can go to mexico to the united states. hundreds of miles from where i am standing in texas, the numbers are starting on the border, and families crossing b 107,000 family members taken into custody where i am standing, 300% increase in family units compared to last year and the leaders here say those are understandable numbers. reporter: that is a record number. carley: donald trump lambasting the left even harder for their stance on open borders.
after that anonymous opinion piece was written about the president in the new york times, she wrote a separate opinion piece in the washington post lambasting them and said, look, when i disagree with the president, i take it directly to the president. she wrote then, i don t agree with the president on everything. when there is a disagreement, there s a right way and a wrong way to address it. we don t know what it is that led to her resignation. was it a disagreement? was it something personal? was it serving for two years and that being enough time? we don t know, but again, a huge development. and to be clear, this is axios that is reporting this, and that the president has accepted this. as we wait for comment from the white house, one of the areas of disagreement between the u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, and the president, in public comments has been on toughness in the face of russia. russian interference in the election, russian activities around the world, in ukraine and
blasey ford, she s going to be heard. the committee it seemed was very solicitous. we can send people out to california if you re afraid to fly. there were all kinds of ways the committee was attempting to give her a platform. so i don t think it s fair to say the patriarchy was in action in this case. lambasting her character in the media and on the senate floor said this was a smear campaign and called her a liar. all of these people saying, of course, brett kavanaugh must be guilty. isn t he a man? it s privileged. that shouldn t happen, and unfortunately, in this 24-hour news cycle, social media. but these are the points. it is the height of arrogance for the republicans to say, we re going to give her her day. and then we re going to vote the next day. to me, they re already predisposing that they don t care they don t care what she has to say. isn t the point of giving her her day and then having isn t that exactly the way the process is supposed to work?
of the president lambasting fbi director james comey for mishandling the clinton e-mail investigation. if the president asked you to look at this and give me your thoughts, you can t say no. reporter: he writes the memo, and then all hell breaks loose. reporter: the president loved it almost as much as he hated comey. so much, in fact, that he received it, released it, and fired comey all on the same day last may. this is cnn breaking news. we have major breaking news. the president of the united states has terminated the director of the fbi, james comey. reporter: josh campbell, a close comey aide, was with him in los angeles when comey learned watching cnn that he had been fired. they said, we have a letter from the president that was dropped off at the visitors
very smart guy. the democrats like him. the republicans like him. this guy is a man of upstanding character and essentially the gold standard at the department of justice. reporter: rosenstein s stock rose even higher when after just two weeks on the job, he wrote a now infamous memo at the request of the president. lambasting fbi director james comey for mishandling the clinton e-mail investigation. if the president asks you to look at this and give your thoughts, you can t say no. so he writes the memo. he writes the memo. and then? all hell breaks loose. the president loved it. almost as much as he hated comey. so much, in fact, he received it, released it, and fired comey, all on the same day last may. this is cnn breaking news. all right. we have major breaking news.