thousands of children separated from their families. president trump standing firm that his zero tolerance policy must be maintained at the border. we have to have a very tough policy. otherwise, you have millions and millions of people pouring into our country. we can t have that. we have no choice. reporter: but e-mails from customs and border protection sent yesterday obtained by cnn shows zero policy has been curtailed for now after the agency told field offices to suspend. and president trump sparking further confusion by contradicting his own order, saying some family separations may still occur. i signed a very good executive order yesterday, but that only limited. no matter how you come, it leads to separation ultimately. the justice department asking a federal judge to phouf a court order that limits the ability of u.s. officials to detain children more than 20 days.
from a public relations executive based in his home state of oklahoma. the executive has a large energy practice. add this to the staggering list of scandals dogging scott pruitt. just two days ago it was revealed he had a top aide contact republican donors to help his wife land a job with a conservative political group. remember that $50 a night sweetheart deal for a lobbyist condo in washington, d.c. or, perhaps you recall the $43,000 soundproof phone booth that was installed in his office for privacy. nonetheless, president trump standing by his guy. scott s done a fantastic job at epa. but you know i m not happy about certain things. is his job safe? i m not happy about certain things but he s done a fantastic job running the epa which is very overriding. back with me now, charlie sykes, contributing editor for the weekly standard.
who eat borsht. it made no sense. i think he should stick to one of these things and go with that. all right. we ll have to leave it there. you ll come back with me in a few minutes. we ll try to make sense of a few other things. getting ready for 2020, may sound like a simple headline. the democrats have set a date for their party s 2020 convention. there s a lot of strategy and gamesmanship behind why. we ll talk it through with one of the first reporters to break that story. plus defending epa administrator scott pruitt. president trump standing by his man even as we re getting even more reporting on this friday about how scott pruitt got some tickets to see his home state football team play in the rose bowl. thing says summer like a beach trip,
president trump standing by his glowing praise for his summit partner kim jong-un in post summit interviews. the president appeared to justify the brutal actions of the regime. you know, you call people sometimes killer. he is a killer. he is clearly executing people. he s a tough guy. when you take over a country, tough country, tough people. you take it over from your father and if you can do that at 27 years old, that s 1 in 10,000 that could do that. he s a very smart guy. he s a great negotiator. i think we understand each other. but he still has done very bad things. yeah, but so have a lot of other people have done some bad things. i can go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things have been done. the comments of kim jong-un s actions echoing the rhetoric and the president used in the past to defend russian leader
the secretary pushed back against critics that said that there was no mention of verifiable or irreversible in the communique. he said he was confident that north korea understand complete denuclearization. and soon mike pompeo will meet with men and then move to beijing will he will speak with theder china, president xi. shepard: what s state-run ia in pyang saying abot is summit? fascinating stuff, shep. yeah, about 35 miles north of where we are beyond the dmc , they re laying out the vision to theresidents. they get it out there across the propaganda newspaper. four pages, color pictures. president trump standing next to kim jo-un. they are not going to let this moment pass for their locals.