hans nichols reporting from the white house this morning. >>> let's discuss this with our reporter from business insider and senior political reporter. how would you explain the mixed messages we're now hearing from the administration? the white house is ainge that plan was floated but then ultimately rejected and now the president said he's still looking at it. why are they at odds here? >> i think that the mixed messages here reflect a lot of the internal strife going on in the white house. president trump has said immigration and border security are his key platforms. we're seeing competing factions in the white house, jockeying to, you know, be the dominant voice on immigration. what happens when you have that is that you have story that come out like with "the washington post" reported, some people in the white house saying no we're not considering it, it's, you know, down right illegal and so on and so forth. then the president, of course, tends to tout what he believes is his...

it's hard. >> that's all for now. i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> good morning. i'm philip mena at msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's 6:00 in the east, 3:00 out west. hears what's happening. doubling down. president trump threat jeopardies to bus migrants to sanctuary cities from "coast to coast" as a federal appeals court makes another big ruling on asylum seekers. where will they say? >>> under fire. one word from bill barr raising the stakes ahead of his release of the mueller report. >>> plus out of the embassy and locked up. what's next for julian assange and could a look at wikileaks and the 2016 election make things uncomfortable for president trump? >>> developing this hour, growing political and legal backlash as the president gives

growing political and legal backlash as the president gives new life the to a controversial immigration proposal that administration officials had rejected as unworkable and illegal. the president still says he's strongly considering a plan to sake central american immigrants apprehended at the border and bus them to so-called sanctuary cities. president trump making it clear this is in retaliation to democrats. >> we'll bring the illegal, i call them illegals. they came across the border illegally. we'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of them. they want more people in their sanctuary cities we'll give them a lot. an unlimited supply. they say they have open arms. let's see if they have open arms. >> democrats condemning the proposal as inhumane and counter