last night in washington, before today s oval office signing ceremony, dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen was at a mexican restaurant and was interrupted by an advocacy group furious at the president s family separation policy. shame! shame! end family separation! if kids don t eat in peace, you don t eat in peace! that dinner came after secretary nielsen delivered a resolute defense of the policy at a white house briefing. later president trump praised her for doing what he called a fabulous job.
last night in washington, before today s oval office signing ceremony, dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen was at a mexican restaurant and was interrupted by an advocacy group furious at the president s family separation policy. shame! shame! end family separation! if kids don t eat in peace, you don t eat in peace!
as she dined at a mexican restaurant. shame! shame! shame! if kids don t eat in peace, you don t eat in peace! reporter: and the president himself coming face-to-face with the outrage, as he walked the halls of congress. you re separating the children! mr. president, don t you have kids? reporter: exactly 75 days after he began his zero tolerance crackdown, the crisis reaching fever pitch, after those images of children in cages. and the sounds of their cries. today, news that babies are being held in facilities called tender age shelters. veteran republican senator orrin hatch calling tender age shelters a chilling phrase we will not soon forget. he tweeted, the child separation policy should be halted now. the administration has struggled to explain its policy. nielsen bristling when asked if the children were being used as pawns.
from their parents and kept in cages continued to surface. the secretary of homeland security kirsten nelson, confronted by protesters while dining at a mexican restaurant in washington. if kids don t eat in peace, you don t eat in peace! reporter: trump telling aides he knew the images looked bad politically, but insisting the media was only showing the worst ones. those images affect everybody, but i have to say that you have double standards. reporter: but the administration could be back to square one in a matter of days. sources say the executive order won t end the zero tolerance policy that led to the separations in the first place, and an order could create an entire slew of legal problems. we re going to keep families together, but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime, by all of the things that we don t stand for, that we don t want. reporter: now the text of this executive order that the
ben stiller, third, rounding out the top five, ryan reynolds and tom hanks. really? helena bottom carter and tim burton are no more. they separated and say they will continue to be friends and co-parents to their two children. duane the rock johnson tweeted out this picture to get everyone in the holiday spirit, fanny pack and all. i m betty nguyen. this is first look on msnbc. reminder, morning joe is coming up at the top of the hour. for many children in kentucky, survival depends on free meals at school. when they are not at school, some kids don t eat at all. the backpack program is to feed the children when they go home. find out more about childhood hunger and what you can do about it at msnbc.com. turn the trips you have to take,