host: ayesha rascoe, i want to bring you in with your thoughts on this process. ayesha: this whole issue has been an issue for this administration to deal with. when it comes to trying to put together an actual plan i think there is a frustration that it has taken so long to get families back together. they areme time, while trying to do this reunification the white house is still saying we don't have enough laws at the border and we need changes a nothing like that seems to be happening with congress so you're kind of this stalemate where you have the status quo, what the administration did with the family separations and then you also have the white house saying we need to do more at the border we need to make changes so this does not happen again. nothing is happening in congress now. host: billy, go ahead. caller: i would like to know how long -- these cheap tricks trump keeps pulling. he changes to something else. i'm wondering if his son is doing these tweets. it sounds a 10 or 11-year-old guide. 's a few bricks short of a full load. host: how do you follow

ayesha rascoe is white house reporter for npr. weeks most anticipated hearing is mike pompeo's appearance before the foreign relations committee. how is the white house approaching this hearing on wednesday afternoon? ayesha: it seems like they are setting up -- we have had a big foreign-policy week that just passed obviously with what happened in helsinki. it seems like pompeo has been defending the administration's approach, defending the president's decision to have issued a second invitation to bring putin to washington. i'm sure they will be talking about that, having a message on that. there's also this thing with iran. on howjust give a speech this administration is going to be appealing to the iranian people and basically saying america is with you. not necessarily -- it does not seem like they've gone to the point of asking for or looking for regime change but they are sending out this message that they want the iranian people to know they are supported and i guess to see what happens. host: the hearing on wednesday aftern

host: ayesha rascoe, i want to bring you in with your thoughts on this process. ayesha: this whole issue has been an issue for this administration to deal with. when it comes to trying to put together an actual plan i think there is a frustration that it has taken so long to get families back together. they areme time, while trying to do this reunification the white house is still saying we don't have enough laws at the border and we need changes a nothing like that seems to be happening with congress so you're kind of this stalemate where you have the status quo, what the administration did with the family separations and then you also have the white house saying we need to do more at the border we need to make changes so this does not happen again. nothing is happening in congress now. host: billy, go ahead. caller: i would like to know how long -- these cheap tricks trump keeps pulling. he changes to something else. i'm wondering if his son is doing these tweets. it sounds a 10 or 11-year-old guide. 's a few bricks short of a full load. host: how do you follow