identify let alone reunite them with their parents. lexy mccammccammon, how doe something like this happen? we ve been reporting the drama around dhs and stephen miller and turf wars and fights. there is a lot of detail in there. but the macro picture is that this is a massive, massive failure of our government. right. organizations. right. well, and julia certainly has more sound reporting on all the inner workings than i do. but the one thing i would say when we re looking at the big picture of the trump administration and how this could happen, one, nothing brings out trump s most radical self like immigration, and number two, the president has fixated on fixing immigration by way of building a border wall, not figuring out how to deal with the influx of migrants coming in in a human way or trying to allocate more money for more resources for the folks coming across the border. he just wants a border wall and hasn t thought more about how to actually solve the crisis than t
it s more difficult to work with the government. but just on the point of the scattershot strategy, i think we also saw that this week with the airplane issue. if we can jump into that. yes, yes. the idea that on friday we had sound reporting, a conference call that says they are exploring this plan to take immigrants at the border and rather than process them and release them at the border, process them in northern border or coastal towns and release them. they now went back on that, and they will only keep them at the southwest border because they decided they don t have enough processing room, but only at the cost of having officials in florida up in arms, people in these small towns saying what do you mean we re going to be bringing people in without the federal government assistance to shelter them, to feed them, to figure out how they re going to get to court, just released. we ve seen that whiplash already. and i think it s just a product of trying to have something on the b
reporting. sound reporting. now the issue isn t so much i think whether or not $50 is the proper price or not. that can be established one way or the other. it is just the judgment that went into not into going into a deal with somebody who s in the lobbying business, period. because the appearance of impropriety is always at issue when you have someone. then there are the stories that he didn t leave when he said he would and the landlords got mad at him and changed the locks. so it wasn t just this one thing, the $50 a night. because you have to look at this whole picture there. there are multiple lapses. what i make of. is that president trump doesn t seem particularly to care. what we will watch for is not just if republicans in general say he should go. it s whether or not any of the leadership says that and whether or not there is a congressional inquiry as part of oversight of his agency. ken vogel, let me turn to you. your paper has done some fine reporting here on what sco
the american college of pediatricians. hardly the klan. thanks to the southern poverty law center they are now in the same category as the klan in many news stories. deeply dishonest and unfair. but there is a bigger point. at stake here is one of the most basic questions of all: who decides what we get to talk about? what should you be allowed to say in public? what should your kids be allowed to learn in school? which ideas are legitimate and which ideas are so dangerous we must suppress them. well, nbc and the southern poverty law center think they are in charge of that decision. we disagree. which is why are pleased tonight to be joined by somebody who was at the jeff sessions speech. wagner vice president of the organization. thanks for coming on tonight. thanks for having me. tucker: you all argue cases pretty routinely before the supreme court. as a hate group, how do you get inside the supreme court. well, we are not a hate group because what we do know is that americans