lawye, , righon groups are saying they are asylum-seekers and would put them in harm's way. under the rules, the majority are coming from central america, fleeing persecution, torture, fear of death. what these laws would do is mostly central american asylum seekers to apply for asylum first and be denied asylum in one of the countries they passed. honduran or you are salvadoran, yoyou have to apply in and be d denied asylum guatemala or mexico. if you are guatemalan, you have to apply for and be denied asylum in mexico. protections tom those who cross from mexico andd by sea. even they would have to apply for asylum in neighboring countries from where they live. what is the problem with this? is congress and international law. human rights groups, lawyers say this violates u.s. domestic laws and interernational united natis convention laws.s. in the case of congress, they passed an immigration nationality act. in order to be able to demand asylum-seekers apply and be denied asylum and a country on the way to the u.s., it has to be a safe third country. the problem here is,

it's been said it was a lawye lawyer-like, bill.f questions in the air, such as why didn't you go for more, given the seriousness. that julie was just referring to. the seriousness of the offenses. why not go for more? i thought a little bit too he put the burden on his team, rather than on himself. all just recommendations to him, but he can exercise some autonomy as well. look. i don't know all the details. i wasn't there at the time, but it seemed to me there were enough issues and enough questions that this was the right decision. >> bill: the suggestion was that he did not offer sympathy to those who had been abuse. >> yeah, that's the argument. but i deal with more of the facts and the merits. perhaps if there was more, his fate would have been different, but i think that this was -- it would have made a lot of noise going down the road. it would hurt the president. i have served with two presidents, served out their pleasure. i sometimes gave them displeasure. i was doing my job. i said if this is wrong, if this is a burden,