and visited their facilities, as well, to understand the care that they provide to the children once they re in their custody. homeland security secretary kersten kirstjen nielsen appearing before the committee the first time since the democrats took over. she faced tough questions from democrats over family separations. the president s national emergency declaration, the border wall and other aspects of the trump policy democrats don t like. republicans did do their best to try to make the case for the wall. while democrats came loaded with questions, the secretary at times didn t have many answers, or didn t want to give too much. time now for the lid. kimberly, matthew and howard are all back. so, child separations here, it s sort of gotten lost. we had this fight over the wall, but we ve had, kimberly, this there is still this other debate. look, the new york times today on the front page everybody agrees what s happening at the border isn t working. right. we just we
elements in their party now pulling them away from common sense solutions like enhanced border security. nobody with a straight face can tell us that our border isn t working. brian: they are telling you this even though they are on the record of doing other things. the game you are in right now the president really has no leverage because the republican present the plan for a vote. didn t even get through with the 5 billion. couldn t even get through the house. let people see that the president has also said and i have been to some of these meetings. there were other ways for him to get that money. he said, quote, one way or another, he will get the money for the border security. there are other ways to get that. ainsley: people who voted for him and want the wall and went to the polls to vote for that wall, they want to know how he is going to do this. they want to know why he seems to be softening his stance this morning. the president is not softening his stance. he has a respo