honolulu. brazil prefer to be playing in the world cup game tomorrow. the dutch won today's game easily. bitter for brazil. two straight defeats on its own turf. germany and arjgentina play for the cup tomorrow. an urgent crisis continues on our southern border leaving tens of thousands of immigrant children in limo. in the southwest it is a crush of emotions from anger to exacerbation while in washington it is the usual finger pointing and chest thumping. reform, security, compromise, so many choices. i'm michael smerconish. let's get started. my first headline from the "new york times" and reads immigrant surge rooted in law to

curb child trafficking. some of the blame given to a 2008 human trafficking law. it gave greater protections to unaccompanied children coming from this country from noncontiguous nations. is the need to fix as simple as amending the law. my next guest is jeff forten bury. children from central america are treated differently than those from mexico. why? what was the logic of the law? >> first of all, i was very proud to be part of the sponsoring of the victims rights. human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. america must protect vulnerable persons. i was proud to be part of the 2008 law. this problem with the surge of children and families at the border did not occur until 2013. not in '08, '09, '10, or '11.

five years after this. the reality is this is a convergence of factors of desperate poverty, ungoverned space as well as exploitation of our laws. the president fostered an environment in which in 2012, deportations would decrease. i think that was core larry to exploitation of this law that led to the tragic situation among the border. let me add this. this is unconscionable that the president goes to texas for a fund-raiser and photo op, but not visit our border. communities are suffering, our immigration policy appears in disarray. he should be in the white house preparing a speech to the nation. >> congressman, i respect all of that. it doesn't answer my question. what was the logic of treating kids different from mexico than from central america. could you answer that?

>> it is my understanding buried within the '08 law, it allows the president to negotiate with the central american countries. repatriotuation agreements. that hasn't happened. there may be a need to fix that portion of the law so that aspect of the dynamic which fostered the conditions for the surge of children can stop. the first thing that needs to happen is leadership. if i would suggest to the president, he send national guard troops to the border to help back up the border control and get the situation under control. continue to suggest and say clearly any person here illegally will be sent home quickly. third, work and demand from the governments of guatemala and honduras and el salvador, that they create the safe conditions for repatriation so they are humanely treated. we need to restore order and deal with the necessary exceptions.

for those who have just reasons to seek asylum here. >> allow me to show you what conservative syndicate charles krauthammer said. stopping this wave is not complicated. a serious president would go to congress tomorrow proposing and change in the law mandating that central american kids get same treatment and get subject to immediate repatriation. is it that simple? >> i suggest that the president foster the conditions for the arrival of the surge of children along the border. that did not happen until 2013. in 2012, the president sent a clear messages to decrease the number of deportations. that fostered the conditions. along with the poverty and violence. >> i hear you saying that, but here is where i'm coming from. respectfully, you have colleagues like jeff flake and john mccain, two republican senators introducing legislation

to change the law for which you were the backer. you have a democrat in the house jon cornyn who are saying the same thing. this brought about the unintended consequences when you began treating central american kids differently from mexican kids. they seem to say is the first thing we have to do is change that law. >> first of all, you are setting me up in an odd opposition to the necessary changes of law that have been a factor. >> not at all. >> i'm just telling you it is more complicated than that. it is a convergence of factors. it would be helpful if the president suggested that deportations were going to decline. we did not have this problem in '09, '10 and '11 and '12. five years after the law. if we need to make necessary changes that is fine.

it is my understanding there is a provision already in the law that will allow the president to negotiate repatriation agreements. the first lady of honduras said we want our children back. agree with that. we have to restore order to the border and treat children humanely. if we don't do all of these things quickly, there will be additional surges of children who are exploited and victims of trafficking, which is, by the way, the reason the law was set up in the first place. america must lead with values and human trafficking is a form of modern slavery. >> the president asked congress for $3.7 billion so there could be more immigration judges and help these governments repatriate these kids. are you supportive of that? >> i serve on the committee. this is overlooked by the media. we dealt with a foreign operations sub committee bill.

we appropriated money to try to stop the flow of families and children from the central american countries and set up the repatriation process. it would be helpful if the president demand the governments get into action right now. that may be something that congress comes together around as well as border security. we cannot give a blank check. we have to do this methodically. in a sound way to restore order in a situation that is chaotic. if you don't do that, you are undermining america's ability to be generous to those in need. america is the hallmark of immigration policy. open ourselves to people coming here fleeing economic hardship or political persecution and build better lives. if you don't have an orderly and just immigration system, you undermine the system and it is not fair to those following the law. >> i was listening to your critique carefully of the white house and role you think the

president played in creating this, which is why i brought up the $3.7 billion request he made because from the sidelines, sir, it seems like he is offering to the congress exactly that which a moment ago you told me is necessary. then, i say to you, are you supportive of this and the answer seems to be no. >> the president has asked for a large expenditure. it is the responsibility of congress to go through that line by line. it is up to the president to propose policy changes and take responsibility. i did not say create it. he fostered the environment by suggesting that deportations were going to decrease. five years after the law that you are suggesting is the main corollary here for the surge of children. so, there needs to be responsibility taking. i imagine congress will be intent to increase border security. >> it is not me. it is a pundit saying it. jeff flake and john mccain, two republicans saying the first

you remember the headline. the headline i would have written, the law of unintended consequences.

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here is one of the important images of the week. president obama and rick perry together in texas to talk immigration reform. perry be speckled and minus the cowboy boots. back in the 2016 presidential conversation. he accepted the white house's invitation to talk. that brings us to the next headline.

this is from politico. obama's warning. right size immigration. expectations. the partisan bickering is what we have come to expect on every big issue. health care, unemployment and now immigration. >> we have a huge humanitarian crisis underway, the children caught in the middle. unfortunately, it is a crisis of the president's own making. his actions gave false hope to children and families if they enter the country illegally, they would be allowed to stay. our priorities are clear. take care of the children, return them safely home to their home countries, to their families and secure the border. >> if i sponsored a bill declaring apple pie american, it might fall victim to partisan politics. i get that. on the other hand, this is an issue in which my republican friends have said it is urgent

and we need to fix it. if that's the case, then let's go ahead and fix it. >> donna brazile is a cnn commenter and michelle bernard is president and ceo of the bernard center for women, politics. great to have you here. can we go back a segment. michelle, what went on with congressman jeff fortenberry. he was a backer of the 2008 law that everyone says is a critical role in the law. so much that john mccain and jeff flake say we have to change it. i asked him as the chief backer shouldn't we make the alteration so mexican kids and central american kids should be treated the same he seemed to balk. >> he did more than balk. listening to his responses anyone watching the show today will be unsatisfied by what we

heard from that particular member of congress. everyone knows that people who are smuggling the young and innocent children into the country found the loophole and found the way in. if you smuggle children in from honduras or guatemala or el salvador, they know the kids will be here for a long time before a hearing and the united states government is in a position to deport them back to the country of origin or find a place within the united states. he seemed to be quite frankly more interested in partisan politics and blaming the president than taking the responsibility for the unintended consequences of the piece of legislation that he championed in the united states congress. it is really quite a shame. i think it is the reason many americans have set up on the house and senate because they don't get anything done. we are in the midst of a terrible humanitarian crisis. >> donna, we saw the

illustration in the way in which this is used by both parties to stoke their respective base in the mid term. if the status quo continues, who wins and who loses politically speaking? >> i want to say this, as an american, this is about our values. this is not about our partisan politics. it is about who we are as a country. you have refugees from central america, many children, they are human beings. they are like our own children. we need a surge of values and dealing with the crisis in a humanitarian way. i agree with everything michelle bernard just said. many kids are being exploited. we don't know where they may end up. right now, they are being held in the federal detention centers waiting for hearings and waiting to be deported. they are children. we should treat them with dignity and respect. in terms of politics, this is one of the awkward moments in our country when you can't blame this on either party.

this is a law that was intended to do good. now we know it is being exploited and it is harming children and it is overwhelming our country with kids who may not have any place to go. i think as a country, we are adult enough to deal with the crisis without finger pointing. >> michelle bernard, should the president have visited the border? >> my personal belief is yes. i think the president made a mistake in going to texas and not visiting the border. quite frankly, to me, despite a bit of a difference, i have a preference in the example. there is not much difference that the president chose to go to newtown, connecticut after slaughter of the children that took place there, after gabby giffords was shot down and nearly dayed in arizona. the president spoke at the memorial service there. it was a tremendous way to

highlight the importance of gun control in the united states. frankly, gabby giffords, her husband describes the meeting with the president. he conveyed to the president after giffords came out of her coma. her husband says to president obama, we were trying to think of what gabby wanted to convey to you. gabby most importantly would want to convey to you come back to arizona and take a look at our border and see what is happening at the borders because we have a very serious problem. >> donna, do you agree with that? michelle thinks he should have gone to the border. >> michelle, we are 2 for 2 today. the president should have gone to say under my watch, we tripled the enforcement budget. if congress would get off their hinies and pass a comprehensive immigration reform law we would

have more resources to deal with the problem. i would have gone to tell the american people and show congress that he is acting. the vice president has called the leaders of all of the central american countries. the president could have gone and say here is what i'm doing. these clowns want to sue me because i'm doing my job and all they are doing every day is showing up and doing nothing. i would have -- >> donna and michelle. can't we all just get along? apparently yes is the answer today. >> 2 for 2. >> you remember the headline. obama's warning right-size immigration expectations. i would have written, this border war pits "rs" against "ds." it might be hard to believe but lebron isn't the only big name going to cleveland. there is another one and it is sure to get a lot of press. this is the u.s. embassy in berlin. what happened there is making america's relationship with germany far from comfortable. ♪ [ mrs. hutchison ] friday night has always been all fun and games here at the hutchison household.

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welcome back. let's get to the next headline. from the associated press. germany kicks out top u.s. spy over espionage claims. the came was that the u.s. was buying secrets from at least two people, one inside german intelligence and the other in the german defense ministry. it has put a strain on relations with the united states and germany. my next guest is bob baer. cnn security analyst and former cia operative. bob, why would we be spying on germany? >> well, number one, 9/11 plot was hatched in germany. the germans missed it. there is a sentiment at the cia we have to have a parallel source of information. their police and their

intelligence service are not that effective. it helps the president and cia to have information on that country. >> i get it. it is the hamburg cell you are referring. i wonder if i'm spying on germany, if i'm the u.k., if they are spying on germany, they must be spying on us as well or the french. >> we have an agreement not to spy on them. that agreed is adhered to. it goes back to the '40s. we never had one with germany. germany has always been a subject of american espionage. during the cold war especially. what is new here is the germans are finally saying enough is enough. i cannot emphasize enough what a change this has been throwing out the chief of station from berlin. it has never happened before. you know, it is huge.

>> the chief of station is the top cia official in that country. maybe this is a naive question. would he necessarily would have known that subordinates of his were spying on the germans? >> oh, no question. he would have known. i would have imagine that other people have been thrown out as well. the chief would not handle these cases himself. case officers subordinates. they probably left quietly. i don't know how many people left. you know, they are talking about raiding offices. did they raid cia office? that is my question. i don't know yet. i suppose we will find out. >> what would you think the president knew and when did he know it? i think of howard baker and we lost him recently. is this information that would have risen to the presidential level? >> no, the president would not have known about these sources in germany. this probably came as a surprise to him. it probably came as a surprise to the cia.

frankly, my indication is merkel was waiting to pull this. she expected more from the united states. when she did not get it, she pulled the trigger on this one. the germans are serious. they are going to take this to the mattresses as it were. >> bob, i get this is news. is it necessarily new? you are a guy with the credentials. you worked in these waters. is this the way it is? are the germans spying on us? does everybody spy on everybody else? >> the germans don't spy on us. i never heard of a case where they run agents in this country. they are fairly passive. so this is sort of a one-sided war. we have been spying on the germans since the end of world war ii. it is not new. what is new is nearly a formal

declaration of persona non-grata. our relations with germany haven't been worse in my memory. >> the second episode of germany and the united states. vis-a-vis snowden and angela merkel eavesdropping taken place. how is this handled at a diplomatic level? >> well, i can tell you right now it is getting in the way. we need the germans to deal with ukraine and russia and middle east. other problems in europe. so this is a huge distraction for the president. he will want to get over this as quickly as he can. it is the last thing he wanted to have is an espionage scandal with germany. i hope it works. quickly. >> bob baer, thank you. we start with germany kicks out u.s. spy over espionage. how i would have written this

one, keeping our friends closer. when darlene wrote by public assistance driving up from a mercedes benz. 5,000 people posted comments. you're about to meet her. and pat buchanan is here with me. he has a unique insight into the oval office, one that mitt romney might want to hear.

time for the next headline. this comes from the washington post. this is what happened when i drove my mercedes to pick up food stamps. let that sink in for a moment. this is actually a wonderfully written thought provoking piece written by my next guest. darlena kuna is joining me now. 5,000 plus comments. why did you write a piece that you had difficulty getting published? >> i think there are so many people that i didn't even know about that had gone through a similar situation. this is exposed an under belly of what is actually going on with the individuals in the country right now. many of whom were solidly middle class and many of whom struggling and barely holding on or lost their footing. i cannot tell you how many messages i have received. thousands of messages that i received from people saying thank you. me, too. >> 2007, you're cruising along.

2008, the bottom falls out because your fiance loses his job than you are about to deliver twins and your house loses a significant share of its value. that is how you drive up for public assistance in your husband's mercedes. many say why not sell the car? >> there are a lot of reasons. in the piece, it doesn't really make financial sense. it takes time to sell a car. the amount of money that we would have gotten for it, we could have bought, like i say, a used car, a crappier car or make car payments and we would be furthering our debt. the car we had, we knew was reliable. we needed two cars. we were just using it instead of taking our time to advertise it and sell it. not many people were buying mercedes in 2008.

it wouldn't have been an easy sale to make. >> you describe pulling up for public assistance in a mercedes in 2008 as a source of embarrassment. what were you feeling? >> honestly, it brings the shame factor into it. you have the people who have a certain image of themselves or an idea of who they are and then inside of their own selves they find judgment if they should fall. there is a crash that effects the entire nation. these people who once could afford things, no longer can. they feel as if they are to blame as if it is their fault. that was the embarrassment i was feeling. it was more internal embarrassment in that particular example than external one. >> you struck a chord with people in similar circumstances. when i talked with you on the radio and i read the comments appended to the piece, there is a mind set that says you did not

make sound decisions. that is why you found yourself in this decision. would you respond to folks of that opinion? >> sure. i would like to know which decisions we personally made that made or house go upside down in value and that lost my husband his job and that put me in the position of having premature babies. i am pretty sure i did not consciously make those decisions. we were doing the best we could with what we were given. which i think a lot of people did. >> is it possible that car, that mercedes provided a silver lining of sorts. you are driving up in the mercedes. you are in a mercedes. what am i doing here? somehow it provided a level of motivation to get off of public assistance that wouldn't otherwise have existed? >> i have been asked that before. it is an interesting thought. i'm not quite sure it has much merit. i would say anybody on public assistance whether they fall on

it because of the economic crash or whether they have been on it, i would say there is motivation to get off. i don't understand the people who say people feed into the system and stay there forever. and want the handouts. anybody in the system is working their butts off to get off the system. i'm not sure mercedes is the motivation. >> the short version of what i took away from the piece, don't judge me because i'm driving a mercedes and don't judge anybody there already driving a hoopty. >> people have the right to judge solely on looks. whether or not how poor you are or if you deserve assistance or if you are poor enough or not poor enough or you are lazy or you work hard. my issue is you don't know. you have no idea how hard people are working. >> you still have the car, right? >> we do. we have the car, yes.

>> darlena cunha, thank you for being here. >> the headline i started with was this, this is what happened when i drove my mercedes to pick up food stamps. i would have written, there but for the grace of god, drive i. a former presidential candidate caught on tape that people are born that way and should be left alone. who do you think it was? plus locked and loaded. why the power that has been are misfiring when it comes to gun control and why it is time to do something about it. ♪ ♪

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as i leave you, i want you to know just think how much you will be missing. you don't have nixon to kick around anymore. >> real history. a quote from nixon shortly after losing the '62 gubernatorial race.

that was two years after he lost to jfk. many thought he was politically dead. the former vp was about to embark on a great comeback. pat buchanan has written a book. "greatest comeback." how richard nixon rose from the dead to create america's new majority. pat, great to see you. how down and out was he in '62? >> he was in terrible shape. howard smith of abc ran a smith -- special for one hour. after that, michael called the political obituary of richard m. nixon. richard was regarded by everyone then as politically finished. he moved to new york to practice law. he went out and campaigned for barry goldwater. it looked like the republican party was dead after that where they lost 44 states to lyndon johnson. it was then i joined up with him and he started the long steady

climb cl the turbulent decade we call the 1960s. he wound up at the end of the '60s raising his hand and taking the oval office as president. >> you graduated from columbia in journalism. you are writing editorials in the midwest. you pursue nixon for a job and you remind him you once caddied for him. >> i grew up in washington, d.c. i had gone out to burning tree country club for a job. i went with a friend to sit on the bench in the caddie club. they put out this plaid golf bag. i said that is the vice president's golf bag. the pro at burning tree looked at the two sad looking caddies and said you are the only guys we have. we went around with richard millhouse nixon, 18 holes. this is not arnold palmer, i have to say that, michael. >> "vanity fair" is out with

a new piece and more nixon tapes, pat. give a listen to this. i want you to analyze it. >> i am the most tolerant person than anybody. they are born that way. but the point is that boy scout leaders and ymca leaders and others, bring them in that direction and teachers. and if you look over the history of societies, you will find, of course, that some of the highly intelligent people. oscar wilde. >> does that surprise you? he was ahead of his time. >> i know some of the tapes richard nixon talked in country club language, if you will, and said bad things. we had homosexuals on richard

nixon's staff. they were loyal to nixon. nixon knew who they were. it was no problem with him working with him. he believed that many of the most highly intelligent people in journalism and politics and government agencies were gay. he had no problem having them around as long as there was not a social scandal. >> pat, a lot of the book talks about nixon and foreign policy. you made a historic trip with him when he was burnishing his credentials. it occurred to me when you were writing about a speech that barack obama delivered at west point. a commencement address this spring. am i correct in thinking there is a lot of the nixon doctrine in what obama is saying about foreign policy? >> that is right. that was in the worst years of vietnam with 200 guys coming home every week in body bags or caskets.

nixon moving out of vietnam and into guam. after the astronauts came back from the moon. he gave a speech in guam, in the future, the united states will stand by allies and we will provide the logistic support and fire power and the rest of it. basically, they will have to provide the soldiers themselves for their own defense. we will not send our sons and daughters over to fight in everyone else's wars. we will help out. they have to carry the burden of battle. this is what president obama is doing with regard to iraq and afghanistan. he brings our troops home. i think the american people agree, michael, last august when barack obama was going to bomb and involve us in syria stood up and said do not go in. we have had enough of those wars.

>> pat, just 30 seconds left. the guy who i think could most benefit from your book, mitt romney. >> exactly. mitt romney against whom richard nixon ran against his father. mitt romney will go out and run hard in every single congressional district. he could conceivably emulate what richard nixon did in the greatest comeback. >> the book is great history and a lot of laughs. nicely done. >> thank you, kindly. >> the book is titled "the greatest comeback how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority". should it be rapid fire or rapid reload? >> what new jersey governor chris christie's recent veto tells us about the gun debate. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler...

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the rate of about one per hour in chicago last weekend is that the news wasn't necessarily treated as being alarming. we've become desensitized to the gun violence. gun violence that does command our attention, the one off. the lone gunman. who kills many people like when in 2012 someone entered the colorado movie house in combat gear and killed 12 and injuring 70 more. or later that year, the sandy hook elementary school killing 20 first graders and six administrators and teachers. even then, no discernible response from the congress. why not change? an illustration how difficult it is to take even intermediate steps this week. in new jersey, governor chris christie who once upon a time long before he aspired to be president was a supporter of an assault weapons ban, explained why he recently vetoed a legislative are proposal that would have limited the size of a

gun magazine to ten rounds. then, having decided to veto the legislation, christie wouldn't meet with parents of sandy hook because he already made up his mind on the bill. what was his rationale for vee tote -- vetoing the magazine size? >> i've heard the argument. are we saying, then, that the ten children on the clip that they advocate for, that their lives are less valuable? if you take the logical conclusion of their argument you go to zero, because every life is valuable. so why ten? why not six? why not two? why not one? why not zero? why not just ban guns completely? i mean, you know, so the logical conclusion are their argument is you get to zero eventually. so, you know, i understand their argument. >> hold it, governor. the problem with that logic is that it goes both ways. see, where governor christie says there's no justification for reducing a magazine of 15 to

10, or 10 tom 5 or 5 to 0, the same holds true for expanding a magazine from 15 to 20. 20 to 25. 25 to 50. by that thinking, why haven in any regulation at all? the answer, according to those sandy hook parents, with whom he refused to meet, limiting a moog seine size might force a murderer to take the time to reload and give somebody else a chance to stop them. that is, after all, the way that the gunman who shot congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 18 others was stopped on 2011. six murdered, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl. that shooter wielded a .9 millimeter glock and stopped only when he paused to reload. one by stander grabbed and and another grabbed him and that's

when a retired army's colonel tackled the assailant, already shot himself. and politico reported the governor will make a second trip to new hampshire in's recent weeks. and therein lies the explanation why there's such an unwillingness to take steps to curb gun violence. not because there's no difference between scaling back a magazine from 15 to 10. because we've seeded power, unwilling to accept any limitation. those who seek election to higher office, even tough guys refuse to stand up to them. i myself am a firearm owner. not naive to think we can cure it with gun regulations alone. but the reality is there are too many high powered weapons in too many hands. we need to stop accepting the status quo and begin by making incremental change. we need to do something. that's it for me. see you back here next week, and until then, enjoy your weekend and have a fantastic week.

welcome to the cnn news room. the number of people killed in cross border fighting between israel and hamas militants in gaza is more than 150. cnn's ben wedeman said strikes were the heaviest in five days. the head of the hamas police force was one killed. the community of spring, texas is in morning remembering six members of the stay family killed this week. the lone survivor spoke today at a memorial. she was shot in the head but managed to tip off police. we hear her words of strength right here -- you can hear her words of strength at cnn.com. the netherlands will take home a

consolation prize for the world cup. the dutch won today's third prize place. germany, argentina play tomorrow for the championship. amazing. a seven-hour marathon of "the sixties sixties" starts right now with the war in vietnam. it is a mixture of pretty scenery, an ugly event. vietnam reports today of the bloodiest fighting in almost a year. >> we will not surrenderer, and we will not retreat. >> think you can win? i know we can win. >> they are being killed. >> stop this bloody aggression. >> we're in the middle.