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Is referring to that created this challenge about keeping families together. as i said a minute ago, the secretary of homeland security said yesterday she thought they were close to reunifying, identifying and reunifying the pool that are already here. and if it requires legislation to overturn the court decision, which i think it does, i support that. brian, could he be doing more? i think he s exactly right. he s referring to the court case that i referred to at the beginning that has bedeviled administrations going back 20 years. the problem here is the democrats don t seem to have any interest in resolving this legislatively. their highest priority as the movement to abolish i.c.e. now makes clear is to prevent enforcement rather than to resolve a truly tragic situation that prevents congress, prevents the administration from keeping these parents and their children together once they ve been detained for any period of time. that s the larger issue here and ....
One that democrats need to come to the table and to help republicans solve. they don t seem to have any interest in doing that right now. matt, quickly do you see any consequences midterm directly related to i think everyone agrees it s a debacle. oh, yeah, this is something every voter knows about, every voter cares about and every voter will be thinking about when they cast their ballot in november. brian s spin notwithstanding, people know who s responsible here, trump and the republicans. matt bennett and brian mcgwire, good to see you both. pope francis accepts the resignation of anccused of sexue decades ago. the attorney for the man who made that decision against the cardinal joins me next. what about him? ....
To pay for as well. matt, why are you shaking your head? because this is ridiculous. the problem we re facing now, the 711 kids that are still being held away from their parents in custody is a problem created 100% and entirely by the trump administration. there is no ambiguity about this. it is true i think there s no doubt that the administration is trying really hard to address this situation at the border no, they re not. they had a very tight deadline to return these children and their parents. how, brian, when we heard admissions from the administration that they didn t document these children, nor match them up with the parents before they separated. that s why you have so many kids who were separated. they ve tried under a very tight deadline to do so. it s an extremely chaotic situation as your reporter attested to. the good news is we have ngos, charitable organizations and a government feverishly trying to solve this problem. ....
Fights, missing children. what we do understand is there is a disconnect between what the government says is happening in these shelters that they operate versus what these children are saying is happening. we now see a federal judge mandating an independent monitor be present in these facilities to keep her abreast of what s happening there, fred. as you mentioned, 711 children still in the custody of the u.s. government separated from their families. all right, very troubling. kaylee hartung, thank you so much. let s discuss the politics of this. i m joined by mike bennett, senior vice president and co-founder of the think tank third way. good to see you. good to be here. and brian mcgwire, he is the former chief of staff to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and a republican strategist. good to see you as well. good to see you. matt, to you first, shouldn t everyone care about this and ....