separating children from their families, what i am told that the president did behind closed doors is talk about it in the political context, talking about the images and the optics about how bad it is politically much more so than about the policy in general. and that rubs some republicans the wrong way who i talked to who are saying, wait a minute, it is not just about the optics it is about what we are doing to these children. how much momentum is there in congress to do something about this child separation policy in particular. reporter: it is a hard question to answer. to a person, republicans and democrats say they want this to stop. but when you are speaking abou republicans who run congress, it is not clear how they are going to get this done. for example, these two bills that they are talking about in the house of representatives, they don t know if they have the
knee president trump says he hates what is happening on the border. he spent the evening on capitol hill meeting with republicans. one member telling her the president spoke about how popular he is. and here to talk about it is jason miller and rick wilson. jason, 11 republican senators are calling to halt. how do you explain that? well, i was just talking to a member on the republican side on the house who had a little more optimistic impression from the president s visit this afternoon and felt that the president did help move things along. i think the votes can be tough
the point of this meeting over the family separation issue was to get presidential momentum behind the bill and that didn t happen and people in the white house do not feel the prospects for either bill passing looks good right now. what do you hear about the president s reaction. reporter: the president praised her. that is unusual because her and the president have not been on good terms. they have often butted heads and he often credits john kelly bringing her on and having the president select her. people inside the west wing are praising the testy briefing performance. in the west wing, they think she did a good job sparring with
his policies and can t argue the logic. and even his secretary of homeland security said that that doesn t fly and yet that was the heart of this decision. he decides to cast insults against people. so i guess the word that comes to my mind is it is pathetic. that the president is incapable as an adult taking responsibility and having an honest conversation about the things that work in the past that he eliminated and the impact of this policy on children and on children and parents. and i know he wants to cast this as closed borders, open borders that is fallacious. this is about people showing up and treated well. four out of five are not granted
justify torture. amnesty international declared this in fact is torture. it seems to satisfy every category of evil that you can imagine. i would ask people who sees those pictures why our hearts are moves like that. and that is god speaking through our conscience. the president tweeted using the word infest. i worked in rwanda briefly during the genocide and calling your enemy cockroaches or calling an opponent cockroach or making them less than human is something that we have heard from regimes throughout the decades or history. do you think it is intentional on the president s part. i can t say if it is intentional, but i agree with