 2018 and must hold the supreme court. and in all seriousness, so many states do elect certain judges. ask yourself, why do we do it? it only invites partisan corruption to a part of the rule of law that all of us claim to care so much about. maybe we ought to get elections out of the judiciary process. we ll be right back. this is a story about mail and packages.
can turn this partisan? they have tried to create a system so that members of congress would make sure that presidents did not seize too much power. i think an impartial person would say that republicans in congress, in many cases are not doing that, they re trying to defend their president. and donald trump to some extent is trying to, you know, change the judiciary process to make it easier for him to exercise influence. it s like what dwight eisenhower said in his final address, you need, what he said was, an alert and knowledgeable citizenry. unless we do that all the time, we will have our democracy begin to fade. michael beschloss, i feel more alert having the benefit of your analysis tonight. thank you. my pleasure, thank you, ari. donald trump asked the person in charge of the mueller probe if he was on his team. what if he fires him? that is next. and also the chief of staff says the boss wants everything out. and later, the former trump
there is an effort on the part of those senators to improve the senate bill as it moves to the floor, but it has a long way to go from the house perspective. from your perspective, where do things stand now? from my perspective, it has a long way to go. the bill the gang of eight introduced was a starting point. we improved that bill in the judiciary process in the markup. we had several days of markup there. we ll go to the floor next week. it will likely be improved again. still, i wouldn t expect the house to take up the senate bill as it is. the house will likely move forward with their own bill. in the end, i hope that we have a product that congress can pass and the president can sign. i think we ve got a good process here. we ll go to the floor. we ll have an open process. a lot of amendments that will improve the bill specifically with regard to border security. let me ask you about that. two of your colleagues are pushing amendments for tighter border security. are you c