ago i don t have the exact quote, but he spoke about the need to separate, if people come in illegally, they ve got children, you know what, this is going to be a get tough policy and we re going to separate these kids from their so did that was more than a year ago that kelly did it. and then earlier this year, the policy unfolded at the department of homeland security and the justice department, they all got onboard. so obama talked about this. jeh johnson talked about it on his watch, but you ve got this albadoss decision, i think that s the name of the decision, that there s a time period that you can hold a minor. and the law is the law. so you have to rely upon the justice department, if they change a policy, to make sure it doesn t run into existing law. what happened here? the policy change ran into long-standing legal principles that were pretty obvious, if you wanted to look. is it the role of the attorney general of the united states to cover up crimes committe