we still have no clarity on what, if anything, motivated the first lady to wear that army-style jacket with the words on the back you see there, i really don t care, do you? the first lady s team insisting that there was no behind message, although it s hard to see how a wardrobe choice like that could be anything other than intentional, hallie. so, as you mentioned, the president is still tweeting about immigration. we expect to hear from him at 2-30 eastern at an event for so-called angel families. those are families who lost loved ones due to sfriens viole an undocumented immigrant. let me bring in elizabeth will lace with the asylum seeker advocacy project along with eugene scott and betsy woodruff. let me stick with the white house and washington where geoff left off because in just the last little bit you ve seen tweets from both press secretary sara sanders and president trump that seem to relate to this. a border patrol agent who is out this morning talking about that
understand understand alice. and she immediately was so receptive. i m joined now by new york magazine washington correspondent olivia back with me eugene scott with the washington post, betsy woodruff with the daily beast. thank you all for being here. you obviously cover the personalities involved here at the white house. ivanka trump has also come under skr criticism. she has focused on family rights issues but she s come under fire for not speaking out at times more forcefully enough. in this instance she didn t oppose family separations until after her father had already reversed his policy. right. she seemed to kind of misrepresent the policy itself when she did tweet congratulating him or talking about how good it was that he signed the executive order. she took the white house line that it was sort of not the white house s fault that the policy was in place in the first place, which is, of course, not true. but as you said, her policies
prosecution. bringing children with you doesn t guarantee you want get prosecuted. the administration knew what the results of its policy would be. absolutely. the administration intended to do what they did and jeff sessions believed that the bible was supporting the decision, which is one of things he communicated. what he didn t intend was to have the type of reaction that he got even from some people among the base, specifically some white evangelicals and other conservatives who found this policy problematic and that s why we re seeing recei reversal. liz, thank you for being with us. i m going to ask eugene and betsy to stick around because we do have more questions, including if the president has made this move, putting this in congress s court, what happens over on capitol hill. that immigration impasse has become a lot trickier. is he throwing in a towel on a fix? we re head to the hill next live.