all of them. >> alcindor: while the most dramatic scenes are playing out across the u.s.-mexico border, all across the country, in neighborhoods like this one in maryland, many families remain desperate for answers. that includes omar's aunt jenny also undocumented and asked not to be identified. hter jenny was told by omar's mom that om been separated from his father, she urged his mom in honduras to have him call her. then, u.s. immigration officials called. >> immediately, they called me from where he was and told me, you're related to him, we have ur nephew and we need someone to sponsor him. >> alcindor: jenny says she decided to sponsor omar, even though she knew it was risky. she must be fingerprinted and undergo a background check. as part of a new trump administration rule implemented earlier this month, that infoation is now shared with immigration enforcement. are you afraid that the information that you provided in order to snsor your nephew might be used to deport you now? >> ( translated ): yes, i'm afraid. i'm afraid. i don't know what's gog to happen. i'm

for the pbs newshour, i'm yamiche alcindor outside baltimore, maryland. woodruff: how will the trump administration respond to the court order to reunite immigrant families separated at the border? and what is the president's process for naming a new supreme court justice? marc short is the white house director of legislative affairs and has some of those answers. welcome back to the program. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: marc short, why are the youngeople lie omar the 17 we saw in yamiche's story still held separate from their parents, over a week after the president said the policy should end? >> the polry the pesident signed by executive order is moving forward. keep in mind the excutive order pretty much provides time for congress to fix this. when you had m on your ow a couple of weeks ago i said it is a binary choe and that remains true that you either let families come into the count unfettered which continues to create a bigger problem or separate them at the border. we don't want to separate them at the border, but the problem is there's a law

our newshour white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. >> alcindor: president trump started his day with an impromptu walk across the white house lawn, where he gavtea flurry of rviews to reporters. first up, fox ws. when asked if north korea's kim jong-un would be visiting the white house, the president said "it could happen." >> he's the head of a country. and i mean, he is the strong head. don't let anyone think anything different. he speaks, and his people sit up at attention. i want my people to do the same. >> alcindor: later, th president said he was joking, but continued to praise kim, highlighting their new relationship that floushed ring the june 12 singapore summit. >> i have a good relationship with kim jong-un. i gave him a very direct number, he can now call me if he has any difficulty. i can call him. we have communication. it's a very good thing. >> alcindor: mr. trump defendedd hi interaction with the north korean leader, as a way to keep americans safe. >>ar don't want to see a nuc weapon destroy you and your oomily. i want to have a gd relationship with no

we are enforcing the laws passed by congress >> alcindor: but the outcry grows with every new report. border patrol released video shot over the weekend of a facility in mcallen, texas. it showed people held in fenced "cages," and children lying on mats covered in foil "blankets." outside, democratic politicians joined with protesters. >> what we're doing as a nation cting enormous harm on these kids and on the parents. he texas i know, this is not the america that i grew up in. >> alcindor: federal officials say about 2,000 children were separated in april and may alone. ssd increasingly, republicans are joining in expg outrage. in "the washington post" lastfi night, formet lady laura bush called the policy "cruel" and "immoral" and sa, "it breaks my heart." she went on, "these imre eerily reminiscent of the japanese american internment camps world war ii." current said in a statement that she "hates to see children separated fromheir families." some congressional republicans are also objecng, including on nday, maine senator susan collins. >> what the administration has decided to d

alcindor: president trump talked golf with japanese prime minister abe in the oval office. but, diplomatic pleasantries could hardly mask the widening rift between the u. and its closest allies. the most-contentious topic: new u.s. tariffs that threaten to spark a trade war. h >> we're workid to reduce our trade imbalance, which is very subantial. i will tell you, over the years it has been an extraornarily weak trade policy. na>> alcindor: meanwhile, 's prime minister justin trudeau hosted french president emanuel macr ahead of tomorrow's meeting. trudeau had tough words for mr. trump: >): hisanslat unacceptable actions are hurting his own citizens. it is american jobs which will be lost because of thections of the united states and its administration. >> alcindor: the president has railed again trade agreements, even with america's closest allies, accusing the e.u., canada and japan of taking advantage of the u.s. ff they charge five times what we charge for ta and i believe in the word 'reciprocal,' you're going to charge five times, we're going toharge five times. >> al

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor is in quebec city coveringmi the g-7 sas it wraps up. she joins us nowst let's talk fbout the tough words, the threats on trade. where do relations stand inside the g7? >> reporter: well, even though president trump rates his relationship with g7 members a , it's very clear that the last few days have been filled with very tense moments. the president of france tweeted that the oixerountries that are not in the g7 with the united states, theycan make a decision without the united states without any problem. president trump then said i they want to call it the g6, it doesn't matter to mim it shows the united states is okay with back out of this agreement. the other thing that is important, the president today, this morning, shocked a lot of g7 members by suggesting that the g7 should be a tariff-free zone. >> sreenivasan: and that is a significant structural change ld have ripple effectse on the entire global economy. let's also talk a little bit about the vocacy president trump has had for russia being readmitted back into this group. >>

it's a question that's unanswerable for most people. >> yang: yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, thankyou very much. in the day's other newore than 200 migrants waited on board a rescue ship in the mediterranean, hoping foa place to dock. italy refused to accept the veel yesterday, the second time that's happened this month. instead, italy insisted malta accept the ship. separately, the united nations reports some 220 migrants drowned off the coast of libya this week. the european union began enforcing tariffs today on $3.4 billion of u.s. goods-- from bourbon to motorcycles.et it'siation for u.s. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. in turn, president trump nded the e.u. remove its tariffs and trade barriers. otherwise, he warned "we will be placing a 20% tariff on all of their cars coming into the u.s." talks to end south sudan's five-year civil war have faltered, after president salva kiir rejected working wion the oppositieader. the president and former vice president riek machar met in ethopia this week for srst talks since 2016. but kiir's spokesmd today that machar can't be t

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> these are the ameri citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. >> rorter: the president sought today to shift the focus from families separated at the border to the families of people kill by those in the country illegally. th they're not separated for days or two days are permanently separated. because they were killed by a criminal illegens. >> reporter: as he has before, he also falsely linked the larger migrant cmunity to those who commit crimes. >> you hear it's like better people than ou'sown citizens ot true. >> reporter: the white house event followed fierce criticm of the president's zero tolerance policy. it's continued even after he ordered a halt to separating children from their parents, more than 2,300 since eay may. according to the associated press, 500 of the separated children have since been reunited with a family member. but advocates for the others say they're desperately trying to find children who've been re- located to shelters and foster arre across the country. federal officialsaid to be

yamiche alcindor. "the new york times" and msnbc contributor charlie savage.nd joining me from new york is vice chairman of public affairs for edelman and msnbc contributor steve schmidt and his debut on "kasie d.c." steve, it's great to have you. great to have all my panel here in d.c. as well. charlie savage, i want to start with you on this because you were part of the team that unveiled what we have now been talking about all weekend which is this behind the scenes memo. we've been picking apart kind of the details of this, but we were talking right before we went on the air about what you think the most important broad take away here is and that is the sweeping constitutional challenges here. >> that's right. so, this memo is a top to bottom set of, you know, legal claims, ual claims, arguments why he didn't obstruct justice, couldn't have obstructed justic. but the one that's really breath taking and that makes all the rest of them not matter if it's true is this vision of a president who wields absolute unrevealable control over the justice department,

in an atmosphere of argument over president trump's trade demands.e whuse correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. nt>> reporter: the preside o sign of backing off his tough talk on trade-- even before leaving for the g7. >> we are not going towith the deals the way they are. european union treats us very unfairly. canada, very unfairly. >> reporter: and, amid strained relations with allies, he argued that russia should return to the g7. moscow was evicted from the meriing after it annexed ca in 2014. >> why are we having a meeting without russia in the meeting? they should et russia come back in, because we should have russia at the negotiating table. >> reporter: from ere, it was on to quebec, and a sudden schedule change that reflected the tensions: a planned morning meeting with french president emanuel macron was canceled. they met briefly on th sidelines, after trading barbs in theun-up to the summit. yesterday, macron tweeted, "the neerican president may not mind being isolated, buher do we mind signing a six-country agreement if need be." mr. trump answered with a clai

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> no hate! no fear! immigrants are welcome here. >> reporter: today, in the border city of mcallen, texas, outrage over separating families boiled over into a new week. >> free those kids! free those kids! >> reporter: and in reno, nevada, hundreds of miles north of the border, this demonstration was to protest general jeff sessions. it was his zero tolerance policy of prosecuting migrants for illegal entry, that ignited the storm over family separations. >> the president has made clear: we are going to continue to prosecute those adults who enter here illegally. but we are going to do everything in our power to avoid separating families. >> reporter: president trump ordered an end to the veparations last week, and the weekend, the department of homeland security claimed progress. it said, so far, it has re- united more than 500 children with parents who'd been separated from under the zero tolerance policy. it said the department of health and human services was working to re-unite another 2,000 or so s

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor is also there. >> reporter: leaving t immigration firestormwashington behind, the president landed in minnesota to meet a far friendlier crowd.it his first visit to a state he did not win during the 2016 election.ar hewly lost then, and hopes his visit today will bolster republicans here in novemberlo there's at stake: voters will cast ballots for two senate races, a numrar of key house s and the governor's seat. >> we can't be complacent as republicans. >> reporter: trump supporters-- like 58-year-old randy thom-- waited in line for hours. randy traveled from his home in southern minnesota to attend his 33rd trump rally. he supported the president's policy of separating immigrant children from their families. >> well, they are breaking the law.th came across the border illegally. if you come across that's breaking the law. what's messed up is they're showing their kids it's okay to break our laws right off the bat. >> reporter: from trade to north korea to the economy, randy says he is reaping the benefits every day of president trump being i

and yamiche alcindor. thanks to all of you for being with us. katie, let me start with you. we have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children. at least some of them. you cover the justice department, the legal end of this. it sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that executive order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. how clear is that now? >> absolutely. so as you say, this was another self-inflicted wound by the trump administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. so we saw a lot of confusion last night. there was a meeting at the white house where people argued back and forth for at least 90 minutes about what to do. things do seem to have clarified somewhat. at the heart of this, the justice department helped draft the executive order, so they believe that their legal interpretation of this is correct, which is based around what they are calling a zero tolerance policy for people crossing the b

nick schifrin joins us along with yamiche alcindor. we heard secretary pompeo said there's been progress. do we know what kind? >> we dont's know for sure but a senior state department official says the u.s. needs to understand what north korea is willing to do or pledge at this summit and that needs to be something north korea has never done before and that means a step toward denuclearization. what does that mean? could be shutting down a nuclear facility, they have done that before. number two, bringing in inspectors to shut down centrifuges, we've never seen that before. three, what the u.s. is hoping, shipping out some kind of nuclear material, we certainly have never seen that before. that's what u.s. is asking for. intelligence analysts said north korea's priority is regime survival and thought nuclear weapons gave them that survival. so the u.s. has to replace the weapons with a fundamentally different political relationship, that means ending the korean war, a peace treaty, a shift in tone, we have no hostile intent toward you

. >> for more i'm joined by i yamiche alcindor, bret stephens, raul reyes. yamiche, let me start with you. the politics of immigration and the messages the president is sending. he had two bills in the house republicans were working on. one a hard-line bill, one that's designed to get a little more moderate support. the president was supposed to go there and rally support for the moderate bill. instead he ends up putting out that message that says just don't do anything, we need more votes. then supposedly after that he called and tried to backtrack a little bit. at the end of the week, is there any push from the white house for any specific legislation on immigration? >> well, i talked to a white house source only a few minutes ago and that person told me that the president still supports either one of the bills that the house is considering. that person said if they pass the hard-line bill or compromise bill, the president will sign it. the problem is that the president doesn't believe that the bill can pass the senate. they are complaining that republican

i'm joined by yamiche alcindor and, shermichael singleton, a republican consultant and rick is the author"rfk, his words for our time." paul ryan show some spine here. >> what it tells me. >> cynthia in the first segment says no. i think he's showing something. >> it shows retiring republicans still feel free to criticize the president but everybody who wants to be around after 2018 still can't get at all close to being critical of the president. >> so that's it. 86% republican vote that supports trump, you don't mess with trump. >> they're all terrified. >> especially not if you're running for re-election. i would not advise any member of congress. >> to say the truth? >> absolutely. >> respect the truth? >> chris, as a matter of politicsifouo win an ection in of donald trump, you should probably. >> suppose trump says, i can pardon myself. what will what would you say. >> that's abrdity. >> if you're a republican running for re-election say that's an absurdity? >> probably not because they probably wouldn't win. i'm not running for office. i can say that. >> robert kennedy said there ca

i'm joined by the roundtable, yamiche alcindor, jose is a former democratic press secretary and petern, democratic strategist. let's talk about the democrats. i want to know what they'll do to deal with this nomination. trump thinks women should be punished for abortion. he says he wants to get somebody in there who will get rid of roe v. wade. he's clear as he can be the kind of judge he's going to pick. what do the democrats do to make enough noise to stop this. >> i don't think think democrats can stop it from a procedural point of view, the republicans have the votes without the democrats to do this. >> don't let them off hook. the vote hasn't been taken yet. they can get people to vote against it. i've got a half dozen supreme court nominees in recent years that got knocked off in this process. it's doable. >> susan collins and murkowski both voted for gorsuch. is he pro-life. there is a case now because things are different they now feel compelled to not vote for someone who might overturn abortion and roe v. wade. most important thing from the white house sources i've been talk

g miche alcindor looks at the toll this is tak women, whether it happens in the lab, a lecture hall, a hospital or in the field while research is being conducted. it's the foc of this week's science segment, "the leading edge." >> reporter: the report-- from the national academies of science, engineering and medicine-- is the most comprehensive study done yet about harassment in these fields in fact, academic workplaces are second only to the military in the rate of sexual harassment. the report cited studies that found between 20% and 50% of female students in science, engineering and medicine experienced harassment, often from faculty and staff. more than 50% of facaid they too experienced harassment. the problem is even worse for women of color and women who are l.g.b.t.q. dr. paula johnson is the co- chair of the panel that wrote this report. she is the president of wellseley college. thank you, dr. johnson. the committee identified thee types of sexual harassment -- sexual coercion, unwanted sexuad attention and er harassment. what leads to this pervasive culture of harassment?

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and congssional correspondent li desjardins joins me now for more on the battle ahead. it promises to be a real battle. yamiche, let's start with you. tell me a bit now about where the white house is. it's going to be up to president trump to put forward a new name. he had a new list he was working off they accomplished last year. >> the most important thing about president trump is the next be someone who young, pro-life and very conservative. president trump put out this list of nominees when he stwas l a candidate before he won the presidency. it was a bold move that was very unusual anhe did that because he wanted to signal to conservatives who were wavering whoher or not they wanted elect this businessman without a lot of political experience, he wantedo signal i have yor back, i want to do something very critical for conloservativ. of the people on the list came from the federalist society, an orgofanization conservatives that is are looking at retooling the american legal system. tothe other thing i wanpoint out is who these people are b

. >> for more i'm joined gray meesh alcindor, david corn, washington bureau chief from mother jones, david jolly, former republican congressman from florida and robert costa from the "washington post." david, i want to talk to you about your republican party. is it still there? is the big bad bear now the man you're afraid to poke? it used to be the russians and now it's the leader of the party who is see the fearful that's the goal of any elected official, do not dare poke the bear. >> that's right, chris. the gop that we knew is dead. it's over. this is the party of donald trump. not just because of shifts in policy. we eevolution of policies at times in both parties but the tone of the party has changed dramatically and the imprint of trump has forever changed the party. consider reagan spoke to better angels, bush 41 spoke to a thousand points of light. bush 43 to conservatism. donald trump mean spirited bigotry. he has his followers through gas lighting and lies and he has broken the back of the mainstream gop. it no longer exists. >> robert costa, it seems to me the republican

amy britton, yamiche alcindor, ladies, thank you very much. >>> and before we go, we do want to leave with a smile, because that's what craig does every day. genevieve spends her life as a new jersey schoolteacher helping students with learning disabilities. she devoted 45 years working in the bergen county school district, even continuing to check in on classes after she retired. she died in 2011 and this past april, the public school system received a big surprise from her estate. a check for $1 million. the former educator who had no immediate family was able to raise the small fortune through saving habits and living a simple life. the donation will fund scholarships for special education students seeking higher education. >>> we'll be right back. >>> it'sime now for "your business" of the week. in june 2010, brothers, ryan and adam goldstone, launched apl, basketball shoes that they said could make you jump higher. just five months later, the nba banned them. to find out how the founders took this blow to their business and turned it around, watch "your business" sunday morning a

yamiche alcindor and robert costa. joe has the morning off.me of his tweets and hearing from him as well. we begin again with the trump administration on both defending that separates migrant children from their parents at the southern border. senior policy adviser stephen miller told the "new york times" "it was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero-tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. the message is that no one is exempt from immigration law." but the secretary of homeland security claiming no such policy exists tweeting "we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. period." and yet just to muck things up further -- and i really don't like putting her on the air, but here's counselor to the president kellyanne conway saying exactly the opposite and what she's doing here is at least admitting the policy exists which is why we're going to show her. she does this on "meet the press." >> nobody likes seeing babies ripped from their mother's arms, from their mother's wombs, frankly, but we have to make sur