itself calling for it to be disbanded and this is what senator kristen gillibrand told cnn just last i believe that it has become a deportation force, and i think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues, and i think you should reimagine i.c.e. under a new agency with a very different mission. we believe that we should protect those that need our help and that is not what i.c.e. is doing today and that's why i believe you should get rid of it. start over. reimagine it and build something that actually works. >> i mean, that's harsh criticism of your former organization. do you see where she's coming from, though? >> she says two different things and one was the idea of separating the criminal investigative mission of i.c.e. from the immigration enforcement. i do think there is merit to that simply because the politics around the immigration enforcement especially how this administration is using i.c.e. make it very hard for the criminal investigators to do their job, but the ultimate frustration with the current immigration enforcement in the u.s. lies wit

it's better for democrats to have al franken not even talking about coming back, but kristen gillibrandgoing to use it to her advantage. distancing herself from him is not exactly the worst thing. >> and i'm not surprised frarnkn is doing this. he was fairly defiant in his farewell speech in the senator and hadn't ever really apologized or admitted any wrongdoing at all. >> you got the sense he was leaving because of the pressure, not because he had come to his own conclusion that he needed to leave. but if you're a democrat, you don't want al franken on tv giving interviews at all right now. he seemed to realize what he was saying and sort of saying like, this is going to be a story if i say it. then he goes ahead and says it. i think he hasn't given up the dream, but i agree with rachel. no way. >> seems like a no go. >>> next is a big upset brewing in texas. a new poll shows in striking distance of ted cruz. >>> a new poll in texas is giving democrats at least a little bit of hope that they can pull off an upset in this year's senate race in texas. democrat beto o'rourke is losing to