. >> joining us now from washington, political reporter for the washington examiner, emily larsen. good morning to you. let's talk about some of what we just heard there from tom bossert. what do you make of tom bossert, one of trump's former advisers who oversaw russia's involvement in the 2016 election pushing back there publicly on the administration? >> well, certainly it is striking to see a former member of trump's administration pushing back and saying that he's deeply concerned by this. it certainly, i think, helps democrats who say that -- who probably argue that republicans are only defending the president because of political purposes and because it's politically expedient. if there's a lot of question whether there are some republicans who would privately maybe support more of an inquiry into what happened with this phone call and how it was concealed and the motivations president trump had for bringing up joe biden on this call. but another interesting thing about what bossert said is a lot of attention has been put on this joe biden aspect of the call that he was aski

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arthel: well, impeachment is serious, emily larsen, we will leave it there, thank you so much. >> thank. eric: president trump has made immigration a center piece of this tenure but his administration has suffered two major setbacks in federal court this week over its immigration policies, garrett tenneye plains from washington. >> it was a rough day for the administration's immigration policies, the big one was the white house's attempt to get rid of the so-called flores agreement which argues is responsible for the catch and release loopholes in our immigration system, last month the administration announced plans to replace flores with new policies that would allow children and families to be held indefinitely until their immigration hearings rather than being released in the u.s. to return to hearing for a later date, here is how acting homeland security secretary kevin mac aleenan explained at the time. >> conditions for care of children must be appropriate. >> but on friday u.s. district judge said the new plan didn't do enough to ensure children are protected and chastised govern