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welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. a strong economy could be president trump's best message, but his focus is most often elsewhere, as we just saw in a confusing week that included major retreats on health care and immigration. >> the system is full. can't take you anymore. whether it's asylum, whether it's -- anything you want. illegal immigration, can't take you anymore. we can't take you. our country is full. i'm sorry. can't happen. so turn around. that's the way it is. >> plus joe biden tries to calm a controversy, but instead raises new questions about his judgment and his discipline. >> do you think you owe these women a direct apology who have come forward so far? >> the fact of the matter is, if i made it clear, if i made anyone feel uncomfortable, i feel badly about that. that was never my intention ever, ever. >> democrats demand the full

mueller report at the president's taxes. both fights could land in the courts and test the balance of power here in washington. >> we are a separate and coequal branch of government. we don't work for donald trump. we work for the american people. so we have a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and balance on a potentially out-of-control executive branch. that's not the nancy pelosi playbook. that's not the house democratic caucus playbook. that's the james madison playbook. with us this sunday, julie pace of the associated press, cnn's manu raju, dan balz of "the washington post" and shawna thomas of vice news. the president back in washington after a weekend swing west that says he will not follow a traditional script. a new government jobs report was a political gift to the president, nearly 200,000 new jobs. unemployment rate near a 50-year low. yes, the president did take a few moments to celebrate those

numbers, but then flew to california to focus on his preferred issue, the border and immigration, a big focus at a fund razor in las vegas where the president called u.s. asylum laws a scam. >> we're full. our system is full. our country is full. can't come in. our country is full. what can you do? we can't handle anymore. our country is full. can't come in, i'm sorry. it's very simple. >> really simple, the president says, but confusing is a better way to describe border policy in the week just behind us. the threat threatened to shut down parts of the u.s./mexico border. his aides scoffed after suggesting he was bluffing. >> if we don't make a deal with congress, the border is going to be closed, 100%. >> if the drugs don't stop -- mexico can stop them if they want -- we're going to tariff the cars. the cars are big. if thaus didn't work, we're

going to close the border. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> no, i didn't say that. we would start with the tariffs and see what happens. >> i never changed my mind at all. ir may shut it down at one point. >> i don't mind closing the border. i'm okay with it. i don't want to do it, but i'm okay with it. >> help me. the president sometimes says this is on purpose. he says mexico, for example, is apprehending people and sending them back to their other countries because of his threats. other people say it's hard to follow what you're trying to do, what is your policy when you go from monday to tuesday to thursday to saturday and it's all over the place. >> i think it shows some of the tension within the administration where you have the president who does want to go aggressively on immigration. he would be fine closing the border, yet he does hear from republican lawmakers who say this would be a disaster and would undermine the one thing he has on his side going into

re-election which is a strong economy. i do think we shouldn't overlook one thing he said, on the asylum system. what he said is so at odds with the ethos of america. this is a country that for centuries has had people come here seeking asylum, who come here seeking an escape from persecuti persecution, from violence. that message, even from a president who takes a tough line on immigration, is really quite an extraordinary statement. >> if you think that your base wants to hear you be strong on immigration, even with the shifting policies, he can spin that as i'm grappling with an issue that is a crisis, a big problem on the border. as long as he keeps saying immigration and i want to be hard and i'm going to look at parts of the wall and i'm going to keep this in mind, that i want to keep out people, then it kind of doesn't matter that he's shifting policy. it's like in the politics of it for his base, as long as he stays strong on that message,

that is what people who like him already are going to hear. >> he animates the people who like him most. the question is is it enough? he does an mate them without a doubt. that's always been reflex number one. you would think with the jobs report on friday, that's all he would have talked about all weekend. instead, he thinks immigration >> to jewnot all asylum seekers in with an attorney waiting for them, reading what the attorney wants them to say. he says a lot look like they're heavyweight champs. that's not how all asylum seekers look. that's what he says politically. this is an issue he believes for the republican nomination, he doesn't want to look like he's deviating at all. he still has strong support within the republican base. he views if he can maintain that 35% support and pick off 7%, 8%

more in the polls, he may be in a good position come re-election. he doesn't want to show he's wavering one way or the other, would have significant ramifications. ultimately force him toave, but if he keeps up that rhetoric, he can keep that base. >> i think one of the issues he'll have to deal with is the degree to which his policies, quote, unquote, policies of the wall or whatever it is, has failed. immigration is worse today than it has been. the problem is greater than it has been, and i think part of his challenge is to try to convince the people who have been with him throughout, that that is the fault of others. in a variety of ways the system is preventing him from being able to solve this problem. i think that's one of the reasons he continues to talk the way he does, throws out ideas, backs off, moves in a different direction. when he's in a tough position,

goes to the border to try to reenforce. >> you're right, he thinks this is why he won the republican nomination and why he won the blue collar workers, the blue states he flipped red. some of his own base, here is a friendly audience saying, mr. president, you have us confused. >> mr. president, sometimes -- sometimes your rhetoric doesn't match the policy and we're getting -- sometimes mixed messages. mr. president, you're the only leader on the scene who can keep americans and their wages, fr k frankly safe. for that to happen, consistent bold policy and follow-through with determined rhetoric. got to have the policy followthrough. >> consistency and followthrough are not his strength. >> they're trying to steer him in a direction. that's interesting. i think one of the biggest issues with the policy is trying

to cut off funds to the northern triangle. if you talk to anyone especially -- even republicans behind the scenes, but also democrats. we talked to jeh johnson on vice news tonight this past week, the essential problem is there, and that's is why people are fleeing. no wall, no anything else is going to actually solve that problem. so it is confusing that one of the things that might actually help that you would cut off. >> that's also -- laura ingram -- trump's biggest fear. if that heading into elections is what conservatives are saying, you did not deliver on your central campaign promise, that's one thing he's worried about. that's why he keeps saying things like the wall is already built or it's being built, completely exaggerating the reality on the ground because he's trying to convince those folks he did not fail. >> he does policy making in reverse. he states a policy and then sends his administration out to try to figure out how to enact

it. in that process, a lot of roadblocks are found and downsides come. this is not a traditional process by any means. >> another great example this past week was health care in which the president said we have a great new plan, working on a great new plan. remember he said in the campaign repealing and replacing obamacare would be easy. senate majority leader had to have a conversation with the president saying, a, we don't have a plan. even if we did, we couldn't pass our plan. mitch mcconnell says we worked it out. >> -- what he wants to do on health care, where you see the health care debate standing now. >> not any longer. we had a good conversation yesterday afternoon and i pointed out to him the senate republicans' view on dealing with comprehensive health care reform, i made it clear to him we were not going to be doing

that in the senate. >> this was amusing in the early months of the trump administration. he had never been in government before. whatever you think, he had never been in government before, never had to deal with this before. him doing things in a way that drove the town into fits was amusing and interesting. what's the word for it two-plus years in when you party is trying to head into an election cycle where not just the presidency at sake, but the senate majority. mitch mcconnell trying to be nice saying, please, mr. president, stop. >> this is a president disconnected with everything around him. he operates in his own realm. he doesn't do in a traditional way the normal consults that presidents do in reaching out to senator mcconnell or others or his staff. you see this times and time again. he has not learned a lot of the basic blocking and tackling of being president of the united states. it shows in moments like this. >> mitch mcconnell doesn't want to do major policy. he wants to confirm judges, like

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democrats already on record demanding not only the public release of the full mueller report, but also that congress get access to the special counsel's work files. but the midweek headlines gave that democratic push new urgency. take a peek. some on mueller's team say the report was more damaging than the report reveals, limited information mueller shared about russia investigation frustrated. there are more headlines and the house speaker making clear democrats are losing patience with the attorney general and are prepared to subpoena what they want if the justice department won't hand it over. >> there's an amazieasy answer this, release the mueller report as soon as possible. let me just say the mueller report will be released. it's a question of, to us it is inevitable, to them it is

inconceivable. we need to shorten the distance between inevitable and inconceivable. >> is it inevitable? >> i think it's inevitable that congress will see potentially the full report. i don't think it's inevitable that the public is going to see a completely unredacted report. i think will week will tell us a lot. the redacted version could come out this week. bill barr is on capitol hill twice this week testifying for the house and senate appropriations committees over the budget, not about the mueller report. it's unlikely it will come out before he has to come before capitol hill. he could shed some light about what exactly the public is going to see, his decision making. >> the attitudes about the attorney general changed significantly. when he was picked, some were critical and skept tackle. this guy served in the george h.w. bush administration. how did donald trump pick a guy with the credibility and experience. if you listen here, democratic

views about bill barr are changing. >> we're two weeks into this, all we have is bill barr's word for this. of course, that comes from someone who was picked for his hostility to the obstruction case. >> i think he was put in place by the white house to do exactly what he did, keep this report from getting to the american public. >> barr was hired to be his fixer, his roy kohn. that's what he's doing. >> maybe that part is predictable from the democrats. the grumblings from mueller add to the pressure on bill barr to be as transparent as possible, does it not? >> i agree with manu. i think the american people will see some sort of redacted form of this report. whether it's this week, next week, may, whenever. one of the things we saw in the headlines you showed before is that the people around mueller who helped in that investigation are willing to get their message

out, so even that redacted report, if they feel that there are two many redactions, it doesn't actually portray an accurate presentation of what they gave over to the justice department, that signals that maybe they will talk more. that will create even more and more pressure. i don't think we'll ever get to the point, at least not any time soon the unredacted report is seen by the american people. there's classified information, grand jury testimony they have to be careful of. it shows there's a group of people willing to push back. >> it's under the president's skin, you can see, tweeting again over the weekend. he's won the first round of this, if you will politically. if you see the tweets over the weekend, 13 angry trump-hating democrats. the democrats, no matter what we give them, will never be satisfied. >> yes, he did win the first round of this. but he knows and is being told

by lawyers and advisers that there's more to come. i think this raises interesting questions about justice department protocols on what you do with information about people who aren't charged with a crime. it actually goes back to the way james comey handled the situation with hillary clinton where there was a lot of frustration on the part of democrats for him coming out, speaking publicly, releasing information when she was never charged. we'll be facing the exact same situation. how much information does the justice department feel like they need to release? >> democrats who thought comey was unfair want to apply the same standard in this case. a lot of democratic subpoena threats. the big one is this call for the president's taxes from the house ways an means committee chairman. six years of his personal taxes, some of the trump entities, the business taxes. the president has said whoever is in charge will make that decision. what he says is not often what he means. his lawyer sending a strong letter to the treasury

department, the purpose is not driving the request. his request is a transparent effort by one political party to harass an official from the other party because they dislike his politics and speech. this one -- the supreme court may get this one? >> this is going to be a hardball legal fight and it will go on for quite some time. i don't think the supreme court is going to want to rush to get this case. it's going to go through the normal processes. it could drag into 2020 and who knows how it will end up. there's no question that the president is going to fight this. >> democrats are trying to make it seem like this is not politically driven. >> good luck. >> nancy pelosi said it's a policy move. richard neil said in his letter, it's part of an effort to see if legislation is necessary to deal with how a president is audited. they realize politically it may not look great for them and they always see it legally, if they show there's a policy reason

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step one in joe biden's damage control plan this past week was a video in which he promised to listen to women who say the former vice president has made them uncomfortable.

>> social norms have begun to change, they've shifted. the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset, and i get it. i get it. i hear what they're saying. i understand it. i'll be much more mindful. that's my responsibility, my responsibility, and i'll meet it. >> step two was a speech here in washington to union members designed to showcase biden's blue collar appeal. then he took himself off script. ♪ >> i just want you to know i had permission to hug lonnie. >> and you guys can sit -- i don't want you to have to stand all along. by the way, he gave me permission to touch him. >> an old line in politics that fits well here. when you're explaining, you are losing. >> i'm sorry i didn't

understand -- i'm not sorry for any of my intentions. i'm not sorry for anything i've ever done. i've never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or woman. >> is this whole episode of the past week, is this going to change how you campaign? >> i think it's going to have to change what how i campaign. >> what have we learned from this? >> i think we've learned how hard it's going to be for joe biden to change the way he campaigns. he's been in the spotlight for quite some time. you talk about going off script. that's sort of the story of joe biden's career. he is who he is. i don't think we should have expectations that he's going to be dramatically different or able to change significantly. the question is whether the joe biden we've seen for so many years is the right man for this moment or whether he is on policy and his tactile style of campaigning, whether he is just

out of step with where democrats and a lot of the country are right now. >> i also think, if you have to post a video on twitter explaining how you are going to campaign, if you're going to talk about campaigning, it is not the best way to start your campaign with that individual video on twitter. what we saw is joe biden thought this was important enough to say something which means he's running for president. i think the other issue we have is that nancy pelosi said something that i thought was smart in a politico event this week which is she didn't consider this to be disqualifying. so the question is, is it disqualifying? i'm not saying it is disqualifying, but you'll have a lot of progressives and a lot of young people who think if he's from an era where he doesn't understand how a woman's personal space is an actual issue, they won't want to vote for him. that is a bygone area to a

certain extent. >> he's be loved in the democratic party for the most part. even the women who said he's made him uncomfortable, even though not sexual, they think he didn't respect their space and should know better. can he convince people in this age of the me too movement, a diverse field, diverse candidates, to go back. he calls himself an obama-biden democratic. >> i think it's going to be difficult in this sense -- and the only way he's going to do it is by campaigning and showing there's something different about him, in a sense that he is of this moment. you know, john, when joe biden talks, he talks in so many ways about things of the past. it was just his frame of reference is the fact that he's 76 years old. i think that's going to be a struggle for him. this week was very difficult for him. they started with the idea that this was not going to be a big deal. they put out a statement and then they put out a more aggressive statement. then they did the video.

then he went out friday. this has rolled on for a full week. we'll see once he becomes a candidate what he's going to be like. >> this is going to continue to replicate itself. i'm sure there will be other people who have come out at points of the campaign saying he made them feel uncomfortable. he's campaigned like this for some time and it may not be disqualifying, but it will be a distraction that he's going have to deal with time and again. yes, he's on top of the polls, but that's all about name recognition. the old adage, your best day as a candidate is the day before you enter the race. when he enters the race, these distractions will continue. >> the joke, i had permission to touch the union guys and the kids, it's disrespectful to the women. does he really get it there's a second person involved here, that their opinion matters, too? he has a history of this.

whether it's anita hill or early in his last campaign for president where he talked about barack obama as clean and articulate, he has to explain when his tongue gets out ahead of the brain. >> i haven't always been right. i know we haven't always gotten things right, but i've always tried. >> so this day i regret i couldn't come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved. i wish i could have done something. >> i truly regret that the words i spoke offended people i admire very much, but i'm humble that so many of these same people judge them by my history and my heart. >> his strength in the early polls which are to be what's called an early, early, early polls, a, that he's known, but, b, democrats think he can beat trump. they look at this younger untested field, here is a guy who may be electable. if you're trying to explain

things away, does that undercut his candidacy? >> it could. it's interesting to watch those clips. at the start of this democratic primary, you saw several other candidates come out and quickly apologize for a whole bunch of things in their past. it's because it's the cool thing to do, hey, i was wrong, i changed my mind, i'm sorry about that. getting these issues off the table instead of letting them shadow you throughout the course of the primary. there are democrats that i talked to this week really worried that biden will die by death of a thousand cuts, democrats will try to tear him down through out this process and he is, in the eye of a lot of candidates, the strongest candidate to beat trump. they could be putting taking back the white house at risk. >> you still haven't heard what his vision is for becoming president, how he plans to drive the democratic party going forward? obviously he's not a candidate yet, but he's had to deal with all these other issues, trying to suggest he's still -- he's

the most progressive person in this race, as he said. we need to hear that, democratic voters need to hear that and be convinced of that. that's going to be a huge challenge. >> his thing that i'll be last -- he's the former vice president of the united states and has more experience. that's a traditional approach, i'm the big guy, i'll go last. do we live in traditional times? >> no, we don't live in traditional times. from his point of view and the point of view of the paem around him, nothing until this past week caused any problem of waiting. he wanted to see how others did their rollout, take a measure and wait to get in. the people who are helping him make this decision or get ready for this campaign believe a couple of things. one, they don't think his poll numbers are just name recognition. they believe there's something more solid here. we'll see whether that's the case. the other thing they believe is, yes, they know all the vulnerabilities. they can inventory that better

than we can at this point. they know those are going to come up in the campaign. their hope is that people will look at joe biden, the totality of joe biden's career and say, yes, he's had some bad moments, but over time he has evolved as the country has evolved. >> we'll see how it goes. we expect him sometime after easter to make it official. president obama and speaker pelosi offered some advice to the crowded 2020 democratic field. and back again is our 3-point rib bloom, topped with cheese fries and barbecue ribs. and try our everyday lunch combos, starting at $7.99.

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would you sign that bill if it came across your desk? >> when i'm elected president, i will sign that bill. >> i formally support congresswoman jackson lee's bill to create a commission to sudity reparations. >> yes, i already support that bill. >> absolutely i would sign that into law. >> the house and senate pass that bill, of course i would sign it. >> reparations is one long time progressive goal but it's getting more attention and more support. another is medicare for all, an idea president trump and other republicans label as socialist. the nation's top elected democrat speaker nancy pelosi waded into that debate, just like on impeachment, taking a position at odds with most of her party. we all share the value of health care for all americans, quality affordable health care for all americans. what's the path to that? when most people say they're for

medicare for all, i think that means health care for all. a lot of people like their employer-based insurance and the affordable care act gave them better benefits. as someone who lost her gavel after the obamacare debate, will the party listen? >> that's a good question. i think there's a faction that won't. democratic presidential candidates, most of them are not. she's also thrown cold water on the green new deal, skeptical, didn't know what to refer to it as. people referred to it as a way to take a dig at the legislation. she has different imperatives, too, she has a lot of moderate members who won in republican strikts. the reason she's speaker right now, she has to worry about

those folks. >> they also findly won the election, after getting pummeled on obamacare in 2010 and 2014. >> they won it with moderates, not with the new freshmen coming from very safe democratic districts who maybe ousted an incumbent democratic. they won with people who flipped seats. that's what pelosi has to protect right now. she also sees her role vis-a-vis 2020 as being the reality check and holding off putting legislation on medicare for all, legislation on green new deal, impeachment on the floor so her democrats don't have to take votes and these 2020 candidates can talk in broad strokes about these issues and not have to say i would vote for that or not. >> at the top of the program, mitch mcconnell having the conversation with the president. nancy pelosi having conversations with the candidates. former president barack obama at a town hall yesterday had his

own piece of advice. >> one of the things i do worry about sometimes is a certain kind of ridge itity where we say, i'm sorry, this is how it's going to be and we start creating what's called a circular firing squad. you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues. >> of whom does he speak? >> only barack obama knows of whom he speaks. the circular firing squad analogy works in both ways. you stray too far down the path of progressivism or too far down the path of moderateness and who is going to take a shot at you? there's so many 2020 candidates, it's easy for someone to take the shot. i think what they're saying is we're politicians, be politicians. you don't have to totally give

up the ghost yet. you don't have to create a situation where we're having an internal fight before we have the external fight. try moderate what you're saying enough, leave yourself room because you do have an energy on the progressive side, you do have the thing that almost got stacey abrams a governorship, almost got andrew gillum a governorship. they don't want to get rid of that yet. try to walk the line, guys, be politicians for a little while. >> i think that's exactly the tension the party is going through. there's a legitimate debate about how to maximize turnout in 2020. we know this will be a turnout election. we know that donald trump knows how to turn out his voters. the issue is how do you maximize turnout on the left at the same time you maximized turnout in suburban areas or the upper midwest or in some of the white communities. that's the issue they're

wrestling with. >> we'll see that as the debates take place, also in the diversity of the candidates. the newest candidate is congressman tim ryan of ohio. you might say -- is this the biden lane that used to be the shared ground lane. you have candidates from the coast and this guy who says, i'm from the working class midwest. >> just maybe the person that can help heal these wounds is a working class kid from a working class family, from a working class community that will go work his rear end off for the american people. >> the flyover states are going to start governing in the united states of america again. >> if you look back at history, it's hard to see a house member. if you look back in history, donald trump won when no one thought he could. an african-american president won when know one thought he could. what do we make of this? >> who knows? everyone is running because they

think they have a chance. barack obama was a senator and then a u.s. senator and then became president. this is the same message he used when he ran against nancy pelosi after the 2016 elections. it didn't work with his caucus at that time because they were mostly more progressive. can he win that over the democratic base in iowa and new hampshire? that's a big question. this is so wide open -- >> i couldn't pronounce buttigieg four weeks ago. i can pronounce it now. is tim ryan going to be the next president of the united states? i don't know. what he was basically saying is, if he added the word scranton in there, he would have been giving joe biden's speech. this is part of the fight you're talking about, which side of the democratic party is going to win? and we will see. i can pronounce buttigieg. >> buttigieg it is. we've got a long way to go. our reporteders shars share fro

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one more time around the "inside politics" table. we'll ask our reporters to share from their notebooks. julie pace? >> i spent time in iowa covering bernie sanders. if anyone is wondering whether he's a front-runner for the democratic nomination, the answer is yes. the energy among his crowds was palpable. he had about 1,200 people in davenport on friday night. what's interesting about sanders is he's not doing much different than he did in 2016 with the exception to a few references from trump, the remarks could have been from a 2016 rally or any of his congressional rallies from years past. it goes to the core of sanders' belief in the campaign was that

his 2016 effort was not a fluke and he'll win by moving voters to where he is, not changing his strategy or appealing to some segment of the democratic party may not be with him. >> mike pompeo in front of the senate foreign relations committee amid continued concern about the administration's handling of the aftermath of the murder of jamal khashoggi. there have been briefings the past several weeks. democrats and republicans not satisfied. they hadn't made a determination to determine whether the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman is responsible. at the same time, a bipartisan bill before this very committee to slap saudi arabia with sanctions, go after saudi arabia. the chairman of that committee, jim risch, has pud the brakes on

that. he told me he's still open to the notion, but nevertheless, pressure billing as the administration continues to side with saudi arabia because of economic concerns and down playing the significant human rights concerns that are happening in saudi arabia. >> fascinating. dan? >> we're in the middle of the financial reporting season for the presidential candidates. so far the numbers are actually not that impressive. as julie said, bernie sanders leads the democrats with $18 million. the center for responsible politics noted they appear to be lagging from past campaigns. if you go back to 2007 in the first quarter, hillary clinton raised about $26 million. most of them for the primary season, some for the general. barack obama raised $25 million just for the primary season. john edwards raised 14ds million, mitt romney, $21 million. rudy giuliani, $14 million. what this tells us is there's a lot of money on the sideline.

the second question is how much of this grassroots money will be out there for the candidates and how will they be able to distribute it? i think the third, because we haven't heard from a lot of the female candidates is the challenge women candidates still have raising moneyment we'll know more about that in the next ten days. >> shawna? >> this friday in the military the transgender ban goes into effect. the defense department wouldn't necessarily call it a ban, but it's a change in how transgender military people are treated. what i'm interested in seeing is how the rollout goes as well as what does it mean for those grandfathered in. there are some who will be able to keep their jobs, but it will be more difficult for them to commission, to ascend into other careers or cross train. we plan a couple stories later this week. >> the pentagon court challenge will continue as well. all of washington waiting to see how much of the mueller report

is made public and whether the congress gets access to the interview transcripts and files. one group has a unique stake, that would be current and former trump administration officials who cooperated with the special counsel. some of them spent hours with investigators and even those who say they defended the president's actions worry, there are accounts of his work habits would infuriate them. he got to read them. one said the president is expected to go, quote, bonkers if and when he reads those accounts. that's it for "inside politics." hope you can catch us weekdays as well. up next, a busy "state of the union" with larry c jake tapper. "state of the union" is next. have a great sunday. visionworks can do more than just make you see great.

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report watch. president trump reveals he has not yet read mueller's report as democrats prepare legal action to see it now. >> release the mueller report as soon as possible. >> members of the mueller team suggest there's much more to learn from their work. chairman of house silence committee adam schiff in moments. border threats. president trump is pressing pause on his plan to close the southern border, but sending this message to migrants seeking asylum. >> our country is full. >> how