so there certainly is that. i think what we ear seeing on the border right now is this crisis situation because of this, you know, in part because of this new policy that the administration put in where they are duke this clampdown, this zero tolerance that's now quickly, you know, instead of having it being a civil proceeding,ing this those folks charged criminally which starts the whole process of the family separation and that makes it may be different than the traditional immigration issues that we see with folks coming in from other countries and simply staying beyond. >> many by now have heard that i was asked to leave a restaurant this weekend where i attempted to have dinner with my family. my husband and i politely left and went home. i was asked to leave because i work for president trump. we are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm. this goes for all people regardless of politics.

some have chosen to push hate and vandalism against the restaurant that i was asked to leave from. a hollywood actor pubically encouraged people to kidnap my children, and this weekend a member of congress called for people to push back and make clear to those serving their country in this administration that they are not welcome anywhere any time for anything. healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important, but the calls for harassment and push for any trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable. america is a great country, and our ability to find solutions despite those disagreements is what makes us unique. that is exactly what president trump has done for all americans by building a booming economy with record low unemployment for african-americans and hispanics. the defeat of isis and the ongoing work to achieve peace on the korean peninsula. earlier today the president spoke with the new president of colombia and congratulated him on his recent electoral victory.

president trump noted the strong partnership between our two countries and discussed the security challenges the new colombian government will face as enters office. we're also working to set up a call between the president and the president of turkey to reaffirm our strong bond. we encourage turkey to take steps to strengthen its democracy and continue progress towards resolving issues in the bilaterally relationship. lastly, and on a slightly lighter and more positive note, it should be an exciting national championship at the college world series since the arkansas razorbacks will be playing and take on oregon state starting tonight in omaha. so go hogs, and with that i'll take your questions. jonathan. >> sarah, i want to ask you about the president's tweet over the weekend where he said that people across the border illegally should be sent back with no court cases, no judges. does the president believe that undocumented immigrants have no due process rights whatsoever? >> virtually all americans agree

that it makes no sense that an illegal alien sets one foot on american soil and then they would go through a three to five-year judicial process to be removed from the country. thousands of illegal aliens are removed every month without seeing an immigration judge as a result of procedures and current law, including voluntary removal and expedited removal. just because you don't see a judge doesn't mean you aren't receiving due process. the president is focused on securing our borders and reforming our immigration system to prevent the crisis at at border from get getting word. >> no judges, no court cases, so no opportunity to claim asylum or no opportunity to have their cases heard before a judge? >> like i said, just because you don't see a judge doesn't mean you don't see due process. the president would like us to stop people from illegally entering the country at all. we would like to have secure borders. the democrats are the ones that want open borders. the president would like us to secure borders and have a very

legal and easy immigration process so people can come here the right way, not the wrong way. john? >> in addition to what john was asking, under current law, and you spoke to this, concontinuous countries to the united states like mexico and canada, people can be removed in an expedited basis. >> correct. >> they can basically be taken to the nearest border crossing and sent back. does the president want toisment that ty -- to implement that type of policy from non-contiguous country? >> the president would like to see more expedited removal, but the president would like to see our border secured so that we don't have all of these problems to begin with. the president wants to fix our immigration system completely, not just tinker with it. he actually wants us to have a system that works, and he wants to have a secure border. he doesn't believe in the philosophy that democrats do that we should have open borders. he wants to stop that and stop the crime that comes into this

country and that's what we're hoping to do and we would like to see congress step up and work with us. >> blake? >> the president also said in the oval office that people proposed add 5,000 judges. i've seen 750 as a max. >> there's been a number of different proposals, quite a few that we've seen. we've laid out what we would like to see and hopefully congress will work with us to make that happen. blake? >> let me ask you about a couple of statements on trade. what is the president's reaction to the harley-davidson announcement today? does he still feel that tariffs are the way to go? >> the president's trade and economic policies have been a huge benefit to the american economy and this includes the creation of over 300,000 manufacturing jocks. unemployment is at a 3.8%, the lowest since 2000 and manufacturing confidence is at historic highs. the european union is attempting to punish u.s. workers with unfair and discriminatory trade policies, and president trump will continue to push for free, fair and reciprocal trade and

hopes that the eu will join us in that. >> and on the -- on the story about chinese investments curtailing possible chinese tech investments the treasury secretary steve mnuchin said five hours ago that a statement would be forthcoming and we still don't have it. when might that be coming, or what exactly is the administration's stance on this? >> again, as the secretary said, a statement would go out that targets all countries that are trying to steal our technology, and we expect that to be out soon. we'll keep you posted. >> thanks a lot, sarah. back on immigration, in terms of what the president envisions for the immigration policy that he would like to see put in place, should asylum seekers be able to get their case heard before an immigration judge? >> certainly there is a process in order to go through. there are points of entry that asylum seekers should go to. we encourage them to work through the system and not come across the border illegally. in fact, anyone that goes to a

port of entry seeking asylum will not be prosecuted, and we cone courage people to use the correct system and not try to break the law. >> one more on trade and following up on what blake asked about harley-davidson. announced in an s.e.c. filing they are moving a significant amount of their operations to europe because of the eu tariffs that were placed on harley davidson motorcycles. is what what the president envisioned for what the impact would be by placing tariffs on the eu and the eu retaliations put on the u.s.? >> the eu is trying to punish u.s. workers because they have engaged repeatedly in unfair trade practices, and the president is saying enough is enough. we would like to work with the eu to work on a level playing field. the. >> sorry, steve. >> the president today in the oval office sitting next to the king of jordan mentioned some progress in the middle east

peace process, but he didn't give us any specifics. there's been quite a bit of shuttle diplomacy going on the last few days in the middle east with jared kushner and jason greenblatt. do you have anything concrete to tell us about any sort of positive movement whatsoever, from all of this? >> again, we -- i think that the meetings that took place over the last week with senior adviser jared kushner and special representative jason greenblatt, they met with a number of principals and officials in saudi arabia, jordan, israel, egypt and qatar last week. they discussed the situation in gaza as well as the next stages of the peace effort. we're going to continue those conversations, and we're committed to the peace effort and working forward but those conversations with productive. >> the commissioner of customs and border protection said they will no longer be referring people for criminal prosecution if they are traveling which is essentially turning back to the obama administration and

administrations before that. does the president support that approach and does he regret pushing forward on a zero tolerance policy? >> the president certainly supports keeping families together which he's outlined and he's called on congress to actually fix the system. they are the only ones that ultimately have the ability to change the law. the president's executive order has given a temporary solution to the problem, but it's not permanent, and we need congress to step up. we need democrats to stop playing political games, do their jobs, work with this president and let's fix the problem at the border. jeff? >> can you talk about why you tweeted from your official account about the episode that you had on friday night. >> i was responding to a number of news stories i had been reached out to by over a dozen reporters and there were multiple news stories issued, considered news of the day and i responded to any other news of the day story. jeff? >> you said just because you don't see a judge doesn't mean you don't get due process. can you explain what you mean by

that specifically and how the president envisions that this would work while still maintaining what the constitution uphold in having a swift immigration system? >> again, there are other ways for removal. there are thousands of illegal aliens that are removed every month that don't see judges. sometimes that's through voluntary removal and sometimes through expedited removal. the president's ultimate goal would be that we have actually a secure border and people aren't coming into the country illegally but that we have a system that works and the people come into the country come in through a legal system. >> what does the president done to ensure that congress passes the bill? spent all weekend in nevada talking about democrats want open borders and crime. specifically has he made phone calls to republican members in the house where the bill is pending? has he tried to bring democrats snogt what is he doing specifically to try to get a new law passed specifically other

than railing current law? >> the president met with a number of lawmakers over the week, talked with several over the weekend, some that he was with while he was trying. last week he made an open invitation to the democratic lawmakers to come to the white house to discuss what they would like to see because the president wants solutions. we've yet to have any of them show up actually willing to have those conversations, actually willing to fix the problem. instead, they would rather rant and rave about not allowing members of the trump administration to step foot in public. the president wants to see solutions. that's what we're focused on. it's congress' job to do that, and we have laid out very clearly that we want to be part of that and what we would like to see in that package. if they haven't passed a law to fix the system, they haven't. republicans have laid out a number of proposals that they support. the president has voiced his support for those. >> it failed this week. >> that's because no democrat will get on board and actually support a solution. >> republicans cannot pass these republican bills.

what is the president doing as the leader -- >> jeff, thee aren't reap call bills. these are bills that fix a broken system. they may have republican responseors, but these should be bipartisan. this should be complicated. the house has already passed over 500 pieces of legislation, but they can't get through the senate because democrats refuse to actually find solutions. we have 50 bills that passed just last week to address the opioid crisis that passed through the house. the senate still hasn't taken them up. hopefully they will, and if they do it will show that we can come up bipartisan solutions hand that's what we would like to see them do on immigration as well. >> jill? >> more on the zero tolerance policy. the president said after signing the executive order that he believed the zero tolerance was still important, that this did not get rid of the policy. how does that square with the policy that they are no longer referring for prosecution any adults who come in with children. >> >> this is a temporary solution.

this isn't going to [ laughter ] congress has to step up and they still have to do their job. this will only last a short amount of time because we're going to run out of space and run out of resources in order to keep people together and we're asking congress to provide those resources and do their job. >> does this moan at some point you're going to change that policy back? >> we're not changing the policy. we're simply out of resources and at some point congress has to do what they were elected to do and that's secure our border, stop the crime coming into our country. the country has made extremely clear that they don't want open borders, and democrats need to understand that, and they need to work with republicans and find some conclusions annie. >> sorry, jill, i'm going to keep going. >> you mention the the state of resources and running out of them. can you be specific about what the resources are housing children and parents together. is there enough housing right now? is the pentagon stepping? like what's being done about the resources? >> again, we're looking at every option available. we've asked the pentagon to help

with additional space, but a lot of that will depend on our ability to stop people coming into the country illegally, and we, again, encourage people to go through ports of entry instead of crossing the border illegally. we've asked through legislation, we're working with congress hopefully to provide more resources and the ability to actually enforce the law. >> i just want to see if you can kind of pin down exactly what the president intends to do when it comes to this idea of not having judges. you say there are instances where people don't have judges, but my understanding is that if you do ask for asylum you do have certain rights, so is there going to be a change in that policy or what is this administration planning to do to make it so you don't have to see a judge? >> again, i've addressed this a couple of times. there are multiple instances when you wouldn't, voluntary removal, certain cases can of

expedited removal. if someone comes through a poverty entry seeking asylum those cases and that process will be heard, but at the same time the president's ultimate goal is to secure the border and stop illegal immigration. >> i understand that, but so what does that mean practically? like is the president planning to do anything differently or you're just saying -- >> the president is laying how the what he'd like to see. we've put out the things that we want to see in an immigration package months ago. we're still waiting on congress to give us the ability toll do that. >> so unless congress acts nothing is actually going to change. the administration is not changing anything right now -- >> you mean, are we walking around making up laws, no, because we're not the oib mah administration. we're actually trying to enforce the laws that are on the books. we're actually asking congress to do their part in the process and passion new legislation that will fix our immigration system. >> nothing is actually changing on the ground? the president is complaining about judges and saying that we shouldn't have all these judges and people who come over should be put out but nothing is

actually going to change? he's saying -- he's just complaining about the process as it stands now? >> things that we have the ability to do administratively we are working to do, but, again, congress is the only one that has the ability to write law and we hope that they will do that. >> i'm trying to understand what it is that the president understands about the current policy because as you had explained expedited removal allows the government to remove hundred of thousands of illegal immigrants a year without seeing judges. did the president know that when heish you'd tweets? >> yeah, but in are still thousands that go through a lengthy process. we would like to see the process consolidated and the backlog stopped. we would like to see our borders secured. >> under current law -- sorry, steve. >> you've stayed that he would like to see more expedited removal. does the president intend to expand it to the full two-year limit under the current statute? >> again, we would like to see more expedited removal, but

ultimately we would like to see the border secured and people stop coming into the country illegally. it would stop a lot of the problems and eliminate the need for so many of these additional laws. seems pretty simple to me. >> we began by talking about the importance of civility. do you consider it civil to separate children from their families? >> we consider enforcing the law. certainly the president has taken an executive action to the furthest that he has the ability to do to minimize the separation of famils. we're working hard to make sure that families get to stay together and we're calling on congress to help us in that effort and we're continuing to focus on the reunification and make sure that the families stay together and the that congress will give us a permanent solution to fix in a. >> they are working to make families stay together. it was your administration that separated them in the first place. >> it wasn't our administration

that created these laws but it is our administration's job to enforce it and we've done that. if someone breaks the law it's our job to enforce it. if somebody doesn't like the law, then they need no lobby congress and ask them to change it. >> an immigration question i wanted to clarify. i understand that not every adult with a child is going to be prosecute the. if there are families being held together, detained together somewhere and 20 days goes by, what is going to happen then? i didn't get an answer about that last week? i don't understand. the law says you can't keep them together or keep the children even with parent for longer than 20 days so then what happens? >> hopefully congress will pass the law and fix the problem. >> why should it be so hard. they all say they don't want to separate families. seems like it should be pretty simple to me. >> i said i had a clarification. >> jeff asked you a question about congress and the bill. would you in your response referring to just a stand-alone bill that deals with family separation, or were you referring to the bigger

immigration bill that the house hopes to take up this week. >> our preference would be a bill that addresses all of the pillars that we've laid out that we would like to see addressed in an immigration package, and that's what our focus slight now. thereto he's a bill in a does that on the table. if that doesn't happen, then we'll talk about other pieces of legislation at that point. >> the president still wants that bill to go forward even though -- he said they shouldn't waste their time on it? >> democrats in the senate have made clear they are not going to support this because we need at least some democrats to get on board. they have made it very clear that they don't want to work with the president, that they don't want to fix our immigration system, that they would rather have open borders and rampant crime than work with the president to create solutions. until they change their mind we're going to continue to look at the best ways to fix these problems but we need congress to help us. >> thank you, sarah. this president is the first in the television age who has yet to address the american public

on nationwide television from the oval office. many republican consultants have said he might have a stronger hand in influencing congress if he made a nationally televised address on immigration and what changes he would like to see to explain it. is that something that's on the table within the administration? >> certainly don't want to take anything off the table or any tool away from the president. he does address the american people in a number of different venues and formats, and oil certainly pass along that suggestion to him. >> it was said if president abbas is not willing to negotiate, he's going to proceed with the deal. can you explain how the white house is hoping to achieve any progress in the middle east peace talks if the principal party is not taking part? >> we're going to continue to meet with the other partners in the region, and, again, we're going to continue pushing

forward in the peace process. we had productive meetings over the last week, and we're going to continue those conversations. take one last question. >> thanks, sarah. to follow up on the issue of immigration judges. why is the president so opposed to an increase in the number of immigration judges when it would expedite the asylum processing and expedite deportation? >> we're not opposed to the speeding up the process. what the president would like to see, once again, is that we stop the problem at the very beginning. we would like to see us secure the border and poem work through the system through the ports of entry so that we're not dealing with things on the back end. we would like to stop the problem before it start, and that's what the president's focus has been all along is on securing the bothered, and that's what we're going to continue to do. thanks so much, guys. have a great day.

>> president trump is headed to south carolina this afternoon to campaign for governor henry mcmaster, ahead of tomorrow's primary in that state. we'll take you live to west colombia, souk, at 7:00 p.m. eastern to watch the event. several members of the cabinet will be on capitol hill testifying before congress. tomorrow health and human services secretary alex azar will go before the senate finance committee on prescription drug prices. he is also expected to be questioned on the separation of migrant children from their families along the u.s.-mexico border. live coverage of that hearing begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. wednesday, housing and urban development secretary ben carson testifies at an oversight hearing. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. wednesday afternoon president trump's pick to head the veterans affair department robert wilke will testify but

the veteran affairs committee. live coverage start at 2:30 p.m. eastern live on c-span 3 and all of the hearings will be available online at c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. this week on why the the communicators," fcc commissioner michael o'reilly on the elimination of net neutrality and the expected surge in corporate mergers after the at&t/time warner merger. mr. o'reilly is interviewed by telecommunications report senior editor paul kirby. >> the last administration under obama both chairman wheeler and the hate of the antitrust division felt that it should not be changed. at that time t-mobile and sprint did not merge. are a few okay? >> i do not have such a structure. i want to take the application put before the commission before us and analyze that in terms of what is the data presented?

what are the circumstances in the marketplace? what are the qualifications and the capabilities of the current provideers? what are the promises that they are providing and what are the opportunities that they may be able to bring to the american consumers? what is the debt load that they are taking on. are they going to be able to meet those obligations that they are talking with us and the department of justice so i will look at the application as for the right as expected and i don't have an artificial number in terms of this or that. there are benefits to having more and benefits to having stronger providers and i want to see what the circumstance may be, and i take the applications as they are presented to me. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. the bus is on its 38th stop in juno, alaska, asking folks what's the most important issue in alaska. >> what i think is the most important issue facing alaska

right now is we are in the middle of a budget crisis. we're used to having a lot of oil money come in, and as a result of lower oil prices we aren't getting that revenue that we're used to, so there are other revenue streams that need to happen, but it doesn't seem to be happening very fast, and i think there's political reasons why people are afraid or are worried aboutism meanti implemes and without additional revenues alaskans are facing a lot of crisis in a lot of area and one is the opioid and substance abuse econom abuse issue. the more our economy goes down the more and more unhappy people are with their lives and are self-medicating and that's a big crisis too. >> i think the most important issue is child hunger and it's all linked to poverty. there was -- we were at 40% of child hunger, you know,

including security for children in the state a few years ago. we went down and now we're going way back up. we have to stop giving all our money to the oil companies and start spending it on children for the future. >> one of our big issues here in the state is the tourism industry. it is a huge change of our economy and it's growing by leaps and bounds. we're very concerned about the ability to promote juninho and promote the state at a nationwide level since tourism is such a bright spot in our economy. >> as far as i can see. i've been here a week in alaska, and one of the big social service issues that i see here in alaska is homelessness and trying to combat it seems to be a real issue with the city since a lot of them aren't actively seeking help, but the ones that are seem to be moving from place to place looking for the

different type aids that they can get. seems like one of the birk use is that homelessness and how we can combat it and fight it here in this state. >> i'm the executive director of the executive council of school administrators and the most important thing in alaska is getting a long-term fiscal plan in place for our state which has ongoing revenue outside of our non-renewable resources and really primarily because we need to stabilize education across the state. our educators need to feel that their funding which is a constitutional duty in alaska is stable so that they can stabilized their schools and most important i think for all of us is to educate our students and the best way to do that is a stable school. >> be sure to join us july 21st and 22nd when we'll feature our visit to alaska.

watch alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> a look now at the evolving relationship between the united states and mexico. current and former officials have both the u.s. and mexico have discussed the recent history of the two neighboring countries and the impact of nafta over the years. among the speakser was former u.s. ambassador to mexico roberta jacobson who provided closing remarks on enhancing future relations between the two countries. this is about two hours.