On . Theyll say look if the guy at the top can say anything to anybody at any time, why cant i . That was republican congressman mark sanford on morning joe a year ago. While the South Carolina conservative largely backed the president s agenda, he called out the commanderinchief as we just heard right there. Last night sanford lost his primary race after the president attacked him personally on twitter. Just hours before the polls closed, and it was close. Welcome to morning joe, everyone, its wednesday, june 13th. With us we have msnbc contributor mike barn kill. National Affairs Analyst for nbc news and msnbc jon heilemann. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner and author of the book, a world in disarray, Richard Haass and National Political reporter nbc news heidi przybilla. A lot to get to. If you want to know where the Republican Party is right now, jon heilemann, mark sanford survives careerending, what should have been a careerending scandal.
Remarks the president made with reporters at the white house on the lawn there friday. Topics ranging from Inspector General report, detaining of Child Migrants and an interview he gave about kim jongun. James comey was unfair to the people of this country. The democrats forced that law upon our nation. I hate it. What did you mean just now . You dont understand, sorry. Jeff, with a good saturday morning to you. Can you separate the fact from the fiction here . Good morning, alex. The president came out swinging yesterday. The unexpected chaotic back and forth with reporters here on the white house north lawn yesterday. As you mentioned, the president unleashed a series of claims and accusations about a broad range of topics, many of which are false or misleading. President trump talking to reporters in a freewheeling, impromptu q a friday dishing out several eyebrowraising comments. Including this about the Inspector Generals report saying it exonerates him in the russia investigation
Tweet. My political representatives didnt want me to get involved in the mark sanford primary thinking he would win. With a few hours left i felt katie was such a good candidate and sanford was so bad i had t give it a shot. Congrats to katie arrington. What are the ripple effects of all of this . Whats the lesson now for every republican in congress . Joining me now is cnn political reporter, rebecca. What republicans are receiving after Mark Sanfords loss is any republican who wants to challenge the president is risking political suicide if they do so. We have seen it with jeff flake challenging the president. He, of course, decided not to run for reelection because his polling looked pretty bad and then we saw roby running for reelection in alabama and her race is going to a runoff in a few weeks largely because she was a critic of the president and so we have seen other test cases for this theory, but mark sanford showing us once again just how perilous it is if you are a republica
Republicans take another crack at an immigration about ilthis wee. Dhs reveals that 2,053 kids, but most of their parents have already deported or left the country. What happens to the children left behind . Police in texas say a migrant child is currently missing from the shelter in bruinsville. Not clear if he was separated from his family or not or crossed into the u. S. Unaccompanied. This is coming as questions are being raised about Migrant Children who are detained at the border. New numbers released indicate that more than 500 kids he offer no timeline on how long its going to take to reunite them with their family. Im going to start with Gabe Gutierrez who is in brownsville, texas, who has been covering this story. Talk to us about what you know so far. Its a developing situation at the moment. Hi, yasmin. In the past few minutes we can give clarity. According to a source with direct knowledge, it happened around 4 30, police say they got this call there was a child that ran a
Wait. Stop wasting their time. Stop wasting their time. Yes. Here we go again. Lets play his statements from the past week. We are were looking to keep Families Together. It is very important. Were going to be signing an executive order, were going to also count on congress. We want to go through congress. We will be going through congress. What im asking congress to do is to give us a third option, which we have been requesting since last year, the Legal Authority to detain and properly remove Families Together as a unit. We have to be able to do this. This is the only solution to the border crisis. Wait, wait, cant do it through an executive order. So it is another head fake today, only congress can act, i Want Congress to act, i need congress to act, even after i sign an executive order, i need congress to act, but, please, congress, do not act and remember how often the president said it is the democrats fault. If you notice when i came over, they were all saying about separating t