Lets bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. Franco ordonez, White House Correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. The New York Times katie benner, pulitzer prizewinning reporter who covers the Justice Department. And yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for news hour on pbs. Thanks to all of you for being with us. Katie, let me start with you. We have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. You cover the Justice Department, the legal end of this. It sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that Executive Order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. How clear is that now . Absolutely. So as you say, this was another selfinflicted wound by the Trump Administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. So we saw a lot of confusion last night.
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like me. as we were just showing you, president trump started today suggesting on twitter that republicans could be in for a red wave in november s midterms. but he s already seeing pushback from within his own party. republican congressman mark sanford, who lost his primary last week after trump endorsed his challenger at the literal last minute, told msnbc today the president s tweet will not help immigration reform and warned of november consequences. i think that it probably kills off the possibility of immigration moving forward, but you never say never. the longer this issue festers, i think it will have the reverse effect. rather than create a red wave, it may very well be part of what creates a blue wave. another prominent conservative is openly advocating for the gop s defeat this november. columnist george will left the republican party as donald trump won the nomination of the gop in
suggesting on twitter that republicans could be in for a red wave in november s midterms. but he s already seeing pushback from within his own party. republican congressman mark sanford, who lost his primary last week after trump endorsed his challenger at the literal last minute, told msnbc today the president s tweet will not help immigration reform and warned of november consequences. i think that it probably kills off the possibility of immigration moving forward, but you never say never. the longer this issue festers, i think it will have the reverse effect. rather than create a red wave, it may very well be part of what creates a blue wave. another prominent conservative is openly advocating for the gop s defeat this november. columnist george will left the republican party as donald trump won the nomination of the gop in 2016. he writes today in a piece titled vote against the gop this november, quote, the family shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegen