is failing to meet a deadline that s been imposed by a court to reunite these youngest children separated, those under the age of 5. does the government know where all these children are? well, i think the government knows where all the children are. what i think the government what it looks like the government failed to do was adequately keep records matching the children to the parents. so they re doing things like dna testing to try to validate parentage. so they lost this is one of those details lost in the conversation. the parents did not keep track of which children belonged to which parents? yeah, the government didn t, right. look, this is part of the problem, i think, when you execute a very big policy change like this without adequate planning. remember, the children go into the custody of hhs. the parents stay in the custody of dhs. i think that s where the problem was created. there was a failure to kind of capture which children belonged to which parents. so tha
disgracing the proud traditions of our nato alliance. thanks so much for joining us, senator blumenthal. thank you. up next, the question vice president mike pence refused to answer as cnn pressed him on the president s new supreme court nominee and pence insists the administration has a clear plan to reunite immigrant families. why is tonight s deadline being missed? stand by for that brand new interview. touch shows how we really feel. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. up to 90% of those with moderate to severe psoriasis had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. most people were still clearer after one year. with taltz, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. don t use if you re allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections
the confirmation battle is already in full swing on capitol hill for president trump s new supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. kavanaugh met today with vice president mike pence and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. if confirmed, kavanaugh would cement a conservative majority on the high court. he has the power to shift the course of history. that s not an overstatement. cnn legal analyst joins us now to break it all down. joan, tell us what influence he s going to have. right from the start he s going to have a lot of influence because anthony kennedy was a true swing vote. i m not sure if we re ever going to have another swing vote on this court like anthony kennedy. jim, you know it came down to justice kennedy s vote on abortion rights, affirmative action, on some death penalty cases. when the senate confirms him, if the senate confirms him, he ll definitely have a gravitational pull to the right for this supreme court. so tell us more about his experience then.
okay. so that s russia. set that aside for a moment, if we can. go back to the supreme court nominee. as you ve said, you ve been involved with 17 nominees before. tell us what brett kavanaugh on this court would mean, particularly for the issues people back home care about, whether it s a woman s right to choose or on gun control. where do you see him on the ideological spectrum and how he would move this court? he s obviously the most political nominee we ve seen sent up for the supreme court in decades. what bothers me is the supreme court is supposed to be an independent branch of government. it s not supposed to be there for liberals or conservatives, republicans or democrats, but for all americans. the white house is trying to make it an arm of the white house for a minority of americans. and that s wrong.
parents and then bring the children back into detention facilities, something that the courts have made clear that they re not allowed to do. so they don t want to this is what has been i always feel this is an insensitive phrase for it, but they don t want this catch and release policy after they ve been detained at the border, to then release them pending a court hearing. that s exactly right. i think the problem with the catch and release term is it implies the people get a free pass into the united states. that s 234not true. they remain in deportation proceedings. more importantly, the united states controls the pace of those hearings. we re three weeks out since the president ordered the families be reunited. two weeks out since the court in san diego followed up with its own order. this all could have been done very quickly had we release td e parents. it could have been done in a way that does not constitute amnesty. you heard the president