forward to talking with you too. thank you. thank you. the reason i wanted to talk to you specifically is because i feel like like so many other americans our eyes are turning to the border region and to the conditions in which immigrants and immigrant kids and families are being held if not for the first time then certainly for the first long sustained look. and i wanted to get perspective from you on how what we re seeing and hearing now, what the country is having such a revolted reaction to, how different is it from how things have been in the past? the difference, rachel, is only that they re separating the children methodically and that it is planned. they ve separated children in the past from their parents. it s been arbitrary. and the women s refugee commission, kind, and lutheran immigration and refugee services
i feel like like so many americans, our eyes are turning to the border region until the conditions of immigrants and immigrant kids and families are being held. if not for the first time and certainly for the first long sustained look. and i want to get a perspective from you on what we are seeing and hearing now and what the country is having such a revolted reaction to. how different is it from how things have been in the past? the difference, rachel, is only that they are separating the children methodically and it is planned. they separated their children from the past from their parents and it has been arbitrary and the women s refugee commission and the refugee services reported that last year in 2017. in their report of betrayal of
in 1778, the french revolted and benjamin franklin met in paris. john adams tells the story that after they had shaken hands, they embraced each other by hugging one another in their arms and kissing each other s cheeks. i can remind you something. well, ben franklin is smiling somewhere no doubt. french president emmanuel macron began his address to a joint meeting of congress today with that story, a wink and a nod toward the sheer physicality of the relationship he s developed with president trump, and it s true, the at times over the top petting and pawing and hand holding came close to overshadowing the reason for the gathering. important discussions on topics
it has importance to the case. those are questions neither of which they ve been able to answer. another interesting part of this that hasn t gotten as much attention as everyone is volted by the new information is all of this is coming, according to fbi director comey, from lower level agents new york stock exchange his story agents. in his storyline thursday, agents came to him with a recommendation what he put not in a letter but a separate e-mail to fbi employees released later yesterday he says, they came to him thursday saying, we found this stuff, we want to look at it, that s our recommendation. there s the possibility that he felt jammed up by lower level agents saying we should do. this what he told congress is, okay, i agreed, quote, with them, and that s why they re looking at the e-mail. not that there has importance, but rather they don t know what s in it, that s why they want to read it. reading it takes time if it s thousands of emails. many of which may ultim
governor jindal signed the same law to start shutting down that state s clinics as well. and, state-by-state, across the american south, that is how the anti-abortion movement is succeeding in making it so an american woman who wants to have a legal abortion really has nowhere to go. in addition to signing this law that will shut down either three or four of the last five places in louisiana, where a woman can get an abortion, the law that governor jindal signed establishes a public registry of doctors who do abortions in the state making public their names and addresses. the louisiana state legislature volted to overwhelmingly pass that bill at the five-year anniversary of dr. george tiller being stalked and murdered by an anti-abortion activist. and, voting in favor of a similar public registry of abortion doctors a decade ago that all but ended the nomination of a federal judicial nominee never been able to explain this thing might help more doctors get shot in this