Good morning, everyone. Its monday, june 25th. The federal government under President Trump is now tasked with putting families back together after they were forcibly separated at the southern border. Children from those families have been spread from maryland to michigan to california as well as shelters in virginia and what the Washington Post describes as cold institutional settings with adult who is are not permitted to touch them or with foster parents who do not speak spanish but who hug them when they cry. Department of Homeland Security told nbc that as of june 20th, 2,053 Migrant Children were separated from their parents. A migrant lawyer says that people separated from their children are being told they can reunite with their kids at the airport if they agree to sign a voluntary deportation order now. In el paso a charity tells its housing 32 immigrant mothers and fathers who dont know where their children are. The parents were released. On friday the department of health and Human Services created an unaccompanied Reunification Task force and on saturday, asserted the United States government knows the location of all children in its custody and is working to reunite them with their families. And dhs says that 522 have already been reunited though yesterday the republican chairman of the senate Homeland Security committee sounded less than certain about how successful they will actually be. Can you tell our viewers this morning that the Trump Administration knows right now which kids belong with which parents . That is what theyre claiming. Does the u. S. Government have the skills, do they have the information to reunite these kids as First Lady Melania Trump says she wants to have happen . So they are saying they do. Well continue our oversight on that, but the track record in the Prior Administration wasnt particularly good either. Deflection. All right. So twitter was pretty ablaze this weekend during a drive to virginias golf course sunday morning President Trump calling for suspending Due Process Rights for migrants detained for illegal border crossings, quote, we cannot allow all these people to invade our country. When somebody comes in we Must Immediately with no judges or court cases bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and law order. Republicans have recently proposed increasing the number of judges to expedite the detention process for families including senator ted cruz call for 375 more judges. President trump roundly le jacket rejected those calls on saturday. They want to hire now 5,000 more judges. So that a person puts the toe in the land that we have to go to trial. This is crazy what were doing. I dont want judges. I want Border Patrol, i want ice. We dont want judges. Again, just to be clear here, cruz requested only 375 judges, not 5,000 to add to the 375 currently working these cases. And amid the fallout from the Trump Administrations family separation policy, there has been confusion within the federal government and second guessing from President Trump who signed the executive order to end the policy last week. According to the Washington Post in private conversations with aides, trump said he wanted to sign a full immigration bill as part of an executive order which one Administration Official described as quote, a pretty insane idea. The president was told by government lawyers that he could not change Immigration Law by fiat and said a person familiar with the discussions. Trump then demanded that an executive order be written that would end child detentions and cages and said he wanted it on his desk for signing by that afternoon according to people involved in the discussions. Given hours to produce a complex legal document, government lawyers crafted one that met the moments political demands but only added to the confusion within the agencys task to implement it. Despite the data that shows that undocumented immigrants commit less crime, President Trump depicting the people coming here as violent threats to americans. Watch. Were gathered today to hear directly from the american victims of illegal immigration. You know, you hear the other side, you never hear this side. You dont know whats going on. These are the american citizens permanently separated from their loved ones, the word permanently being the word you have to think about. Permanently. Theyre not separated for a day or two days. They are permanently separated because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. These are the families, the media ignores. They can be killers, they can be thieves. They can be horrible people. The democrats say its okay for them to be in our country. I dont think so. The democrats are obstructionists. They wont vote. Theyre total obstructionists. They dont want to vote. Nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, they just want they want to use the issue and i like the issue for election too. Our issue is strong borders, no crime. Their issue is open borders, let ms13 all over our country. Thats whats going to happen if you listen to them. All right. Joining us now from mcallen texas, our legal analyst, danny, great to have you with us on this morning. I know that you spent some time yesterday in Federal District court. I should say friday, not yesterday being sunday. These legal entry cases were being adjudicated. What stood out for you . What did you observe unfold over the course of those hearings on friday . Reporter what stood out to me was the Conveyor Belt style in which these cases are adjudicated. For the most part in federal court theres maybe one or two or three defendants waiting for their case. When you have a mass of 60 to 70 defendants being entering guilty pleas, being sentenced right there with the judge maybe spending a minute or two on each of their cases, thats the stuff you normally see in state court with lower level crimes. Granted, this is a federal misdemeanor and misdemeanors are relatively rare in the federal system but the mere fact they are adjudicating so quickly and what jump out to me, to a person, every defendant took the guilty plea and when given the chance to speak in open court, those that did speak expressed an interest in just getting the least amount of jail time possible so that they could return to their home country to their family back there. Thats interesting stuff there. Talk to me about the tweet from yesterday from the president in wanting to abolish due process in many of these cases that you witnessed on friday. Whats your take on this . Reporter removal proceedings are not subject to the full spectrum of constitutional protections. But immigrants do have a 5th amendment right to due process. That due process means they must be able to at least state their case in an immigration proceeding. When it comes to children, they have a 14th amendment Even Stronger constitutional protection. In fact, the right the liberty interests in raising ones children is considered one of the most important Constitutional Rights in our country. And it applies to citizens as well as aliens who come to this country with their children. So they are entitled to a hearing, they should not be separated or removed from their children unless they are what are unfit parents. Thats according to state law with the idea that the state must show clear and convincing evidence that thearent has abandoned their child. The practical reality is that the law makes little distinction between being removed from the country unwillingly and legally abandoning your child. So from what im hearing its not happening and it was completely out of line for the president to ask to go outside of due process for these immigrants that are entering into this country. All right. Were going to check back with you at the bottom of the hour. I want to go to an update on items seized from michael cohen. Reuters citing a written order from the judge in the case reports that few of the items so far are from protected by Attorney Client privilege. Of the nearly 300,000 items reviewed, only 161 are actually privileged. Most of the roughly 3. 7 million items seized from cohen are still under review. Cohens lawyers have until wednesday to identify which of those they believe are privileged. Cohen is reportedly under investigation for Campaign Finance violations, bank and require fraud. Has not been charged though yet with a crime and denies any wrong doing and continues to do so. In. Ing us more, politics reporter. Thanks so much for joining us so early. Appreciate it. Mounting pressure here for michael cohen. Absolutely. To say the least. Any indication that he would not flip . At this point . Because according to tom arnold looks like cohen wants to flip. Yeah, and i think what kind of exacerbated the pressure on him is the fact that he is completely being frozen out by the white house and by President Trump, this man who he has shown so much loyalty to over the last however many decades hes known him and so most of my sources who are close to cohen have told me that i you know, hes feeling let down by the president so certainly hes not feeling any love. Exactly. Certainly not on social media at least. And Rudy Giuliani didnt help when he said he didnt have a significant relationship with michael cohen. And trump was initially defending cohen. He was saying they shouldnt have raided my Lawyers Office and so on and so forth but its been radio silence so far. Lets ask about another onetime close president ial confidante. Pall manafort, could he be in danger of flipping . Hes had a tough month to say the least. He has lost a whole slew of motions in washington, d. C. This is only one of two cases that mueller has brought against him but as far as the washington case its not looking good for manafort. With the witness tampering charges that we saw, so definitely and also add to that the fact that he is in jail now. Its very different when youre on super vised release and youre home versus when youre in jail. Youre probably not feeling as confident as you are when youre free. Great to have you with us. President trump could meet with Vladimir Putin next month, but would he bring up election interference . Its something thats frustrating a group of lawmakers on capitol hill. Plus erdogan wins another term and it will come with expanded executive powers. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. Plaque psoriasis can be relentless. Your plaques are always there at the worst times. 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We are less than five months before the midterm elections however a Bipartisan Group of a half a dozen of house and Senate Lawmakers tell politico theyve only heard an alarming silence from the Trump Administration about what moscow is up to regarding interfering in the midterms. In addition to how the white house plans on countering such efforts it comes despite the constant warnings from lawmakers on capitol hill and top Trump Administration officials that russia will continue to attempt to undermine the american political system. With many including director of National Intelligence dan coats warning that putin has already begun. But the department of Homeland Security says it has not detected any specific russian attacks on Voting Machines or databases this year. Adding to concerns from lawmakers that the department and Intel Community have not learned anything from 2016 nor is it equipped to deal with it this year. It is unclear if President Trump will address election interference in his potential upcoming summit with putin. And the controversy over the lob lobbyist of pruitts condo scandal has emerged. Lawsuit filed by the environmental group, the sierra club, Jay Stephen Hart and his wife vicki who rented it to him for 50 a night lobbied ryan jock son to hire a recent College Graduate they knew. Interest that had not been revealed before according to the emails in august of last year, hart messaged jackson on behalf of cocacola to oppose regulating a class of chemicals which are used in fridge ration air conditioning and aerosols. The emails appear to undermine official arguments that hart had not lobbied the epa while he was in charge. Take a listen. Let me ask you this. Why does it matter when the ethics officials look at the terms of the lease to determine if its ethical or not. Why does it matter . Because youre renting from the wife of a lobbyist. Were learning new details regarding President Trumps sudden announcement creating the space force as a new branch of the military citing people familiar with the decision. Tru trump surprised many military officers with that announcement and was the culmination of months of frustration from the president over what he felt was a lack of pentagon action following his initial suggestion on the topic earlier this year. It also came despite publicly known opposition from the pentagon including from defense secretary jim mattis as well as the top leadership at the air force which currently oversees most of persons space operations. Experts note that an act of congress is required to establish a new branch of the military. Not something the president can do with the stroke of a pen. All right. Lets get a check now on your weather with bill karins. Good monday morning. Two stories this week. One were still dealing with Severe Weather and we have a major heat wave thats going to develop across the country and make it to the east coast by the end of this week into the weekend. So for this morning weve already been woken up in the middle of the night by these thunderstorms in Oklahoma City and tulsa. They slide towards the areas of eastern kansas and eastern oklahoma. Later on today, about 9 Million People at risk of severe storms. We have to watch out for des moines. Northern missouri, the wind damage threat is high today with any thunderstorms from charlotte to columbia. Maybe some isolated hail. Then tomorrow were going to do it in areas of the midwest from kansas city to chicago, 20 Million People at risk of severe storms. We could even have a couple tornados in this area especially central illinois, watching closely toward the quad cities. Lets take a look at the week ahead. This is for today. The sizzling heat is building in the desert southwest. Then it will start to spread as we go throughout the week. Beautiful day today. Bottle today up because its only going to get hotter and then too hot by the time we get to next weekend. So wednesday, rain and storms will be in the ohio valley and then here comes the heat. There goes the 1 hundreds from arizona through north texas and kansas and by the time we get to thursday and friday, the heat really builds into areas like st. Louis. Nashville 98. 95 in the carolinas and 90s in d. C. And theres indications by the time we get to the end of the weekend and into next week we could have a stretch of mid90s on the east coast all the way through new england for maybe a couple, four, five days in a row. Safe to say summer has arrived because i was scratching my head earlier this week. It felt kind of cool. Hard to imagine that were toward the end of june already. Yeah, 4th of july, it looks very warm across the country. You know, its a ways away, but its looking very typical. I