alienate people who may be are somewhat uncertain exactly how the democrats are talking about this issue. and i think there are reasons to be skeptical if that s the case. we have to go but i want to come back to what we re talking about. this can seem democrats cannot lose the upper ground. there s only one party and one man separating families. there s only one person who has it in his legacy to the end of time that he proudly announced a policy separating babies from their parents and that s donald j. trump. that s right and this is why it s very important for national democrats to really think carefully how it is they talk about the kind of immigration policy we would like to see. and there is an affirmative policy. go big but don t separate families, but i think it s beyond that. if democrats go down this sort of rabbit hole of where republicans want them to on this, we can hand them the issue right back. aaron blake, thank you for spending time with us.
where it s news. any confirmation of people have actually been arrested or not? no confirmation. we have not seen any i.c.e. activity at all. we ve seen a lot of activity from people who are opposed to any i.c.e. activity. people behind me went to church this morning. yesterday we saw demonstration of some 5000 people downtown chicago all of them vowing to read just what they see from immigration and customs route the process today we have seen them out in neighborhoods instructing people of their rights and how to resist ice if and when raids materialize. this is on attempt to justify the shameful policy separating families, caging children and we should be talking about that.
get to serious negotiations. at the end of the day this will all end, we don t know when in new york stock exchan negotiations. nobody wins this kind of a game. we all lose. we kind of look silly. so white house chief of staff john kelly will be leaving the trump administration this week. at the same time he s opening up what he did and did not do for the president during his time in the white house. nbc news white house correspondent jeff been nept has the details. reporter: john kelly talking cab diddley about his rocky tenure as white house chief of staff. in an interview general kelly said president trump s long promise to southern border wall is not what he s portrayed. to be honest it s not a wall general kelly admits and blame former attorney general jeff sessions for the policy separating undocumented immigrants from their children
complicated by the fact that some of those parents were deported almost immediately. so the effort to reunite those children and parents in some cases will be an international one. leland, back to you. leland: i ve heard some parents have been without their kids for a month or more. steve harrigan on the border mcallen, texas, back to him as news warrants. all of this is going on in the border and president trump is about to land in las vegas. he ll be speaking and attending a meeting with the tax rebill, but that criessy at the border is continuing to follow him wherever he goes. he made not one, but two rare reverseals this week. he ended the policy separating families at the border and told congress to stop working on immigration reform until after the midterms. the president criticized them for pushing phony stories of
now you can wake up to smarter sleep. let s meet, only at a sleep number store. president trump doing a 180 today on his policy separating families at the border. but should some of the credit for that go to his wife? maybe his daughter. she is the author of foreign trump, inside america s first family. emily jane fox. go out and buy this book. i m really happy to have you back on the show. can we do some news of the day? i want to talk about the president and what we heard from him when he signed this executive order. here it is. ivanka feels very strongly, my wife feels very strongly about it. i feel very strongly about it. i think anybody with a heart feels strongly about it. we don t like to see families separated.